SYDNEY TRAM LINE, 1936

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
29 August 2012
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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 for $19,200 (inc. BP) in Auction 26 - 29 August 2012, Melbourne
Provenance

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)