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New Norman Lindsay Prints!

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  • MAIA FUNG
  • 27/09/2015

Here at KAB Gallery, we love to show a range of established artists, collectable art, local artists and affordable gift art! Arriving this week is the very exciting Norman Lindsay fine art reproductions of his original The Magic Pudding Characters!

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Norman Lindsay’s best known children’s book is The Magic Pudding. He wrote it in 1917, partly to settle an argument with his friend Bertram Stevens of The Bulletin and Art in Australia, who maintained that children liked to read about fairies, whereas Lindsay said they liked to read about food.

First published in 1918, it is still in print and has been translated into Japanese, German, French and Spanish as well as having been published in Britain and the United States. It is regarded as a classic of children’s literature.

Lindsay wrote only one other children’s book, Flyaway Highway, published in 1936. The display features watercolours of the characters and their costumes produced by Lindsay in about 1960 and mannequins produced for one of the several stage versions of the The Magic Pudding.

Check out more of the histories of Norman Lindsay on his website: www.normanlindsay.com.au

Arriving this week, we have four of the wonderful characters for purchase, Benjamin Brandysnap, Bunyip Bluegum, Sam Sawnoff and The Possum. All at $129, they are the cutest addition to a nursery, kid’s room or if you just love these prints for a collage display around your home. 

Come in and check them out as we know they won’t last long!!!!

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And don’t forget we sell many artists books like Norman Lindsay’s and some great themed gift ideas like printed glass cleaners, cards and more!!!