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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION, MELBOURNE

RUSSELL DRYSDALE
1912-1981

Mother and Child 1965

$1,000,000–1,500,000

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© The Estate of Russell Drysdale

PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION, MELBOURNE

RUSSELL DRYSDALE

1912-1981
Mother and Child 1965

oil on canvas
signed ‘Russell Drysdale’ lower right; signed, dated and inscribed ‘MOTHER & CHILD RUSSELL DRYSDALE 1965 / LEICESTER GALLERIES / 4 AUDLEY SQUARE / LONDON. W.1.’ verso
91.2 x 70 cm
frame: original, maker unknown, London

  • Lot Sold $1,000,000 (Hammer Price)
  • $1,227,273 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Russell Drysdale, Sydney
Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
Mr and Mrs Phillip Simpson, Sydney, acquired from the above
Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney
Michael Gleeson-White, Sydney, acquired from the above
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne (stock 9202)
Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above on 18 September 1984

Exhibited

New Trends in Australian Art, Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney, June 1965, no. 9
Russell Drysdale, The Leicester Galleries, London, 30 September – 27 October 1965, no. 13
Art from the Collections of the Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney, 14-29 October 1981, no. 10
Russell Drysdale’s Australia: Masterpieces from Private Collections, Smith & Singer (trading as Sotheby’s Australia), Sydney, 10-23 March 2014, no. 35

Literature

PIX, Sydney, 19 June 1965, p. 46 (illustrated)
Douglas Alexandra, ‘Some Recent Developments in the Art Gallery Movement’, Art and Australia, Ure Smith, Sydney, Vol. 3, No. 3, December 1965, p. 189 (illustrated)
Charles S. Spencer, ‘First Commonwealth Arts Festival: Australian Artists in London’, Art and Australia, Ure Smith, Sydney, Vol. 3, No. 3, December 1965, p. 213 (illustrated)

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