The Swing 1925

Thea Proctor (1879-1966)

The Swing 1925

hand-coloured woodcut
24.5 x 24.5 cm (image)

signed lower right: Thea Proctor

titled and numbered lower left: The Swing No 7

signed with artist's monogram within image lower right: TP

edition: 7 (edition size unknown)

Provenance:

Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 1982

Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited:

Thea Proctor and Margaret Preston, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 18 November - 2 December 1925, cat.41 (another example)

Exhibition of Fan Designs, Paintings on Silk, Watercolours, Drawings and Woodcuts by Thea Proctor, Argonaut Gallery, Adelaide, 3-18 October 1929, cat.52 (another example)

Project 39 - Women's Imprint, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1-31 October 1982 (another example)

Masterpieces of Australian Printmaking, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 30 April - 30 May 1987, cat.141a (this example)

Reference:

Draffin, N., Australian Woodcuts and Linocuts of the 1920s and 1930s, Sun Books, Melbourne, 1976, p.12 (illus. p.38, another example)

Deutscher, C., Minchin, J. & Butler, R., Thea Proctor: The Prints, Resolution Press, Sydney, 1980, p.54, cat.16 (illus. p.17, another example)

Gooding, J., Thea Proctor, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1982 (illus. p.9, another example)

Lebovic, J., Masterpieces of Australian Printmaking, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 1987, p.102, cat.141a (illus. p.103, this example)

Eagle, M. & Jones, J., A Story of Australian Painting, Macmillan, Sydney, 1994, p.144 (illus. p.145, pl.50, another example)

Butler, R., Printed: Images by Australian Artists 1885-1955, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2007, p.131 (illus. p.166, another example)

Related Works:

Other examples of this work are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Estimate: $6000 - 8000

Result Hammer: $5000