Lot 26
The Ruins, Port Arthur
woodcut ed. 16/50
signed, titled and editioned in pencil below image: The Ruins, Port Arthur 16/50. EW.Syme
9.3 x 6.4cm
Estimate $1,500 - $2,000
Work appears to be in very good condition. Upon close inspection areas of the black pigment have not transferred to the paper fully revealing the white underground of the paper. The full sheet is visible although it is unknown if it is adhered to a backing. Framed size 25.5 x 20.5cm.
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Private collection, South Australia
Water Colours and Woodcuts by E.W. Syme, Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne, 6-17 March 1928, cat. 51 (another impression)
The Printmakers: Mainly of the Thirties, Important Women Artists [Gallery], Melbourne, 11 September - 30 October 1977, cat. 33 (another impression)
Autumn Exhibition, Jim Alexander Gallery, Melbourne, 20-27 May 1990, no. 74 (another impression)
A Selection of Australian Prints and Drawings from 1930s and 40s, aGOG [Australian Girls Own Gallery], Canberra, 3-22 March 1990, no. 3 (another impression, dated as circa 1931)
Australian Graphics 1917-1989, Coonara Gallery, Victoria, 14 April - 26 May 1996, no. 46 (another impression)
Australian Prints: Celebrating Eighty Years of the Joshua McCelland Print Room, Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne, 4-21 December 2007, no. 12 (illus. exhibition catalogue, another impression)
Coppel, S., Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press in association with the National Gallery of Australia, Aldershot, 1995, p. 189, cat. ESy A/5 (another impression)
We would like to thank John Keats for his kind assistance in cataloguing this work.
Women Artists
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