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Important Australian + International Fine Art - 30 April 2014  |  Melbourne

Lot 69
Ethel Spowers
(1890 - 1947)
THE RAIN CLOUD, 1931

colour linocut on buff oriental tissue

20.5 x 26.0 cm



Estimate:
$20,000 - 30,000




Lot Details

Description

Ethel Spowers
(1890 - 1947)
THE RAIN CLOUD, 1931

colour linocut on buff oriental tissue

20.5 x 26.0 cm

signed, dated, titled and numbered below image

Provenance

Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited

Exhibition of ... Progressive Art, Modern Art Centre, Sydney, March 1932, cat. 40
Exhibition of Linocuts, Everyman's Lending Library, Melbourne, 5-16 April 1932, cat. 18
Gladys Owen and Ethel Spowers, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 6 December 1932, cat. 9
Exhibition of Colour Prints and Water Colours by Ethel Spowers, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 10-25 July 1936, cat. 4

Literature

Gladys Owen and Ethel Spowers. Lino-cuts, Wood-cuts, and Water Colours', Sydney Morning Herald, 6 December 1932, p. 4
Coppel, S., Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press, Aldershot, in assoc. National Gallery of Australia, 1995, p. 171, cat. ES16 (illus., another example)