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CHRISTIAN WALLER (NÉE YANDELL) (1894-1954)
The Golden Faun 1932
(from The Great Breath: A Book of Seven Designs)
linocut
31.5 x 13cm

Estimate $1,000 - $1,500


Sotheby's, Melbourne, 26 April 1992, lot 147
Brenda Martin Thomas and David Thomas AM, Victoria
Thence by descent


A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900/1950, Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne, 13 April - 5 May 1978, cat. no. 38-39 (another example)
Project 39 - Women's Imprint 1982, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1 - 31 October 1982 (another example)
Spirit and Place: Art in Australia 1861-1996, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 21 November 1996 - 31 March 1997 (another example)
Australian Prints from the Gallery's Collection 1998-1999, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 November 1998 - 7 February 1999 (another example)


Deutscher, C., and Butler, R., A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900/1950, Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne,1978, cat. no. 38-39, pp. 24-25 (illus., another example)
Mellick, R., and Waterlow, N., Spirit and Place: Art in Australia 1861-1996, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 1996, pp. 132-133, 151 (illus., another example)
Grant, K., In Relief: Australian Wood Engravings, Woodcuts and Linocuts, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1997, p. 34 (illus., another example)
Kolenberg, H., and Ryan, A., Australian Prints from the Gallery's Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1998, cat. no. 63, pp. 74-75 (illus., another example)


Other examples of this print are held in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, the Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, the Castlemaine Art Museum, Victoria, the National Library of Australia, Canberra and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

Women Artists

AUCTION
Sale: LJ8821
6:00pm - 14 September 2026
Hawthorn

VIEWING
Friday 11 - Sunday 13 September, 11am - 5pm
2 Oxley Road, Hawthorn VIC

CONTACT
Hannah Ryan
hannah.ryan@leonardjoel.com.au


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