Max Meldrum
(1875 - 1955)
IDA IN THE STUDIO, 1943
oil on board
46.0 x 38.0 cm
signed lower left: Meldrum
Estimate:
$8,000 - $12,000
Sold:
$73,636 (inc. BP)
lot details
Estate of Max Meldrum, Melbourne
Thence by descent
Private collection, Melbourne
Exhibited
Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Max Meldrum, National Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 March – 16 April 1947, cat. 18 (as ‘Interior – Ida by Piano’)
Paintings by the Late Max Meldrum, Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne, 8 – 13 July 1963, cat. 17
Ida in the Studio, 1943 depicts Meldrum’s first born daughter Ida (1906 – 1990) at the piano in his Kew studio. Meldrum painted a number of interior scenes during his later years, and this work relates to a similar composition purchased by the Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art in 1952. Other interior paintings by Meldrum are held in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales; Bendigo Art Gallery; Castlemaine Art Museum; Geelong Gallery; and McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park.