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Bridgeman now representing Cyril Power linocut prints
London based Bridgeman Art Library, a specialty library featuring fine art, history and culture related images, has announced that it now represents the estate of Cyril Power. Cyril Edward Power (1872–1951) was an English artist best known for his linocut prints and for co-founding The Grosvenor School Of Modern Art in London in 1925. “We are hugely excited to have been given the opportunity to license the highly creative and dynamic linocut prints of Cyril Power which we believe will be hugely popular for licensing, spreading the importance of his work which has been largely hidden till now,” stated Adrian Gibbs Collections Manager at Bridgeman.
The linocut print is a relief print made from linoleum fastened to a wooden block. It was introduced by the German Expressionists and was promoted as a non-elitist, widely comprehensive new art form, whose figurative, semi-abstract language was one of radical simplification. In linocut prints made in a period of just over a decade, Power explored aspects of society around him in an authentically avant-garde spirit, which can be appreciated for their dynamism and decorative design nearly a century on.
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