Lloyd Rees

(1895-1988)

The South Coast, 1980

Footnotes

PROVENANCE
Private collection
Sotheby's, Melbourne, 19 August 1991, lot 240, as Werri Creek
Private collection, Melbourne

EXHIBITED
LLoyd Rees Drawings, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 2 - 19 July 1980, cat. 10
Lloyd Rees Survey: Drawings and Paintings 1918-1980, touring exhibition, University Gallery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 24 March - 24 April 1981; Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, May - June 1981; S.H. Ervin Museum and Art Gallery, Sydney, June - July 1981; University Art Museum, Queensland, August - September 1981; Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong, September - October 1981, cat. 37
Lloyd Rees Drawings, touring exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 9 March – 14 May 1995; Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, 9 June – 16 July 1995; Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, 1 September – 15 October 1995; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 4 November 1995 – 1 January 1996; Queen Victorian Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, 24 January – 11 March 1996, cat. 117 (label attached verso)

LITERATURE
Lou Klepac, 'Homage to Lloyd Rees', Art and Australia, Vol. 18, No. 2, Summer 1980, p. 153 (illus.)
Betty Clarke, Lloyd Rees Survey: Drawings and Paintings 1918-1980, University Gallery, Melbourne, 1981, p. 45, cat. 37 (illus.)
Renee Free, Lloyd Rees The Last Twenty Years, Craftsman's Press, Sydney, 1983, fig. 15 (illus.)
Hendrik Kolenberg, Lloyd Rees Drawings, Centenary Retrospective, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1995, p. 106, cat. 117 (illus.)

RELATED WORK
Illawarra Landscape, from The Caloola Suite, 1980, lithograph, 50.0 x 65.5cm, held in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

The present work was originally exhibited at the Macquarie Galleries in Lloyd Rees Drawings, when the prestigious Caloola Suite was first unveiled. South Coast, 1980 is the original work upon which the lithograph 'Illawarra Landscape' was modelled.

Lloyd Rees noted at the time: 'The other works on view, in their various mediums are the subjects upon which the lithographs are based – some are very clearly related, others less so, even to the point of vagueness (but without even these latter ones, these lithographs would not have been produced).

It will be noted that all the prints are in reverse; but I felt that to work from the reflections for the sake of topographical corrections, would have interfered with freedom of style and expression.

Topographical truth, in any case, has very rarely been one of my objectives and furthermore the reverse image creates a different picture expressing its own life and identity.'1

1. LLoyd Rees Drawings, exh. cat., Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 1980, n.p.