Russell Drysdale
(1912 - 1981)
SOLDIERS RESTING OUTSIDE ALBURY STATION, c.1943
ink and watercolour on paper
33.0 x 37.0 cm
signed lower right: Russell Drysdale
Estimate:
$15,000 - $20,000
Sold:
$18,300 (inc. BP)
lot details
Private collection, Melbourne
Related Works
Albury Platform, 1943, gouache and ink on pulpboard, 54.5 x 65.0 cm, in the collection of Albury Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales, illus. in Smith, G., Russell Drysdale 1912 – 81, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, cat. 18, pp. 68 – 69 (illus.)
Soldiers Sleeping Outside Albury Station, c.1943, pen and ink and gouache on paper, 17.2 x 22.3 cm, illus. in Klepac, L., Russell Drysdale: The Drawings, The Beagle Press, Sydney, p. 64
The following excerpt is quoted from Klepac, L., Russell Drysdale, the drawings, The Beagle Press, Sydney, 2012, p. 13:
‘The Drysdales arrived in Sydney in November 1940 and settled in to their new home, but when the Japanese submarine surfaced in Sydney Harbour and torpedoed a ship at Circular Quay, Drysdale moved his family to Albury. There he set up a studio in an old barn and discovered a new subject: soldiers. They were everywhere in the town and at the railway station, as Hume Army Camp was situated near Albury.’