Reflections of a China Fawn 1932

ETHEL SPOWERS (1890-1947)

Reflections of a China Fawn 1932

linocut
23.5 x 18.5 cm
titled, numbered, signed and dated below image
edition: 19/50

Provenance:
Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1976
Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 13 December 2009, lot 200
Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited:
Exhibition of Linocuts, Everyman's Lending Library, Melbourne, 5 - 16 April 1932 (another example)
Exhibition of colour prints and watercolours by Ethel Spowers, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 6 - 31 December 1932 (another example)
Fourth Exhibition of British Lino-Cuts, Ward Gallery, London, 17 May - 10 June 1933 (another example)
Exhibition of Pictures by Ethel Spowers, Everyman's Lending Library, Melbourne, 28 November - 9 December 1933
Colour woodcuts, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 4 September - 2 October 1936 (another example)

Reference:
Herald, Sydney, 4 April 1932
Argus, Melbourne, 5 April 1932
Herald, Sydney, 27 November 1933
Coppel, S., Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press, Aldershot, 1995, p.173, cat.ES20 (illus. p.174, another example)

Estimate: $6000 - 8000

Result Hammer: $7000