Greeting card: Winged male figure, partially draped, arms outstretched, sun-like halo effect behind head

Primary Artist

Christian Waller (1894–1954)

Title

Greeting card: Winged male figure, partially draped, arms outstretched, sun-like halo effect behind head

Reference

Butler (1992), 48

Date made

1935

Place made

Australia, Australia, Victoria, Melbourne View on map Close map

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Category

Print

Print type

relief

Technique

linocut, printed in brown ink, from one block

Matrix size

13.2 x 10.0 cm (printed image)

Support

thick cream wove paper

Support size

17.0 x 13.0 cm (sheet (folded in half))

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression

Edition information

print-run unknown

Subject description

Winged male figure, partially dramed, with large star behind head.

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

59268

Accession number

79.1833

Accession method

Purchase

Meeting

Meeting 1, 1979/80 (1979-08-13)

Provenance

With the artist at her death in 1956. Collection of Klytie Pate, neice of the artist. Purchased by the Australian National Gallery, from Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, August 1979; From the exhibition, 'Christian waller 1895/1956', Melbourne: Deutsher Galleries, 8 September - 30 September 1978, cat. no., 174, (illustrated).

Credit line

Purchased 1979

Country of context

Australia

Creators

Waller, Christian. | (1894–1954) Australian | Female | artist

Last Updated

08 Jan 2013