Merryn Schriever
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Lot 6
Ethel Spowers(1890-1947)Bank Holiday, 1935
25 November 2020, 18:00 AEDT
Melbourne, ArmadaleSold for AU$79,950 inc. premium
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Ethel Spowers (1890-1947)
Bank Holiday, 1935
titled, numbered, signed and dated in image: 'Bank Holiday 6/50 E.L. Spowers 1935'
linocut, printed from six blocks: yellow ochre, cobalt blue, reddish brown, green, grey, black
23.5 x 23.5cm (9 1/4 x 9 1/4in).
titled, numbered, signed and dated in image: 'Bank Holiday 6/50 E.L. Spowers 1935'
linocut, printed from six blocks: yellow ochre, cobalt blue, reddish brown, green, grey, black
23.5 x 23.5cm (9 1/4 x 9 1/4in).
Footnotes
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Sydney
EXHIBITED
Colour Prints, Redfern Gallery, London, 25 June - 18 July 1936, cat. 13 (another example)
Exhibition of colour prints and watercolours by Ethel Spowers, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 10 – 25 July 1936 (another example)
Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Members of the Contemporary Art Group, Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne, 11 - 22 August 1936, cat. 57, as 'E.M. Spowers', (another example)
Exhibition of Lino Cuts from the Redfern Gallery, London, Baillieu Allard's Gallery, Melbourne, 7 - 18 September 1937, cat. 65, (another example)
Summer Salon, Redfern Gallery, London, until 1 October 1938, cat. 149, as 'The Picnic', (another example)
A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900-1950, Deutsher Galleries, Melbourne, 13 April - 5 May 1978, cat. 17 (illus., exhibition catalogue, another example)
Claude Flight and His Followers: The Colour Linocut Movement between the Wars, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 18 April - 12 July 1992, then touring; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 14 October - 29 November 1992; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 16 December 1992 - 1 March 1993; National Art Gallery, Wellington, 19 March - 16 May 1993; Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, 3 June - 18 July 1993, cat. 89 (another example)
In Relief: Australian wood engravings, woodcuts and linocuts, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, August 1997 (another example)
LITERATURE
Basil Burdett, 'Pictures 'Alarming' and otherwise', The Herald, Melbourne, 10 August 1936, p. 8
Roger Butler and Chris Deutsher, A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900/1950, Deutsher Galleries, Melbourne, 1978, p. 88, cat. 171 (illus., another example)
Janine Burke, Australian Women Artists 1840-1940, Greenhouse Publications, Melbourne, 1980, pp. 151, 181, pl. 78 (illus., another example)
Stephen Coppel, Claude Flight and His Followers: The Colour Linocut Movement between the Wars, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1992, p. 22, cat. 89
Stephen Coppel, Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press in association with the National Gallery of Australia, Aldershot, 1995, p.176-77, pl. 40 (illus., another example), cat. ES 30
Kirsty Grant and Jason Smith, In Relief: Australian wood engravings, woodcuts and linocuts, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1997, pp. 38-39 (illus., another example)
RELATED WORKS
Other impressions from this edition is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
