Lot 8

There are signed of discolouration evident in the lower margins running horizontally. The work appears to have been glued down. Frame: 47 x 39cm. (LEONARD JOEL CONTACTLESS DELIVERY $88 within 20km of Melbourne premises)


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Lawsons, Sydney, 21 May 1991, lot 36
Private collection, Melbourne

Minchin, J., Thea Proctor: The Prints, Resolution Press, Sydney, 1980, p. 75 (illustrated, other example)

In 1921 Thea Proctor, having recently returned from 18 years abroad, honed her printing skills and works on paper early in her career. She quickly became a prominent figure in Sydney's art world and passionate campaigner for modernist design. Proctor often produced fashion and graphical illustrations for the pages of The Home magazine, which was also a publication by Syndey Ure Smith. Whilst considered a talented draftswoman in her field, it was not until 1932 that Art and Australia published a print issue exclusively featuring her woodcuts, much like her respected counterpart and friend Margaret Preston. Proctor's woodcuts are uniquely stylistic in design and colour. Often completed with bold dark outlines, she was known to finish her works with deep intense colouring or simply just left in the original black ink, a sign of both the artist's contentment and confidence in her practice. Examples of this print are held in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.