$8,000.00
A large two-colour linocut with some hand-colouring
Artist: Adele Younghusband (1878-1969)
Title: Group of nudes
Date: 1957
School: New Zealand
Medium: two-colour linocut (green over crimson) with yellow and green watercolour and with touches of white gouache
Dimensions: 320 x 240mm (image), 384 x 280mm (support)
Watermark: none
Inscriptions/marks: signed and dated in pencil lower right support <<Adele Younghusband 1957>>, inscribed in pencil lower left support <<Group of nudes>>
Condition: good condition and nicely framed
Description: five nudes, three standing and two seated
Reference: not recorded in Gail Ross, ‘New Zealand Prints 1900-1950: An Unseen Heritage’, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Canterbury, 2006. There is another version, printed in the reverse, red over green, in the Whangarei Art Museum, purchased in 1996. See illustration below
Provenance: International Art Centre, Auckland, 2023
