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Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time

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The artists Sybil Andrews and Cyril Power made monotypes in the early 1930s when no one in Britain was interested in the genre.

Very few of their daring experiments survive, though there is a fine example by Power in the British Museum, La Coupée, Sark, together with a less successful print by Andrews, Woman of Benin.

A monotype is a ‘singleton’, a print reproduced only once. The artist paints onto a zinc plate

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