Blackout 1940

Jessie Traill (1881-1967)

Blackout 1940

etching and aquatint
15.0 x 19.8 cm (image); 22.1 x 29.2 (sheet)
titled, numbered, inscribed, signed and dated lower centre: Blackout 14 (second state) to Zena [sic] C.S. from J.C.A . Traill 1940/ Dec. 1954

edition: 14 (unknown); state: 2/3

Provenance:
Gift from the artist to Zina Cumbrae-Stewart, December 1954

Private collection, Melbourne

Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 29 July 2020, lot 132

Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited:
Jessie Traill, Important Women Artists Gallery, Melbourne, 11 June - 31 July 1977 (another example)

Stars in the River: The Prints of Jessie Traill, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 16 February - 14 June 2013 (touring exhibition), (illus. exhibition catalogue, p.131, another example)

Related Works:
Other examples of this work are held in the collections of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Estimate: $2000 - 3000

Result Hammer: $3200