TEACUP BALLET, 1935

Important Fine Art + Indigenous Art
Sydney
18 April 2018
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OLIVE COTTON

(1911 – 2003)
TEACUP BALLET, 1935

printed 1991
silver gelatin photograph

35.0 x 28.0 cm

edition: 50

signed, dated and inscribed with title below image

Estimate: 
$8,000 – 12,000
Sold for $25,620 (inc. BP) in Auction 53 - 18 April 2018, Sydney
Provenance

Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited

Olive Cotton, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 May – 2 July 2000; National Library of Australia, Canberra, 12 July – 19 September 2000 (another example)
Olive Cotton: Photographs 1920s – 1990s, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 19 October – 11 November 1995, cat. 4 (illus. back cover, another example)
Olive Cotton: Photographs 1920s – 1990s, Joseph Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 21 October 1995, cat. 43 (another example)

Literature

Hall, B., & Mather, J., 'Olive Cotton' in Australian Women Photographers 1840-1960, Greenhouse Publications, Melbourne, 1986, p. 84 (illus., another example)
Edwards, D., and Mimmocchi, D. (eds.), Sydney Moderns: Art For a New World, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2013, pp. 152 (illus., another example), 184, 293, 311