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

Lots 17 – 42, Property of Various Vendors
Lot 34
Family Group 1953
oil on board
35.0 x 45.5 cm

signed lower right: Russell Drysdale
signed and inscribed verso: FAMILY GROUP./ RUSSELL DRYSDALE,/ MACQUARIE GALLERIES,/ 19 BLIGH STREET, SYDNEY

Provenance:

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

Literature:

'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

Exhibited:

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)

Estimate
A$200,000
-
A$300,000
Hammer Price + BP A$245,454.55