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Max Meldrum, Self-portrait, 1932

Sold for A$15,000 at Deutscher and Hackett on Dec 9, 2025.

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Max Meldrum (1875 - 1955) Self-portrait, 1932 oil on canvas on board 70.5 x 61.0 cm 92.0 x 81.5 cm (frame) signed lower left: Meldrum PROVENANCE Professor Wilfred Agar, Melbourne and London Thence by descent Dr J. M. Agar, Victoria Christie's, Melbourne, 16 September 1991, lot 145 Private collection, Victoria EXHIBITED Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Royal Institute Galleries, London, November 1933 (handwritten label verso) Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Max Meldrum, National Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney, 19 March – 16 April 1947, cat. 9 A Retrospective Exhibition of the Paintings of Max Meldrum, National Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney, July – August 1954; and touring to Queensland National Art Gallery, Brisbane, August – September 1954; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, September – October 1954, cat. 20 (label attached verso, illus. cover of exhibition catalogue) LITERATURE Meldrum, M. and Foreman, R., Max Meldrum, The Science of Appearance, Sheperd Press, Sydney, 1950, frontispiece (illus.) This work is located in our Melbourne Gallery

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