$40,000 For Dr sdale
A painting which horrified the people who commissioned it has been sold for an Australian record price of $40,000, reports the N.Z.P.A. correspondent in Sydney. The painting, “The Cricketers,” by Russell Drysdale, was commissioned by the English Museum of Sport in 1948. The museum’s trustees, who had expected a conventional work depicting white-flannelled players on a green sward, quickly rejected Drysdale’s picture when it arrived from Australia. The painting shows a batsman and a bowler in a typical sun-baked Australian country town. The side of a stark twostorey building, with a verandah over the front. Is being used as a wicket. “The Cricketers” was put up for sale in a London gallery and fetched 150 guineas. It was sold last year for $16,000 and changed hands again when a Melbourne art dealer, Mr Julian Sterling, bought it for an undisclosed sum. Mr Barry Stern, a wellknown Sydney dealer, has now bought it for $40,000. The price exceeded the previous record of $35,000, set a few weeks ago by Mr Stern when he sold a painting of Burke and Wills leaving Melbourne by Sydney Nolan.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31702, 11 June 1968, Page 6
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