Hel Uncumber before two domestic linocuts at Kettle's Yard

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Linder Sterling's Hel Uncumber expresses unapologetic feminine power distilled through a vaguely phallic, black glass alembic wrapped by hirsute and sensual hair. Here ironically displayed before the kitchenalia linocuts by Ben Nicholson created some 90 years earlier.

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Size: 7802px × 4876px
Location: Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK
Photo credit: © Sallye Wilkinson / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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