signed lower right: Russell Drysdale
signed and inscribed verso: FAMILY GROUP./ RUSSELL DRYSDALE,/ MACQUARIE GALLERIES,/ 19 BLIGH STREET, SYDNEY
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 1953 (label attached verso)
Collection of Mrs Vera Fels, Sydney
Christie’s, Sydney, 5 October 1971, lot 283
Private collection
Christie’s, Sydney, 3 October 1973, lot 500
Private collection
Christie’s, Melbourne, 14 March 1974, lot 406
Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
Collection of Dr Anne Walker, United Kingdom
Estate of the above
'At Sydney Galleries: Russell Drysdale,' Le Courrier Australien, Sydney, 27 November 1953, p.5
Dutton, G., Russell Drysdale, Thames & Hudson, London, 1964, p.189 (illus. pl.83)
Drysdale, R., et al., Russell Drysdale: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings from 1937 to 1960 with an Introduction by Paul Haefliger, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1960, p.60, cat.88
One Man Show, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 18 November - 4 December 1953, cat.5
Russell Drysdale: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings from 1937 to 1960, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 5 October - 6 November 1960, cat.88 (label attached verso)