Important Australian + International Fine Art - 14 September 2022 | Sydney
oil on board
46.0 x 38.0 cm
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Max Meldrum
oil on board
46.0 x 38.0 cm
signed lower left: Meldrum
Estate of Max Meldrum, Melbourne
Thence by descent
Private collection, Melbourne
Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Max Meldrum, National Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 March – 16 April 1947, cat. 18 (as ‘Interior – Ida by Piano’)
Paintings by the Late Max Meldrum, Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne, 8 – 13 July 1963, cat. 17
Ida in the Studio, 1943 depicts Meldrum’s first born daughter Ida (1906 – 1990) at the piano in his Kew studio. Meldrum painted a number of interior scenes during his later years, and this work relates to a similar composition purchased by the Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art in 1952. Other interior paintings by Meldrum are held in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales; Bendigo Art Gallery; Castlemaine Art Museum; Geelong Gallery; and McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park.