Danila Vassilieff
(1897 - 1958)
TWO WOMEN, 1955
oil on composition board
55.5 x 31.5 cm
signed lower left: Vassilieff
bears inscription verso: SR188
Estimate:
$8,000 - $12,000
Sold:
$23,180 (inc. BP)
lot details
Danila Vassilieff (1897 - 1958)
TWO WOMEN, 1955
oil on composition board
55.5 x 31.5 cm
signed lower left: Vassilieff
bears inscription verso: SR188
bears inscription verso: SR188
Provenance
Sweeney Reed, Melbourne
Thence by descent
The Reed Family Collection, Victoria
Gould collection, Melbourne
Exhibited
Forgotten Treasures, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 7 June – 17 July 1994
Moments of Mind: The Sweeney Reed Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 25 January – 6 July 2003
Danila Vassilieff: Works from the Reed Family Collection, Gould Galleries, Sydney, 4 – 29 May 2005, and Gould Galleries, Melbourne 8 June – 3 July 2005, cat. 7 (illus. in exhibition catalogue)
Literature
Moore, F. St. J., Vassilieff and His Art, Macmillan, Melbourne, 2012, cat. 416, p. 211