Eveline Syme
(1888 - 1961)
SYDNEY TRAM LINE, 1936
colour linocut
24.5 x 18.0 cm
edition: 3/25 signed, titled and numbered below image
Estimate:
$15,000 - $20,000
Sold:
$19,200 (inc. BP)
lot details
Private collection, 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 (another example)
Literature
Butler, R. and Deutscher, C., A Survey of Australian Relief Prints1900/1950, Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne, 1978, cat. 180,p. 91 (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, 1995, cat. ESy20, pp. 184–185, pl. 43 (illus., another example)
Related Works
Other examples of this print are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
