The Green Bridge 1926

ETHEL SPOWERS (1890-1947)

The Green Bridge 1926

linocut
19.0 x 26.0 cm
titled, numbered, signed and dated below image
monogram lower right in image: ELS

edition: 29/30

Provenance:
Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 10 October 2005, lot 242
Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited:
Exhibition of Watercolours and Woodcuts by Ethel Spowers, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, June 1926 (another example)
Exhibition of Woodcuts and Watercolours by Ethel Spowers, The New Gallery, Melbourne, 2 - 13 August 1927, cat.28 (another example)

Reference:
Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 1 June 1926
Australasian, Melbourne, 12 June 1926
The Age, Melbourne, 2 August 1927, p.7
Coppel, S., Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press, Aldershot, 1995, p.168, cat.ES5 (illus. p.169, another example)

Estimate: $10000 - 15000

Result Hammer: $12000