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Lot 150

Ray Crooke
(1922-2015)
Girl with Lei, 1960

22 September 2019, 13:00 AEST

Sydney, Woollahra

Sold for AU$24,400 inc. premium

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Ray Crooke (1922-2015)

Girl with Lei, 1960
signed lower left: 'R. Crooke'
titled verso: 'GIRL WITH LEI No 1'
oil on canvas
75.0 x 100.0cm (29 1/2 x 39 3/8in).

Footnotes

PROVENANCE
Collection of the late Sir Warwick and Lady Fairfax, Sydney

EXHIBITED
Ray Crooke, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 25 October - 4 November 1966, cat. 1
Ray Crooke, Adelaide Festival of Arts, Adelaide, 3 – 30 March 1972, cat. 33

LITERATURE
'Serene House at Bondi Beach', Vogue Australia, June/July 1967, p. 105 (illus. in situ)

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