Lot 99: VIRGIL LO SCHIAVO (1910-1960)

Floral Landscape, Central Australia
signed 'V. Lo Schiavo' (lower left)
oil on board
55 x 70 cm
Painted circa 1940

Sydney, Scheding Berry Fine Art, A Surrealist View, 1986

anon, sale: Lawsons, Sydney, 1975
Acquired from the above by the present owner

A mural painter, Lo Schiavo painted the immense mural around the walls of the refectory at The University of Sydney won the Sulman Prize in 1945. He also painted a pair of large allegorical paintings for the Commonwealth Bank in Melbourne.

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