Thea Proctor
(1879 - 1966)
THE TAME BIRD, 1916
lithograph
30.0 x 28.0 cm
edition of 50
signed and inscribed with title below image: The Tame Bird Thea Proctor
Estimate:
$2,000 - $3,000
Sold:
$4,636 (inc. BP)
lot details
signed and inscribed with title below image: The Tame Bird Thea Proctor
Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne
The Estate of the late James O. Fairfax AC, New South Wales, acquired from the above in c.1987
Exhibited
New English Art Club, London, 1917, cat. 39 (another example)
Fine Art Gallery Society, Melbourne, April 1919, cat. 4 (another example)
Woodcuts, Linocuts, Etching, Drawings etc. 1912 – 1977, Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne, 7 – 18 December 1987, cat. 35
The World of Thea Proctor, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 8 April – 19 June 2005 (another example)
Literature
Holme, G., and Salaman, M., Modern Woodcuts and Lithographs by British and French Artists, The Studio Ltd, London, 1919, p. 170 (illus., another example)
Butler, R., Thea Proctor: The Prints, Resolution Press, Sydney, 1980, pl. 2, pp. 26 – 27 (illus., another example)
Humphries, B., Sayers, A., and Engledow, S., The World of Thea Proctor, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 2005, pp. 40, 105 (illus., another example), 175