{"product_id":"rees-lloyd-afterglow-sunset-mo-18684","title":"Lloyd Rees 'Afterglow (Sunset \u0026 Moonrise)'","description":"\u003cp\u003eLloyd Rees represents one of Australia’s preeminent artists. Born in Brisbane, he relocated to Sydney in 1916 – rounding the Heads into the harbour by boat, immediately struck by an “opalescence of colour never previously seen”. This sensitivity to colour and light would become axes of his seven-decade long career spent painting visions of the landscape and built environment, sometimes populated by people. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor many artists there is a natural denouement to their career – a peak that subsides overtime. For Rees however, the final years of his life – then living in Hobart – produced some of his most dazzling, acclaimed works. In 1982 at age 87 he won the Wynne Prize for the second time, more than thirty years after his first win. Like Claude Monet, Rees’s eyesight was failing, turning the edges of the world milky. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Afterglow (Sunset \u0026amp; Moonrise)’ was painted during this period, in Rees’s penultimate year of life. It is characteristic of his most triumphant work – a sublime landscape bathed in creamy light. The colours are iridescent, gathering around forms to evoke the same quiet transcendence that underlies the work of artists like J.W. Turner and Monet. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor serious collectors of Australian art, ‘Afterglow (Sunset \u0026amp; Moonrise)’ is a work of profound value – culturally, aesthetically and spiritually. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/artandcollectors.com\/collections\/lloyd-rees\"\u003eLloyd REES\u003c\/a\u003e (1895 - 1988)\u003cbr\u003e'Afterglow (Sunset \u0026amp; Moonrise)' 1987\u003cbr\u003eoil on canvas\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eImage Size\u003c\/i\u003e: 122 x 152 cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDimensions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: 140 x 170 x 5 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSigned\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: inscribed verso: Sun-set + Moon Rise (Tas) Afterglow\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComes with Letter of Provenance\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCondition:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVery Good:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Describes a work of art's image as Excellent, but may show some small signs of surrounding wear to paper or frame. There are no tears to paper margin or disruption to the paint surface.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReference: Vogue Living, Sydney, February 1987, p.115 (illus.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExhibition: Lloyd Rees, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart. \u003cbr\u003eCondition:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(c) Lloyd Rees \/ Copyright Agency\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art and Collectors","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50697469558854,"sku":null,"price":165000.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0499\/8229\/files\/rees-lloyd-afterglow-sunset-mo-18684.jpg?v=1792631392","url":"https:\/\/artandcollectors.com\/products\/rees-lloyd-afterglow-sunset-mo-18684","provider":"Art and Collectors","version":"1.0","type":"link"}