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The
FRENCH CONNECTION
The
title of this catalogue was prompted initially by
the thirty-eight prints (over a third of the entire
catalogue) from a single, private, ‘francophile’ collection, formed some forty years ago, showing a predilection for topography.
The
rest of the catalogue includes other complementary
items with a French connection selected from recent
acquisitions or from current stock.
It
comprises prints either by French artists or British
artists working in France, or visiting France to
find motifs, trained in Paris or influenced by the
French; as my husband quipped - a sort of ‘empreinte ‘ cordiale.
R.P.
Bonington: Tour de Gros Horloge, Evreux. Original
lithograph, 1824.
Maurice
Utrillo: Le Cabaret du Lapin Agile, Montmartre.
Original
lithograph, 1927.
From
the album La Légende et la Vie d’Utrillo.
They
mirror the development of French printmaking from
17th century engraved portraits through early lithography,
especially in the prints made by Eugène Isabey and Richard Parkes Bonington for Baron Isador Taylor’s Voyages
Pittoresques et Romantiques dans l’Ancien France, to the later 19th century Etching Revival and beyond, in affordable works by good artists, though perhaps less well-known to a British audience today, such as Maxime Lalanne, Bracquemond and Jongkind, as well as by more ‘famous’ names
such as Whistler, Manet, Degas and Utrillo.
The
remainder of the catalogue is the usual Winter mix
of a little bit of everything, from Rembrandt to
works made this year.
Even
here French connections revealed themselves occasionally,
as for instance in the William Rothenstein lithograph
of William Butler Yeats; in
that Yeats died in France, as well as Rothenstein
spending four years in Paris from 1889.
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William
Rothenstein. On his
return to London an initial commission
from John Lane sparked a series of
lithographic portraits, including Rothenstein’s Liber
Juniorum. The
album of six lithographs was published
in 1898, probably in an edition of
only 50 and comprised portraits from
the new generation of emerging young
poets and authors, Beardsley, Beerbohm,
Binyon, Housman, Stephen Phillips and
Yeats.
 Portrait
of W. B. YEATS Original lithograph, 1898.
One of the six subjects of Rothenstein’s Liber
Juniorum. |
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Aged
seventeen and after a year at the Slade, Rothenstein
attended the Académie
Julian in Paris, and came into influential contact
with Degas, Fantin Latour, Toulouse-Lautrec and Whistler.
The
catalogue also includes an interesting group of wood
engravings by Paul Nash, Joan Hassall and Monica
Poole.
Published
December 2015
Quarto paperback; 48 pages; 98 illustrations
(20 in colour)
(Price
U.K. £12; International orders £18)
Prints
available
Prints from this catalogue are still
available.
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Artists
included in the catalogue:
-
Beurdeley J
- Blaker
M
- Bonington
R P
- Bossert
O R
- Boys
T S
- Bracquemond
F
- Butler
G E
- Cameron
D Y
- Clarke
J
- Clarke
J M
- Cort
C
- Cowern
R T (D)
- Crome
J
- Degas
E
- Denyer-Baker
B
- Drevet
P
- Dujardin
C
- Earthrowl
EG
- Edilinck
G
- Fitton
H
- Graham
G
- Hassall
J
- Hollar
W
- Holloway
E
- Homan
R
- Isabey
E
- Jongkind
J B
- Jouvenet
J
- Lalanne
M
- Lawson
F
- Lepère A
- Madsen
J C
- Manet
E
- Marquet
A
- Menpes
M
- Meryon
C
- Nash
P
- Poole
M
- Pourbus
F
- Prout
S
- Rembrandt
- Rigaud
H
- Rothenstein
W
- Rushbury
H
- Strang
I
- Tanner
R
- Trouvain
A
- Utrillo
M
- Vos
M de
- Webb
J
- Whistler
J M
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