The Artists Wife, Lyndra
Oil on paper laid on canvas 60.7 x 40.5 cm Provenance: Redfern Gallery, London; Chelsea Gallery, London Exhibited: Early Australian Painters, Bridget McDonnell Gallery.....
Extract from The Edwardians, Secrets and Desires, Anna Gray, National Gallery of Australia, 2004, website biography on Derwent Lees “... He travelled to London to attend the Slade School from 1905 to 1907. While still studying, he was invited to join the academic staff and he taught drawing at the Slade from 1908 to 1918. His close associates in London included J. D Innes and Augustus John and, around the period from 1910 to 1913, he worked with them in Dorset and Wales, painting lyrical landscapes in vivid colours on small wooden panels. He travelled widely in Europe and, during 1912 to 1914, visited the south of France. He died in hospital in Surrey on 28 March 1931, aged 46. ... Derwent Lees met his wife, Edith Brice, known as Lyndra, through Augustus John, for whom she had modelled”
A painting The Artist’s Wife was exhibited at the Redfern Gallery in 1934
Oil on paper laid on canvas 60.7 x 40.5 cm Provenance: Redfern Gallery, London; Chelsea Gallery, London Exhibited: Early Australian Painters, Bridget McDonnell Gallery.....
Provenance: Acquired in the United Kingdom in 1976 as part of a collection of six Australian landscape paintings by the artist Exhibited: Early Australian.....
Pencil 31 x 22.8 cm Provenance: Redfern Gallery, London $1,450
Pencil 28 x 21.8 cm Signed and dated Provenance: Edward and John Barkes Exhibited: Redfern Gallery, London...
Pencil22 x 22 cmProvenance: Redfern Gallery, London
Pencil 31 x 24 cm Provenance: Redfern Gallery, London; John and Edward Barkes Exhibited: Redfern Gallery, London; Bridget McDonnell Gallery Derwent Lees.....
Ink and wash 35.3 x 25.3 cm Provenance: Redfern Gallery, London; John & Edward Barkes; Bridget McDonnell Gallery; Estate of Lisé Sigetty-Bates.....
Pencil and wash23 x 38 cm Signed and titled on reverse; also inscribed 12. & 13
Oil on canvas on board24 x 26.5 cmSignedProvenance: Acquired in the United Kingdom in 1976 as part of a collection of six.....
Pencil37 x 28 cmExhibited: Redfern Gallery, London 1884-1931 “Australian-born English painter, Derwent Lees was born on 14 November 1884 in.....
Pencil 29 x 22.5 cm Provenance: Private collection, Tasmania
Pencil 29 x 22.5 cm Provenance: Private collection, Tasmania
Ink28 x 15 cmProvenance: Redfern Gallery, London; John & Edward Barkes