THE RAGGED POET, 1924

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Sydney
2 May 2012
150

NORMAN LINDSAY

(1879 - 1969)
THE RAGGED POET, 1924

etching, engraving, aquatint and stipple

35.0 x 27.5 cm

edition:34/55

signed, dated, titled and numbered below image

Estimate: 
$4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $6,000 (inc. BP) in Auction 25 - 2 May 2012, Sydney
Provenance

Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 16 August 1994, lot G135
Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited

David Jones Gallery, Sydney, 1958, cat. 162
Norman Lindsay – Master Craftsman Etcher, Bloomfield Galleries, Sydney, April – May 1974; The Park Royal Motor Inn, Canberra, April – May 1974

Literature

The Etchings of Norman Lindsay, Constable and Co. Ltd., London, 1927, pl. XL (illus., another example)
Bloomfield, L., The Complete Etchings of Norman Lindsay, Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 1998, p. 267, cat. 255 (illus., another example)