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National Australia Bank Collection - 22 February 2022  |  Melbourne

Lot 72
Ray Crooke
(1922 - 2015)
HAMERSLEY RANGES, WEST AUSTRALIA, 1971

oil on composition board

90.5 x 122.0 cm



Estimate:
$15,000 – $20,000


Lot sold: $20,864 (inc. BP)


Lot Details

Description

Ray Crooke
(1922 - 2015)
HAMERSLEY RANGES, WEST AUSTRALIA, 1971

oil on composition board

90.5 x 122.0 cm

signed lower left: R Crooke
inscribed with title on gallery label attached verso: “Hamersley Ranges, West Australia, 1971” / Painted in the Mount Newman area south of Mount Tom Price Mine.

Provenance

Artarmon Galleries, Sydney (label attached verso)
The National Australia Bank Art Collection, acquired in 1972 (label attached verso)

Exhibited

Encounters with Country: The Landscapes of Ray Crooke, Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland, September 2005 – December 2006, cat. 43 (as 'Hammersley [sic.] Ranges, Western Australia') and touring Mornington Regional Gallery, Victoria; S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney; Orange Regional Gallery, New South Wales; Queensland University Art Museum, Brisbane; and Broken Hill Regional Gallery, New South Wales

Literature

Wilson, G., Encounters with Country: Landscapes of Ray Crooke, Cairns Regional Gallery, 2005, pp. 40, 47 (illus.), 69 (as ‘Hammersley Ranges, Western Australia’)