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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian + International Art
• Sale Date:
  28 Aug 2019 ~ 7pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  25
• Lot Description:
  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
  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)
• Provenance:
  Macquarie Galleries, Sydney; Treania Smith, Sydney; Sotheby’s, Sydney, 29 November 1991, lot 260; Ken and Joan Plomley Collection of Modernist Art, Melbourne
• References:
  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)
• Estimate:
  A$8,000 - 12,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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