BELLE ILE, 1908

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
28 April 2010
94

John Peter Russell

(1858 - 1930)
BELLE ILE, 1908

watercolour and pencil on paper

18.5 x 27.5 cm

signed, dated and inscribed lower left to lower right: A L’AMI OTTO FRIEDRICHS - SOUVENIR DUTEMPS HEUREUX - A BELLE ILE 1889 A 1907.JOHN. RUSSELL. PINXIT OCTOBRE 1908 /JOHN N’KING OF THE RUSSELLS

Estimate: 
$18,000 - 24,000
Provenance

Gift from the artist to Otto Friedrichs, France
Private collection, London
Private collection, Victoria

Literature

Salter, E., The Lost Impressionist: A Biography of John Peter Russell, Angus and Robertson, London, 1976, pp. 147–148