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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian + International Art
• Sale Date:
  28 Aug 2019 ~ 7pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  18
• Lot Description:
  Eveline Syme
  (1888 – 1961)
  Sydney Tramline, 1936
  colour linocut; edition: 4/25
  24.5 x 18.0 cm
  signed, numbered and inscribed with title below image
  EXHIBITED: "Exhibition of Pictures by the Contemporary Group of Artists", David Jones' Galleries, Sydney, July 1937, no. 93 (another example); "A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900/1950", Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne, 13 April – 5 May 1978, cat. 180 (another example); "Melbourne Woodcuts and Linocuts of the 1920’s and 1930’s", Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria, 1981, and travelling (another example); "Out of the Book and On to the Wall: The Relief Print", Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 20 February – October 1984 (another example); "Claude Flight and His Followers: The Linocut Movement between the Wars, "Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 18 April – 12 July 1992, and touring, cat. 100 (another example); "Modern Australian Women: Paintings and Prints 1925 – 1945," Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 24 November 2000 – 25 February 2001, and touring (another example); "Sydney Moderns: Art for a New World," Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 July – 7 October 2013, (another example) REFERENCES: Butler, R., and Deutscher, C., "A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900/1950", Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne, 1978, cat. 180, pp. 91, 118 (illus., another example); Butler, R., "Melbourne Woodcuts and Linocuts of the 1920's and 1930's", Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria, 1981, unpaginated (illus., another example); Coppel, S., "Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, "Scolar Press, Aldershot, England, in association with the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995, pl. 43, cat. ESy20, pp. 184 – 185 (illus., another example); Hylton, J., "Modern Australian Women: Paintings and Prints 1925 – 1945", Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2000, pp. 57, 81 (illus., another example), 126; Edwards, D., and Mimmocchi, D. (eds.)," Sydney Moderns: Art for a New World," exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2013, pp. 71 (illus., another example), 316
• Provenance:
  probably: Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne; Ken and Joan Plomley Collection of Modernist Art, Melbourne
• Notes:
  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; and the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
• Estimate:
  A$15,000 - 20,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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