CPE
1898 - 1992
Canadien
Tillers of the Soil
linogravure en 4 couleurs
signé, titré et édition 60/60 et au verso daté 1934 sur l’étiquette de l’exposition
10 1/2 x 13 1/2 po, 26.7 x 34.3 cm
Estimation : 15 000 $ - 25 000 $ CAD
Vendu pour : $20,000
Exposition à : Heffel Calgary – 888 4e Ave SW, Suite 609
PROVENANCE
Collection privée, Calgary
BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Peter White, Sybil Andrews, Glenbow Museum, 1982, reproduit pages 27 et 57
Lora S. Urbanelli, The Grosvenor School, British Linocuts Between the Wars, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1988, reproduit page 46
Stephen Coppel, Linocuts of the Machine Age, 1995, reproduit page 115, catalogue #SA31
Hana Leaper, Sybil Andrews Linocuts : A Complete Catalogue, Osborne Samuel Gallery, 2015, même image reproduite page 78
EXPOSITION
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Sybil Andrews : Color Linocuts, 1982, catalogue #31
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, The Grosvenor School : British Linocuts Between the Wars, 22 janvier - 20 mars 1988, en tournée en 1988 au Cleveland Museum of Art et au Santa Barbara Museum of Art, même image, catalogue #10
Sybil Andrews was part of the Grosvenor School in England, a group of artists working in linocut who were influenced by the exciting modernist movements of Futurism, Vorticism and Cubism. In the 1930s, harsh economic realities brought a new appreciation for the working class, both rural and urban, who emerged as a subject for art, and their energy and productivity was seen in a heroic light. Tillers of the Soil is from a group of linocuts in Andrews’s oeuvre that embodies this subject. Seen at a distance, the figure of the farmer is small, but his stance at the plough is self-assured as he controls the team of massive draft horses. Andrews emphasized their power through her unusual use of perspective, showing the horses looming over the top of the hill with the stylized furrows of the field plunging downward below them. A pervasive and dynamic sense of movement, strong colour, and the bright light of the open farmland make Tillers of the Soil a powerful image.
Stephen Coppel notes: from an edition 60 plus at least 2 TPs, 2 EPs and 4 AEPs. Early impressions on buff oriental laid tissue; later printings on thickish oriental paper. This is a fine impression on tickish oriental paper.
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