Ethel Spowers 1890-1947

• Lot Sold $27,000 (Hammer Price)
• $32,400 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

THE WORKS, YALLOURN 1933
colour linocut
inscribed ‘The Works. Yallourn 9/50’ lower right; signed and dated ‘E L Spowers . 1933’ lower right
edition 9 of 50
15.7 X 34.6CM 

PROVENANCE

Mr Nicholas Draffin, Sydney
Private Collection, Sydney

LITERATURE

Roger Butler & Chris Deutsher, A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900/1950, Deutsher Galleries, Melbourne, 1978, p. 87, no. 169 (illustrated, another impression)
Roger Butler, Melbourne Watercolours and Linocuts of the 1920s and 1930s, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery in association with the Australian Gallery Directors’ Council, Ballarat, 1981, n.p. (illustrated, another impression)
Roger Butler, ‘Electricity Castle’, in Daniel Thomas, Creating Australia: 200 Years of Art 1788-1988, International Cultural Corporation of Australia in association with the Art Gallery Board of South Australia, 1988, pp. 172, 173 (illustrated, another impression)
David Hansen, The Face of Australia: The Past and the Present, The Land and the People, Child & Associates, in association with the Australian Bicentennial Authority, Sydney, 1988, p. 76 (illustrated, another impression)
Stephen Coppel, Claude Flight and his Followers: The Colour Linocut Movement Between the Wars, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1992, p. 22, no. 87
Christopher Allen, Art in Australia: From Colonization to Postmodernism, Thames & Hudson, London, 1997, p. 104 (illustrated, another impression)
Roger Butler, Printed: Images by Australian Artists 1888-1955, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2007, pp. 200, 201 (illustrated, another impression)
Roger Butler, ‘Print - Matters’, in Jaynie Anderson (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Australian Art, Cambridge University Press,Melbourne, 2011, p. 102, fig. 8.5 (illustrated, another impression)