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Your Fate
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Title |
Your Fate |
Size |
14.4 x 11.7 cm |
Date Published |
2005 |
Reference |
Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue
Raisonné (Odana
Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 1999, cat.139) |
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Columbine and Your Fate were released
in a special celebratory Odana Editions' 30th Birthday folio and
are not sold
separately. The folio contains, as well as the two Facsimile Etchings,
a brochure with details of the two books — Colombine and The
Etchings of Norman Lindsay in which the original etchings of Columbine
and Your Fate are included and also the essay 'The Craft of Etching'
by Norman Lindsay. The Etchings of Norman Lindsay, published
in London, remains one of the most tantalising collections of Norman’s
work. Constable & Co.,
publishers of fine limited edition books, were aware of Norman’s
etchings as early as 1922 when they were the London publishers for
Art in Australia. In 1925 they had further evidence of the quality
of the work when Norman held an exhibition at London’s Leicester
Galleries. Although the exhibition was not a critical success, the
etchings were popular. The Etchings of Norman Lindsay is a handsome volume with each plate
presented full page, with a cover page indicating the plate number,
title and date. As well as the forty-five reproductions, both editions
contain a chronological list of the eighty-four published etchings
from 1918 to early 1925. Several etchings published late in 1925,
and some done during the 1918–1925 period which were not put
on the market until later, are therefore not listed. The reproductions,
in alphabetical order, are as follows: Adventure, The Apex of Life,
Argument, Ballet Entrance, Bargains, Beauty's Fortune, The Black
Hat, The Blind Man's Wife, Courtesan, Dance, Death in the Garden,
Death of Pierrot, Debut, Delight, Desire, The Dream Merchant (2nd
Edition), Enter the Duke, Femininity, From the Moon, The Funeral
March of Don Juan, Good Morning, Goodnight, The Happy Barge, Hyperborea,
Julia's Monkey, Lands of Afternoon, Little Scandals, Madam Mystery,
Micomicon, The Mirror, The Ragged Poet, The Ring, Scherzo, She Arrives,
The Showman, Siesta, Song of the Faun, Sortie, Spring Song, The Terrace,
Toilet (1920), Two Lovers, Unknown Seas, The Windmill and Who Comes?.
Norman was delighted with the quality of the reproductions.
For many years, books illustrated by Norman have been broken up for
the illustrations, which has had the effect of making the original
book even more rare. In 1938 The Fine Art Society’s Gallery
in Melbourne held ‘An Exhibition of Reproductions of Etchings
by Norman Lindsay’. The reproductions were taken from The Etchings
of Norman Lindsay. The original Your Fate (1926, 14.4 x 11.7 cm) was published in the
low-edition volume The Etchings of Norman Lindsay in 1927. The etching
is a perfect example of Norman’s control of the etching needle
in the clear lines of the body and intricate details of the delicate
pearl head-dress contrasting with the deep black of the cushioned
seat on which the beautiful personification of Fate rests. |
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