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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian + International Art
• Sale Date:
  28 Aug 2019 ~ 7pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  16
• Lot Description:
  Cyril Power
  (1872 – 1951, British)
  The Tube Station, c.1932
  colour linocut; edition: (UK) 23/60
  26.5 x 29.5 cm
  signed, numbered and inscribed with title in image lower right: “The Tube Station’ / No. 23/60 Cyril E Power
  EXHIBITED: "Modern Colour Prints," Redfern Gallery, London, 21 July – 20 August 1932, cat. 2 (another example); "Modern Colour Prints and Wood Engravings from the Redfern Gallery", Old Bond Street, London, Collins House, under the auspices of the Arts and Crafts Society of Victoria, Melbourne, 7 – 23 December 1932, cat. 28 (another example); "Out of the Book and On to the Wall: The Relief Print", Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 20 February – October 1984 (another example, US edition); "The Grosvenor School. British Linocuts Between the Wars," Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, and touring, cat. 45 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, p. 67, another example, US edition); "Avant Garde British Printmaking 1917 – 1960," British Museum, London, September 1990 – January 1991 (another example); "Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 30 January – 1 June 2008 and touring, cat. 49 (another example); "Modern Britain 1900 –1960", National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 15 November 2007 – 24 February 2008 (another example, USA edition); "Speed and Flight," Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tamaki, Auckland, 14 April – 15 July 2012 (another example, US edition) REFERENCES: ‘Redfern Gallery', "The Times", London, 23 July 1932, p. 8; Rutter, F., 'Modern Colour Prints. A Democratic Art', "The Sunday Times", London, 7 August 1932, p. 5; Coppel, S., "Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School", Scolar Press, Aldershot, England, in association with the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995, cat. CEP 32, pp. 98 – 99 (illus., another example); Vann, P., "Cyril Power Linocuts: A Complete Catalogue", Lund Humphries, Farnham, 2008, cat. 32, p. 85 (illus., another example, USA edition); Ackley, C.S. (ed.), "British Prints from the Machine Age: Rhythms of Modern Life 1914–1939", Thames and Hudson, London, 2008, cat. 49, pp. 94, 215 (illus. front cover and p. 105, another example)
• Provenance:
  probably: Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne; Ken and Joan Plomley Collection of Modernist Art, Melbourne
• Notes:
  Other examples of this print are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (UK edition); National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (USA edition); Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland (USA edition) and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario (USA edition)
• Estimate:
  A$25,000 - 35,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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