SELF PORTRAIT, 1930

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
30 April 2014
151

NORMAN LINDSAY

(1879 - 1969)
SELF PORTRAIT, 1930

etching, engraving and stipple

35.5 x 30.0 cm

edition: 2/55

signed and numbered below image
inscribed verso on label: 'SEIZED BY POLICE IN 1931 / FIGURES / REPRESENTING / ESTABLISHMENT & CRITICS / CENTRE FIGURE IN CHAINS / REPRESENTS N.L.'

Private sale
Provenance

The Bloomfield Galleries, Sydney (label attached verso)
Fine Art Australia, New South Wales (label attached verso)
Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited

Centenary Exhibition, Bloomfield Galleries, Sydney, 1979 (label attached verso, signed by Jane Lindsay)

Literature

Art in Australia, December 1930 (illus., another example)
Bloomfield, L., The Complete Etchings of Norman Lindsay, Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 1998, cat. 317, p. 329 (illus., another example)
Norman Lindsay: Favourite Etchings, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1977, pl. 1 (illus., another example)