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Important Australian + International Fine Art - 28 April 2010  |  Melbourne

Lot 243
Sybil Andrews
(1898 - 1992, Canadian)
THE DARKEST HOUR, 1932

colour linocut

12.5 x 33.5 cm



Estimate:
$2,000 - 4,000


Lot sold: $5,760 (inc. BP)


Lot Details

Description

Sybil Andrews
(1898 - 1992, Canadian)
THE DARKEST HOUR, 1932

colour linocut

12.5 x 33.5 cm

signed, titled and numbered lower right: “The Darkest Hour” /Sybil Andrews 5/60

Provenance

Cyril Power
Thence by descent
Private collection, Tasmania
Lawson-Menzies, Sydney, 6 December 2007, lot 287
Private collection, Victoria

Literature

Coppel, S., Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press, Aldershot, England, in assoc. National Gallery of Australia, 1995, p. 110, cat. SA19 as 'Deposition' (illus. another example)