1 River Banks Tasmania c1928
Vintage silver gelatin photograph, titled and signed in pencil
on backing below image, 13.6 x 21cm. Slight retouching to upper
left and edges of image. Laiddown on original backing.
This
image was taken on a school sports trip to Tasmania with the
basketball team when Olive Cotton was a pupil at MLC Burwood
- the only time she travelled "overseas". (Ref: Sally
McInerney)
$8,800
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2 Dune 1935
Vintage silver gelatine photograph, signed and dated in ink in
lower margin, 17.6 x 23.4cm. Slight silvering to upper edge of
image.
$8,800
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3 [Washed-up Shells] c1935
Vintage silver gelatin photograph, signed in pencil in lower
margin, 24.7 x 28.8cm. Minor stains to margins.
$6,600
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4 [Sea Foam] c1935
Vintage silver gelatin photograph, signed in pencil verso, 25.1
x 24.3cm. Minor indentations to image lower centre, pinhole to
lower left corner of margin, slight wear, foxing and stain to
margins.
$8,800
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5 [Small Wave Breaking]
c1935
Vintage silver gelatin photograph, 15.5 x 20.3cm. Small indentations
overall, minor chips to edges of upper margin.
$8,800
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6 Orchestration
In Light
1937
Vintage silver gelatin photograph, titled and signed in green
ink and dated in pencil in lower margin, annotated and titled
with address in ink verso, 28.1 x 35.9cm. Stain to lower edge
of image, retouching to image upper centre and lower left and
right, slight surface loss to left margin.
Annotation
reads "Wollomombi Gorge, New England, NSW. Photograph by
Olive Cotton, taken 1937" and includes cancelled date "1938."
Address reads "Miss Olive Cotton, 24 Bond St, Sydney, NSW,
Australia." Taken on a camping field trip with Cotton's
geologist father: "There was such a great range of tones...that
my mind translated it into orchestral sounds." (Ref: Sally
McInerney).
Illustrated in Ennis' two books: Olive Cotton, Photographer,
NLA, 1995, p69, and Olive Cotton, AGNSW, 2000, p17. Held in the
National Gallery of Australia and National Library of Australia
collections.
$14,500
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7 [Fence And Tree] 1937
Vintage silver gelatin photograph, signed and dated in ink in
lower margin, 15 x 14.9cm.
$8,800
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8 Currabubulla [sic] c1937
Vintage silver gelatin photograph, titled and signed in ink in
lower margin, 15 x 19.8cm. Minor crinkle to upper centre of image.
$6,600
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9 Sky Submerged c1937
Vintage silver gelatin photograph, 24.8 x 24cm. Slight crease
to upper left corner of margin, minor stains and foxing to lower
margin.
This
image was created by combining two negatives. Illustrated in
Ennis' two books: Olive Cotton, Photographer, NLA, 1995, p9,
and Olive Cotton, AGNSW, 2000, p18. Held in the National Gallery
of Australia, National Library of Australia and Art Gallery of
New South Wales collections.
$12,500
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10 Low Tide 1938
Vintage silver gelatine photograph, titled, signed and dated
in pencil in lower margin, 30.7 x 30.1cm. Minor foxing to image
upper left and right and to left margin, slight crease to upper
left corner of image and lower left corner of margin.
$7,700
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