Sale 1035
Melbourne
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25 - 26 November 2002
Price realised
AUD 3,760
Estimate
NORMAN ALFRED WILLIAMS LINDSAY (1879-1969) Beethoven etching, 1921, signed in pencil, inscribed with title and numbered 2/50 P: 32.5 x 28.8 cm
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For another example of this image see: L Bloomfield, The Complete Etchings of Norman Lindsay, Sydney, 1998, pl. 223, p. 235
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