THE RAIN CLOUD, 1931

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
30 April 2014
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ETHEL SPOWERS

(1890 - 1947)
THE RAIN CLOUD, 1931

colour linocut on buff oriental tissue

20.5 x 26.0 cm

edition: 13/30

signed, dated, titled and numbered below image

Estimate: 
$20,000 - 30,000
Provenance

Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited

Exhibition of ... Progressive Art, Modern Art Centre, Sydney, March 1932, cat. 40
Exhibition of Linocuts, Everyman's Lending Library, Melbourne, 5-16 April 1932, cat. 18
Gladys Owen and Ethel Spowers, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 6 December 1932, cat. 9
Exhibition of Colour Prints and Water Colours by Ethel Spowers, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 10-25 July 1936, cat. 4

Literature

Gladys Owen and Ethel Spowers. Lino-cuts, Wood-cuts, and Water Colours', Sydney Morning Herald, 6 December 1932, p. 4
Coppel, S., Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press, Aldershot, in assoc. National Gallery of Australia, 1995, p. 171, cat. ES16 (illus., another example)