She came with her relative and namesake, Thea Waddell, and certainly seemed to have enjoyed the matinee in spite of certain vaudevillian vulgarities that must surely have jarred her sensibilities. Will usually post within 3 business days of receiving cleared payment. They were sharper and more modern in feeling than the languorous caprices of Conder. If you don't follow our. Item Description: AGNSW, Sydney. View cart for details. In spite of the continuing support of the Macquarie Galleries, I realised that she had little money and her work was at variance with the prevailing vogue for Abstract Expressionism promoted by Sydney’s more modish eastern suburbs art dealers. You must return items in their original packaging and in the same condition as when you received them. THEA PROCTOR (1879 - 1966) THE ROSE, 1927. hand-coloured woodcut. In 1894, while attending Lynthorpe Ladies’ College, Thea won a prize at the Bowral Amateur Art Society’s exhibition. 8), the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (A/P), the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (number unknown), and the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (No. It was the last time. In 1923 it was her vote, and Lambert’s, that won the New South Wales Society of Artists Travelling Scholarship for Roy de Maistre; and she urged me to visit a gallery in order to see the etchings of Elizabeth Rooney, whom she rightly felt to be very gifted. Her championing of other artists was always generous and unerring. No additional import charges at delivery! 34 (another example) Project 21 - Women's Images of Women, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 October - 13 November 1977 (another example) Project 39 - Women's Imprint, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1 - 31 October 1982 (another example) Postage and handling. 22.5 x 21.0 cm. I provided her favourite tea (Lapsang Souchong) in the dressing room and she, in turn, presented me with the framed portrait as we vowed to meet each other again when I returned to Sydney from England the following year. Thea Proctor’s original of this artwork was just 208mm x 220mm, was a woodcut, printed in black ink on paper, from one block and hand-coloured. Deriving a little perhaps from French artists of the twenties, masters of the pochoir like Barbier and Lepape, she adds an Australian inflection all her own. I was only a schoolboy and I carried it proudly home from Leonard Joel’s auction rooms in Melbourne. Our director, Angela Tandori is a second generation art dealer who begun working in the industry in 1998. This item can be sent to United States, but the seller has not specified postage options. 6 (label attached verso)Private collection, Melbourne, The New Gallery, Melbourne, October 1927, cat. He was a colourist, but Proctor could draw. Estimate: $5,000 - 7,000. 5 of unknown edition. Get the item you ordered or get your money back. 19, pp. PROCTOR, ALETHEA MARY (1879-1966), artist, was born on 2 October 1879 at Armidale, New South Wales, elder child of William Consett Proctor, English-born solicitor and member of the Legislative Assembly (1880-87), and his Queensland-born wife Kathleen Janet Louisa, née Roberts. Something went wrong. This item will be posted through the Global Shipping Program and includes international tracking. This amount is subject to change until you make payment. Please enter a number less than or equal to 1. Please enter five or nine numbers for the postcode. Copyright © 1995-2020 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved. She wrote back immediately inviting me and my wife to tea. It was incredible to think that these drawings of such brilliance had been executed by an artist in the eighty-sixth year of her life. The item you've selected wasn't added to your cart. As she greeted us she stroked a large marmalade cat called Calico. Thea Proctor’s original of this artwork was just 208mm x 220mm, was a woodcut, printed in black ink on paper, from one block and hand-coloured. In the thirties I think she came to regret this influence a little, and although her decorations owed a great deal to the spirit of Conder’s ornamental panels and fans, I have always felt that they had an individuality and strength of their own. The little flat into which we were ushered was furnished like a Thea Proctor decoration. Thea later told me with a smile that Long had once made her a proposal of marriage. ), Other examples of this woodcut are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (No. angelatandorifineart has no other items for sale. My friend Patrick White knew everybody, especially artistic old ladies, being something of an artistic old lady himself. Together we called on the artist at her flat in Bay Street, which stood roughly where a fashionable women’s shoe store and a delicatessen stand today. Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing. I longed to meet her and wondered how it could be arranged. ‘You’re mistaken young lady’, Lambert replied, ‘but I can see that Santa Claus has certainly stuffed your stockings!’. Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing. Towards the end of my Sydney season, I invited Thea to my show at the Theatre Royal. Rose . Mice on the Runway (Thea Stilton Mouseford Academy, 12), Like New Used, Free ... An item that has been used previously. The World of Thea Proctor is the Portrait Gallery's second major biographical exhibition - that is, the second exhibition to focus exclusively on the life and work of a single individual. For additional information, see the Global Shipping Program, This amount includes applicable customs duties, taxes, brokerage and other fees. - eBay Money Back Guarantee - opens in new window or tab, This amount includes applicable customs duties, taxes, brokerage and other fees. The Origin Myth Of Acoma Pueblo ' Hunt, Edward Proctor. Lovely recorative print of renowned Australian Artist Thea Proctor s work of art in the Collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales entitled The Rose. It was simply a portrait in pencil and watercolour, but it captured the likeness of mother and child perfectly, and remains an excellent drawing. Divans in bright chintzes were scattered with cushions, some covered with jazzy cubist textiles, others suggestive of the Russian ballet. Artist : Thea PROCTOR. Share on Facebook - opens in a new window or tab, Share on Twitter - opens in a new window or tab, Share on Pinterest - opens in a new window or tab. The picture is of two women with flowers in their hair, one offering the other a rose to smell. The picture’s predominant association is with the work of Conder, an artist whom Miss Proctor knew personally, and who had a strong influence on her early work. For additional information, see the Global Shipping Program. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of, Reproduction Woodblock Printing Art Prints. She worked for a number of years, in vain as it turned out, to secure a representative collection of this important artist’s work for the Art Gallery of New South Wales. To assist her and, let it be said, myself, I bought a few drawings from her gallery, also a magnificent pencil portrait of her by Lambert that she desired to sell. The Rose, 1927, woodcut, printed in black ink on paper, from one block, hand-coloured, 208mm x 220mm, by Thea Proctor (1879-1966), copy by Derek Kosbab. The very first picture I ever bought was a design for a fan, painted on silk by Thea Proctor. Poster in NEW CONDITION measuring 37.0 x 40.0 cms ( image ) 01287. One of them, a particularly fat girl jeered ‘Look, there’s Father Christmas!’, pointing with glee at the bearded artist. There is a joie de vivre in these ladies with their sun hats and parasols disporting themselves at picnics at Balmoral Beach and at fêtes champetres in Centennial Park. Her parents separated in 1892 (and were divorced in 1897). 9). Miss Proctor received us in something between a tea gown and a peignoir.
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