STUDIO STILL LIFE, c.1937

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Sydney
4 May 2022
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© Courtesy Russell Drysdale Estate
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RUSSELL DRYSDALE

(1912 - 1981)
STUDIO STILL LIFE, c.1937

pencil, pen and ink and watercolour on paper

22.5 x 29.5 cm (sight)

signed lower centre: Russell Drysdale
signed and inscribed with title on backing attached verso: Still Life / Russell Drysdale
bears inscription on typed label verso: RUSSELL DRYSDALE STILL LIFE / LENT BY / DARYL LINDSAY

Estimate: 
$10,000 – $15,000
Sold for $19,636 (inc. BP) in Auction 69 - 4 May 2022, Sydney
Provenance

Sir Daryl Lindsay, Melbourne (inscribed on label attached verso)
Christie’s, Melbourne, 14 March 1972, lot 120
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne
Private collection, Victoria, acquired from the above in October 1979

Exhibited

Spring Exhibition, Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, 17 – 30 October 1979, cat. 116 (illus. in exhibition catalogue)

Literature

Klepac, L., Russell Drysdale: the drawings, The Beagle Press, Sydney, 2012, pp. 34 (illus., as ‘Study for a painting, c.1939’), 167