Lot #80 - Max Meldrum
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Auction House:Deutscher and Hackett
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Sale Name:Important Australian + International Fine Art including works from the collections of Joan Clemenger AO + Peter Clemenger AO Reg Grundy AC OBE + Joy
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Sale Date:14 Sep 2022 ~ 7pm (AEST)
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Lot #:80
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Lot Description:Max Meldrum
(1875 - 1955)
Ida in The Studio, 1943
oil on board
46.0 x 38.0 cm
signed lower left: Meldrum -
Provenance:Estate of Max Meldrum, Melbourne; Thence by descent; Private collection, Melbourne
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Exhibited: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
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Notes: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.
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Estimate:A$8,000 - 12,000
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Realised Price:
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Category:Art
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