SYDNEY TRAMLINE, 1936

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Sydney
28 August 2019
18

EVELINE SYME

(1888 – 1961)
SYDNEY TRAMLINE, 1936

colour linocut

24.5 x 18.0 cm

edition: 4/25

signed, numbered and inscribed with title below image

Estimate: 
$15,000 – 20,000
Sold for $25,620 (inc. BP) in Auction 58 - 28 August 2019, Sydney
Provenance

probably: Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne
Ken and Joan Plomley Collection of Modernist Art, Melbourne

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)

Literature

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