WESTERN END OF GOAT ISLAND, SYDNEY HARBOUR, 1933

Important Women Artists
Melbourne
10 November 2021
92

LLOYD REES

(1895 - 1988)
WESTERN END OF GOAT ISLAND, SYDNEY HARBOUR, 1933

pencil on paper

16.5 x 28.0 cm (sight)

signed and dated lower left: L REES / 1933

Estimate: 
$15,000 – $20,000
Sold for $71,182 (inc. BP) in Auction 65 - 10 November 2021, Melbourne
Provenance

Lazlo Gallery, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney
Thence by descent
Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited

A Very Private Collection, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 15 June – 15 July 1990, cat. 52 (as ‘Milsons Point’)
Lloyd Rees Drawings, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 9 March – 14 May 1995, cat. 50 (label attached verso); and touring
Lloyd Rees, Painting with Pencil 1930 – 36, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, 12 December 2015 – 10 April 2016

Literature

Kolenberg, K., Lloyd Rees Drawings: Centenary Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1995, cat. 50, p. 55 (illus.)
Free, R., Klepac, L., Rees, A., et al, Lloyd Rees: Painting With Pencil, 1930 – 36, Richard Nagy Ltd, London & Museum of Sydney, New South Wales, 2015, pp. 103 (illus.), 183