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Important Australian + International Fine Art - 6 May 2015  |  Melbourne

Lot 120
Olive Cotton
(1911 - 2003)
TEACUP BALLET, 1935, printed 1994

silver gelatin photograph

35.0 x 28.0 cm



Estimate:
$4,000 - 6,000


Lot sold: $15,600 (inc. BP)


Lot Details

Description

Olive Cotton
(1911 - 2003)
TEACUP BALLET, 1935, printed 1994

silver gelatin photograph

35.0 x 28.0 cm

signed, dated, titled and numbered below image

Provenance

Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney
Private collection, Adelaide

Exhibited

Olive Cotton, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 May – 2 July 2000; National Library of Australia, Canberra, 12 July – 19 September 2000 (another example).
Olive Cotton: Photographs 1920s – 1990s, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 19 October – 11 November 1995, cat. 4 (illus. back cover, another example)
Olive Cotton: Photographs 1920s – 1990s, Joseph Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 21 October 1995, cat. 43 (another example ??)

Literature

Simpson, K., 'Rapt in Cotton', exhibition review, Herald Sun, 25 August 1995
Hall, B., & Mather, J., 'Olive Cotton' in Australian Women Photographers 1840-1960, p. 84 (illus., another example)