Olive Cotton
(1911 - 2003)
GLASSES, 1937 (printed 1999)
silver gelatin photograph
25.5 x 18.5 cm (sight)
55.0 x 46.0 cm (frame)
edition: 8/90
bears inscription verso: 4
authenticated and signed verso by the artist’s daughter Sally McInerney
Estimate:
$4,000 - $6,000
Sold:
$14,727 (inc. BP)
© Olive Cotton / Copyright Agency 2020
lot details
55.0 x 46.0 cm (frame)
bears inscription verso: 4
authenticated and signed verso by the artist’s daughter Sally McInerney
possibly: Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney
Pat Corrigan Collection, Sydney
Exhibited
The Enduring Glance: 20th Century Australian Photography from the Corrigan Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, 22 June – 28 July 2002, cat. 4
SOUL OF A CITY: Modernism and Sydney Photography 1930 to 1950, Delmar Gallery, Sydney, 17 May – 15 June 2014
Literature
Ennis, H., Olive Cotton: Photographer, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 1995, p. 10 (illus., another example)
Ennis, H ., Olive Cotton, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2000, p. 5 (illus., another example)
Related Works
Other examples of this photograph are held in the collections of the NGA, AGNSW, and the NLA.