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Power’s linocut print of a biplane ‘dog fight’ recalls his First World War service in the Royal Flying Corps when he supervised aircraft repairs at Lympne aerodrome, Kent. He developed the print in four lino-block colour separations of red, light blue, grey and dark blue, from a wartime sketch. Formerly an architect, after his service Power retrained as an artist at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art (alongside Sybil Andrews) where his tutor Claude Flight led a modernist movement in linocut printing. Vorticism and Futurism were influential to the group’s celebration of speed in the machine age. Impressions of Air Raid were first sold at the Redfern Gallery in the exhibition 'Colour Prints' (25 June to 18 July 1936, cat. no. 15). Although inscribed as number '4’ of an edition of ‘60’, few impressions of the print are known to exist today - presumably the lino-blocks deteriorated before the edition was fully reached.
Title
Air Raid
Date
c.1935
Medium
linocut
Accession number
FA00972
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