Cassis 1928

BASIL SCHOUKHAEFF (1887-1973)

Cassis 1928

oil on canvas
71.0 x 123.5 cm
signed and dated lower right: B. Schoukhaeff Paris 1928

Provenance:
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Hans Heysen, South Australia
Thence by descent, Estate of Hans Heysen, South Australia
Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 19 June 1970, lot 72
Geoffrey Frew, Melbourne
Thence by descent, private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited:
Paintings and Drawings by Basil Schoukhaeff, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 1 - 17 August, 1929, cat.5
Special Exhibition of Contemporary British and Continental Artists, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 October - 31 December 1938 (label attached verso)

Reference:
Art in Australia, Sydney, Third Series, No.63, May 1936, p.29
'European Art', Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 19 October 1938, p.11
Hylton, J., Nora Heysen: Light and Life, Wakefield Press, South Australia, 2011, p.55 (illus. detail)

Related Works:
There are several variations in the artist\x92s name. The differences probably depend upon his location at the time a painting was completed. The present painting is signed SCHOUKHAEFF, but his name is recorded also as SCHUCHAJEFF, SUCHAEV, SHUKHAEV, SHOUKHAIEV, and CHOUHAIEFF etc. To add a further complication his first name is spelled variously Vasilij, Vassily, Wassily and Basil. In addition to the present spelling, the artist is most likely nowadays to be found under the spelling VASILIJ IVANOVIC SUCHAEV.

Estimate: $50000 - 80000

Result Hammer: $260000