Ethel Spowers 1890-1947

• Lot Sold $46,000 (Hammer Price)
• $55,200 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

WET AFTERNOON 1929-1930
colour linocut
inscribed ‘Wet Afternoon 38/50’ lower left; signed and dated ‘E L Spowers 1929’ lower right
24.3 X 20.4CM
edition 38 of 50 

PROVENANCE
Nicholas Draffin, Sydney
Private Collection, Sydney

LITERATURE
‘The Lino-Cut Artists. An Economical Metier on Exhibition’, The Morning Post, London, 25 July 1930, p. 4
‘Personal’, The Argus, Melbourne, 24 September 1930, p. 6
Arthur Streeton, ‘Linocuts’, The Argus, Melbourne, 9 December 1930, p. 5
‘Gladys Owen and Ethel Spowers: Lino-Cuts, Wood-Cuts, and Water Colours’, The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 6 December 1932, p. 4
Art in Australia (third series), No. 77, November 1939, p. 65 (illustrated, another impression)
Janine Burke, Australian Women Artists: One Hundred Years: 1840-1940, Ewing and George Paton Galleries, Melbourne, 1975, p. 75 (illustrated, another impression)
Nicholas Draffin, Australian Woodcuts and Linocuts of the 1920s and 1930s, Sun Books, Melbourne, 1976, pp. 14, 44 (illustrated, another impression)
Janine Burke, Australian Women Artists 1840-1940, Greenhouse Publications, Melbourne, 1980, pp. 148 (illustrated, another impression), 180
Chris Deutscher (ed.), Australian Art: Colonial to Modern, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 1986, p. 44 (illustrated, another impression)
Stephen Coppel, Claude Flight and His Followers: The Colour Linocut Movement Between the Wars, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1992, p. 21
Victoria Hammond, A Century of Australian Women Artists 1840s-1940s, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 1993, p. 72 (illustrated, another impression)
Stephen Coppel, Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press, Aldershot, U.K., in association with the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995, cat. no. ES14, pp. 66, 67, 170 (illustrated, another impression), 171