Lot 16

Overall in good condition. Upon close inspection the black pigment has not transferred fully, revealing the black underground of the paper. This work has not been examined out of its frame. Framed size 28 x 22cm.


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Important Women Artists, Jim Alexander Gallery, Melbourne c.1977
Private collection, Melbourne
Thence by descent

Linocuts and Wood Engravings by E. W. Syme (in Aid of the Appeal for Funds to Establish a Unversity Women's College), Arts and Crafts Society's Gallery, Melbourne, 5-16 May 1936, cat. no 16 (another example)
The Printmakers: Mainly of the Thirties, Important Women Artists Gallery, Melbourne, 11 September - 30 October 1977, cat. no. 29
Etchings, Lithographs, Linocuts, Wood-Engravings, Aquatints, Etc.: 1867 to 1946: Australian, European and English, Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne, 29 July - 15 August 1980, cat. no. 34 (another example)
Australian Graphics 1917-1989, Coonara Gallery, Victoria, 14 April - 26 May 1996, cat. no. 47 (another example)

Lino Cuts and Wood Engravings in Exhibition, The Herald, Melbourne, 5 May 1936, p. 8 (illus. another example)
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

We would like to thank John Keats for his kind assistance in cataloguing this work.