Cyril E. Power
1872-1951

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, SYDNEY

Cyril E. Power

1872-1951
THE TUBE STAIRCASE (1929)

colour linocut
signed 'Cyril E Power' lower right; signed and inscribed 'Cyril E Power / Specimen Print' in margin edition of 50
44.4 X 25.6CM (IMAGE); 51.5 X 32 CM (SHEET)

• Lot Sold $26,000 (Hammer Price)
• $31,200 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

The Redfern Gallery, London
Private Collection, Sydney

Exhibited

First Exhibition of British Lino-Cuts, Redfern Gallery, London, 4-27 July 1929, no. 33, 3\xBD gns (another impression)
[Exhibition of British Linocuts], Shanghai Art Club, Shangahi, 2-4 May 1931 (another impression)
Exhibition of Linocuts, Everyman's Lending Library, Melbourne. 5-16 April 1932, no. 27, \xA33.3.0 (another impression)
Sybil Andrews and Cyril E. Power, Redfern Gallery, London, 5-28 January 1933, no. 51, 3 gns (another impression)
[Exhibition of Drawings by Members of the Royal Institute of British Architects], London, May 1933 (another impression)

Literature

'Works of Art on Linoleum. All You Need Is a Knife, Rib of Umbrella, and a Toothbrush', Star, London, 4 July 1929
'Lino-Cuts', The Times, London, 6 July 1929, p. 12
Frank Rutter, 'British Linocuts. A New Colour Art for the People', The Sunday Times, London, 14 July 1929, p. 7
'Lino-Cuts', Christian Science Monitor, Boston, 22 July 1929, p. 8
Herbert Furst, 'First Exhibition of British Lino-Cuts at the Redfern Gallery, Apollo, London, Vol. 10, No. 56, August 1929, p. 120
'The Art of Linoleum Cutting', Connoisseur, London, No. 84, September 1929, p. 197
F.H. Hindle, 'Exhibition of Lino-Cuts. Examples of New Trend in Modern Art on Show at Shanghai Art Club', The North-China Daily News, Shanghai, 2 May 1931, p. 14
'Exhibition of Monotypes and Lino-Cuts. By Sybil Andrews and Cyril E. Power', Bury Free Press & The Bury & Norwich Post, Bury St Edmunds, 28 January 1933, p. 15
Charles Marriott, 'Pictures by Architects. A Review of the Exhibition of Drawings by Members of the RIBA', Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, London, May 1933, p. 543 (illustrated, another version)
Gordon Samuel and Richard Gault, The Linocuts of Cyril Edward Power, Redfern Gallery, London, 1989, cat. 13 (illustrated, another impression)
Stephen Coppel, Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press, Aldershot, U.K., in association with the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995, cat. CEP 11, p. 92 (illustrated, another impression)