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Lot #1 - Eveline Syme

  • Auction House:
    Deutscher and Hackett
  • Sale Name:
    Important Australian + International Fine Art
  • Sale Date:
    04 May 2022 ~ 7pm (AEST)
  • Lot #:
    1
  • Lot Description:
    Eveline Syme
    (1888 - 1961)
    Skating, 1929
    colour linocut, edition: 9/50
    12.0 x 15.5 cm (image) 16.0 x 18.0 cm (sheet)
    signed lower right: EW Syme.; inscribed with title and edition lower left: Skating. 9/50; bears inscription lower right edge of sheet: SKATING
    Other examples of this print are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of Ballarat Victoria; and the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art, Perth
  • Provenance:
    Isabel Hunter Tweddle, Melbourne; Thence by descent; Bill McKay, Melbourne
  • Notes:
    EXHIBITED: Water Colours and Lino-Cuts by E. W. Syme, Everyman's Lending Library, Melbourne, 18 August – 1 September 1931, cat. 24 (another example); British Lino-Cuts 1931 (Third Exhibition of British Lino–Cuts), Redfern Gallery, London, August 1931, cat. 22 (another example); Exhibition of Progressive Art, Modern Art Centre, Sydney, March 1932, cat. 38 (another example); Linocuts and Wood Engravings by E.W. Syme, Arts and Crafts Society's Gallery, Melbourne, 5 – 16 May 1936, cat. 10 (another example); Important Women Artists, Jim Alexander Gallery, Melbourne, August 1977 (another example); Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900 – 1950, Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne, 13 April – 5 May 1978, cat. 175 (another example); Claude Flight and His Followers. The Colour Linocut Movement between the Wars, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 18 April – 12 July 1992, and touring, cat. 93 (another example); Review: Works by Women From The Permanent Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 8 March – 5 June 1995 (another example); Colour, Rhythm, Design – wood & lino cuts of the 20s & 30s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 March – 11 July 2010 (another example); Modern impressions: Australian prints from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2 September 2016 – January 2017 (another example); Intrepid Woman: Australian Women Artists in Paris 1900 – 1950, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 6 January – 25 March 2018 (another example); Becoming Modern: Australian Women Artists 1920 – 1950, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria, 18 May – 4 August 2019 (another example); Spowers and Syme, Canberra Museum and Art Gallery in association with the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 13 August 2021 – 12 February 2022 (another example). REFERENCES: Dobson, M., Block–Cutting and Print–Making by Hand, Sir Issac Pitman & Sons Ltd, London, 1930, p. 51 (illus., another example) ; Streeton, A., 'Art Exhibitions', Argus, Melbourne, 18 August 1931, p. 8 (another example); Bell, G., '20 Prints by Miss Syme', Sun–News Pictorial, Melbourne, 5 May 1936, p. 15 (another example); Butler, R., and Deutscher, C., A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900/1950, Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne, 1978, cat. 175, p. 89 (illus., another example); Butler, R., Melbourne: Woodcuts and Linocuts of the 1920's and 1930's, Gardner Printing & Publishing, Victoria, 1981 (illus., another example); Lebovic, J., Australian Women Printmakers, Sydney, 1988, cat. 108, pp. 2, 14 (illus., another example); Coppel, S., Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scholar Press, Aldershot, England, in association with the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995, cat. ESy 4, pp. 68, 180 (illus., another example); Topliss, H., Modernism and Feminism Australian Women Artists 1900 – 1940, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1996, pl. 78, pp. 149 (illus., another example), 152, 196; Hylton, J., Modern Australian women: paintings & prints 1925 – 1945, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2000, pp. 52 (illus., another example), 56, 126; Butler, R., Printed images by Australian artists 1885 – 1955, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2007, p. 200 (illus., another example); Campbell, H., Colour, Rhythm, Design – wood & lino cuts of the 20s & 30s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2010, p. 15 (illus., another example); Samuel, G. (ed.), Cutting Edge. Modernist British Printmaking, Bloomsbury, London, 2019, pp. 72, 73 (illus., another example); McLaren, J., and Tegart, L., Becoming Modern: Australian Women Artists 1920 – 1950, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria, 2019, pp. 94 (illus., another example), 174; Noordhuis – Fairfax, S. (ed.), Spowers and Syme, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2021, pp. 8 (illus., another example), 9, 93; Pryor, S., A pair of Melbourne artists from the 1930s are finally getting the recognition they deserve, The Canberra Times, Canberra, 24 July 2021 (illus., another example); Watson, B., 'Public Works', The Weekend Australian, 18 - 19 September 2021, p. 8 (illus., another example)
  • Estimate:
    A$20,000 - 30,000
  • Realised Price:
    *****

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  • Category:
    Art

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