IMPORTANT AUSTRALIAN AND ABORIGINAL ART including The Hobbs Collection and The Croft Zemaitis Collection Wednesday 20 June 2018 Sydney INSIDE FRONT COVER IMPORTANT AUSTRALIAN AND ABORIGINAL ART including the Collection of the Late Michael Hobbs OAM the Collection of Bonita Croft and the Late Gene Zemaitis Wednesday 20 June 6:00pm NCJWA Hall, Sydney MELBOURNE VIEWING BIDS ENQUIRIES PHYSICAL CONDITION Tasma Terrace Online bidding will be available Merryn Schriever OF LOTS IN THIS AUCTION 6 Parliament Place, for the auction. 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If a third party is collecting on payment by bank cheque and building society behalf of the client, the client must provide cheque. Bonhams with written authority prior to collection. The third party must present photographic ID when collecting. H old swo rt h St O ce an St S pi ce Queen St r St M oncur St Windsor St n NCJWA HALL r L e k St a n Pe h Jo s Rush St Bonham Dw Caledonia St ye r L n St Smith ueen St Vi Jersey Rd Q ct oria Av e St ne St Patrick’s Cathedral thedral Pl Pl Ca Albert St dral Gisbor Cathe St Oxford Tasma Terrace l P t t l S s P liamen ew r a P t Andr Nicholson St Nicholson S Lansdowne Lansdowne Parliament House y Pl easur Tr Macarthur St Macarthur Spring St Bourke St Treasury Garden ollins St Little C Collins St 1 ETHEL SPOWERS (1890-1947) The Timber Crane, 1926 titled, numbered, signed and dated below image: 'The Timber Crane. 3., E.L. Spowers 1926.'; monogramed in plate: 'ELS' colour linocut on cream oriental laid paper printed from five blocks in grey, slate blue, black, red-brown and green; from an edition of approximately 30 19.0 x 23.5cm (7 1/2 x 9 1/4in). $10,000 - 15,000 Provenance Private collection, Perth thence by descent Private collection, Perth Exhibited Exhibition of Wood-Cuts and Water-Colours by Ethel Spowers, New Gallery, Melbourne, 2-13 August 1927, cat. 29 (another example) Exhibition of Colour Prints and Water Colours by Ethel Spowers, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 10-25 July 1936, cat. 1 (another example) Literature 'The Art of Ethel Spowers', The Age, Melbourne, 2 August 1927, p. 7 'Miss Spowers's Water Colours', The Argus, Melbourne, 2 August 1927, p. 19 Stephen Coppel, Linocuts of the machine age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press, Aldershot, in association with the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995, cat. ES6, p. 168, 169 (illus. another example) Related Works Other examples from this edition are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and the New England Regional Art Museum, New South Wales 4 | BONHAMS IMPORTANT AUSTRALIAN AND ABORIGINAL ART | 5 2 HERBERT BADHAM (1899-1961) The Bus Stop, 1958 signed and dated lower right: 'H Badham 59'; signed, titled and inscribed verso: '"The Bus Stop" / HBadham / East Sydney Tech / Price: 25 Guineas' oil on canvas board 54.5 x 44.0cm (21 7/16 x 17 5/16in). $40,000 - 60,000 Provenance hidden from view. Here he elongates the figures' bodies which in turn Mr Ray Granger, Lismore positions the viewer from overhead as if we were to step down off the thence by descent bus. Mr John and Mrs Shirley Stretch, Lismore The Estate of John and Shirley Stretch, Lismore There is a sense of voyeurism as we observe this group. The solitary woman at the back appears to be enjoying a private moment, eyes Related Work closed, leaning slightly back with her hands resting on the wall whilst The Bus Stop, 1943, oil on board, 51.0 x 38.0cm, exhibited Herbert a stray cat slips quietly past her. The remaining figures huddle in Badham 1899 - 1961, Wollongong City Gallery, New South Wales, pairs. We feel a little as if we have been given access to a private 27 August - 4 October 1987; S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, conversation between the two women on the left, perhaps colleagues 10 October - 15 November 1987, cat. 33 winding down after a day's work, one with cigarette in hand, the other mouth open as if mid-sentence whilst she keeps an eye out for the Realist painter Herbert Badham is best known for his depictions bus.