TEACUP BALLET, 1935 printed 1994

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Sydney
28 August 2019
102

OLIVE COTTON

(1911 – 2003)
TEACUP BALLET, 1935 printed 1994

silver gelatin photograph

35.0 x 28.0 cm

edition: 34/50

signed, dated and inscribed with title below image

Estimate: 
$10,000 – 15,000
Sold for $10,980 (inc. BP) in Auction 58 - 28 August 2019, Sydney
Provenance

Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney
Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 1994

Exhibited

A Century of Australian Women Artists, 1840s – 1940s, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 3 June – 3 July 1993, cat. 95 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, pp. 27, 28)
Olive Cotton: Photographs 1920s - 1990s, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 19 October – 11 November 1995, cat. 4 (illus. in exhibition catalogue back cover, another example)
Olive Cotton: Photographs 1920s - 1990s, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 21 October 1995, cat. 43 (another example)
Olive Cotton, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 May – 2 July 2000, and National Library of Australia, Canberra, 12 July – 19 September 2000 (another example)
Sydney Moderns: Art for a New World, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 July – 7 October 2013 (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, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2013, pp. 152 (illus., another example), 184, 293, 311