John Peter Russell‎ (1858 - 1930)

PINE TREE, BRIGHAM’S CREEK, NEW ZEALAND, c.1924

watercolour on paper

24.0 x 31.0 cm (sight)
44.0 x 50.5 cm (frame)

bears certificate of authenticity attached verso, signed by the artist’s grandson

John Alain Stobart Russell, Scotland, the artist’s grandson
Sir Leon & Lady Trout, Queensland
Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
Private collection, Queensland
Christie’s, Melbourne, 2 – 3 May 2002, lot 71
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above

Masterworks from the Collection of Sir Leon and Lady Trout, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 21 September – 14 December 1977, cat. 37 (label attached verso)
Watercolours from the Collection of Sir Leon and Lady Trout, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 4 May – 6 June 1978, cat. 79
Aspects of the Trout Collection, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, 1989, cat. 42
Overland, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 10 March – 15 July 2012

Galbally, A., The Art of John Peter Russell, Sun Books, Melbourne, 1977, p. 121, cat.456 (as ‘Trees, Brigham’s Creek’)
Rainbird, S., and Bacon, P., Aspects of the Trout Collection, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, 1989, pl.42, p.100 (illus.)
Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, p. 231

Condition:
This work is in excellent, stable and original condition.
Under ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of past restoration.

The work is housed in a timber gilt frame.