DE MESTRE’S HOUSE, 1943

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Sydney
28 August 2019
25

ROLAND WAKELIN

(1887 – 1971)
DE MESTRE’S HOUSE, 1943

oil on pulpboard

35.5 x 45.5 cm

signed and dated lower left: R Wakelin ‘43
bears inscription on label verso: 76 Roland Wakelin

Private sale
Provenance

Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Treania Smith, Sydney
Sotheby’s, Sydney, 29 November 1991, lot 260
Ken and Joan Plomley Collection of Modernist Art, Melbourne

Exhibited

Roland Wakelin, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 10 November 1943, cat. 17
Contemporary Australian Art, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, May – June 1960, cat. 86 (label attached verso, lent by Treania Smith)
Pioneer Contemporaries, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 23 November – 2 December 1960, cat. 34
Tribute to Roland Wakelin, Bank of New South Wales, Sydney, May – June 1962
Roland Wakelin Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 8 – 30 April 1967 and touring to
Newcastle City Art Gallery, Newcastle, 10 – 13 May 1967, cat. 65 (as ‘De Maistre’s House’) (label attached verso, lent by Treania Smith)
Treania Smith Collection, The Painters Gallery, Sydney, 18 June – 6 July 1985, cat. 76 (illus. in catalogue, p. 13)

Literature

Watson, A. The Art of Roland Wakelin, Master Thesis, University of Sydney, Sydney, 1975, pl. 64, cat. 124, pp. 77, 173 (illus.) [https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/8682] (accessed 2/05/19)