ETHEL SPOWERS (1890-1947)
The Battle 1933
Estimate: $80000 - 120000
Sold For:
$230000 hammer
$282273 inc. buyer's premium
Description
ETHEL SPOWERS (1890-1947)
The Battle 1933
oil on canvas
41.5 x 41.5 cm; 49.0 x 49.0 cm (framed)
signed and dated lower right: E. L. SPOWERS. 1933
bears inscription on frame verso: 17/ The Battle/ E.L. Spowers/ Return to Mrs H.W. Parbury/ 10 guineas
frame: original, Thomas Whitelaw & Co., Melbourne (label attached verso)
Provenance:
Mrs Celia Parbury (the artist's sister), Melbourne
Thence by descent, private collection, Victoria
Exhibited:
Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Members of the Contemporary Art Group, Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne, 31 July - 11 August 1934, cat.53, 10 gns
Memorial Exhibition by Ethel Spowers, Georges Gallery, Melbourne, 7-16 September 1948, cat.17 (as Children Playing, lent by Mrs H. W. Parbury)
Reference:
Young, B., 'Changing Outlook of Modern Art,' The Herald, Melbourne, 30 July 1934, p.15 (illus.)
Coppel, S., Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press in association with the National Gallery of Australia, United Kingdom, 1995, p.170
Keats, J., 'The Battle', Ethel Spowers 1890-1947 [digital catalogue raisonné], accessed October 2024, https://ethelspowers.com/the-battle/
Related Works:
The Rocking Horse 1926, watercolour on paper, dimensions unknown; illus. in The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 1 June 1926, p.12
The Rocking Horse 1927, colour linocut, 20.0 x 22.0 cm, one example (no. 6) held in a private collection, Melbourne
Estimate: $80000 - 120000
Result Hammer: $230000
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