Sybil Andrews
(1898 - 1992)
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:
$135,000 (inc. BP)
lot details
36.5 x 27.0 cm (sheet)
signed, numbered and inscribed with title lower right: “Speedway” T. P. 4 / Sybil Andrews
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)
Related Works
Other examples of this print are held in the Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand, the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada.
The four original linocut blocks are held in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, partial gift of Johanna and Leslie Garfield.
