BELLE ILE, 1908

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Sydney
1 September 2010
108

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 DU TEMPS HEUREUX- A BELLE ILE 1889 A 1907. JOHN. RUSSELL. PINXIT OCTOBRE 1908 / JOHN N'KING OF THE RUSSELLS

Estimate: 
$10,000 - 15,000
Provenance

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

Literature

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