To
lighten dark days
This
Winter catalogue (from 2008) comprises a
selection of artists’ prints produced between
c1519 and 2006.
Some
of the highlights include a rare panoramic woodcut,
the third from the sequence of ten showing The
procession of Suleyman the Magnificent through
the Hippodrome, by Pieter Coecke van Aelst
I, the father-in-law of Pieter Brueghel the Elder;
and a stunning matched ‘pair’ of first
states of The Four Elements and The
Five Senses, engraved by his step-son Jacob
Matham, to the designs of Goltzius, and published
by Goltzius.
There
is a fine group of studies of rural characters,
rarely encountered, etched by Sir George Clausen;
and some good urban architectural views, among
which, in addition to black and white etchings
and drypoints by Griggs, Fitton, Howarth, Rushbury &c.
is a magnificent painterly colour woodcut of Venice,
printed in oil colours, by the Scots artist Charles
Mackie and a Japanese water-based colour woodcut
of Venice by Urushibara. Marines too are represented,
with works by Wyllie and others.
 A
scattering of portraits includes one of the woodcut
versions of Dürer’s Emperor
Maximilian I, portraits of British printmakers Muirhead
Bone, Stanley Anderson (etched variously
by both Malcolm Osborne and Francis Dodd) and Ian
Fleming, etched by himself; and a study of
the ballet dancer Vanda Evina in Laura Knight’s
master print Powder and Paint.
Among several continental figure studies are the
delightful La Donna allo Specchio (Woman
at the Mirror) by Boldini, one of only two known
definitive impressions of the total of only four,
probably a study of Berthe, Boldini’s first
model in Paris and his mistress, pinning her hat
on in front of a mirror. Also Anders Zorn’s The
new Maid, standing a little apprehensively
with her brush and dust pan.
An
interesting and diverse miscellany to divert
and bring joy on dark Winter’s
days.
Published
winter 2008
48 pages, 117 items included, with 123 black and
white illustrations and two in colour on the back
cover.
(UK
Price: £7,
International orders: £10)
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