The barber of Bousaada
(1929)
Medium
etching, plate-tone and soft-ground
Measurements
17.6 × 27.6 cm (plate) 29.5 × 44.5 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1940
© The Estate of Lionel Lindsay/National Library of Australia
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
Lionel Lindsay visited Europe several times in the 1920s and travelled widely around the continent. Like Tom Roberts and numerous Australian artists before him, he was fascinated by the Muslim architecture and culture that shaped the cities and towns of Southern Spain over 700 years of Moorish settlement. This sparked his interest in the cultures of Northern Africa, and in 1929 Lindsay embarked on a three-month trip to Algeria and Tunesia, where he sketched and made etchings of everyday life in marketplaces, towns and the surrounding landscape.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Mendelssohn 1987, 458
Printing/Publishing
published by Colnaghi
Inscription
inscribed in pencil l.l.: Lionel Lindsay / The Barber of Boussada
inscribed in pencil l.r.: 100 / The Barber of Bousaada
inscribed in plate (in image) l.l.: LIONEL LINDSAY
Accession Number
1034-4
Departments
Australian Prints / Australian Prints & Drawings
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