Roland Wakelin
(1887 - 1971)
Battersea Bridge, 1924
oil on canvas on board
31.0 x 40.5 cm
40.5 x 50.0 cm (frame)
signed lower left: WAKELIN
Estimate:
$5,000 - $7,000
Sold:
$7,364 (inc. BP)
lot details
40.5 x 50.0 cm (frame)
Dr L. H. Allen, Canberra
Thence by descent
Joan Allen, Canberra
Thence by descent
Private collection, New South Wales
Exhibited
Opening Exhibition of the Oil Paintings of Roland Wakelin, The Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 15 – 25 April 1925, cat. 15
Loan Exhibition of Mr. Roland Wakelin’s Work. 1913–1930, residence of Ethel Anderson, Ball Green, New South Wales, 20 – 27 September 1930, cat. 73
Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Roland Wakelin, The Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 18 August 1937, cat. 43
Roland Wakelin Loan Exhibition, National Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, 14 May – 11 June 1942, cat. 65 (label attached verso)
Roland Wakelin Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 8 – 30 April 1967, cat. 27 (label attached verso)
Literature
Art in New Zealand, Wellington, vol. IV, no. 14, December 1931, pp. 130, 133 (illus.)
Lynn, E., ‘Romantic Triumph,’ The Bulletin, Sydney, vol. 89, no. 4545, 15 April 1967, p. 43
Watson, A. The Art of Roland Wakelin, Volume 2, Master Thesis, University of Sydney, Sydney, 1975, cat. 50, pl. 38, p. 44