Lloyd Rees (1895 - 1988)

RHYTHMICAL SLOPES, BATHURST, 1965

charcoal and wash on paper

38.5 x 48.5 cm (sight)
67.0 x 75.0 cm (frame)

signed and dated lower left: LREES/ 1965

Australian Galleries, Melbourne (label attached verso, stock no. AG4796)
Private collection
Mason Gray Strange, Sydney, 18 March 1991, lot 200C
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above

Lloyd Rees: A Tribute to Light 1988 and Works on Paper 1932–1988, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 22 October – 15 November 1988, cat. 17 (illus. in exhibition catalogue p.36)
Dawn to Dusk: Landscapes from the Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 31 May – 16 Nov 2014
on long term loan to Wollongong City Art Gallery, New South Wales

Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, p. 231

Condition:
This work is in very good, stable and near original condition.
The work does not appear to have been laid down.
There is a 6 cm vertical mark and associated discolouration to the top right corner.
Under ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of past restoration.

The work is housed in a thin silver frame with window mount under Perspex.