Tea Cup Ballet is one of Australian photographer Olive Cotton’s most well-known photographs. Featuring a typically modernist aesthetic, the dramatic lighting and placement of the cups and saucers enables the relationship to dancers on a stage to become clear.

Tea Cup Ballet is available as an A3 sized print, exclusively from the Gallery Shop.

250gsm satin paper print
Off-white mat board border
Paper size: H29.5 x W41.5cm
Image size: H25 x W20cm  
Fits a standard A3 size frame
Made in Australia
Exclusive to the Gallery Shop

Olive Cotton (Australia 1911-2003)
Tea Cup Ballet c1935
Gelatin silver photograph, 37.3 x 29.6cm
Art Gallery of New South Wales, gift of the artist 1980
Print © Art Gallery of New South Wales