CPE
1898 - 1992
Canadian
Day’s End
linocut in 5 colours, 1961
signed, editioned 31/60 and inscribed "3" and "43" in the margin and on verso titled and dated on the gallery label
10 3/4 x 10 1/4 in, 27.3 x 26 cm
Estimate: $7,000 - $9,000 CAD
Sold for: $9,375
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PROVENANCE
Masters Gallery Ltd., Calgary
The Chateau Collection, Calgary
Private Collection, Toronto
In Good Company: Sybil Andrews & Contemporaries – Part I, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, July 30, 2020, lot 126
Acquired from the above by the present Private Collection, Calgary
LITERATURE
Peter White, Sybil Andrews, Glenbow Museum, 1982, reproduced page 64
Stephen Coppel, Linocuts of the Machine Age, 1995, reproduced page 122, catalogue #SA 62
Hana Leaper, Sybil Andrews Linocuts: A Complete Catalogue Raisonné, 2015, reproduced page 116 and the related circa 1961 drawing Sketch for Day’s End reproduced page 21, fig. 9
EXHIBITED
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Sybil Andrews, September 14 – October 22, 1982, same image, catalogue #58
Sybil Andrews is renowned as a founding member of the London-based Grosvenor School of Modern Art (1925 – 1940), focused on avant-garde linocut printmaking. Using this accessible, “democratic” medium, members of the school captured the speed and movement of the machine age through their use of bold colour and dynamic rhythm, with subjects ranging from industry to sport to urban life.
In 1947, Andrews immigrated to Canada with her husband, Walter Morgan, a co-worker from the Hythe shipyard where they had worked during World War II. After moving to Campbell River, BC, Andrews built a studio on her rural property at Willow Point and continued to produce art.
Andrews’s memories of Suffolk rural life recur in a number of her prints, including this striking linocut executed after she immigrated to Canada. An impression of this print, editioned 21/60, is in the collection of the British Museum.
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