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The Norman Lindsay Facsimile Etchings are published in strict accordance with copyright conditions. Authenticity is guaranteed by an embossed seal in the lower right hand corner of the image and all works are accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. Each image is individually hand-numbered and once an edition has sold out, it is never re-released. Each Norman Lindsay Facsimile Etching is in an edition of 550 and size is image size only. Prices are for works in excellent condition and unframed unless noted otherwise. $20.00 freight, handling, packaging and insurance is applicable for all orders within Australia. For overseas orders, please contact us. Please click on the thumbnails to view larger images. Facsimile Etchings on this page are for sale from Odana Editions. To order, please click here.
(Pirates' Captives )
Size Price Date Published Reference	13.8 x 13.1 cm $110 2000 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.1)
Norman's first experiment with etching was in 1897, twenty years before he became seriously involved with the medium. (Pirates' Captives) was the result and depicts a robust pirate scene (rather reminiscent of a woodcut in style). It is annotated: 'This little etchings was done in the year 1897. My brother Lionel started etching at that time so I experiment with example of the Black Art'. This annotation appears below the image on the facsimile etching. The original etching was never published and the only original of this work is on view at the Norman Lindsay Gallery and Museum, Faulconbridge.

(NUDE WITH MANTILLA)
Size Price Date Published Reference	13.6 x 10.9 cm $209 2001 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.18)
Rose was the model. The original etching was never published.

ROSE LINDSAY BOOKPLATE
Size Price Date Published Reference	17.6 x 13.0 cm $220 2001 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.59)
Rose was the model. The original etching was especially etched for Rose for her private library. The original etching was never published.

(THE BOUDOIR)
Size Price Date Published Reference	15.2 x 12.5 cm $264 2005 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.33)
The original etching was never published.

(FROLIC)
Size Price Date Published Reference	12.5 x 10.0 cm $264 2007 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.104)
The original etching was never published.

JOURNALISM AND ART
Size Price Date Published Reference	15.6 x 13.9 cm $264 1999 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.167)
The original etching was never published.

DANCE, PUPPET, DANCE
Size Price Date Published Reference	14.4 x 11.6 cm $297 2008 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.329)
Dance, Puppet, Dance was etched in 1933 and the puppet is a caricature of Norman. The original etching was published in an edition of 10 and is exceptionally rare.

WHICH MASK?
Size Price Date Published Reference	15.0 x 15.0 cm $330 2006 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.339)

DESERT ISLAND
Size Price Date Published Reference	25.4 x 20.2 cm $352 2007 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.331)
Desert Island probably had its genesis in Norman's early reading. Coral Island, one of the first books which Norman had read, expanded his interest in far-off lands. He wrote to Leon Gellert in 1917: These first books colour all our after life. I feel a stirring of the heart now, when I recall their glories ... If I could get rid of the curse of an artistic conscience, acquired by years of striving after the visible aspects of life, I believe I would prefer to write dream books like Coral Island, if I were found worthy ... The original etching of Desert Island is extremely rare and unusual. The original is marked as an edition of 55 but it is thought that the plate failed at 36. The central alluring female figure is Polynesian and as well as a pirate, a reptilian humanoid and harpie are included.

LIGHT LYRICS
Size Price Date Published Reference	30.5 x 25.3 cm $363 2007 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.278)
Seventeen of Norman's published etchings (from a total of 200) are pure drypoint, that is, not used in conjunction with any other method. The original Light Lyrics is one of these etchings.

FORTUNE'S FOOLS
Size Price Date Published Reference	25.1 x 25.4 cm $385 2001 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.340)

CHARLES
Size Price Date Published Reference	26.5 x 31.8 cm $396 2008 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.283)
Rose modelled for the back of the main figure. Seventeen original etchings are pure drypoint and included in this list are Light Lyrics, The Eighties, Delight, Decoy, Juno, The Pool (1924) and Summer. The original drypoint was etched in 1926 in an edition of 38.

NIGHT'S FROLIC
Size Price Date Published Reference	30.2 x 25.2 cm $550 2004 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.310)

ATLANTIS
Size Price Date Published Reference	31.7 x 25.2 cm $605 2006 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.138)
The original etching was never published. For years Norman had been intrigued by the legendary sunken city of Atlantis. Of all the vanished civilisations it is arguably the most contentious; scholars from antiquity to the present have debated its existence. Plato wrote two treatises about the lost island and in one, Critias, he positioned it to the west of the Pillars of Hercules (Gibraltar) on the Atlantic coast near Cadiz. Latter-day German scholars as meticulous as Richard Henning and Adolf Schulten have insisted that Plato’s description of Atlantis is based on concrete facts. He even introduced his daughters Jane and Honey to the legend. In 1928 Rose added an amusing anecdote in a letter to Andrew Watt: Norman is this minute giving the kids their lessons … he is giving them from the time of Atlantis. I get much fun from hearing them telling the cook and the nurse all about how it was sunk and so forth. The cook said ‘I’ve never heard of the place’. Norman wrote a ‘thesis’ on Atlantis which he published in The Scribblings of an Idle Mind. In a postscript he mentioned an exchange of letters with Leonard Cottrell, amateur archaeologist and eminent author of books on ancient civilisations. Cottrell said that archaeologists had never discovered any factual evidence of the existence of Atlantis and, therefore, he had no belief in the myth. Norman etched Atlantis in 1925 and although it is mentioned in Rose’s record book, apparently the plate failed and it remained unpublished.

VISITORS TO HELL
Size Price Date Published Reference	32.8 x 45.3 cm $660 2004 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.375)
The original etching was the largest plate Norman etched and is his last published etching.

SOLD OUT EDITIONS FOR RESALE
A SUMMER DAY ANDANTE
Size Price Date Published Reference	34.0 x 38.4 cm $1,600 1997 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.270)
The inclusion of swans in A Summer Day Andante gives the etching an added air of tranquility, and contributes to the atmosphere which Norman so successfully conveys. He obviously considered which breed of dog would best suit the subject and used his numerous photographs of dogs for reference. Norman's choice of the Borzoi, the dog on the left in A Summer Day Andante, is a perfect complement to the elegant group assembled around the quartet; the Borzoi, also known as the Russian Wolfhound, was bred exclusively for the aristocracy of Czarist Russia. The other dog in this etching looks like a Welsh Springer Spaniel.

ADOLESCENCE
Size Price Date Published Reference	30.5 x 29.0 cm $1,100 1989 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.237)

AFTERNOON OF A FAUN
Size Price Date Published Reference	9.7 x 8.1 cm $430 2001 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.69)
This delightful etching was etched c.1920. Rose pulled roughly fifty prints from the plate but it was never published because of its erotic content. When Matisse illustrated the same subject (Mallarmé's poem L'Apres-midi d'un faune), he too resorted to neoclassical convention 'to remind us of the pagan simplicity and vitality of the designs on Greek vases and the erotic murals at Pompeii and Herculaneum'. Norman had visited Pompeii en route to London in 1909.

(THE ANKLET)
Size Price Date Published Reference	10.3 x 11.9 cm $650 2000 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.77)
The original etching was never published.

ARABIANA
Size Price Date Published Reference	29.1 x 23.2 cm $900 2002 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.361)

BARGAINS
Size Price Date Published Reference	11.9 x 12.4 cm $650 (fair condition) 1974 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.230)
Rose was the model.

THE BAUBLE
Size Price Date Published Reference	14.3 x 11.4 cm $650 (fair condition) 1974 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.260)
This etching shows the artist represented at the end of the staff which the model is holding.

(BEAUTY'S HONOUR)
Size Price Date Published Reference	33.1 x 25.3 cm $850 1999 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.129)
The original etching was never published.

CATS
Size Price Date Published Reference	13.4 x 12.0 cm $630 1986 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.190)
Rose was the model.

(COQUETTE)
Size Price Date Published Reference	24.9 x 9.7 cm $930 2004 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.162)
This beautiful image was etched approximately two years after Who Follows?, which was modelled by Rose.

DANCE
Size Price Date Published Reference	22.8 x 21.9 cm $630 1999 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.

DEATH IN THE GARDEN
Size Price Date Published Reference	33.0 x 26.7 cm $1,150 1998 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.243)
Ever since Norman's extreme grief at the death of his brother Reg in 1917 in World War I, Norman had been determined to counter his fear of death by adopting an attitude of rejection and determined optimism. Death in the Garden is one of his most beautiful etchings. Several of the female figures were etched from sketches of Rose and the central model also appears in Unknown Seas and Life in the Temple. The urn is in the garden at Springwood. Norman had done a pen and ink drawing of Death in the Garden (presumed burnt in America), prior to the etching. Norman wrote to son Jack: I shall take your suggestion as a title of the pen and ink The Comedy Ends. That other one Death in the Garden I am putting down on copper.

DECOY
Size Price Date Published Reference	33.0 x 24.0 cm $700 1974 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.258)
Rose was the model.

THE DREAM MERCHANT (2nd Edition)
Size Price Date Published Reference	20.2 x 25.4 cm $830 1997 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.107)
There were two very similar etchings produced of this image by Norman Lindsay. The 1st Edition has a nude female on the far left but after Rose pulled six original etchings, Norman felt that the eye was not drawn towards the centre of the image. In the 2nd Edition he etched out the figure and replaced her with a curtain.

(DREAMING)
Size Price Date Published Reference	5.0 x 9.4 cm $350 2001 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.74)
Rose was the model. The original etching was never published.

DREAMS
Size Price Date Published Reference	13.6 x 12.3 cm $630 1997 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.289)
Rose was the model.

THE EIGHTIES
Size Price Date Published Reference	30.5 x 25.3 cm $950 2003 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.284)

ENTER THE DUKE
Size Price Date Published Reference	33.0 x 26.5 cm $1,100 1987 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.259)

THE GLADE
Size Price Date Published Reference	15.1 x 12.0 cm $730 2004 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.334)

(IN THE GARDEN)
Size Price Date Published Reference	19.6 x 15.8 cm $680 2005 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.39)
The original etching was never published.

JEALOUSY
Size Price Date Published Reference	13.9 x 13.0 cm $650 (fair condition) 1978 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.267)
Sometimes, after Rose had pulled a proof, Norman would decide to cut the plate down to strengthen the image. An example of this is Jealousy. The first proof of Jealousy shows a nude to the left of the group and the elimination of this additional figure was obviously essential to the successful composition of the etching.

JUNO
Size Price Date Published Reference	30.5 x 22.9 cm $830 1999 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.308)
Many original etching editions never reached their intended number. If a plate failed unexpectedly Rose stopped printing. The edition of Juno is marked '40' but the plate failed at 34.

LESBIA
Size Price Date Published Reference	13.4 x 16.3 cm $600 2002 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.218)

LIFE IN THE TEMPLE
Size Price Date Published Reference	30.4 x 35.5 cm $1,650 1974 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.363)
The composition of Life in the Temple is similar to Rembrandt's etching The Hundred Guilder Print.

LITTLE SCANDALS
Size Price Date Published Reference	26.5 x 33.1 cm $730 1999 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.249)

THE MYSTERIES
Size Price Date Published Reference	28.9 x 30.4 cm $800 1999 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.311)
A number of original prints of The Mysteries were taken to America and burnt in the fire. It is not known how many were burnt but the original print is extremely rare as it was also not printed out in full.

PEACOCKS
Size Price Date Published Reference	27.9 x 21.2 cm $750 1995 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.191)

PEGASUS
Size Price Date Published Reference	30.5 x 25.4 cm $830 1996 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.290)
Norman translated his passion for Greek myths into numerous pictures. In Pegasus Norman etched a group of Grecian figures dominated by two winged horses. The original Pegasus, a son of Poseidon, sprang fully formed from the body of the monster Medusa, after she was slain by the hero Perseus. Athena tamed Pegasus with her golden bridle and gave him to Bellerophon. The fabulous winged horse has become a symbol for freedom and unlikely liberation for writers from Shakespeare to Longfellow. Pegasus was an image made for Norman's imagination. Rose posed for the figure in the helmet which Norman had made out of papier mache. She is wearing the same footwear as in Phyllida. In October 1939 Rose presented a print of Pegasus to the Art Gallery of New South Wales for exhibition in their newly opened Print Room.

(PENSIVE)
Size Price Date Published Reference	17.9 x 15.0 cm $680 1999 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.78)
The original etching was never published.

PRIESTESS TO THE MAGI
Size Price Date Published Reference	22.9 x 27.8 cm $950 1986 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.344)

PROMISE
Size Price Date Published Reference	25.7 x 15.1 cm $1,100 1998 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.199)
Rose was the model.

THE RAGGED POET
Size Price Date Published Reference	35.4 x 27.9 cm $1,250 1987 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.255)
The Ragged Poet is an exquisite etching. The central figure of the poet is the focus of attention as the audience is mesmerised by his song. The needling of the veil on the nude figure and the complicated fabric of the curtain, carpet and gowns display a mastery of etching technique.

RITA
Size Price Date Published Reference	15.1 x 11.5 cm $620 1998 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.174)
The model is Rita Lee who posed for Norman for six years from 1936 to 1942. This image is identical to the 1942 oil painting The Black Hat. Rita was Norman's favourite model after Rose. The original etching was never published.

SEA MAGIC
Size Price Date Published Reference	30.4 x 25.2 cm $930 1996 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.348)
Rose had sold only twelve copies of Sea Magic before taking the remainder of the edition to America where they were subsequently burnt in the fire. Consequently, the original print is extremely rare.

SELF PORTRAIT
Size Price Date Published Reference	35.4 x 30.4 cm $3,300 1974 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.317)
Self Portrait is the graphic depiction of an artist in torment. A hunched Norman, clutching his etching needle, is presented, manacled, between the male nude satyr and female nude. This central group forms the picture around which are massed the creatures of his imagination: demons, satyrs, nudes and the ominous figure of the sword-wielding dwarf. Self Portrait is the most revealing of all Norman's etchings and needling the plate was a lengthy process. In a letter to John Hetherington, Norman discussed the ease with which he wrote compared to the consummate difficulty in etching and specifically referred to Self Portrait: ... I have tried both mediums, and can speak authoritatively on their time factors. I could write the major portion of a novel like Cousin from Fiji in the time it takes me to produce an etching like Self Portrait. It was an etching that continued to preoccupy him years after it was published. In a letter to sister Mary, written in his old age, Norman wrote: ... Self Portrait was done during the period you stayed with us at Springwood. It reflects the state of my mind during those years, which I'll swear I kept well under cover from detection by others. You, who probably know me better than others, could affirm that, I think. Anyway, it is definitely autobiographical ... Norman had turned fifty in 1929 and the capacity to create had abandoned him. His distress during this phase (which lasted for several years) is portrayed in Self Portrait. It was this etching that brought the criticism of Norman's work, which had been steadily growing over the years, to a head. It is difficult now for us to comprehend just how much controversy was engendered by Norman and to what extent he was affected by it. At first he simply shrugged it off, but as the attacks on his work gathered momentum he became disheartened and, in the end, fearful. He had been a target for puritanical-minded officialdom since 1899 when he was first involved in police action. This was the result of a poster he had designed for a company marketing a contraceptive called 'Solvit'. Public outcry caused a progressive Venereal Diseases Bill, which was about to pass through the Victorian Parliament, to be abandoned.

(SISTERS)
Size Price Date Published Reference	11.2 x 12.5 cm $650 2000 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.102)
The original etching was never published.

SPRING SONG
Size Price Date Published Reference	12.5 x 13.8 cm $600 2001 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.233)

SUMMER
Size Price Date Published Reference	16.7 x 15.2 cm $630 1997 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.187)
Summer evokes the heat of summer in Australia. Many original etching editions never reached their intended number. If a plate failed unexpectedly Rose stopped printing. The edition of Summer was intended for thirty-five but the plate failed after twenty-four prints had been pulled.

(THE TEMPTRESS)
Size Price Date Published Reference	11.3 x 7.2 cm $530 2001 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.136)
Rose was the model. The original etching was never published.

UNDINE
Size Price Date Published Reference	22.7 x 21.3 cm $900 1999 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.355)
A small number of Norman's etchings are direct interpretations of poems whereas others reflect a mood or thought associated with the genre. Although Undine has little to do with Kenneth Slessor's poem of the same name, the figures do reflect Slessor's description of Undine from Thief of the Moon: ... the water-maid, caved in milk.

VIRGINITY
Size Price Date Published Reference	39.2 x 29.6 cm $880 2001 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.221)

WHISPERS
Size Price Date Published Reference	12.5 x 12.0 cm $630 1993 Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.226)

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