Lloyd Rees (1895-1988)
Song to Creation - Land 1969
Estimate: $380000 - 480000
Sold For:
$400000 hammer
Description
Lloyd Rees (1895-1988)
Song to Creation - Land 1969
oil and sand on canvas
96.5 x 127.5 cm
signed and dated lower right: L REES/ 69
signed and inscribed verso: L REES/ A SONG TO CREATION - LAND
signed and inscribed on stretcher verso: A SONG TO CREATION L. REES
Provenance:
Artarmon Galleries, Sydney (label attached verso)
Mr & Mrs Denis Ryan, Sydney
Mossgreen, Melbourne, 13 November 2007, lot 6
Private collection, Sydney
Deutscher-Menzies, Sydney, 25 March 2009, lot 42
Private collection, Melbourne
Menzies, Melbourne, 14 September 2011, lot 45
Private collection, Melbourne
Exhibited:
Lloyd Rees Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; 2 October - 2 November 1969, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; 1 November 1969 - 1 January 1970, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; 1 - 28 February 1970, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart; 17 March - 13 April 1970, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; 1 - 31 May 1970, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; 18 June - 21 July 1970, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, New South Wales; 1 - 31 August 1970, cat.99
Reference:
Free, R., Lloyd Rees, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1972, pp.90, 117, cat.O266 (illus. p.90, no.50)
Rees, L. & Free, R., Lloyd Rees: An Artist Remembers, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1985, p.99 (illus. p.98)
Related Works:
Song to Creation - Sea 1969, oil on canvas, 81.5 x 96.5 cm, illus. in Free, R., Lloyd Rees, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1972, p.91, cat.O267, no.51
Song to Creation - Sky 1969, oil on canvas, 78.0 x 96.0 cm, illus. in Free, R., Lloyd Rees, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1972, p.91, cat.O268, no.52
Estimate: $380000 - 480000
Result Hammer: $400000