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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Women Artists + Selected Australian and International Fine Art
• Sale Date:
  10 Nov 2021 ~ 7pm (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  2
• Lot Description:
  Ethel Spowers
  (1890 - 1947)
  The Rain Cloud, 1931
  colour linocut; edition: 13/30
  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)
• References:
  ‘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)
• Notes:
  Another example of this print is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
• Estimate:
  A$25,000 - 35,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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