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:
$34,160 (inc. BP)
lot details
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')