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SYBIL ANDREWS (British/Canadian, 1898-1992) The Giant Cable 1931 linocut on oriental tissue laid on paper edition 10/50 signed and editioned upper left: Sybil Andrews/10/50 PROVENANCE: Private collection, Melbourne LITERATURE: Coppel, S., Claude Flight and His Followers: The Colour Linocut Movement Between the Wars, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1992, pp.18-23, cat. no. 6 Coppel, S., Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press in association with the National Gallery of Australia, 1995, pp. 110-111, cat. no. SA17 (illus.) OTHER NOTES: The proposed edition of the first state of The Giant Cable was 50, but only 30 impressions were eventually pulled. The blue sky was annulled from the final print and the second state was published under the title The New Cable in an edition of 60. Other examples of this work are in the collections of the Modern Museum of Art, New York and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia. Conservation notes are available on request.