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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  25 Nov 2020 ~ 6pm (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  6
• Lot Description:
  Ethel Spowers
  (1890-1947)
  Bank Holiday, 1935
  linocut, printed from six blocks: yellow ochre, cobalt blue, reddish brown, green, grey, black
  23.5 x 23.5cm (9 1/4 x 9 1/4in).
  titled, numbered, signed and dated in image: 'Bank Holiday 6/50 E.L. Spowers 1935'
  RELATED WORKS: Other impressions from this edition is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
• Provenance:
  Private collection, Sydney
• Notes:
  EXHIBITED: Colour Prints, Redfern Gallery, London, 25 June - 18 July 1936, cat. 13 (another example); Exhibition of colour prints and watercolours by Ethel Spowers, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 10 – 25 July 1936 (another example); Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Members of the Contemporary Art Group, Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne, 11 - 22 August 1936, cat. 57, as 'E.M. Spowers', (another example); Exhibition of Lino Cuts from the Redfern Gallery, London, Baillieu Allard's Gallery, Melbourne, 7 - 18 September 1937, cat. 65, (another example); Summer Salon, Redfern Gallery, London, until 1 October 1938, cat. 149, as 'The Picnic', (another example); A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900-1950, Deutsher Galleries, Melbourne, 13 April - 5 May 1978, cat. 17 (illus., exhibition catalogue, another example); Claude Flight and His Followers: The Colour Linocut Movement between the Wars, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 18 April - 12 July 1992, then 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, cat. 89 (another example); In Relief: Australian wood engravings, woodcuts and linocuts, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, August 1997 (another example) REFERENCES: Basil Burdett, 'Pictures 'Alarming' and otherwise', The Herald, Melbourne, 10 August 1936, p. 8; Roger Butler and Chris Deutsher, A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900/1950, Deutsher Galleries, Melbourne, 1978, p. 88, cat. 171 (illus., another example); Janine Burke, Australian Women Artists 1840-1940, Greenhouse Publications, Melbourne, 1980, pp. 151, 181, pl. 78 (illus., another example); Stephen Coppel, Claude Flight and His Followers: The Colour Linocut Movement between the Wars, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1992, p. 22, cat. 89; 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, p.176-77, pl. 40 (illus., another example), cat. ES 30; Kirsty Grant and Jason Smith, In Relief: Australian wood engravings, woodcuts and linocuts, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1997, pp. 38-39 (illus., another example)
• Estimate:
  A$18,000 - 25,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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