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An image of The city skyline by Lloyd Rees
Alternate image of The city skyline by Lloyd Rees

Lloyd Rees

(Australia 17 Mar 1895–02 Dec 1988)

Title
The city skyline
Other titles:
City skyline, early morning
City Skyline
The City Skyline, Early Morning
Sydney Skyline
Place of origin
Northwood → Sydney → New South Wales → Australia
Year
1935
Media category
Painting
Materials used
oil on canvas on cardboard
Dimensions

23.7 x 52.0cm board; 31.3 x 60.0 x 3.0cm frame

Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. corner, red/brown oil "L. REES/ 35".
Credit
Purchased 1997
Accession number
62.1997
Copyright
© A & J Rees. Licensed by Viscopy, Sydney
Location
20th & 21st c Australian art
Further information

'City skyline' and 'Sydney Harbour' were made at the end of a period that Rees had devoted almost exclusively to drawing. 'City skyline' was painted from the veranda of Rees' home in Northwood, on Sydney's North Shore, where the family had moved the previous year. 'Sydney Harbour' could almost be read as a panoramic continuation of 'City skyline' and was most likely painted at nearby Northwood Bay.

Bibliography (9)

Art Gallery of New South Wales, (Lloyd Rees) 1942, ‘List of works-oil paintings.’, pp 7-11, Sydney, 1942, 7. cat.no. 6

Christie's, Australia Pty. Ltd. (Editor), Australian and European paintings, drawings and prints, part 1, 'Australian paintings lots 1-152’, pp 1-121, Melbourne, Apr 1997, 51 (colour illus.). titled 'City Skyline'; lot no. 62; estimated price $35,000-45,000

Peter Emmett, Sydney: metropolis, suburb, harbour 2000, 'Metropolis of geology, geometry and light', pp 13-70, Glebe, 2000, 44 (colour illus.).

Peter Emmett, Metropolis 1999, Glebe, 1999. Exhibition guide, brochure format

Renée Free, Lloyd Rees, ‘Catalogue’, pp 109-125, Melbourne, 1972, 110. titled 'City Skyline'; cat.no. O43

Hendrik Kolenberg, Look Mar 2013, ‘Celebrating Lloyd Rees: a book and show on the Gallery’s collection of his work’, pg. 21-23, Newtown, Mar 2013, 21 (colour illus.).

Hendrik Kolenberg, Lloyd Rees: paintings, drawings and prints 2013, ‘Introduction’, pp 11-26, Sydney, 2013, 13, 29 (colour illus.), 158. cat.no. 4

Macquarie Galleries (Editor), Exhibition of paintings & drawings by LLoyd Rees Oct 1936, 'Catalogue', Sydney, Oct 1936, n.pag.. titled ‘The City Skyline, Early Morning’; cat.no. 12; priced 12 guineas

Leon Paroissien and Dinah Dysart (Editors), Art and Australia (Vol. 29, No. 4) Winter 1992, Sydney, Winter 1992, back page (colour illus.). titled 'Sydney Skyline'; Artarmon Gallery advertisement.

Exhibition history (3)

Lloyd Rees (1942), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 01 Aug 1942–30 Aug 1942

Metropolis, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, 18 Dec 1999–02 Apr 2000

Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000