Lawrence Daws (born 1927)

YAM CREEK, 1962

oil on composition board

121.0 x 151.0 cm
134.8 x 165.0 cm (frame)

signed and dated lower right: DAWS 62 

The Matthiesen Gallery, London (label attached verso)
Richard Gray Esq., London
Christie’s, Melbourne, 23 November 1999, lot 101
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above by private treaty, 25 November 1999

Paintings and Gouaches – Lawrence Daws, The Matthiesen Gallery, London, 4 – 27 October 1962, cat. 6 (illus. in exhibition catalogue)
on long term loan to Wollongong City Art Gallery, New South Wales

Weston, N., Lawrence Daws, Reed, Sydney, 1982, p. 45 (illus.)
Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 17, 100 (illus.), 217

Condition:
This work is in very good, stable and near original condition.
Surface blemishes are consistent with the artist’s practice and materials used.
Under ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of past restoration.

The work is housed in a dark stained timber frame with gilt internal edges.