Danila Vassilieff (1897 - 1958)

TRIO (MONKEYS, FRUIT AND FLOWERS), 1935

oil on plywood

41.5 x 47.5 cm

signed lower right: Vassilieff
bears inscription with title verso: CAT. 8 TRIO / 28
bears inscription on frame verso: 4 / VASS No 28

Helen Klausner (née McDonald), a gift from the artist
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne
Alan and Nola Geddes, Sydney, acquired from the above in 1973
Estate of Nola Geddes, Sydney

Exhibition of Paintings by Vassilieff, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 3 March 1936, cat. 24 (as ‘Trio’)
Danila Vassilieff, Joseph Brown Gallery, 28 May – 14 June 1973, cat. 4 (as ‘Still Life – Monkeys, Fruit and Flowers’)
Vassilieff, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Victoria, 11 August – 22 September 1985; Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 12 October 1985 – 2 February 1986; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 4 March – 2 April 1986, cat. 8 (as ‘Trio’)

St John Moore, F., Vassilieff and His Art, Oxford University Press, Oxford / Auckland / New York, 1982, cat. P26, p. 142
St John Moore, F., Vassilieff and His Art, second edition, Macmillan, Melbourne, 2012, cat. 42, p. 196, 197 (illus.)