SPEEDWAY, 1934

Important Women Artists
Melbourne
10 November 2021
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SYBIL ANDREWS

(1898 - 1992, English/Canadian)
SPEEDWAY, 1934

colour linocut

32.5 x 23.5 cm (image)
36.5 x 27.0 cm (sheet)

edition: TP 4/5 aside from an edition of 60

signed, numbered and inscribed with title lower right: “Speedway” T. P. 4 / Sybil Andrews

Estimate: 
$50,000 – $70,000
Sold for $135,000 (inc. BP) in Auction 65 - 10 November 2021, Melbourne
Provenance

Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited

Colour Prints, Redfern Gallery, London, 12 July – 4 August 1934, cat. 21 (another example)
Exhibition of Lino Cuts from the Redfern Gallery, London, Baillieu Allard’s Gallery, Melbourne, 7 – 18 September 1937, cat. 51 (another example)
Claude Flight and His Followers. Colour Linocut Movement between the Wars, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 18 April – 12 July 1992, and touring, cat. 10 (another example)
Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 30 January – 1 June 2008 (another example)
Cutting Edge: Modernist British Printmaking, Dulwich Picture Gallery, United Kingdom, 19 June – 8 September 2019 (another example)
Sybil Andrews. Art and Life, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada, 19 October 2019 – 12 January 2020 (another example)

Literature

White, P., Sybil Andrews: Colour Linocuts/Linogravures en couleur, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada, 1982, cat. 29, pp. 37, 57 (illus., another example)
Coppel, S., Linocuts of the Machine Age – Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995, cat. SA 29, pp. 55, 56 (illus. front cover, another example), 114 (illus.)
Durrant, N., ‘The artists who printed the modern world — Cutting Edge: Modernist British Printmaking at Dulwich Picture Gallery’, The Times, London, 18 June 2019 (illus., another example)
Samuel, G., Cutting Edge: Modernist British Print Making, Philip Wilson Publishers, London, 2019, pp. 46, 133, 140 (illus., another example)