GIRL AND BOY WATCHING ME PAINT, 1949

Important Fine Art + Indigenous Art
Sydney
18 April 2018
100

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

Estimate: 
$8,000 – 12,000
Sold for $10,980 (inc. BP) in Auction 53 - 18 April 2018, Sydney
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