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• Auction House:
  Leski Auctions
• Sale Name:
  Australian & Historical
• Sale Date:
  27 Nov 2021 ~ 11am (AEDT) - Session 1: Lots 1 - 680
  28 Nov 2021 ~ 11am (AEDT) - Session 2: Lots 681 - 1332
• Lot #:
  1031
• Lot Description:
  Ruby Lindsay (Dyson)
  (1887–1919)
  “Wholesale - A Hint to the Divorce Commission”
  pen & ink on thick card (Goodall’s Bristol Board)
  31 x 38.5cm (overall).
  signed “Ruby Lind” lower right, titled and with text verso,
  Text verso in the artist’s hand: “First not disinterested Lady to Second, Ditto: I don’t know whether it would be quite right to make divorce cheaper for the lower classes - but people like you and me, dear - I think it would be only fair to make us a reduction on taking a quantity.” She gives her contact details as “Mrs Dyson, 1a Bramshill Gardens, Dartmouth Park Hill, Highgate.
• Notes:
  Ruby Lindsay was Norman and Percy Lindsay’s sister, noted for her fluid pen and ink drawings. At an early age she attended the National Gallery School, and later drew for periodicals such as the Bulletin and the Gadfly (1906). She illustrated books and posters, and married Will Dyson, traveling with him to London. In England she continued her work in book illustration, particularly of children’s books, and for magazines including Strand Magazine, The London Opinion, and The Sphere. While visiting family in Dublin, having survived the war, she caught and succumbed to the pandemic Spanish flu.
• Estimate:
  A$500 - 750
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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