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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Fine Australian & International Art
• Sale Date:
  29 Aug 2016 ~ 6.30pm - Part 1 (Lots 1 - 78)
  30 Aug 2016 ~ 2.30pm - Part 2 (Lots 79 - 328)
• Lot #:
  1
• 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
• 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)
• 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)
• 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$4,000 - 6,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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