# Ethel Spowers - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T09:29:35.394Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 123
- Lots with prices: 92
- First auction date: 2004-08-24
- Latest auction date: 2025-06-21
- Median realised price: $9,000
- Price range: $30 to $230,000

## Market Takeaway
Ethel Spowers shows solid auction liquidity with 123 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $9,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 5 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-06-21.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($9,000\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $350 and $25,000.
- Auction totals can include buyer premiums or fees depending on reporting, so compare like\-for\-like when possible.
- Condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence can move value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 35.9% (33 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 18.5% (17 sales)
- $10,000\+: 45.7% (42 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 5
- Previous 12 months sales: 9
- Recent 12 months median: $42,000
- Previous 12 months median: $2,600
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-06-21
- Days since latest sale: 242
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Lawsons: 23 lots
- Bonhams: 19 lots
- Leonard Joel: 18 lots
- Menzies: 11 lots
- Ozbid Auctions: 9 lots
- Pottle Auctions: 8 lots
- Smith & Singer: 8 lots
- Bargain Hunt Auctions: 4 lots
- Deutscher and Hackett: 4 lots
- Gibson's: 4 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-08-27 | Ethel Spowers \(1890\-1947\) Resting Models, 1934 | Bonhams | A$30,000
2. 2025-06-21 | ETHEL SPOWERS 'WET AFTERNOON' | Antiques & Modern Auction Gallery | $1,050
3. 2025-05-25 | ETHEL SPOWERS \(1890\-1947\), Melbourne From the River circa 1924 | Gibson's | A$26,000
4. 2025-05-25 | ETHEL SPOWERS \(1890\-1947\), Wet Afternoon 1930 | Gibson's | A$68,000
5. 2025-05-07 | ETHEL SPOWERS, THE RAIN CLOUD, 1931 | Deutscher and Hackett | A$42,000
6. 2025-05-07 | ETHEL SPOWERS, TUG OF WAR, 1933 | Deutscher and Hackett | A$58,000
7. 2024-11-20 | ETHEL SPOWERS \(1890\-1947\), The Battle 1933 | Menzies | A$230,000
8. 2024-11-20 | ETHEL SPOWERS \(1890\-1947\), Illustration to the Frog Prince 1925 | Menzies | A$10,000
9. 2024-09-08 | ETHEL SPOWERS | Sydney Rare Book Auctions | A$250
10. 2024-04-28 | Ethel Spowers \- School Is Out. Print of the Original. Image Size 58cm x 54cm With Frame 79cm x 72cm | Pottle Auctions | A$325
11. 2024-04-28 | Ethel Spowers \- Wet Afternoon. Print Of The Original. 82/500. Signed In The Plate Lower Right. Image Size 37cm x 31cm With Frame 98.5cm x 80.5cm. | Pottle Auctions | A$325
12. 2024-04-10 | ETHEL SPOWERS \(1890\-1947\) Afraid of the Dark 1927 woodcut, ed. 6 16 x 15cm | Leonard Joel | A$2,200
13. 2024-04-10 | ETHEL SPOWERS \(1890\-1947\) Bank Holiday 1935 linocut, printed from six blocks: yellow ochre, cobalt blue, reddish brown, green, grey... | Leonard Joel | A$22,000
14. 2024-03-19 | ETHEL SPOWERS \(1890\-1947\), The Green Bridge 1926 | Gibson's | A$2,600
15. 2023-12-12 | Ethel Spowers \(Australian, 1890\-1947\) Wet Afternoon Linocut printed in grey, reddish brown, emerald green and cobalt blue, 1929\-30, on tissue thin oriental laid paper, signed, titled, dated '1930' and numbered 38/50 in pencil, framedBlock 243 x 20... | Bonhams | £16,000
16. 2023-11-28 | Ethel Spowers \(1890\-1947\) Timber Crane, 1926 | Bonhams | A$14,000
17. 2023-08-06 | Ethel Spowers \- Swings. Print of the Original. Signed in the Plate Lower Right. Image Size H 33cm x W 36cm. With Frame H 55cm x W 55cm. | Pottle Auctions | A$250
18. 2023-06-15 | ETHEL LOUISE SPOWERS \(AUSTRALIAN, 1890\-1947\) Fairy Story watercolor, gouach | Christie's | $12,600
19. 2023-06-15 | ETHEL LOUISE SPOWERS \(AUSTRALIA, 1890\-1947\) The Pigeon Loft watercolor, gou | Christie's | $12,600
20. 2023-05-28 | Ethel Spowers Print of the Original Swingers Image 33cm x 36cm Frame 50cm x 49cm | Pottle Auctions | A$250
21. 2023-04-04 | Ethel Spowers \(1890\-1947\) The Green Bridge, 1926 | Bonhams | N/A
22. 2023-03-21 | ETHEL LOUISE SPOWERS \(1890\-1947\) Still Life 1932 linocut, printed in colour inks, from five blocks, ed. 21/30 | Leonard Joel | A$18,000
23. 2022-09-11 | Ethel Spowers | Charleston's Fine Art Auctions | N/A
24. 2022-08-21 | Ethel Spowers \- Wet Afternoon. Print Of The Original 32/50. Signed In The Lower Right Plate. Image Measures 37cm x 31cm. Frame Measures 98.5cm x 80.5cm. | Pottle Auctions | A$850

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