Balls Head from Blues Point, Sydney

Details

ROLAND SHAKESPEARE WAKELIN (1887-1971)
Balls Head from Blues Point, Sydney
signed and dated 'R Wakelin/30' (lower right)
oil on board
41.4 x 54.3 cm
verso:
Still Life
oil on board
42 x 54 cm

Provenance

Toorak Gallery, South Yarra
Private collection, Melbourne
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, Melbourne, 18 November 1996, lot 45
Acquired from the above by the present owners

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This painting is presented to allow the frame to be simply reversed to view both images.

Wakelin resided in the suburbs of North Sydney and Bay Road, situated on the North Shore in the Berrys Bay lacality and now known as Waverton. Balls Head and Blues Point were natural and favourite subjects for Wakelin and as such he painted many works in this area.

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