COTTAGES, BELLE-ÎLE, c.1907

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Sydney
28 August 2019
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JOHN PETER RUSSELL

(1858 – 1930)
COTTAGES, BELLE-ÎLE, c.1907

watercolour and pencil on paper

26.0 x 36.5 cm

signed lower centre: JOHN RUSSELL

Estimate: 
$10,000 – 15,000
Sold for $14,640 (inc. BP) in Auction 58 - 28 August 2019, Sydney
Provenance

Private collection
Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 25 August 1998, lot 36 (as ‘Returning Home, Village in Brittany, c. 1888’)
Private collection, Sydney

Related works

[Landscape with road and cottages, Belle-Ile], 1907, watercolour on cardboard, 25.4 x 33.2 cm, in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Houses, Belle-Ile, 1908, watercolour on paper, 27.5 x 39.0 cm, Deutscher~Menzies, Melbourne, 22 November 1998, lot 255, formerly in the collection of the artist's daughter, Jeanne Jouve, France