ETHEL SPOWERS (1890-1947)
The Green Bridge 1926
Estimate: $10000 - 15000
Sold For:
$8000 hammer
Description
ETHEL SPOWERS (1890-1947)
The Green Bridge 1926
linocut
19.5 x 26.0 cm
signed with monogram lower right: ELS
titled, numbered, signed and dated below image
edition: 23/30
Provenance:
The Estate of the late Gilian Fairfax, 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, Scholar Press, Aldershot, 1995, p.168, cat.ES5 (illus. p.169, another example)
Estimate: $10000 - 15000
Result Hammer: $8000