Lot #1 - Ethel Spowers
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Auction House:Mossgreen
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Sale Name:Fine Australian & International Art
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Sale Date:29 Aug 2016 ~ 6.30pm - Part 1 (Lots 1 - 78)
30 Aug 2016 ~ 2.30pm - Part 2 (Lots 79 - 328) -
Lot #:1
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Lot Description:Ethel Spowers
(1890-1947)
The Rain Cloud 1931
linocut 30/30
20.5 x 25.5 cm
titled, editioned, signed and dated to margin: The Rain Cloud 30/30 E L Spowers 1931 -
Provenance:Private collection, Victoria
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Exhibited:Exhibition of ... Progressive Art, Modern Art Centre, Sydney, March 1932, cat. no. 40 (another example); Exhibition of Linocuts, Everyman's Lending Library, Melbourne, 5-16 April 1932, cat. no. 18 (another example); Gladys Owen and Ethel Spowers, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 6 December 1932, cat. no. 9 (another example); Exhibition of Colour Prints and Water Colours by Ethel Spowers, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 10-25 July 1936, cat. no. 4 (another example)
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References:Gladys Owen and Ethel Spowers. Lino-cuts, Wood-cuts, and Water Colours, Sydney Morning Herald, 6 December 1932, p. 4 (another example); Coppel, S., Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scholar Press, Aldershot, in assoc. National Gallery of Australia, 1995, p. 171, cat. no. ES16 (illustrated, another example)
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Notes:RELATED WORKS: Another example of this print is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (edition: 17/30)
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Estimate:A$4,000 - 6,000
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Realised Price:
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Category:Art
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