Live Auction 1050AUSTRALIAN, INTERNATIONAL AND CONTEMPORARY PAINTINGS
ELSA MARY RUSSELL (1909-1997)
Lot 355

ELSA MARY RUSSELL (1909-1997)

Cooma

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ELSA MARY RUSSELL (1909-1997)
Cooma
signed 'ELSA' (lower right)
oil on canvas on board
33 x 24.5 cm
Painted circa 1935

Colin Lanceley, Sydney
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1984

Specialist note

Russell was born in 1909 and studied painting under Datillo Rubbo. She exhibited with the Society of Artists in 1934 and 1935, and was still painting in the 1980s. A retrospective exhibition of her work was held at the Wolloomooloo Gallery, Sydney in October 1989.