THE ROSE, 1927

Important Fine Art + Aboriginal Art
Sydney
2 December 2015
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THEA PROCTOR

(1879 – 1966)
THE ROSE, 1927

hand-coloured woodcut

22.5 x 21.0 cm

edition: No. 26 of unknown edition

signed with monogram in image upper right: TP
signed, inscribed and numbered below image

Estimate: 
$8,000 – 12,000
Sold for $9,760 (inc. BP) in Auction 41 - 2 December 2015, Sydney
Provenance

Lawson-Menzies, Sydney, 15 April 2003, lot 268
Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited

The New Gallery, Melbourne, October 1927, cat. 58 (another example)
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, November 1938, cat. 34 (another example)

Literature

Art in Australia, December 1928, p. 29 (illus. another example)
Thea Proctor, The Prints, Resolution Press, Sydney, 1980, no. 19, pp. 60-61 (illus. another example)

Related works

Other examples of this woodcut are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (No. 4), the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (No. 8), the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (A/P), the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (number unknown), and the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (No. 9)