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Lot 88

LIONEL LINDSAY (1874-1961)
The Crab 1931
(also known as The Blue Crab)
wood-engraving, ed. of 100
signed lower left: Lionel Lindsay
signed in plate lower right
14.5 x 21.5cm (image); 44 x 46cm (frame)

Estimate $400 - $600

Sold for $550


Private collection, South Australia
Thence by descent


Society of Artists Annual Exhibition, Education Department Gallery, Sydney, 5 September - 2 October 1931, cat. no. 98 (another example)
Exhibition of Australian Art, Boans Art Gallery, Perth, 8 - 24 March 1932, cat. no. 85 (another example)
Society of Artists Annual Exhibition, Education Department Gallery, Melbourne, 6 September - 4 October 1935, cat. no. 64 (another example)
150 Years of Australian Art, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 January - 25 April 1938, cat. no. 510 (another example)
Etchings, Drypoints and Wood Engravings by Sir Lionel Lindsay, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1941, cat. no. 69 (another example)
The Lionel Lindsay Centenary Exhibition, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria, 1 - 30 September 1974, cat. no. 77 (another example)
Animals on Paper: From the Australian Collection of Prints, Drawings and Watercolours, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 5 September - 5 October 1992 (then touring) (another example)


Art in Australia, 3rd series, no. 42, February 1932, pp. 37, 44, pl. 8 (illus., another example)
Macdonald, J. S., The Woodcuts of Lionel Lindsay, Print Collector's Quarterly, London, April 1934, vol. 21, p. 181 (illus., another example)
Littlewood, R., Lionel Lindsay: The Printmakers' Printmaker, Douglas Stewart Fine Books, Melbourne, 2011, p. 33, cat. no. 57 (illus., another example)


Other examples of this print are held in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Library of Australia, Canberra; and The National Trust, Sydney.

Prints and Multiples

AUCTION
Sale: IT098
6:00pm - 3 December 2025
Timed Online Auction (Melbourne)

VIEWING
Fri 28 - Sun 30 Nov, 10am - 4pm
2 Oxley Rd, Hawthorn VIC

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


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