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Important Women Artists - 10 November 2021  |  Melbourne

Lot 2
Ethel Spowers
(1890 - 1947)
THE RAIN CLOUD, 1931

colour linocut

20.5 x 26.0 cm (image)
24.5 x 29.5 cm (sheet)



Estimate:
$25,000 – $35,000


Lot sold: $29,455 (inc. BP)


Lot Details

Description

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

colour linocut

20.5 x 26.0 cm (image)
24.5 x 29.5 cm (sheet)

signed, dated, titled and numbered below image: The Rain Cloud. 13/30. E. L. Spowers - 1931 -

Provenance

Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited

Exhibition of ... Progressive Art, Modern Art Centre, Sydney, 1 March – 1 April 1932, cat. 40 (another example)
Exhibition of Linocuts, Everyman’s Lending Library, Melbourne, 5 – 16 April 1932, cat. 18 (another example)
Gladys Owen and Ethel Spowers, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 6 December 1932, cat. 9 (another example)
Exhibition of Colour Prints and Water Colours by Ethel Spowers, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 10 –25 July 1936, cat. 4 (another example)

Literature

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