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The Eight, 1930
Linocut printed with 4 blocks in chrome orange;
permanent blue; pale chrome; Chinese blue on buff
oriental laid tissue
Signed, titled and inscribed EP in pencil aside the edition
of 50
32.3 x 23.4 cm (12¾ x 9¼ in)
Exhibited:
Modernity : British Colour Linocuts of the 1920's and
1930's, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, 21 November
1999- 16 January 2000.
Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914-1939, Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston, 30 January - 1st June 2008; Met-
ropolitan Museum of Fine Art, New York, 23 September
- 7 December 2008; Wolfsonian, Florida International
University, 29 November 2009 - 28 February 2010
The Linocut Art of Cyril Power, Osborne Samuel, 2008
Literature:
Stephen Coppel, Linocuts of the Machine Age , pub-
lished by Scolar Press, 1995, CEP18, p.99
Cyril Power Linocuts – The Complete Catalogue com-
piled and written by Philip Vann and published by Lund
Humphries and Osborne Samuel Ltd, Cat No 18, p.85
Price on Application
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Grosvenor School of Modern Art
CYRIL POWER (1872-1951)
Study for The Eight, c.1930
Pastel on paper
37 x 25 cm (14 ½ in x 9 ¾ in)
Accompanying pastel is sold with the
linocut of The Eight
