Mabel Pye | Shadow Pattern No. 5 | SOLD
Shadow Pattern No. 5 | 1936
17.6 x 21.4 cm image size
23.0 x 25.6 cm paper size
Colour linocut
hand made frame
Edition of 20
Watermark impression in paper, ‘Shell Blotting’.
Titled and dated in pencil lower left margin, ‘Shadow Pattern No. 5 - 1936’.
Signed M Pye in pencil, lower right hand corner margin. MP Monogram faintly on print impression lower left.
This print is held in the following public collections:
Art Gallery of NSW
National Gallery of Australia
Illustrated in:
Modern Australian Women Artists. The Andree Harkness Collection. p 158. Anne Gray, Caroline Jordan & Juliana Hooper. Melb 2020.
Masterpieces of Australian printmaking, Sydney: Josef Lebovic Gallery, 1987, cat., no. 150. (ill.)’.
A Survey Of Australian Relief Prints 1900/1950. Chris Deutsher and Roger Butler.c1978
SOLD
Mabel Pye (09 Apr 1894- 04 Mar 1982)
BIO
Mabel Pye was born in Melbourne and studied drawing 1912-15 and painting 1915-19 at the National Gallery School, Melbourne, a contemporary of Napier Waller, Ethel Spowers and Adelaide Perry. She was a member of the Victorian Artists Society from 1918-41 and exhibited prints with them between 1935-41; she was also a member of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors from 1920-58. Pye was best known for her watercolours and colour linocuts, most of which she made during the 1930s. Extract from the Art Gallery of NSW
Also exhibited at the Athenaeum Gallery between 1938 and 1957
