Cyril Edward Power (British, 1872-1951) The Concerto Linocut, c.1935, printed in light yellow, orange and light blue, on buff oriental laid tissue, signed, titled and numbered 21/60 in pencil top left, also inscribed "The Concerto" CYRIL E. POWER in pencil lower left margin, 388 x 331mm (15 1/3 x 13in)(SH)
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Cyril Edward Power (British, 1872-1951)
The Concerto (Coppel CEP 43)
Linocut, c.1935, printed in light yellow, orange and light blue, on buff oriental laid tissue, signed, titled and numbered 21/60 in pencil top left, also inscribed "The Concerto" CYRIL E. POWER in pencil lower left margin, 388 x 331mm (15 1/3 x 13in)(SH)

Sold for £13,200 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • Inspired by a Henry Wood concert at Queen's Hall, Langham Place (later destroyed in the Blitz in 1941), this witty linocut drew the following comment from the Christian Science Monitor, 3 January 1936, p.11: 'Mr Cyril Power has himself inscribed a piece of music in which the curving tiers of seats represent the bars and the players the notes. The rhythm of the lines undoubtedly gives one the sense of sound translated pictorially.'

    'Linocuts of the Machine Age', Stephen Coppel, Scolar Press, 1995, page 103.

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