Desert Children 1958

RUSSELL DRYSDALE (1912-1981)

Desert Children 1958

oil on canvas
50.5 x 61.0 cm
signed lower left: Russell Drysdale

Provenance:
Leicester Galleries, London, 1958
Russell Family Collection, London
Thence by decent, private collection, Queensland
Deutscher-Menzies, Sydney, 5 December 2007, lot 35
Private collection, Melbourne
Deutscher-Menzies, Sydney, 23 September 2009, lot 42
Private collection, Melbourne
Menzies, Sydney, 23 June 2011, lot 40
Private collection, Melbourne
Menzies, Sydney, 21 March 2013, lot 43
Company collection, Melbourne

Exhibited:
Summer Exhibition, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, 30 January - 17 February 2007, cat.1 (illus. exhibition catalogue)

Related Works:
Landscape in the Kimberleys 1958, oil on canvas, 76.0 x 127.0 cm, illus. in Klepac, L., The Life and Work of Russell Drysdale, Murdoch Books, Sydney, 1983, p.324, pl.143 (as Kimberley Landscape)
The Red Shirt 1958, oil on canvas, 76.0 x 101.0 cm, illus. in Klepac, L., The Life and Work of Russell Drysdale, Murdoch Books, Sydney, 1983, p.322, pl.140

Estimate: $280000 - 380000

Result Hammer: $300,000