PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ARTHUR KNYVETT-LEE (LOTS 10, 12, 16 & 78) EDITH LAWRENCE (1890-1973) August signed and numbered in pencil Edith Lawrence 4/80 (lower right) linocut on buff oriental laid tissue paper image: 30.2 12.7 cm (12 x 5 in) sheet: 37.5 x 15.5 cm (14 3/4 x 6 1/4 in) Executed circa 1930. PROVENANCE: with The Redfern Gallery, by July 1930, where acquired by Arthur Knyvett-Lee and by descent August is a beautiful and rare early example of Lawrence’s linocuts. The dynamic shapes and colours bear Cubist and Futurist influence and showcase the artist’s involvement in exploring linoleum cut as a preferred medium. In 1923 Arthur Knyvett-Lee co-founded the Redfern Gallery with Anthony Maxtone-Graham as an artists' collective. In the late twenties and throughout the 1930s the gallery held a number of exhibitions dedicated to British linocuts. Edith Lawrence’s works were exhibited alongside the ones of her partner and lifelong companion Claude Flight. The couple actively explored and promoted linoleum cut and ran an interior design business together. Flight’s leading role as a teacher at the Grosvenor School of Art is widely acclaimed, as is the work of his students Lil Tschudi, Cyril Power, Eileen Mayo and Sybil Andrews. Lawrence, on the other hand is famed for her textile designs.