Ethel Spowers
(1890 - 1947)
THE BAMBOO BLIND, 1926
colour linocut
15.5 x 15.0 cm
edition of 50
signed with monogram in image upper right: ELS
signed, dated, numbered and inscribed with title below image
Estimate:
$8,000 - $12,000
Sold:
$13,420 (inc. BP)
lot details
signed with monogram in image upper right: ELS
signed, dated, numbered and inscribed with title below image
Private collection, Sydney
Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne, 30 April 2014, lot 68
Private collection, Sydney
Exhibited
Exhibition of Watercolours and Woodcuts by Ethel Spowers, Grosvenor Gallery, Sydney, 1 June 1926 (another example)
Exhibition of Wood-Cuts and Water-Colours by Ethel Spowers, New Gallery, Melbourne, 2 – 13 August 1927, cat. 35 (another example)
Literature
‘Miss Spowers’s Pictures’, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 1 June 1926, p. 10
Coppel, S., Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press, Aldershot, in assoc. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995, cat. ES4, pp. 168 – 169 (illus., another example)
Related Works
Another example of this print is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (edition: 4/50)