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• Auction House:
  Leski Auctions
• Sale Name:
  The Estate of Martin Sachs
• Sale Date:
  08 Mar 2022 ~ 6pm (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  16
• Lot Description:
  George Russell (Russell) Drysdale
  (1912 - 81)
  Muri Camp, Condobolin
  ink and watercolour on paper
  28 x 50cm
  signed lower right
  Also titled and signed by the artist verso; additionally bearing a small typed label “No.7 of a set of twenty drawings published by the Sunday Mirror for Dark Heritage. Sydney, March, 1961.”
• Notes:
  In 1961 Russell Drysdale travelled to the far flung towns and camps of western New South Wales with Keith Newman, a journalist working with the Sunday Mirror with whom Drysdale had worked whilst documenting the 1944 drought. Primarily producing sketches, the resulting drawings where used as illustrations for three articles by Newman which examined the conditions endured by Aboriginal Australian on the reserves and town camps.
• Estimate:
  A$10,000 - 15,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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