Lot 250
The Great Breath: A Book of Seven Designs
Linocuts (the complete suite of seven), each on translucent paper tipped to a thick wove paper support
With colophon signed in ink by the artist and numbered 55 (of 150), title leaf, and single-leaf explanatory preface, all bound with a plaited green cord in a green cloth-covered card three-fold portfolio cover with a roundel device in gold to the front, retaining tissue guards
Published by the Golden Arrow Press, Melbourne, 1932 (printed and bound by the artist)
The linocuts each 32 x 13.5cm, the cover 45 x 26cm overall (closed)
Estimate $3,000 - $4,000
The proposed edition of 150 was not completed, with perhaps only a fifth of that number being produced, each printed and bound by the artist herself.
According to the artist's niece, Klytie Pate (as cited by Kay Craddock), the suites were not numbered sequentially but in relation to the numerology of the buyer of each, consistent with the artist's theosophical beliefs.
The Terence Lane Collection, Part I
AUCTION
Sale: LJ8814
11:00am - 3 May 2026
Hawthorn
VIEWING
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CONTACT
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