ETHEL SPOWERS
1890-1947
Kites 1936
Estimate $20,000 – $30,000
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF THE LATE MR NEVILLE H. GRACE, SYDNEY
ETHEL SPOWERS
1890-1947
Kites 1936
colour linocut on paper
signed and dated 'E. L. Spowers. 1936' upper left; inscribed 'Kites 13/50' upper right
edition 13 of 50
28.5 x 24.7 cm
- Lot Sold $30,000 (Hammer Price)
- $36,600 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Private Collection
Thirty Victoria Street, Sydney
Mr Neville Grace, Sydney, acquired from the above on 30 October 1999
Private Collection, acquired from the above
Exhibited
Exhibition of Colour Prints and Watercolours by Ethel Spowers, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 10-25 July 1936, no. 20, 2 gns (another impression, as 'Flying Kites')
Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Members of the Contemporary Art Group, Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne, 11-22 August 1936, no. 58, 2 gns (another impression)
Exhibition of Pictures by Australian Artists and Loan Collection of Indian Art, Tye's Gallery, Melbourne, 22 February – 4 March 1949, no. 45, 3 gns (another impression)
Literature
Stephen Coppel, Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press, Aldershot, England, in association with the National Gallery of Australia, 1995, cat. no. ES 33, pp. 176 (illustrated, another impression), 177
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