George W. Lambert 1873-1930

• Lot Sold $50,000 (Hammer Price)
• $60,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

THE BLACK CRAVAT 1910

oil on canvas on board
signed and dated '1910 G.W.L.' lower right
61 X 51CM

PROVENANCE
Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer, Melbourne
By descent Private Collection, Melbourne

EXHIBITED
Winter Exhibition, New English Art Club, London, 1910, no. 122 (possibly) Mechanic's Institute, Prahran, 1912
Sir W. Baldwin Spencer's Collection, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 9 December, 1916, no. 205
Loan Exhibition of Australian Art, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, 4 April, 1918, no. 67
The Baldwin Spencer Collection of Australian Pictures and Works of Art, The Fine Art Society, in association with Arthur Tuckett & Son, Melbourne, 12-18 May, 1919, no. 17
Loan Exhibition of Australian Paintings, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1925, no. 185
Lambert Memorial Loan Exhibition, Education Department's Art Gallery, Sydney, 26 November - 12 December 1930, no. 113
On loan to National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1939-1945

LITERATURE
The Times, London, 26 November 1910, p. 6
The Observer, London, 4 December 1910, p. 9
The Art of George W. Lambert, A.R.A., Art in Australia, Sydney, 1924, p. 12, illust. plate 16
D.J. Mulvaney & J.H. Calaby, 'So much that is new' Baldwin Spencer 1860-1929: A Biography, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1985, p. 341
Anne Gray, George Lambert 1973-1930: Catalogue Raisonné, Paintings and Sculpture, Drawings in Public Collections, Bonamy Press in association with Sotheby's and the Australian War Memorial, Perth, 1996, no. P126, pp. 39-40
Anne Gray, Art and Artifice: George Lambert 1973-1930, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1996, p. 46

 

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