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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian + International Fine Art
• Sale Date:
  30 Apr 2014 ~ 7pm
• Lot #:
  69
• Lot Description:
  Ethel Spowers
  (1890 - 1947)
  The Rain Cloud, 1931
  colour linocut on buff oriental tissue
  20.5 x 26.0 cm
  signed, dated, titled and numbered below image; edition: 13/30
• Provenance:
  Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney; Private collection, Sydney
• Exhibited:
  Exhibition of ... Progressive Art, Modern Art Centre, Sydney, March 1932, cat. 40; Exhibition of Linocuts, Everyman's Lending Library, Melbourne, 5-16 April 1932, cat. 18; Gladys Owen and Ethel Spowers, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 6 December 1932, cat. 9; Exhibition of Colour Prints and Water Colours by Ethel Spowers, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 10-25 July 1936, cat. 4
• References:
  Gladys Owen and Ethel Spowers. Lino-cuts, Wood-cuts, and Water Colours', Sydney Morning Herald, 6 December 1932, p. 4; Coppel, S., Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press, Aldershot, in assoc. National Gallery of Australia, 1995, p. 171, cat. ES16 (illus., another example)
• Notes:
  Related Works: Another example of this print is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (edition: 17/30)
• Estimate:
  A$20,000 - 30,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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