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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian + International Art
• Sale Date:
  28 Aug 2019 ~ 7pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  20
• Lot Description:
  Ethel Spowers
  (1890 – 1947)
  Melbourne From The River, c.1924
  colour woodcut; edition: 6/20
  19.0 x 22.5 cm
  signed, numbered, and inscribed with title below image
• Provenance:
  possibly: Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne; Ken and Joan Plomley Collection of Modernist Art, Melbourne
• Exhibited:
  "Victorian Artists Society", Melbourne, Spring 1924, no. 235 (as ‘Town from the River’); "Exhibition of Works by Ethel Spowers," The New Gallery, Melbourne, 4 – 15 August 1925, cat. 36 (another example)
• References:
  ‘Art Notes. Watercolours by Miss Ethel Spowers’, "The Age," Melbourne, 4 August 1925, p. 9; ‘The Studio. Miss Spowers’ Watercolours’, "The Australasian", Melbourne, 8 August 1925, p. 44; Coppel, S., "Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School", Scolar Press, Aldershot, England, in association with the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995, cat. ES A/7, p. 189
• Estimate:
  A$10,000 - 15,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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