HEAD OF A GIRL WITH REDDISH BROWN HAIR, 1915

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Sydney
22 November 2023
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GEORGE WASHINGTON LAMBERT

(1873 - 1930)
HEAD OF A GIRL WITH REDDISH BROWN HAIR, 1915

oil on canvas on board

43.5 x 33.0 cm

Lambert Memorial Trust stamp verso, signed by Gladys Owen and Basil Burdett

Estimate: 
AU$12,000 – $18,000
Provenance

Anthony Hordern & Sons Gallery, Sydney (label attached verso)
possibly Sir Edward Hayward, Adelaide
David Dridan, South Australia
Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
Peter Walker, Adelaide
Private collection, New South Wales, acquired from the above c.2001

Exhibited

Lambert Memorial Exhibition, Anthony Horderns' Fine Art Gallery, Sydney, 25 September – 15 October 1930, cat. 32 (as 'Portrait Study, Head of Girl with Reddish–brown Hair)
Australian Paintings Colonial / Contemporary, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 2 – 19 April 1984, cat. 38 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, n.p.)

Literature

The Home: an Australian Quarterly, Art in Australia, Sydney, vol. 11, no. 9, 1 September 1930 (illus. on cover as ‘Head of a Girl’)  
Burdett, B., ‘THE LAMBERT EXHIBITION’, Art in Australia, Sydney, 3rd series, no. 34, October – November 1930, p. 66
Gray, A., George Lambert 1873 – 1930: Catalogue Raisonné: Paintings and Sculpture, Drawings in Public Collections, Bonamy Press, Perth, Sotheby's Australia and Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1996, cat. P185, p. 60