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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  25 Nov 2020 ~ 6pm (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  5
• Lot Description:
  Ethel Spowers
  (1890-1947)
  Fox and Geese, 1933
  linocut, printed from five blocks: yellow ochre, grey, reddish purple, emerald green, cobalt blue
  25.3 x 30.3cm (9 15/16 x 11 15/16in).
  titled, editioned, signed and dated in pencil within image: 'Fox and Geese 3/50 E.L. Spowers 1935'
  RELATED WORKS: Other impressions from this edition are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria, the Lyceum Club, Melbourne, and formerly Victoria and Albert Museum, London, deaccessioned 1953
• Provenance:
  Private collection, Sydney
• Notes:
  EXHIBITED: Contemporary Group Exhibition, Farmer's Blaxland Galleries, Sydney, 24 October - 4 November 1933, no. 83 (another example); Exhibition of Pictures by Ethel Spowers, Everyman's Lending Library, Melbourne, 28 November - 9 December 1933, no. 21 (another example); Colour Prints. Also Paintings by R.O. Dunlop, Basil Jonzen, Richard Eurich, Redfern Gallery, London, 12 July - 4 August 1934, no. 43 (another example); Exhibition of Colour Prints and Watercolours by Ethel Spowers, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 10 - 25 July 1936, no. 9 (another example); A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900-1950, Deutsher Galleries, Melbourne, 13 April - 5 May 1978, no. 166 (illus., another example); Claude Flight and His Followers: The Colour Linocut Movement between the Wars, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 18 April - 12 July 1992, ten touring; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 14 October - 29 November 1992; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 16 December 1992 - 1 March 1993; National Art Gallery, Wellington, 19 March - 16 May 1993; Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, 3 June - 18 July 1993, no. 83 (another example); The Lyceum Club: Celebrating One Hundred Years Centenary Exhibition 1912-2012, The Lyceum Club, Melbourne, March 2012, cat. 43 (another example); Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 14 November 2020 - 31 January 2021, (another example). REFERENCES: Art Exhibitions: Pictures by Ethel Spowers: A varied collection,' The Age, Melbourne, 28 November 1933, p. 7; Arthur Streeton, 'Prints and Paintings: Three New Shows: Miss Spowers Art,' The Argus, Melbourne, 28 November 1933, p. 9; George Bell, 'Miss Ethel Spowers Shows Work of Rare Distinction,' The Sun News Pictorial, Melbourne, 28 November 1933, p. 13; Roger Butler and Chris Deutsher, A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900/1950, Deutsher Galleries, Melbourne, 1978, p. 6, cat. 166, (illus., another example); James Mollison and Laura Murray (ed.), Australian National Gallery: An Introduction, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1982, p. 240 (illus., another example); Stephen Coppel, Claude Flight and His Followers: The Colour Linocut Movement between the Wars, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1992, p. 21, no. 83; Stephen Coppel, Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press in association with the National Gallery of Australia, Aldershot, 1995, pp. 174-75 (illus., another example), cat. ES 24; Family Matters, Australian Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne, issue 65, Winter 2003, pp. front cover (illus., detail), inside cover (illus., another example); Roger Butler, Printed: Images by Australian Artists 1885-1955, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2007, p. 202 (illus., another example)
• Estimate:
  A$18,000 - 25,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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