Lloyd Rees
(1895 - 1988)
WESTERN END OF GOAT ISLAND, SYDNEY HARBOUR, 1933
pencil on paper
16.5 x 28.0 cm (sight)
signed and dated lower left: L REES / 1933
Estimate:
$15,000 - $20,000
Sold:
$71,182 (inc. BP)
© Alan and Jancis Rees/Copyright Agency 2021
lot details
Lazlo Gallery, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney
Thence by descent
Private collection, Sydney
Exhibited
A Very Private Collection, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 15 June – 15 July 1990, cat. 52 (as ‘Milsons Point’)
Lloyd Rees Drawings, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 9 March – 14 May 1995, cat. 50 (label attached verso); and touring
Lloyd Rees, Painting with Pencil 1930 – 36, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, 12 December 2015 – 10 April 2016
Literature
Kolenberg, K., Lloyd Rees Drawings: Centenary Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1995, cat. 50, p. 55 (illus.)
Free, R., Klepac, L., Rees, A., et al, Lloyd Rees: Painting With Pencil, 1930 – 36, Richard Nagy Ltd, London & Museum of Sydney, New South Wales, 2015, pp. 103 (illus.), 183
Related Works
Western End of Goat Island, Sydney Harbour, 1933, pencil on paper, 21.4 x 27.7 cm, in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne