Olive Cotton

(1911 - 2003)

TEACUP BALLET, 1935, printed, 1994

Edition: edition: 35/50

silver gelatin photograph

35.0 x 28.0 cm

signed, dated, titled and numbered below image

Estimate:
$4,000 - $6,000

Sold:
$15,600 (inc. BP)

Lot 120

Olive Cotton

TEACUP BALLET, 1935, printed

, 1994

lot details

Olive Cotton (1911 - 2003)
TEACUP BALLET, 1935, printed, 1994
Edition: edition: 35/50
silver gelatin photograph
35.0 x 28.0 cm
signed, dated, titled and numbered below image
Provenance

Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney
Private collection, Adelaide

Exhibited

Olive Cotton, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 May – 2 July 2000; National Library of Australia, Canberra, 12 July – 19 September 2000 (another example).
Olive Cotton: Photographs 1920s – 1990s, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 19 October – 11 November 1995, cat. 4 (illus. back cover, another example)
Olive Cotton: Photographs 1920s – 1990s, Joseph Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 21 October 1995, cat. 43 (another example ??)

Literature

Simpson, K., 'Rapt in Cotton', exhibition review, Herald Sun, 25 August 1995
Hall, B., & Mather, J., 'Olive Cotton' in Australian Women Photographers 1840-1960, p. 84 (illus., another example)

Related Works

Other examples of this photograph are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney