NORMAN LINDSAY
1879-1969
Fruits of the Earth 1924
$30,000–40,000
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, MELBOURNE
NORMAN LINDSAY
1879-1969
Fruits of the Earth 1924
watercolour on paper
signed and dated 'NORMAN LINDSAY 24' lower centre
57 x 49.5 cm
- Lot Sold $30,000 (Hammer Price)
- $36,818 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Norman Lindsay, Sydney
Mrs Florence Violet Hale Lawrence, Melbourne
Private Collection, Melbourne, by descent from the above
Literature
Norman Lindsay. Australia's Most Famous Water Colour Artist', The Mercury, Hobart, 20 January 1940, p. 16
Godfrey Blunden, Norman Lindsay Water Colour Book, The Springwood Press, Sydney, 1939, plate 15
Godfrey Blunden, Norman Lindsay Watercolours (rev. ed.), Ure Smith, Sydney, 1969, plate 13
Lin Bloomfield, Norman Lindsay: Watercolours 1897-1969, Odana Editions, New South Wales, 2003, pp. 90, 91 (illustrated)
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