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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian + International Art
• Sale Date:
  27 Nov 2019 ~ 7pm (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  3
• Lot Description:
  Ethel Spowers
  (1890 – 1947)
  The Bamboo Blind, 1926
  colour linocut; edition of 50
  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)
• References:
  ‘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)
• Notes:
  Another example of this print is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (edition: 4/50)
• Estimate:
  A$8,000 - 12,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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