Lindsay Bernard Hall (1859 - 1935)

INTERIOR, GOVERNMENT HOUSE, c.1920

oil on canvas 

61.5 x 47.0 cm
82.0 x 67.2 cm (frame)

signed lower left: B. Hall

Private collection
Christie’s, Melbourne, 13 March 1973, lot 404 (as ‘Government House, Melbourne’)
Private collection
Leonard Joel, 27 May 1981, lot 976 (as ‘Interior, Government House’)
Private collection
Christie’s, London, 6 December 1990, lot 28 (as ‘Government House’)
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above, 4 February 1991

Society of Artists, Educations Department, Sydney, September 1932
Exhibition of Paintings by the late Bernard Hall, Athenaeum Galleries, Melbourne, 27 May 1935, cat. 56 (as ‘Interior, Government House’)
probably: Exhibition of Paintings and Antiques – The Works and Collection of the late Bernard Hall,
Esq., Illawarra, Toorak, Melbourne, 2 – 13 June 1936, cat.14
Exhibition of Paintings by the late L. Bernard Hall, Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne, 7 March 1939 (as ‘Interior, Government House’)
Exhibition of Paintings by the late Lindsay Bernard Hall, Block Gallery, Melbourne, 24 August 1971, cat. 19
BUS Art Collection, Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, New South Wales, 16 March – 12 April 1992, cat. 12
The Reading Room: The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 9 November 2013 – 20 April 2014
on long term loan to Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria

‘Reminiscent Interest’, The Age, Melbourne, 7 March 1939, p. 7 (as ‘Interior, Government House’)
‘Sundry Shows. The Palette’, The Bulletin, Sydney, vol. 53, no. 2746, 28 September 1932, p. 29
Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, p. 220

This work is located in our Melbourne Gallery

This work is in very good, stable and near original condition. On close inspection, there are very fine, old surface cracks mostly in the upper centre and centre of the composition. These are old, stable and just visible in the enlarged online catalogue image. Under ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of past restoration. The work is housed in an ornate timber gilt frame with gilt slip under glass