Lill Tschudi
Switzerland, b.1911, d.2004
Kiosk In Paris
- 1933
- Linocut
- Presented by Mr Rex Nan Kivell, 1953
- 255 x 285mm
- 94/235
Location: Monica Richards Gallery
Tags: decision making, kiosks, magazines (periodicals), newspapers, people (agents), stripes, trade (function), words
Although Lill Tschudi left England for Europe in 1931 she remained close friends with many of the linocut artists, particularly Claude Flight and his partner Edith Lawrence. She continued to exhibit linocuts in England throughout the 1930s, and returned often to visit Flight and other artists. Flight and Lawrence also visited Tschudi in 1933, making several linocuts of the area, and the three artists held an exhibition of their linocuts at Montreux in Switzerland later that year.
(One O'Clock Jump: British Linocuts from the Jazz Age, 7 December 2024 - 11 May 2025)
Exhibition History
Leaving for Work, 2 October 2021 – 2 October 2022
Against a lively configuration of overlapping segments of grey, blue and red, two unhurried potential customers survey the latest offerings at a Parisian newsagent’s stall. The seated silhouetted figure in the background awaits their choice. Swiss artist Lill Tschudi made this arresting linocut print in 1933 in Paris, where she had moved to study with Futurist painter Gino Severini and Cubist painters André Lhote and Fernand Leger. Tschudi first learned the technique at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art. She remained prolific, making sixty-five linocut prints between 1930 and 1939, exhibiting most of them initially in London.