George W. Lambert 1873-1930

• Lot Sold $30,000 (Hammer Price)
• $36,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

DAUNE O’NEILL (1917)
oil on canvas
signed ‘G W LAMBERT’ lower left
77 X 61.5CM 

PROVENANCE

Mr J.A. Nicholls, Adelaide
Mr Norman Schureck, Sydney, until
The Norman Schureck Collection of Valuable Pictures, James R. Lawson, Sydney, 1962, lot 44, ‘Dawne’, 550 gns
V. M. Newbold, New South Wales
Australian Paintings, Christie’s, Sydney, 6 October 1971, lot 339, ‘Daune’, illustrated
Private Collection, Sydney

EXHIBITED

Twenty-second Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, Grosvenor Gallery, London, June 1917, no. 44
The Society of Australian Artists: Exhibition of Works, Burlington Gallery, London, 10-30 April 1920, no. 9, ‘Dawne’
Geo. W. Lambert, Fine Art Society’s Gallery, Melbourne, 12-28 May 1921, no. 4, ‘Dawne’
New South Wales Society of Artists, Sydney, 1921, no. 13A, ‘Dawne’
Lambert and Heysen. An Exhibition of Portraiture, Still Life, and Landscape, Preece’s Gallery, Adelaide, 29 August - 7 September 1923, no. 3, ‘Dawne’
Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 1930, no. 41, ‘Dawn’
Norman Schureck Loan Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1958, no. 65, ‘Dawne’, illustrated

LITERATURE

The Observer, London, 17 June 1917, p. 5
The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 9 September 1921, p. 6
Arthur Jose et. al., The Art of George W. Lambert, Art in Australia, Sydney, 1924, plate 5
Amy Lambert, Thirty Years of an Artist’s Life, Society of Artists, Sydney, 1938, p. 57
Susan Hunt, ‘The Return of the Expatriate: Lambert’s Late Portrait Work’, Art and Australia, Vol. 28, No. 2, Summer 1990, p. 216
Anne Gray, George Lambert (1873-1930) Catalogue Raisonné: Paintings and Sculpture, Drawings in Public Collections, Bonamy Press, Perth in association with Sotheby’s and The Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1996, P212, p. 68