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Current bid: $9,000 CAD
Bidding History
Paddle # Date Amount

822957 29-Apr-2021 04:00:21 PM $9,000

The bidding history list updated on: Thursday, March 28, 2024 05:24:24

LOT 321

CPE
1898 - 1992
Canadian

Market Day
linocut in 5 colours, 1936
signed, titled, editioned 33/60 and inscribed "TH" in the margin
11 x 13 1/4 in, 27.9 x 33.7 cm

Estimate: $15,000 - $25,000 CAD

Sold for: $11,250

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PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Quebec
Sold sale of Fine Canadian Art, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, February 26, 2009, lot 5
Private Collection, Toronto

LITERATURE
Peter White, Sybil Andrews, Glenbow Museum, 1982, reproduced page 59
Stephen Coppel, Linocuts of the Machine Age, 1995, page 116, reproduced page 116
Gordon Samuel and Nicola Penny, The Cutting Edge of Modernity, Osborne Samuel, 2013, reproduced page 53
Hana Leaper, Sybil Andrews Linocuts: A Complete Catalogue Raisonné, 2015, reproduced page 85
Janet Nicol, On the Curve: The Life and Art of Sybil Andrews, 2019, reproduced page 18

EXHIBITED
Redfern Gallery, London, Colour Prints, June 25 - July 18, 1936, same image, catalogue #17
Baillieu Allard's Gallery, Melbourne, Exhibition of Lino Cuts from the Redfern Gallery, London, September 7 - 18, 1937, same image, catalogue #37
Gainsborough Galleries, Johannesburg, May 22 - June 2, 1945, same image
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Sybil Andrews, September 14 - October 22, 1982, same image, catalogue #38
Osborne Samuel, London, The Cutting Edge of Modernity, April 11 - May 11, 2013, same image


Stephen Coppel writes, "This was inspired by the bustling weekly market at Bury St. Edmunds, familiar to Andrews from childhood."

Early impressions of this print are on buff oriental laid tissue; later printings are on thickish oriental laid paper.


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