Country Child c1948

RUSSELL DRYSDALE (1912-1981)

Country Child c1948

oil on canvas
76.5 x 61.5 cm
signed lower right: Russell Drysdale

Provenance:
Colonel William Quasha
Richard Crebbin Snr, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney
Sotheby's Australia, Melbourne, 19 August 1996, lot 157
Private collection, Melbourne
Deutscher-Menzies, Melbourne, 23 August 1999, lot 115
Private collection, Sydney
Deutscher-Menzies, Melbourne, 2 September 2003, lot 33
Private company collection, Victoria
Deutscher-Menzies, Sydney, 18 March 2008, lot 33
Property of an investment syndicate

Exhibited:
Looking at People: Perception in Australian Art, Sancta Sophia College, The University of Sydney, 9 - 11 August 1968, cat.51
Fifty Years of the Macquarie Galleries: The Third Decade 1945-1955, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 7 - 26 May 1975, cat.6
Russell Drysdale: 1912-1981, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 19 December 1997 - 9 March 1998, and touring: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 27 March - 10 May 1998, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 18 May - 28 June 1998, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, 20 July - 30 August 1998, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 23 September - 15 November 1998 (label attached verso)

Reference:
Smith, G., Russell Drysdale: 1912-1981, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1997, exhibition catalogue, p.110, cat.39 (illus. p.111)
Klepac, L., Russell Drysdale, Murdoch Books, Sydney, 2009, p.379 (illus. p.192, pl.86)

Related Works:
Woman in a Landscape, c1948, 101.0 x 66.3 cm., collection Art Gallery of South Australia, (Elder Bequest Fund), illus. in Klepac, L., The Life and Work of Russell Drysdale, Murdoch Books, Sydney, 1983 (illus.plate 92, p.277)
The Drover's Wife, c1945, 51.5 x 61.5 cm., National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, (A gift to the people of Australia by Mr and Mrs Benno Schmidt of New York and Esperance, Western Australia through the American Friends of the Australian National Gallery 1987)

Estimate: $1200000 - 1600000

Result Hammer: $1,100,000