Ray Crooke (1922 - 2015)

WAITING, 1982

oil on linen

45.0 x 61.5 cm
56.5 x 72.0 cm (frame)

signed lower left: R Crooke
bears inscription with title on label verso: RAY CROOKE / "WAITING" / 1982

Private collection
Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 2 May 2000, lot 275
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above

on long term loan to Newcastle Region Art Gallery, New South Wales, prior to 2006 (label attached verso as ‘Woman in a Tropical Interior’)
on long term loan to Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria

Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 18, 129 (illus.), 216