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Lot #80 - Max Meldrum

  • Auction House:
    Deutscher and Hackett
  • Sale Name:
    Important Australian + International Fine Art including works from the collections of Joan Clemenger AO + Peter Clemenger AO Reg Grundy AC OBE + Joy
  • Sale Date:
    14 Sep 2022 ~ 7pm (AEST)
  • Lot #:
    80
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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. 
  • Estimate:
    A$8,000 - 12,000
  • Realised Price:
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  • Category:
    Art

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