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Established in 1994 Galeria Aniela won the trust of some of the most important Australian artists including Arthur Boyd, Jamie Boyd, Bogdan Fialkowski, Charles Blackman, Celia Perceval, Col Henry, Danielle Legge, David Boyd, Dino Rogliani, Garry Shead, Gaye Spencer, Janusz Kuzbicki, John Olsen, John Perceval, Kinga Rypinska, Lenore Boyd, Michael Vaynman, Pamela Griffith, Pin Hsun Hsiang, Peter Smith, Robin Holliday, Ray Crooke, Regina Noakes, Susan Weaver and Tessa Perceval. Galeria Aniela combines art and financial expertise selling to a world wide buyer base high-quality art by renowned artists. We sell items only of impeccable provenance and quality. We recognize the importance of a buyer confidence in purchasing an authentic original work of art. Our people focused approach ensures an enjoyable and a rewarding experience.

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Ray Crooke artist (b.1922) paintings

Auction Results Ray Crooke Thursday Island sold for $115,900 and Early Morning Cairns Suburbs fetch $97,600
Biography Ray Crooke is represented in all Australian National Galleries and overseas including the Vatican in Rome.

Ray Crooke born 1922
Queensland Landscape circa 1958
13 x 21 cm
Oil on board
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Ray Crooke born 1922
Islanders circa1968-72
24 x 20 cm
oil and gouache on canvas
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Ray Crooke born 1922
Banana Sellers circa 1980
oil on canvas
55 x 42 cm
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Ray Crooke born 1922
Thursday Island
Oil on canvas
2011 The Estate of Len & Olga Nettlefold Hobart
SOLD $115,900

Ray Crooke born 1922
Islander Scene
Oil on canvas
2010 Sotheby's
SOLD $88,800

Ray Crooke born 1922
The Shell
Oil on board
2008 Sotheby's
SOLD $72,000

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Ray Crooke born 1922
Thursday Island Boy
Oil on board
2000 Sotheby's
SOLD $57,500

Ray Crooke born 1922
Island Interior
Oil on board
45 x 60 cm
2007 Deutscher~Menzies
SOLD $38,200

Ray Crooke born 1922
Girl on Veranda circa 1960-70
mixed medium
26 x 30 cm
Price: SOLD

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Ray Crooke born 1922
Mornington Island Mission 1952-1954
oil on board
15 x 22 cm
Price: SOLD

Ray Crooke born 1922
Thursday Island
oil on canvas on board
22 x 30 cm
Price: SOLD

Ray Crooke born 1922
Island Women 1960-1970
oil on canvas on board
50.5 x 50.5cm
Price: SOLD

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*Picture*	*Sold for*	*Details*
	*$115,900* RETURN TOP	Ray Crooke born 1922 *Thursday Island, 1964, Oil on canvas, signed lower left, 100 x 74 cm, Est: $30,000-40,000, Mossgreen Auctions, The Estate of Len and Olga Nettlefold (Art only), Hobart, Lot No. 42* *, 27/03/2011*
	*$97,600* RETURN TOP	Ray Crooke born 1922 *Early Morning Cairns Suburb, Circa 1962, Oil on board, signed lower left., 75 x 120 cm, Est: $50,000-70,000, Mossgreen Auctions, The Estate of Len and Olga Nettlefold (Art only), Hobart Lot No. 262* , 27/03/2011,**
	*$88,800* RETURN TOP	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Islander Scene,* *Oil on canvas, signed 'R Crooke' lower left 121.5 x 181.5cm Est: $50,000-70,000 Sotheby's Australia, Australian & International Fine Art, Sydney, Lot No. 10* *, 23/11/2010*
	*$88,550* RETURN TOP	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Islanders in the Shade,* *Oil on canvas board, signed lower left, 90 x 120 cm, Est: $40,000-50,000, GFL Fine Art, Summer Art Auction, Perth, Lot No. 47* *, 30/11/2010*
	*$82,250*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *The Islanders, Thursday Island c. 1960,* Oil on composition board, signed lower right: R. Crooke, signed and inscribed verso: R. Crooke/ Thursday Is., 58.5 x 89 cm, Est: $25,000-35,000, Deutscher~Menzies, 19th & 20th Century Fine Australian and International Art, Melbourne, Lot No. 1 *, 09/05/2001*
	*$72,000* RETURN TOP	Ray Crooke born 1922, *The Shell, Oil on composition board, signed and dated 59 lower right, 68 x 91 cm, Est: $50,000-70,000, Sotheby's Australia, Important Australian Art, Sydney, Lot No. 1, 22/04/2008*
	*$68,750*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Girl with Hibiscus,* *Oil, signed, 90 x 59 cm, GFL Fine Art, Perth, Lot No. 27* *, 26/06/2001*
	*$62,275*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Island Song 1965,* Oil on canvas on board, signed and dated lower right: R. Crooke 65, inscribed verso: Island Blues, 74.5 x 100.5 cm, Est: $40,000-60,000, Deutscher~Menzies, Australian & International Paintings, Sydney, Lot No. 35 *, 04/03/2003*
	*$61,100*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Island Interior 1970,* *Oil on canvas on board, signed lower left: R. Crooke, 76 x 101.5 cm, Est: $38,000-45,000, Deutscher~Menzies, Australian & International Paintings, Sydney, Lot No. 80* *, 04/03/2003*
	*$60,000*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *The Football Match,* *Enamel on board, signed lower left; inscribed with title on the reverse, 60 x 90.5cm Est: $20,000-30,000, Sotheby's Australia, Important Australian Art, Sydney8, Lot No. 103* *, 22/04/200*
	*$58,750*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Islanders,* Oil and tempera on board, signed and dated 'Ray Crooke/59' lower left, 61 x 76 cm, Est: $50,000-60,000, Christies, Australian, International & Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Lot No. 4 *, 06/05/2003*
	*$57,600*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Island Natives,* *Oil on canvas, signed lower left: R Crooke, 91x122cm Est: $35,000-45,000 Deutscher and Hackett, 100 Important Australian Paintings, Melbourne, Lot No. 49* *, 16/04/2008*
	*$57,500*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Thursday Island ,* *Oil on board, signed 'R. Crooke' lower left and further signed and inscribed with title on the reverse, 59.4x90.5cm Est: $25,000-35,000, Christies, Melbourne0, Lot No. 4* *, 28/06/200*
	*$57,500*	Ray Crooke *born 1922,The Offering,* Oil on canvas, signed and dated 'R. Crooke/89' lower right, 150.5 x 243.2 cm, Est: $28,000-35,000, Christies, Australian and European Paintings, Melbourne, Lot No. 70, 27/04/1999**
	*$57,500* RETURN TOP	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Thursday Island Boy, Oil on board, signed and dated 1958 lower left, 68 x 83 cm, Est: $25,000-35,000, Sotheby's Australia, Fine Australian and International Paintings, Melbourne, Lot No. 3* , 02/05/2000**
	*$53,680*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Islanders Relaxing on Veranda, Oil on canvas, 60x75cm Est: $20,000-30,000, Mossgreen Auctions, Fine Australian Art, Melbourne, 16/11/2010, Lot No. 221***
	*$52,800*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Cairns Waterfront, c. 1965-68,* Oil on composition board, signed lower left R. Crooke inscribed with title verso: Cairns/ Waterfront, 60.5 x 91.2 cm, Est: $25,000-35,000, Deutscher and Hackett, Australian & International Fine Art, Melbourne, 29/08/2007, Lot No. 31
	*$52,450*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Islanders,* *Oil on canvas, signed lower right: R. Crooke, 91.5 x 122 cm, Est: $30,000-40,000, Deutscher~Menzies, Sydney June Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 16/06/2004, Lot No. 104*
	*$51,600*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Island Scene,* *Oil on canvas on composition board, signed lower centre, 75.2 x 100 cm, Est: $30,000-40,000, Sotheby's Australia, Important Australian Art, Melbourne, 25/08/2008, Lot No. 82*
	*$49,850*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Island Town,* *Oil on composition board, signed lower left, 59.5 x 90 cm, Est: $28,000-38,000, Sotheby's Australia, Fine Australian & International Paintings, Sydney, 25/08/2002, Lot No. 2*
	*$49,350*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Afternoon, Thursday Island, Oil on board, signed 'R. Crooke' lower left, 90 x 100.5 cm, Est: $25,000-35,000, Christies, Australian & International Fine Art, Melbourne, 27/11/2000, Lot No. 1***
	*$49,200*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *The Zoo,* Oil on board, signed and dated 58 lower left; signed and inscribed with title on reverse, 90 x 121 cm, Est: $28,000-38,000, Sotheby's Australia, Important Australian Art, Sydney, 22/04/2008, Lot No. 97
	*$48,925*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Figures in the Garden c. 1977,* *Oil on canvas, signed lower left: R. Crooke, 122 x 183 cm, Est: $48,000-55,000, Deutscher~Menzies, Australian & International Fine Art, Sydney, 08/12/2004, Lot No. 75*
	*$48,000*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Thursday Island Scene c. 1958-59,* *Oil on composition board, signed lower right: R. Crooke, 51 x 61 cm, Est: $25,000-35,000, Deutscher~Menzies, Australian and International Art, Sydney, 15/03/2006, Lot No. 47*
	*$47,800*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Island Still Life,* *Oil on canvas, signed 'R. Crooke' lower left, 75 x 100 cm, Est: $40,000-60,000, Bonhams & Goodman, Australian, International & Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 25/07/2006, Lot No. 1559*
	*$47,150*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Island Interior,* *Oil on canvas, signed lower left, 74.5 x 100 cm, Est: $35,000-40,000, Sotheby's Australia, Fine Australian and European Paintings, Sydney, 16/08/1999, Lot No. 12*
	*$47,000*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Mother and Child, Thursday Island ,* *Oil on canvas on board, signed 'R. Crooke' lower right, 74.7 x 100.1 cm, Est: $40,000-60,000, Christies, Australian & International Paintings, Melbourne, 02/05/2002, Lot No. 9*
	*$46,800*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *The Red Hibiscus,* Oil on canvas, signed lower right: R Crooke. inscribed on stretcher verso: Cat.5 The Red Hibiscus/, 76 x 101.5 cm, Est: $35,000-45,000, Menzies, Australian & International Fine Art, Sydney, 24/03/2011, Lot No. 56
	*$46,727*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Islanders with Tapa Cloth,* *Oil on board, 90 x 121 cm, Est: $20,000-30,000, Davidson Auctions, Australian & International Art, Sydney, 18/06/2011, Lot No. 4*
	*$46,000*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Gulf Country Settlement* *, Oil on board, signed 'R. Crooke' lower right and titled on the reverse, 90 x 120 cm, Est: $30,000-40,000, Christies, Sydney, 17/08/1999, Lot No. 124*
	*$45,600*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Boy with Garland (1972)* *Oil on canvas, signed 'R. Crooke' lower left 101 x 76.5cm Est: $40,000-60,000, Bonhams & Goodman, Australian, International & Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 23/04/2008, Lot No. 72*
	*$45,600*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *View Across an Island Village,* *Oil on canvas, signed lower right: R Crooke, 61 x 76 cm, Est: $25,000-35,000, Deutscher and Hackett, Australian & International Fine Art, Sydney, 29/11/2007, Lot No. 56*
	*$45,600*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Towards Sorrento 1960,* *Oil on composition board, signed and dated lower right: R. Crooke/ '60, 76 x 61 cm, Est: $40,000-50,000, Deutscher~Menzies, Major Fine Art Auction, Melbourne, 13/09/2006, Lot No. 76*
	*$45,150*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Natives Near Lagoon,* *Oil on canvas board, signed lower left, 90 x 120.5 cm, Est: $30,000-40,000, Sotheby's Australia, Fine Australian & International Paintings, Sydney, 25/08/2002, Lot No. 15*
	*$44,650*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Cane Farms, North Queensland,* Oil on board, signed and dated 'R. Crooke/59' lower right, inscribed 'Cane Farms/NQ', on the reverse; titled 'Qld Cane Farms' on gallery label, affixed to the reverse, 75.2 x 60 cm, Est: $40,000-50,000, Christies, Australian & International Fine Art, Melbourne, 27/11/2000, Lot No. 85
	*$43,700*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Islanders* , *Oil on canvas, signed lower left, 121 x 121 cm, Est: $14,000-18,000, Sotheby's Australia, Fine Australian and European Paintings, Melbourne, 26/04/1999, Lot No. 29*
	*$43,200*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Islanders,* *Oil on canvas, signed lower right: R Crooke, 122 x 91 cm, Est: $38,000-45,000, Deutscher~Menzies, Australian and International Art, Sydney, 18/06/2008, Lot No. 36*
	*$43,200*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *The Offering,* Oil on board, signed and inscribed 'repainted 1965' lower left; bears artist's name and title on the reverse, 59 x 75.5 cm, Est: $25,000-35,000, Sotheby's Australia, Important Australian Art, Melbourne, 27/08/2007, Lot No. 81
	*$43,050*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Girls with Hibiscus c. 1976 ,* *Oil on canvas on composition board, signed lower left: R. Crooke, 91.5 x 122 cm, Est: $35,000-45,000, Deutscher~Menzies, The Sydney Auction, Sydney, 10/03/2004, Lot No. 14*
	*$42,650*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Island Paradise ,* Oil on canvas on board, signed lower right; inscribed with title on the reverse, 74 x 74 cm, Est: $18,000-25,000, Sotheby's Australia, Fine Australian and International Paintings, Melbourne, 28/11/2000, Lot No. 2
	*$41,825*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *[No Title Given]* Oil on canvas on composition board, signed lower left 'R. Crooke', 91.5 x 122 cm, Est: $35,000-45,000, Bonhams & Goodman, Australian, International & Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 29/03/2006, Lot No. 1254B
	*$41,800*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *The Islanders ,* *Oil on board, signed 'R. Crooke' lower right, 59.5 x 91 cm, Est: $5,000-8,000, Leonard Joel, Australian and European Paintings, Graphics & Ceramics, Melbourne, 04/04/2000, Lot No. 252*
	*41,125*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Thursday Island Interior c. 1960,* Oil on composition board, signed with initials lower left: RC, signed lower centre: R Crooke, numbered verso: 23, 61 x 91 cm, Est: $35,000-45,000, Deutscher~Menzies, 19th & 20th Century Fine Australian and International Art, Melbourne, 21/08/2001, Lot No. 31
	*$41,125*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Thursday Island ,* *Oil on board, signed 'R. Crooke' centre right, 100 x 74.5 cm, Est: $27,000-35,000, Christies, Australian & International Fine Art, Melbourne, 22/08/2000, Lot No. 3*
	*$40,800*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Thursday Island (1987)* *Oil on canvas, signed 'R Crooke' lower left, 91.5 x 122 cm, Est: $25,000-35,000, Bonhams & Goodman, Australian, International & Aboriginal Fine Art, Melbourne, 25/11/2008, Lot No. 43*
	*$40,800*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Island Garden, Fiji (Island Scene Verso)* Oil on canvas (double-sided), signed lower right: R Crooke inscribed verso lower right on stretcher: Island Garden Fiji 6 (number circled), 92 x 122 cm, Est: $35,000-45,000, Deutscher and Hackett, 100 Important Australian Paintings, Melbourne, 16/04/2008, Lot No. 68
	*$40,700*	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Thursday Island,* *Oil on canvas, signed 'R. Crooke' lower right, 151 x 121 cm, Est: $28,000-35,000, Leonard Joel, Australian and European Paintings, Melbourne, 21/04/1998, Lot No. 147*
	*$40,450*	*Ray Crooke born 1922, Island Garden Fiji*, Oil on canvas, double sides with Island Scene on the reverse, signed lower right, 92 x 122 cm, Est: $28,000-38,000, Sotheby's Australia, Fine Australian & International Paintings, Sydney, 26/08/2003, Lot No. 213
	*$38,400* RETURN TOP	Ray Crooke born 1922, *Island Interior,* Oil on canvas on composition board, signed lower left: R. Crooke, 45 x 60.5 cm, Est: $20,000-30,000, Deutscher~Menzies, Fine Australian & International Art, Sydney, 13/06/2007, Lot No. 57
	*$38,240*	Ray Crooke *born 1922,Thursday Island Scene*, Oil on board, signed R Crooke lower left, 72 x 102.2 cm, Est: $15,000-20,000, Mossgreen Auctions, Fine Australian Art, Melbourne, 23/11/2008, Lot No. 2**
	$4,320	Ray Crooke born 1922, Thursday Island, Oil on board, 19 x 24 cm, 2009 Bonhams & Goodman Lot 170

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Ray Crooke (1922- ) RAY CROOKE biography Email

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Ray Crooke (1922- ) is an Australian artist born in Melbourne is the master painter of Australia’s far northerly regions and offshore Pacific environs. He won the Archibald Prize in 1969 with a portrait of George Johnston. His painting The Offering (1971) is in the Vatican Museum collection. Many of his works are in Australian galleries. He is known for serene views of Islander people and ocean landscapes, many of which are based on the art of Gauguin. He spent time in Townsville, Cape York and other parts of northern Australia during the Second World War. Returning from the Second World War, he enrolled in Art School at Swinburne University of Technology and later travelled to New Guinea, Tahiti and Fiji. While a portrait of his won the Archibald Prize in 1969, he is not known usually for portrait painting. He has received an Order of Australia medal.

Ray Crooke born 1920 is represented in all major Australian State and National Galleries, regional galleries and private collections both within Australia and overseas, including the Vatican in Rome.

He has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally and from 1997 to 1999 a major Retrospective exhibition of his work toured throughout Australia. Awarded the Archibald Prize in 1978 for his portrait of literary antipodean, George Johnston. He was included in the Tate Gallery Exhibition of Australian Art (1963), and was an Official War Artist in Vietnam (1966).

His work is represented in major collections including the National Gallery of Australia , all State and many regional galleries, the Vatican Collection of Rome as well as numerous private collections overseas. His work depicting the landscape and people of Fiji is particularly coveted. Ray Crooke traveled extensively throughout Australia and the South Pacific.

Ray Crooke sojourns in rural Victoria, New South Wales, Cape York Peninsula, the Torres Strait, the Kimberley region, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Tahiti have significantly influenced his work. Ray Crooke currently lives in Cairns yet spends part of the year in Sydney and still visits Fiji every year. Ray Crooke art at www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/crooke_ray.html

Ray Crooke is the master painter of Australia’s far northerly regions and offshore Pacific environs. He is the painter of opalescent, slightly melancholic outreaches where homespun rituals such as flower picking and promenading are replenishing enough to engross individual citizens or whole townships of people. In the classic compositions of Crooke, sitting around is a time consuming, indeed constructive activity undertaken with gravity. He is enjoyed for this quality and purchased for it.

To own a Ray Crooke is to possess a passport to reverie. It is to be granted leave to eat lotuses. Guiltlessly. Aimlessly. It is to gather with parrots, drunk on nectar and the sun. Crooke offers his avid multitudes of buyers safe passage to the province of introspection. A stress-free zone mortgaged only to pleasure. I am a long time admirer of Crookes immobilized vision which seems to me to accord with the inner truth of the distant topographies it depicts, even if it contradicts the external facts from time to time.

Ray Crooke is perhaps the only Australian painter of his generation who gets the slow-motion effect of the tropics down pat- the way foliage, so quick to propagate and grow, and the way water, so ready to run in silvery rivulets down volcanic rocks or whip into foam over coral reefs, the way natural phenomena of all kinds come to a halt around one - contradicting commands of physics and time. Immersed in a gumbo of humidity, sweat, scent and sleep, Crooke’s human figures are the embodiments of radical torpor-effigies with heartbeats. It is his great accomplishment as an artist, cumulatively enterpriser, to have carved out of a mere state of mind a shape liness visible to the eye.
Extract from article by Bruce James in the Sydney Morning Herald, 6 March 2006 p 13.

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