914098
- Title[Paddy’s Markets, ca. 1930] / pencil drawing attributed to Normand Baker
- Creator
- Call numberSV/192
- Level of descriptionfonds
- Date
ca. 1930 - Type of material
- Reference code914098
- Physical Description1 drawing - pencil - 25.5 x 35.6 cm
- ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
Normand Baker (1908-1955) specialised in drawing, etching and painting street scenes. Trained at John Samuel Watkins School in Sydney, he won the Archibald Prize for a self portrait in 1937, aged twenty nine. Baker produced a large quantity of his work depicting the area around Paddy’s markets.
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Library correspondence file - Scope and ContentPencil sketch of the interior of Paddy's Markets showing customers and market workers inside the busy produce market.
- Copying ConditionsCopyright status:: In copyright - Life of artist plus 70 years
- Description source
Titled and dated from Josef Lebovic Gallery Collector's list No. 145, 2010 - Australian Art (Item 3) - General note
Drawing is possibly a preliminary sketch for a painting as it includes colour notations - Signatures / Inscriptions
Unsigned - Attributions / conjectures
Accompanied by note on authenticity "I declare that this pencil sketch of Paddy's markets is an original done by my brother Normand Henry Baker." Signed "Reta Morton" - Conservation note
Slight creases and pinholes to edges, some stains - Subject
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