Lot 69
Untitled (Woman with a Blue Cockatiel) c.1930
watercolour and ink
signed lower right PHIL MCLACHLAN
20 x 18cm
Estimate $600 - $800
Private collection, Melbourne
Phyllis McLachlan studied at the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney. She first exhibited her watercolours at a Society of Women Painters' exhibition in Sydney in 1922, and had her first solo exhibition in two years later.
McLachlan was best known for her cover designs for The Home and Triad magazines, but also designed costumes for the reenactment of the First Fleet's arrival in Sydney Cove for the Australia Day Sesquicentenary celebrations in 1938.
Women Artists: 1900 - 1960
AUCTION
Sale: LJ8199
2:00pm - 12 October 2017
333 Malvern Rd, South Yarra 3141
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