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Important Australian + International Fine Art - 27 November 2019  |  Melbourne

Lot 3
Ethel Spowers
(1890 – 1947)
THE BAMBOO BLIND, 1926

colour linocut

15.5 x 15.0 cm



Estimate:
$8,000 – 12,000


Lot sold: $13,420 (inc. BP)


Lot Details

Description

Ethel Spowers
(1890 – 1947)
THE BAMBOO BLIND, 1926

colour linocut

15.5 x 15.0 cm

signed with monogram in image upper right: ELS
signed, dated, numbered and inscribed with title below image

Provenance

Private collection, Sydney
Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne, 30 April 2014, lot 68
Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited

Exhibition of Watercolours and Woodcuts by Ethel Spowers, Grosvenor Gallery, Sydney, 1 June 1926 (another example)
Exhibition of Wood-Cuts and Water-Colours by Ethel Spowers, New Gallery, Melbourne, 2 – 13 August 1927, cat. 35 (another example)

Literature

‘Miss Spowers's Pictures’, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 1 June 1926, p. 10
Coppel, S., Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press, Aldershot, in assoc. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995, cat. ES4, pp. 168 – 169 (illus., another example)