Boy with Pipes

Details

GEORGE WASHINGTON LAMBERT (1873-1930)
Boy with Pipes
signed 'G.W. LAMBERT' (lower left)
oil on canvas
59.5 x 38.5 cm
Painted in 1913
1

Provenance

Trustees of the Estate of Mrs Amy Lambert
Acquired by the D.R.Sheumack Collection of Australian Paintings in 1959 Mr William Bowmore, OBE, Brisbane

Literature

A Gray, Art and Artifice: George Lambert 1873-1930, Sydney, 1996, p.199, illus. p.83 R A Gray, George Lambert 1873-1930, Catalogue Raisonné, Perth, 1996, cat.no. P171-P172, p.54 R Christie and J Miller, The D R Sheumack Collection, Eighty Years of Australian Painting, Sydney, 1988, cat. no. 30 (titled Maurice 1907)

Exhibited

(possibly) Sydney, Grosvenor Galleries, A Group of Contemporary Painters, November 1928 London, The Royal Academy, Commemorative Exhibition of works by late members, Winter exhibition, 7 January - 11 March 1933, cat.no. 215 Sydney, S H Ervin Museum and Art Gallery, George Washington Lambert, 1978, cat. no. 31A
Sydney, S H Ervin Museum and Art Gallery, The D R Sheumack Collection of Australia Paintings, 17 May - 12 June 1983, cat. no. 63

Special notice

A 10% Goods and Services tax (G.S.T) will be charged on the Buyer's Premium on all lots in this sale.

Lot Essay

Lambert's son Maurice was the model for this painting, which was a study for a mural for the ocean liner, Alsatian. Lambert's biographer, Anne Gray has dated this work, based on stylistic considerations, including the high key of the palette which was characteristic of Lambert's work from this period. Gray has also suggested that this work may be The Young Shepherd 1913, which was exhibited at the Grosvenor Galleries in Sydney in 1928.

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