Resting Models 1934

Ethel Spowers (1890-1947)

Resting Models 1934

colour linocut
19.5 x 26.0 cm
titled, numbered, signed and dated below image

edition: 1/50

Provenance:
Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 1954 (accompanied by label, previously attached verso)

Company collection

Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above c1955

Exhibited:
Modern Impressions; Australian Prints from the Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2 September 2016 - January 2017 (another example)

Reference:
Brush, C., 'The New City Explored: Learning Curve Lecture Series Shows the Way', Look, p.46, Sydney, 2013, p.46 (illus. another example)

Butler, R., Melbourne Woodcuts and Linocuts of the 1920s and 1930s, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria, 1981, (illus. another example); n.p.

O'Connor, N., Slow Burn: A Century of Australian Women Artists from a Private Collection, Eva Breuer Art Dealer & National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 2010, p.36-37 (illus. another example)

Topliss, H., Modernism and Feminism; Australian Women Artists 1900-1940, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1996, p.153 (illus. another example)

Coppel, S., Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press, England, 1995, pp.65-68; cat.no.ES 29; pl.39 (illus. p.176, another example)

Estimate: $5000 - 8000

Result Hammer: $27000