CPE
1898 - 1992
Canadian
Ploughing Pasture
linocut in 4 colours, 1955
signed, titled and editioned 8/60
14 x 16 1/2 in, 35.6 x 41.9 cm
Estimate: $7,000 - $9,000 CAD
Sold for: $10,000
Preview at: Heffel Toronto – 13 Hazelton Ave
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Ontario
LITERATURE
Peter White, Sybil Andrews, Glenbow Museum, 1982, page 26, reproduced pages 44 and 62
Stephen Coppel, Linocuts of the Machine Age, 1995, reproduced page 121, catalogue #SA 54
Hana Leaper, Sybil Andrews Linocuts: A Complete Catalogue, Osborne Samuel Gallery, 2015, reproduced page 108
EXHIBITED
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Sybil Andrews, September 14 – October 22, 1982, same image, catalogue #50
Peter White writes, “In Ploughing Pasture (Plate 12), Andrews uses another favourite technique. Here the scene is presented from a sharply lowered angle of vision so that the viewer is looking up and beyond. The feeling imparted is one of impressive scale and magnitude—of the land, the sky, and the task of the solitary plougher as he works his way up and over the crest of the hill.” Images of manual labour expressed in rhythmic movement are a major theme in Sybil Andrews’s works, as in this superb linocut. This work is a fine impression on buff oriental laid tissue with strong colours.
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