Olive Cotton
(1911 - 2003)
TEACUP BALLET, 1935, printed 1994
silver gelatin photograph
35.0 x 28.0 cm
edition: 34/50
signed, dated and inscribed with title below image
Estimate:
$10,000 - $15,000
Sold:
$10,980 (inc. BP)
lot details
signed, dated and inscribed with title below image
Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney
Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 1994
Exhibited
A Century of Australian Women Artists, 1840s – 1940s, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 3 June – 3 July 1993, cat. 95 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, pp. 27, 28)
Olive Cotton: Photographs 1920s – 1990s, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 19 October – 11 November 1995, cat. 4 (illus. in exhibition catalogue back cover, another example)
Olive Cotton: Photographs 1920s – 1990s, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 21 October 1995, cat. 43 (another example)
Olive Cotton, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 May – 2 July 2000, and National Library of Australia, Canberra, 12 July – 19 September 2000 (another example)
Sydney Moderns: Art for a New World, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 July – 7 October 2013 (another example)
Literature
Hall, B., & Mather, J., ‘Olive Cotton’ in Australian Women Photographers 1840-1960, Greenhouse Publications, Melbourne, 1986, p. 84 (illus., another example)
Edwards, D., and Mimmocchi, D. (eds.), Sydney Moderns: Art For a New World, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2013, pp. 152 (illus., another example), 184, 293, 311
