Important Australian + International Fine Art - 29 August 2012 | Melbourne
Lot 176
Norman Lindsay
(1879 - 1969)
THE APEX OF LIFE, 1924
etching, engraving, stipple and roulette
37.5 x 29.5 cm
Estimate:
$3,000 - 5,000
Lot sold: $3,600 (inc. BP)
Lot Details
Description
Norman Lindsay
(1879 - 1969)
THE APEX OF LIFE, 1924
etching, engraving, stipple and roulette
37.5 x 29.5 cm
edition: 51/55
signed, dated, titled and numbered below image
Provenance
The Bloomfield Galleries, Paddington
Private collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in 1979
Literature
Etchings of Norman Lindsay, Constable and Co. Ltd, London, 1927, pl. XXXV (illus., another example)
Stewart, D. (ed.), Norman Lindsay: Two Hundred Etchings, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1973 pl. 8 (illus., another example)
Bloomfield, L., The Complete Etchings of Norman Lindsay, Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 1998, cat. 239, p. 251 (illus., another example)