RITA
79
Norman Lindsay
(1879 - 1969)
RITA
oil on canvas
63.0 x 51.0 cm
signed upper right: NORMAN LINDSAY
accompanied by the Spanish haircomb worn by Rita in the portrait
Estimate:
$25,000 - 35,000
Provenance
Collection of Douglas Stewart and Margaret Coen
Thence by descent
Private collection, Sydney
Deutscher~Menzies, Sydney, 25 March 2010, lot 35
Company collection, Melbourne
Exhibited
On loan to Norman Lindsay Gallery, New South Wales, 1994 – 2010
Literature
Stewart, D., Norman Lindsay: A Personal Memoir, Thomas Nelson, 1957, p. 81
Stewart, D., Douglas Stewart Selected Poems, A&R Modern Poets, HarperCollins, Sydney, 1992, p. 152 (as The Picture)
Keesing, N., The Woman I Am: Poem by Nancy Keesing, selected and introduced by Meg Stewart, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 2000, p. 4