The Gust of Wind 1931

Ethel Spowers (1890-1947)

The Gust of Wind 1931

colour linocut on thin ivory laid tissue
22.0 x 16.5 cm
titled, numbered, signed and dated below image
edition: 4/50

Provenance:
Bonhams, London, 9 December 2014, lot 51
Private Collection, Sydney

Reference:
Coppel, S. Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scholar Press in association with the National Gallery of Australia, 1995, pp.37, 66, 67, 170, 171, cat.ES 15 (illus., another example)
Urbanelli, L., The Grosvenor School: British Linocuts Between the Wars, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Art, Providence, 1988, pl.46 (another example)

Estimate: $38000 - 42000

Result Hammer: $36000