Sybil Andrews, CPE (British/Canadian, 1898-1993) Speedway Linocut printed in raw sienna, venetian red, permanent blue, Chinese blue, 1934, on cream oriental laid, signed, dated and numbered /60 in pencil, with margins, 326 x 233mm (12 3/4 x 9 1/8in)(B)
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Sybil Andrews, CPE (British/Canadian, 1898-1993) Speedway Linocut printed in raw sienna, Venetian red, permanent blue, Chinese blue, 1934, a good impression, on cream oriental laid, signed, dated and numbered 24/60 in pencil, with margins, 326 x 233mm (12 3/4 x 9 1/8in)(B)
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Sybil Andrews, CPE (British/Canadian, 1898-1993)
Speedway (Coppel SA 29)
Linocut printed in raw sienna, Venetian red, permanent blue, Chinese blue, 1934, a good impression, on cream oriental laid, signed, dated and numbered 24/60 in pencil, with margins, 326 x 233mm (12 3/4 x 9 1/8in)(B)

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  • 'Speedway' reveals a futuristic related preoccupation with speed and the machine. In structurally bold and dramatic simplicity, "Andrews fuses man and motorcycle in three repeating forms that move diagonally across the sheet. [...]The hard-edged, machine-like figures descend from Vorticism's extreme automatons."
    For 'Speedway', Andrews carved four distinct blocks for each of the compositional colours raw sienna, Venetian red, permanent blue, Chinese blue. The image is gradually built up by the overlay of successive bocks, each providing broad areas of colour and detail. The blocks reveal the abbreviated forms that give rise to boldly abstract overlapping patterns of considerable complexity and variety of colour tones.
    Samantha Rippner, "Speed and Movement", in British Prints from the Machine Age: Rhythms of Modern Life 1914-1939, ed. Clifford S. Ackley (London: Thames & Hudson, 2008), 78.
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