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An image of Lights by Fred Leist
Alternate image of Lights by Fred Leist Alternate image of Lights by Fred Leist Alternate image of Lights by Fred Leist
Alternate image of Lights by Fred Leist Alternate image of Lights by Fred Leist Alternate image of Lights by Fred Leist
Alternate image of Lights by Fred Leist

Fred Leist

(Australia 1873–1945)

Title
Lights
Other titles:
Fortune teller
Place of origin
London → England
Year
(1922)
Media category
Painting
Materials used
oil on hardboard
Dimensions

90.8 x 69.9cm board; 117.0 x 96.3 x 9.1cm frame:

0 - Whole; 89 x 68cm

Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
Credit
Purchased 1922
Accession number
669
Location
Not on display
Bibliography (4)

Ian Burn, National life and landscape - Australian painting 1900-1940, 'Reflections in private spaces', pg. 116-157, Sydney, 1990, 138 (colour illus.). plate no. 103

William Moore, The story of Australian art from the earliest known art of the continent to the art of today (Vol. 1), 'Galleries', pg. 179-214, Sydney, 1934, (illus.).

Bernard Smith, 100 years of Australian painting 1948, 'Foreword', pg. 2-4, Sydney, 1948, 7. cat.no. 27

Sydney Ure Smith and Leon Gellert (Editors), Art in Australia [series 3, no. 19] 01 Mar 1927, Sydney, 01 Mar 1927, (illus.). Related work: 'Carnival Souvenirs', Collection of Mapin Gallery, Sheffield, England.

Exhibition history (2)

150 years of Australian art (1938), National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 Jan 1938–25 Apr 1938

100 years of Australian painting (1948), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Apr 1948–17 May 1948