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:
$20,864 (inc. BP)
© Ray Crooke/Copyright Agency 2022
lot details
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.
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’)