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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  The Fred and Elinor Wrobel Collection | A Curated Salon
• Sale Date:
  23 Apr 2023 ~ 2pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  45
• Lot Description:
  George Washington Lambert
  (1873-1930)
  Portrait of a Woman in a Floral Shawl, 1912
  oil on linen
  59.5 x 54.5cm (23 7/16 x 21 7/16in).
  dated and signed lower right: '1912 GW LAMBERT'
• Provenance:
  Lady Fairfax, Sydney; Fine Art, Sir Warwick & Lady Fairfax and other Vendors, Geoff K. Gray, Sydney, 26 June 1974, lot 30; The Fred and Elinor Wrobel Collection, Sydney
• Notes:
  EXHIBITED: Lambert Memorial Exhibition, Anthony Hordern's Fine Art Gallery, Sydney, 25 September - 15 October; Education Department's Art Gallery, Sydney, 26 November - 12 December 1930, cat. 10 (illus.); George Lambert, David Jones Gallery, Sydney, June 1937; George Washington Lambert, S.H. Ervin Museum and Art Gallery, The National Trust of Australia, Sydney, 22 August – 8 October 1978, cat. 31; Faces in the Crowd: An Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of Woolloomooloo Gallery, Sydney, Stanthorpe Art Gallery, Queensland, 2 - 28 November 1992, cat. 72, then touring; Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales, 9 December 1992 - 3 January 1993; A Century of Collecting 1902 - 2001, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 March - 28 April 2001. REFERENCES: 'George Lambert, Many Important Pictures', The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 24 September 1930, p. 17; William Moore, 'Art and Artists', The Brisbane Courier, Queensland, 11 October 1930, p. 18; Art and Australia, Sydney, October - November 1930, No. 34, Pl. 21, p. 66 (illus.); 'The Art of George Lambert, Sydney Exhibition', The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 24 June 1937, p. 4; George Washington Lambert, S.H Ervin Museum and Art Gallery, Sydney, 1978, p. 15 (illus.); Anne Gray, George Lambert (1873-1930) Catalogue Raisonné: Paintings and Sculpture, Drawings in Public Collections, Bonamy Press, Perth in association with Sotheby's and The Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1996, P156, p. 49; Nick Waterlow, A Century of Collecting 1902-2001, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2001, p. 24
• Estimate:
  A$30,000 - 50,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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