Max Meldrum
(1875 - 1955)
Self-portrait, 1932
oil on canvas on board
61.0 x 70.5 cm
92.0 x 81.5 cm (frame)
signed lower left: Meldrum
Estimate:
$20,000 - $30,000
Sold:
$18,409 (inc. BP)
lot details
92.0 x 81.5 cm (frame)
Professor Wilfred Agar, Melbourne and London
Thence by descent
Dr J. M. Agar, Victoria
Christie’s, Melbourne, 16 September 1991, lot 145
Private collection, Victoria
Exhibited
Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Royal Institute Galleries, London, November 1933 (handwritten label verso)
Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Max Meldrum, National Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney, 19 March – 16 April 1947, cat. 9
A Retrospective Exhibition of the Paintings of Max Meldrum, National Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney, July – August 1954; and touring to Queensland National Art Gallery, Brisbane, August – September 1954; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, September – October 1954, cat. 20 (label attached verso, illus. cover of exhibition catalogue)
Literature
Meldrum, M. and Foreman, R., Max Meldrum, The Science of Appearance, Sheperd Press, Sydney, 1950, frontispiece (illus.)