1. Sunday Reed was born on 15 October 1905 in Melbourne, Australia, to Arthur Sydney Baillieu and Ethel Mary Baillieu.
18 Facts About Sunday Reed
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Sunday Reed was a member of Melbourne's Baillieu family and the niece of William Baillieu, one of Australia's richest men.
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Sunday Reed was the third of four children and was homeschooled by a governess until she was 15.
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In Melbourne, Sunday Reed met Leonard Quinn, an American living in England.
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Sunday Reed met solicitor John Reed at a tennis party in 1930.
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Sunday Reed's only remaining work is a landscape drawing, showing her skill with colour and form.
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Sunday Reed cultivated a selection of wild roses, along with many other flowers.
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Sunday Reed was resourceful in obtaining cuttings and plants, having some imported from overseas.
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Sunday Reed was the aunt of Ted Baillieu, who in 2010 became Premier of Victoria.
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Atyeo had an affair with Sunday Reed; Dyring had an affair with John.
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Art historian Janine Burke has suggested Nolan and Sunday Reed had a close collaborative relationship.
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Sunday Reed had lived in a menage a trois with the Reeds for several years.
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Nolan wanted Sunday to commit herself to him and after her refusal he married John Reed's sister Cynthia.
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Nolan once told Sunday Reed to take what she wanted, but he subsequently demanded all his works back.
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Sunday Reed returned 284 of his other paintings and drawings, but she refused to give up the 25 remaining Kellys, partly because she saw the works as fundamental to the proposed Heide Museum of Modern Art.
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Sunday Reed gave them to the National Gallery of Australia in 1977, resolving the dispute.
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Sunday Reed was the first person to buy Blackman's work extensively.
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Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban's daughter Sunday Rose Kidman, born in 2008, is said to be named after Reed; Kidman's father, Antony Kidman, has said he suggested the name.