Sybil & Cyril by Jenny Uglow

Sybil & Cyril by Jenny Uglow

Author:Jenny Uglow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2021-04-15T00:00:00+00:00


So, skill had little to do with it? Well, the reviewer admitted, ‘some pleasurable effects can be got’ from monotypes, and Power, he thought, had ‘got them’, especially in Liverpool Street Station, My Fiddles, The Power House at Dusk and Gasometers. (The Times agreed that Power had greater command of colour.) But perhaps to their disappointment, the linocuts were still admired more and if the critics were lukewarm so was the buying public. Nan Kivell had set the price of the monotypes at five to seven guineas, more than double that of the linocuts. Very few of them sold. And that has been the case ever since,27 compared to the linos, which are always in demand. The form itself was part of the problem, as Power noted in a wry poem. Was a monotype an original or a multiple, a painting or a print?

They call it a print28

But it’s really a painting

It gives critics no clue

So they look merely blue

and stutter & squint

and call it a print.



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