Max Meldrum (1875 - 1955)

THE GEORGIAN GUEST HOUSE, OLINDA, 1933

oil on board

38.0 x 46.0 cm
55.0 x 62.0 cm (frame)

signed lower right: Meldrum
signed, dated and inscribed with title verso: "THE GEORGIAN" OLINDA (MID DAY) / Max Meldrum/ JUNE 1933
signed and dated verso: 1933 / Max Meldrum

Alan and Lesly Martin, Melbourne
Thence by descent
Private collection, Melbourne

All Australian Art Exhibition (Australia’s 150th Anniversary Celebrations), National Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney, January – April 1933 (as ‘”The Georgian” Olinda’)
Paintings by Max Meldrum, Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne, 24 February – 7 March 1936, cat. 44 (as ‘The Georgian’)
Paintings by the Late Max Meldrum, Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne, 8 – 13 July 1963, cat. 53 (as ‘Olinda Guest House’)
Max Meldrum and his School, McClelland Gallery, Victoria, 6 May – 11 July 1973, cat. 35 (as ‘“Georgian” Guest House’)
Max Meldrum, David Jones’ Art Gallery, Sydney, 15 May – 1 June 1974, cat. 28 (label attached verso)
Paintings from the Martin Collection, The Eltham Community Centre, Melbourne, March 1985, cat. 2