Lot 153

The Estate of Clarice Thomas
Australian National Records, High Commissioner's Office
(label verso)
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney 1982
(label verso)

Lambert Memorial Exhibition, Antony Hordern's Fine Art Gallery, Sydney 1930 cat. no. 118

Gray, A., George Lambert 1873 - 1930: catalogue raisonné, Bonamy Press, Perth 1996 in association with Sotheby's and the Australian War Memorial, cat. no. P287

In December 1917, Lambert received a commission to make visual records of the part played by the Australian Light Horse in the Palestine Campaign. His First Officer was Major 'Banjo Patterson. As a skilled Horseman, Lambert revelled in the adventure of the Light Horse and painted some of the more memorable works of the First World War. P. G Konody noted in his review of the exhibition 'Art and Artists: War and Peace' at the Royal Acacdemy in 1918 - 'by far the most interesting of these records are Mr Lambert's little panels of warfare among the arid, sun-parched hills and clefts of the Holy land. They are brilliant and extraordinarily deft oil-sketches full of life and local colour'. Art and Artifice, George Lambert, 1873-1930 by Anne Gray, Craftsman House, Sydney 1996, page 66. A large version of 'The Road to Jerusalem' hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra