THE BLUE SHOP, FITZROY, 1938

Important Fine Art + Aboriginal Art
Sydney
2 December 2015
60

DANILA VASSILIEFF

(1897 – 1958)
THE BLUE SHOP, FITZROY, 1938

oil on board

56.0 x 51.0 cm

signed lower right: Vassilieff, signed and inscribed verso: VASSILIEFF / ˶BLUE SHOP" / 40 gin

Estimate: 
$15,000 – 20,000
Sold for $34,160 (inc. BP) in Auction 41 - 2 December 2015, Sydney
Provenance

Private collection, Melbourne
Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited

Memorial Exhibition of the Paintings and Sculpture of Danila Vassilieff, Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, June 1959, cat. 9
Danila Vassilieff, Joseph Brown Gallery, 28 May — 14 June 1973, cat.10 (as ‘Truth — Woolloomooloo’, illus. in exhibition catalogue)
Danila Vassilieff Retrospective, Heide Park & Art Gallery, 11 August — 22 September 1985, cat. 18; then travelling to the Australian National Gallery, Canberra, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney)
Earth, Sea and Sky, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 26 March — 9 April 2009, cat. 13

Literature

St John Moore, F., Vassilieff and His Art, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1982, cat. P76, p. 46 (as 'Blue Shop')