Ethel Louise Spowers Australia, 1890-1947
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About Ethel Spowers
Born in South yYarra, Melbourne in 1890, Ethel Spowers is a modernist painter best known for her woodcuts and linocuts. She studied at the National Gallery School from 1911-17, in Melbourne and in London and Paris and held her first solo exhibition in 1920 in Melbourne and in 1921 to 1924 worked and studied in London and Paris. She further studied in London in the late 1930s and after returning to Australia continued exhibiting. She ceased practicing as an artist in in the late 1930s due to ill health and Spowers died in 1947.
We have records of art auction sales by Ethel Spowers from 1974 and in total 201 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 155 (77%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $174,702 for The Gust of Wind sold by Bonhams in April 2012. This year 3 works have been offered for sale. Works by Ethel Spowers are held by the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of NSW and a further seven major public national galleries (see list below).
Ethel Spowers is listed in the following standard biographical references:
- McCulloch, Alan McCulloch, Susan McCulloch, Emily McCulloch-Childs. The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art. 4th Edition, Aus Art Melbourne & The Miegunyah Press, 2006. Page 903
- Campbell, Jean. Australian Watercolour Painters: 1780 to the Present Day. Craftsman House, Sydney, 1989. Page 368
- Dictionary of Australian Artists Online, an online resource for biographical data about Australian artists, designers, craftspeople and curators.
- Australian Prints + Printmaking, a database listing printmaking artists from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region based on the print collection of the National Gallery of Australia.
Artists' Resale Royalty
Could the second and subsequent works by this artist sold after June 9, 2010 for over $1,000 be liable for the Artists' Resale Royalty? More info…
No, ineligible. The artist has been deceased for more than 70 years.
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