CPE
1898 - 1992
Canadian
Market Day
linocut in 5 colours, 1936
signed, titled and editioned 36/60
11 x 13 1/4 in, 27.9 x 33.7 cm
Estimate: $12,000 - $16,000 CAD
Sold for: $18,750
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PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the Artist, Campbell River
Private Collection, Campbell River
LITERATURE
Peter White, Sybil Andrews, Glenbow Museum, 1982, reproduced page 59
Stephen Coppel, Linocuts of the Machine Age, 1995, reproduced page 116, catalogue #SA 38
Hana Leaper, Sybil Andrews Linocuts: A Complete Catalogue Raisonné, 2015, reproduced page 85, catalogue #40
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
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. In 1960, she began to offer private art lessons at her home.
The consignor of this work was part of a group of aspiring lino printmakers mentored by Andrews in Campbell River from about 1980. She purchased this print directly from the artist.
Market Day was inspired by a bustling weekly farmers’ market in Bury St. Edmunds, familiar to Andrews from childhood. According to Hana Leaper, the artist viewed the market from Moyse’s Hall Museum, where her brother was curator. Stephen Coppel notes that early impressions of this print are on buff oriental laid tissue, and later printings are on thicker paper. This is a superb impression with vibrant colours.
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