CELEBRATION
2006 A year of Anniversaries
2006 is my 20th year in business as a print-dealer and
sees the issue in this publication of my 40th catalogue.
The year should have been marked by the creation of the
promised/threatened website but that Summer job got overtaken
by building an extension (and much related tea-making).
The resulting extra space for work and storage is a personal
celebration.
Every
calendar year is full of anniversaries (last year it
was 200 years since the death of Samuel Palmer and
next year it will be 400 years since Wenceslas Hollar
was born) – but we are normally only, or mostly,
aware of those that relate to us personally, especially
when they involve round numbers ending in ‘0’.
However, two particular anniversaries have been celebrated
world-wide in 2006, the 250th birthday of Mozart, and
more specifically relevant to printmaking, the 400th
anniversary of the birth of Rembrandt.
The British artist Frank Brangwyn has also been celebrated
this year in various exhibitions on the 50th anniversary
of his death.
In addition to an early Rembrandt etching, the catalogue
includes several prints by Brangwyn, as well as by a
number of other artists whose anniversaries by coincidence
also fall in 2006.
The
catalogue also includes quite a number of new acquisitions
which are not necessarily connected to any anniversary.
The
following list of anniversaries associated with printmakers
highlights those artists represented in the catalogue.
I have handled work by all the artists listed and details
of current examples in general stock can be supplied
on request.
500 years since the birth of Andrea Mantegna (1506)
400 years since the birth of Rembrandt (1606)
200 years since the death of George Stubbs (1806)
200 years since the death of Fragonard
150 years since the birth of Otto Bacher (1856)
150 years since the birth of Henri Edmond Cross
100 years since the death of Cézanne (1906)
100 years since the death of Eugèene Carrière
100 years since the death of Richard Chattock
100 years since the birth of Stanley Badmin
100 years since the birth of Leonard Brammer
100 years since the birth of Ian Fleming
100 years since the birth of Ursula Fookes
50 years since the death of Frank Brangwyn (1956)
50 years since the death of Reginald Bush
50 years since the death of James Dowd
50 years since the death of Norman Hirst
50 years since the death of Luigi Kasimir
50 years since the death of Elizabeth Keith
50 years since the death of Rowland Langmaid
50 years since the death of Marie Laurencin
50 years since the death of Nathaniel Sparks
50 years since the death of William Washington
50 years since the death of Erich Wolfsfeld
Published
2006
48 pages, 128 items described and illustrated in black and white, with four in
colour on the back cover.
(UK
Price: £7, International orders: £10)
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