Lot 12

There is brown foreign matter is seen in the upper centre section of the artwork, approximately 2cm in length. Blue pigment is apparent in the lower left edge of the sheet, most likely caused in the artists studio. There are handling marks and creases present and finger prints across the sheet edges. This work is unframed with the sheet measuring 22 x 28cm


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Private collection, South Australia

Jessie Traill, Important Women Artists Gallery, Melbourne, 11 June - 31 July 1977 (another example)
Stars in the River: The Prints of Jessie Traill, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 16 February - 14 June 2013 (touring exhibition), (illus. exhibition catalogue, p.131, another example).

Other examples of this work are held in the collections of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.