Ethel Spowers
(1890 - 1947)
THE RAIN CLOUD, 1931
Edition: edition: 13/30
colour linocut on buff oriental tissue
20.5 x 26.0 cm
signed, dated, titled and numbered below image
Estimate:
$20,000 - $30,000
lot details
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
Literature
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)
Related Works
Another example of this print is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (edition: 17/30)