Song to Creation - Land 1969

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