Dance

1999

Facsimile Etching

22.8 x 21.9 cm

Published: 1999

Edition: 550

Publisher: Odana Editions

Reference

Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.241)

Dance was inspired by Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op.92 (1812).

In 1923 Norman wrote to Jack Lindsay (his son):

I am working again on the Dance plate. The musicians come out playing with tremendous gusto, oblivious to every shape, but the background danced into such thin outline that it disappeared and is now in process of reappearing.

Later that same year Norman wrote again to Jack:

I have been thinking of the key of that drawing phase in the 7th symphony, where all restraint, even the restraint of a dance measure, is thrown to the devil; and all hearts and feet leap with ecstasy. But how to get it in a picture. The 7th is not only the dance but all that the dance means. I am trying to express not only the mad whirl of figures dancing into an infinity of light, but that inevitable interlacing of couples that leads them out of the dance room.

This Erotic Limited Edition Facsimile Etching No. 312/550. with Embossed Seal was originally created by the famous Australian artist, Norman Lindsay.

Title/Description: “Dance”

Medium: Etching

Overall paper size: Approx.  435 x 290 mm

Format: Portrait

Condition**: As New

Frame**: Na

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Weight: Approx. - Kg

Glass - na

** The attached photos form part of the description and condition report.

Norman Alfred William Lindsay (22 February 1879 – 21 November 1969) was an Australian artist, etcher, sculptor, writer, art critic, novelist, cartoonist and amateur boxer.[1] One of the most prolific and popular Australian artists of his generation, Lindsay attracted both acclaim and controversy for his works, many of which infused the Australian landscape with erotic pagan elements and were deemed by his critics to be "anti-Christian, anti-social and degenerate".[2] A vocal nationalist, he became a regular artist for The Bulletin at the height of its cultural influence, and advanced staunchly anti-modernist views as a leading writer on Australian art. When friend and literary critic Bertram Stevens argued that children like to read about fairies rather than food, Lindsay wrote and illustrated The Magic Pudding (1918), now considered a classic work of Australian children's literature.

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