HAMERSLEY RANGES, WEST AUSTRALIA, 1971

National Australia Bank Collection
Melbourne
22 February 2022
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RAY CROOKE

(1922 - 2015)
HAMERSLEY RANGES, WEST AUSTRALIA, 1971

oil on composition board

90.5 x 122.0 cm

signed lower left: R Crooke
inscribed with title on gallery label attached verso: “Hamersley Ranges, West Australia, 1971” / Painted in the Mount Newman area south of Mount Tom Price Mine.

Estimate: 
$15,000 – $20,000
Sold for $20,864 (inc. BP) in Auction 67 - 22 February 2022, Melbourne
Provenance

Artarmon Galleries, Sydney (label attached verso)
The National Australia Bank Art Collection, acquired in 1972 (label attached verso)

Exhibited

Encounters with Country: The Landscapes of Ray Crooke, Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland, September 2005 – December 2006, cat. 43 (as 'Hammersley [sic.] Ranges, Western Australia') and touring Mornington Regional Gallery, Victoria; S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney; Orange Regional Gallery, New South Wales; Queensland University Art Museum, Brisbane; and Broken Hill Regional Gallery, New South Wales

Literature

Wilson, G., Encounters with Country: Landscapes of Ray Crooke, Cairns Regional Gallery, 2005, pp. 40, 47 (illus.), 69 (as ‘Hammersley Ranges, Western Australia’)