2001
Facsimile Etching
12.5 x 13.8 cm
Published: 2001
Edition: 550
Publisher: Odana Editions
Reference
Norman Lindsay Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Odana Editions and Josef Lebovic Gallery, 2006, cat.233)
Spring Song was inspired by the music of Adolph G Beutler, a Swiss-born composer who had a shop in Castlereagh Street, Sydney, specialising in selling and restoring second-hand pianos.
Norman etched Spring Song to a melody of Beutlers':
As an instance of spontaneous return to imagery I put the emotion of Beutler's Spring Song onto a little plate but you will see there is no similitude save in spirit.
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