Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) - Original Signed Pencil Drawing 'Rita Lee'
Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) - Original Signed Pencil Drawing 'Rita Lee'
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Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) - Original Signed Pencil Drawing 'Rita Lee'
Norman Lindsay, Australian (1879-1969), Pencil on Paper of model 'Rita Lee' Circa 1940, initialed lower left. This beautiful pencil portrait features one of Norman Lindsay’s famed models, Rita. Pencil portraits of Rita are exceedingly rare.
Rita modelled for Norman from 1938 until 1942, when she married artist and photographer George Young. Rita was 18 when she began modelling and she had worked for other artists for about a year before she was introduced to Norman Lindsay. She remembers being very nervous as she walked up the stairs to his studio, but this quickly disappeared when the door was opened by “a little man with beautiful blue dancing eyes who had a palette and brushes in his hand”. As for Norman, this is what he said of Rita: “One of those, at least, arrived as the perfect model for the métier of oil painting. That was Rita, a quiet reticent girl who seldom spoke, but who secreted within her all those emotional intensities from which any variation on the feminine image may be extracted.” A rare investment piece of art for collectors of Lindsay artworks and Australian Fine Art.
Dimensions
Image size: 24cm x 20cm
Frame size: 42cm x 38cm x 3cm
Bio
Norman Alfred William Lindsay (22 February 1879 – 21 November 1969) was an Australian artist, etcher, sculptor, writer, art critic, novelist, cartoonist and amateur boxer. 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". 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.
Apart from his creative output, Lindsay was known for his larrikin attitudes and personal libertine philosophy, as well as his battles with what he termed "wowserism". One such battle is portrayed in the 1994 film Sirens, starring Sam Neill and filmed on location at Lindsay's home in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. It is now known as the Norman Lindsay Gallery and Museum and is maintained by the National Trust of Australia.
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