Primary Artist

Joyce Allen (1916–1992)

Title

(Picnic).

Date made

c.1965

Place made

Bowral, New South Wales, Australia View on map Close map

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

etching and aquatint, printed in colour, from one plate

Matrix size

20.1 x 24.8 (plate-mark)

Support

white wove paper

Support size

35.4 x 45.3 cm (sheet)

Impression

working proof

Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent

Signed lower right below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Joyce Allen'.
Not dated.
Inscribed lower left below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Proof'.
Inscribed by artist at bottom of sheet '3 Lot more tinting medium added to Blue Black - Pale Yellow Relief Ink then try cotton bud to get whites [in] Tea Set, Bird, fence, Dasies - but not careful enough'

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

140946

Accession number

2001.198

Accession method

Purchase

Meeting

Meeting 2, 2001/2002 (2001-10-05)

Provenance

Purchased by the National Gallery of Australia, from Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, October 2001; From the exhibition, 'Viable dialogue: Joyce Allen', Canberra: Helen Maxwell Gallery, 29 June - 29 July 2001, cat. no., 5.

Credit line

Gordon Darling Australasian Print Fund 2001

Country of context

Australia

Last Updated

24 Oct 2024