Danila Vassilieff (1897 - 1958)

Before the storm, 1938

oil on canvas on board

54.0 x 60.0 cm
65.0 x 72.5 cm (frame)

signed lower right: Vassilieff
bears inscriptions verso: no. 38 / 24

Morley Grainger, Sydney
The Estate of Felicity St John Moore, Melbourne, acquired in 1989

Probably: Danila Vassilieff: 41 paintings, Riddell Gallery, Melbourne, 18 – 29 October 1938
Danila Vassilieff, Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, 28 May – 14 June 1973, cat. 24 (as ‘Before the Storm, East Melbourne’)
Watercolours and Oil Paintings by Danila Vassilieff, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 15 – 27 August 1973, cat. 29 (as ’Before the storm, East Melbourne’)

St John Moore, F., Vassilieff and His Art, Macmillan, Melbourne, 2012, cat. 150, p. 201