THE BAMBOO BLIND, 1926
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ETHEL SPOWERS
(1890 - 1947)
THE BAMBOO BLIND, 1926
colour linocut on off-white oriental paper
15.5 x 15.0 cm
edition of 50
signed with monogram in image upper right: ELS
signed, dated, titled and numbered below image
Estimate:
$8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $9,600 (inc. BP) in Auction 35 - 30 April 2014, Melbourne
Provenance
Private collection, Sydney
Exhibited
Exhibition of Watercolours and Woodcuts by Ethel Spowers, Grosvenor Gallery, Sydney, 1 June 1926 (another example)
Exhibition of Wood-Cuts and Water-Colours by Ethel Spowers, New Gallery, Melbourne, 2-13 August 1927, cat. 35 (another example)
Literature
Miss Spowers's Pictures', Sydney Morning Herald, 1 June 1926, p. 10
Coppel, S., Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press, Aldershot, in assoc. National Gallery of Australia, 1995, pp. 168-169, cat. ES4 (illus., another example)