A Song to Creation - Land 1969

LLOYD REES (1895-1988)

A 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 and Mrs Denis Ryan, Sydney
Mossgreen Auctions, Melbourne, 13 November 2007, lot 6
Private collection, Sydney
Deutscher-Menzies, Sydney, 25 March 2009, lot 42
Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited:
Lloyd Rees Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2 October - 2 November 1969, cat.99, touring to the State Galleries in Brisbane, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide and Perth, and the Newcastle Regional Art Gallery during 1969 - 70.

Reference:
Colour reproduction published by The Australian, 1969
Free, R., Lloyd Rees, Lansdowne Press, Sydney [1972], 1985, p.90, cat.0266 (illus. p.90, no.50)

Related Works:
One of the three 1969 oil paintings collectively titled Song to Creation and individually called Land, Sea and Sky, all of similar size, and included in the artist's 1969 retrospective exhibition.

Estimate: $400000 - 500000

Result Hammer: $450,000