Important Fine Art + Indigenous Art - 18 April 2018 | Sydney
Lot 100
Danila Vassilieff
(1897 – 1958)
GIRL AND BOY WATCHING ME PAINT, 1949
oil on composition board
45.5 x 42.0 cm
Estimate:
$8,000 – 12,000
Lot sold: $10,980 (inc. BP)
Lot Details
Description
Danila Vassilieff
(1897 – 1958)
GIRL AND BOY WATCHING ME PAINT, 1949
oil on composition board
45.5 x 42.0 cm
signed upper right: Vassilieff
Provenance
Private collection
Christie’s, Melbourne, 26 August 1997, lot 22 (as ‘Children Watching Me Paint, Fitzroy, c.1948’)
Private collection, Melbourne
Exhibited
Paintings and Sculpture, a joint exhibition with Elizabeth Vassilieff, Tye’s Gallery, Melbourne, April 1949
Oil Paintings by Danila Vassilieff, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, November 1978, cat. 64
Literature
Moore, F. St J., Vassilieff and His Art, Macmillan, Melbourne, 2012, cat. p264, p. 156