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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian + International Fine Art
• Sale Date:
  03 May 2023 ~ 7pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  56
• Lot Description:
  Lloyd Rees
  (1895 - 1988)
  The Wattle Tree, 1934
  pencil on paper 
  18.0 x 26.0 cm
  signed and dated lower left: L. REES / 1934; copy of S.A. Parker framer’s label attached to backing verso
  EXHIBITED: Society of Artists Annual Exhibition, Education Department Gallery, Sydney, 7 September 1934 – 5 October 1934, cat. 7; Lloyd Rees Loan Exhibition, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1 – 30 August 1942, cat. 61 (copy of label attached to backing verso); Paintings, Drawings and Graphics by Lloyd Rees, Masterpiece Fine Art Gallery, Hobart, opened 7 September 1984, cat. 34; Masterpiece Fine Art Gallery, Hobart, 2 – 24 November 2001 (as ‘The Wattle Tree (West Pennant Hills)’); Lloyd Rees, Painting with Pencil 1930 – 36, 12 December 2015 – 17 April 2016, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, cat. 137 (as ‘The Wattle Tree (West Pennant Hills)’); Uncovered Northwood, Lloyd Rees and Beyond, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney, 12 September – 21 October 2022 (as ‘The Wattle Tree (West Pennant Hills)’)
• Provenance:
  Miss V. de Putron, Sydney, by 1942; J. Davies, by 1969; Masterpiece Fine Art Gallery, Hobart; Private collection, Sydney, acquired in 2002
• References:
  Free, R., Klepac, L., Rees, A., et al, Lloyd Rees: Painting With Pencil, 1930 – 36, Richard Nagy Ltd, London & Sydney Living Museums, Sydney, 2015, pp. 137 (illus.), 184 (as ‘The Wattle Tree Pennant Hills’); Davis, R., Uncovered Northwood, Lloyd Rees and Beyond, Macquarie University, Sydney, 2022, pp. 61 (illus.), 109 (as ‘The Wattle Tree (West Pennant Hills)’)
• Estimate:
  A$10,000 - 15,000
• Realised Price:
  *****
  

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• Category:
  Art

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