WAVERTON, SYDNEY, 1931

Important Fine Art + Aboriginal Art
Sydney
2 December 2015
12

LLOYD REES

(1895 – 1988)
WAVERTON, SYDNEY, 1931

pencil on paper

20.0 x 31.5 cm

signed lower left: L. REES
signed and dated lower right: L REES / 1931
bears inscription on Art Gallery of New South Wales label: Waverton, Sydney 1931

Estimate: 
$8,000 – 12,000
Sold for $164,700 (inc. BP) in Auction 41 - 2 December 2015, Sydney
Provenance

Sydney Ure Smith, Sydney
Thence by descent
Ure Smith collection, Sydney

Exhibited

Lloyd Rees: Watercolors and Pencil Drawings, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 9 – 19 December 1931,
cat. 23 (as ‘The Heights of Waverton’)
Lloyd Rees Loan Exhibition, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1 – 30 August 1942,
cat. Drawings 14 (as ‘The Heights of North Sydney’, 1937)
Lloyd Rees Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2 October – 2 November 1969, cat. 124, p. 33 and touring in 1969 – 70 to all Australian State Galleries
Lloyd Rees Drawing, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 9 March – 14 June 1995, cat. 36 (label attached verso)
 

Literature

Ure Smith, S., ‘Pencil Drawings by Lloyd Rees’, Art in Australia, series 3, no 42, 1932, pp. 55-59, pl. 16 (illus.)
Free, R., Lloyd Rees, Lansdowne Press, Sydney, 1972, cat. D123, p. 42, pl. 32 (illus.)
Klepac, L., Lloyd Rees Drawings, Australian Artists Editions, Artarmon Galleries, Sydney, 1978, p. 28, (illus. as ‘The Heights of Waverton, North Sydney’)
Kolenberg, K., Lloyd Rees Drawings: Centenary Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1995, cat. 36, p. 47 (illus.)