John Peter Russell‎ (1858 - 1930)

NEW ZEALAND LANDSCAPE, c.1924

watercolour on paper

23.5 x 30.0 cm
44.0 x 51.0 cm (frame)

signed with initials lower left: JR

John Alain Stobart Russell, Scotland, the artist’s grandson
Sir Leon & Lady Trout, Queensland, by 1977
Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
Private collection, Queensland
Christie’s, Melbourne, 2 – 3 May 2002, lot 85
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. 42 (label attached verso)
Watercolours from the Collection of Sir Leon and Lady Trout, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 4 May – 6 June 1978, cat. 77
Aspects of the Trout Collection, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, 1989, cat. 40
on long term loan to Newcastle Region Art Gallery, New South Wales, prior to 2006 (label attached verso)
on long term loan to Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria

Galbally, A., The Art of John Peter Russell, Sun Books, Melbourne, 1977, p. 123, cat.491 (as ‘Landscape: New Zealand’)
Rainbird, S., and Bacon, P., Aspects of the Trout Collection, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, 1989, pl.40, p.100 (illus.)
Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 50 (illus.), 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.