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A carved blackwood portrait of an Indigenous Australian woman,…
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Melbourne
Date:
5-Dec-2022
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A carved blackwood portrait of an Indigenous Australian woman, twice signed and dated 1922, long bust-length, carved in very high relief, modelled undraped and with a pensive expression, stained dark brown, incised signature and date 'R. Prenzel south Yarra 1922' lower right and with a further large incised signature in a cursive script to the reverse 'Robt Prenzel October 1922', 54 cm high, 34.5 cm wide, 10 cm deep. Provenance: acquired directly from Robert Prenzel in the 1920s by Gordon Gidney, Melbourne, thence by descent to the late John Gidney Pennell
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Sculpture/Statuary: Figures/Groups