LLOYD REES
1895-1988

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF THE LATE DAVID CLARKE AO, SYDNEY

LLOYD REES

1895-1988
Summer in the Suburbs 1964

oil on canvas
signed and dated 'L REES / 64' lower right
92.3 x 107.7 cm

Provenance

The Osborne Art Gallery, Adelaide
Mr and Mrs Richard C. Crebbin, Sydney
Australian and European Paintings, Drawings and Prints, Part 1, Christie's, Melbourne, 26 November 1996, lot 14, illustrated
Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above
Australia Fine Art Auction, Deutscher and Hackett, Sydney, 28 April 2010, lot 37, illustrated
Mr David Clarke AO, Sydney, acquired from the above
The Estate of the Late David Clarke AO, Sydney

Exhibited

Annual Exhibition, Society of Artists, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, 13-28 October 1965, no. 30, 'Sunshine and Suburbia', 450 gns
Artists of Australia: Festival of Arts Exhibition, The Osborne Art Gallery, Adelaide, 9-26 March 1966, no. 42, 'Sunshine and Suburbia', $1,200
Lloyd Rees Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2 October - 2 November 1969, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, November - December 1969, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1-28 February 1970, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 17 March - 13 April 1970, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1-31 May 1970, Western Australian Art Gallery, Perth, 18 June - 21 July 1970, Newcastle City Art Gallery, August 1970, no. 81, illustrated (label verso)

Literature

Renee Free, Lloyd Rees Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1969, pp. 12, 24 (illustrated, Plate V), 30
Renee Free, Lloyd Rees, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1972, cat. no. O236, pp. 80, 82, 95 (illustrated, plate 27), 116
Lloyd Rees (with Renee Free), Lloyd Rees: An Artist Remembers, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1987, pp. 84 (illustrated), 85, 172
Renee Free, 'Lloyd Rees: A Lifetime from Federation to Bicentenary', Art and Australia, Sydney, Vol. 26, No. 4, Winter 1989, p. 575 (illustrated)