Past Catalogue | Menzies April 2018 Auction - 20th Anniversary | Date: 26 April, 2018

Lots 17 – 42, Property of Various Vendors
Lot 30
Russell Drysdale
Evening on Stony Plains 1978
oil on canvas
50.5 x 76.5 cm

signed lower right: Russell Drysdale
bears inscription verso: "EVENING ON STONY PLAINS" - RUSSELL DRYSDALE/ C/O JOSEPH BROWN GALLERIES,/ CAROLINE HOUSE,/ CAROLINE STREET,/ SOUTH YARRA, VICTORIA.

Provenance:

The artist
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne
Private collection, Sydney
Thence by descent, private collection, Sydney

Related work:

Sunday Evening 1941, oil on asbestos cement sheet, 60.0 x 76.0 cm, Art Gallery of New South Wales collection, Sydney, illus. in Klepac, L., Russell Drysdale, Murdoch Books, Sydney, 2009, pp.56, 57
Moody’s Pub 1941, oil on plywood, 51.0 x 61.5 cm, illus. ibid., pp.60, 61
The Drover's Wife 1945, oil on canvas, 51.5 x 61.0 cm, National Gallery of Australia collection, Canberra. Gift of the American Friends of the National Gallery of Australia, New York, made possible with the generous support of Mr and Mrs Benno Schmidt of New York and Esperance, Western Australia, 1987, illus. ibid., pp.148, 149
Woman in a Landscape 1949, oil on canvas, 101.0 x 66.5 cm, Art Gallery of South Australia collection, Adelaide, South Australian Government Grant, 1949, illus. ibid., pp.189, 205, 208
Country Child c1948, oil on canvas, 76.5 x 61.5 cm, private collection, sold Deutscher-Menzies, Sydney, 18 March 2008, lot 33, $1,680,000 (including buyer's premium), illus. ibid., p.192
Going to the Pictures 1941, oil on canvas, 45.5 x 54.5 cm, private collection, illus. ibid., p.77

Special Notes:

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Estimate
A$800,000
-
A$1,000,000
Hammer Price + BP A$981,818.18