Lloyd Rees (1895 - 1988)

A broken dream – Utzon’s Opera House, 1978

pastel and pencil on paper on board

25.5 x 35.5 cm
51.5 x 60.5 cm (frame)

signed and dated lower left: Rees 78

Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Muriel Burns, Sydney
Estate of the above, Sydney
Sotheby's, Sydney, 24 August 2004, lot 269
Neville Gruzman, Sydney
Estate of the above, Sydney
Deutscher and Hackett, Sydney, 28 April 2010, lot 19 (as ‘Sydney Opera House’)
Private collection, Melbourne

Lloyd Rees – A Tribute to Sydney, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 19 January – 12 February 1979, cat. 23

Chanin, E., Lloyd Rees – A Tribute to Sydney, The Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 1979, pp. 58, 59 (illus.)

A Broken Dream – Utzon's Opera House, 1978, oil on canvas, 84.0 x 145.0 cm, illus. ibid., p. 61
Afterglow – Opera House no. 4, 1980, oil on canvas, 91.5 x 102.0 cm, private collection
The Opera House at night, 1981, oil on canvas, 90.0 x 100.0 cm, illus. in Free, R., Lloyd Rees: the last twenty years, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1983, p. 144, pl. 43