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GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI
Mozzano
di Mestre 1720 – 1778 Rome
Rome’s
classical remains were of huge interest and
artistic appeal to Piranesi. After he published
his influential study of the antiquities
of Rome Le Antichità Romane,
in 1756, it was so admired in England that
Piranesi was elected an Honorary Fellow of
the Society of Antiquaries.
Veduta
del sotteraneo fondamento del Mausoleo Foundations
of the Mausoleum of Hadrian
Focillon 341
705 x 460 mm (plate); 750 x 512 mm (sheet)
Original etching, c1755.
One
of the plates of Le Antichità Romane. Probably from the first Paris
edition, published by Piranesi’s son c1805.
On laid paper with a French proprietary watermark.
A horizontal printing crease and a short repaired tear
at the centre right edge.
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The
Roman foundations of the present day Castel
Sant’Angelo
in Rome. This dramatic image with the ancient walls towering above
the artist makes clear Piranesi’s proto-romantic response to
Rome’s ancient architectural remains.
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GIOVANNI BOLDINI
Ferrara
1842 – 1931 Paris
Boldini
settled in Paris in 1871. As well as painting
the fashionable haut-monde, Boldini made
the portraits of several fellow artists,
including Helleu and Menzel, as well as Whistler,
who he also painted at the same date seated
upright on a chair, awake, as well as capturing
him in drypoint asleep on a sofa.
Boldini
only took up etching in middle life and did
not publish any of his plates; printing only
a few proofs.
After his death his widow employed
Eugène Delâtre to print small
editions before cancelling the plates.
Whistler
asleep
Prandi 24
197 x 295 mm
Original drypoint,
1897.
A rare early life-time proof.
Signed in pencil within the plate area.
A fine impression on thin laid paper with
narrow margins. Minimal foxing and faintly
mount-stained.
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The
widowed Whistler aged sixty-three. He and
his wife Beatrice had settled in Paris in
1890, moving to the rue de Bac in 1892, their
home for the following three years till Beatrice
became ill. She died in 1896.
At their famous
Sunday lunches, Whistler had entertained
artists from all round the world.
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GEORGES ROUAULT
Paris
1871 – 1958 Paris
In
1917 Ambroise Vollard set Rouault up in a
studio and became his sole agent. Vollard
(1866-1939) was born and grew up in the French
colony of Réunion in the Indian Ocean.
He settled in France in 1895 to study law
but abandoned this to become a leading art
dealer and publisher in Paris. He commissioned
several major series of prints from Rouault,
including the Réincarnations du Père
Ubu , initially conceived as a series of
100 plates but curtailed at 22. The accompanying
text was also illustrated with wood engravings
by Georges Aubert after Rouault.
Vollard
was obsessed by the character Ubu, created
in 1896 by Alfred Jarry. He published the
Almanach illustré du Père Ubu in 1901, himself contributing Ubu
Colonialist to it. When Jarry died in 1907 Vollard bought
the rights to the Ubu name and wrote a series
of titles extending the saga to indict the
war and French colonialism. These were amalgamated
in Réincarnations du Père Ubu .
Paysage
Tropical
Chapon-Rouault 20;
Plate 13 of Réincarnations du Père
Ubu
294 x 188 mm
Heliogravure, etching, soft-ground,
roulette and aquatint, 1928. The plate initialled
and dated.
Published by Vollard 1932 in Réincarnations
du Père Ubu. Total edition of c305.
On cream textured laid paper. Time-stained
on the reverse.
£750
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CAMILLE PISSARRO
St
Thomas, Danish Antilles 1830 – 1903
Paris
Pissarro
and his family returned to live in Pontoise,
about twenty miles north-west of Paris, in
1872, staying till 1884. The hilly landscape
there, and at nearby L’Hermitage,
supplied the subject of a large number of
paintings and also of some of his finest
etchings.
The period largely coincided with
the eight ‘Impressionist Exhibitions’ held
in Paris, 1874-1886, in each of which Pissarro
participated.
Paysage
en Long
Delteil 17 ii/ii
114 x 394 mm
Original
aquatint with etching, 1879. Stamped with
the artist’s
initials (Lugt 613e) and numbered in pencil
7/18.
From the only edition, printed by Porcaboeuf
for the artist’s son Rodo Pissarro
in 1923 (preceded by only 4 or 5 lifetime
proofs). On cream laid paper.
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This
stunning aquatint is exceptional amongst
Pissarro’s etchings both in its
wide panoramic format and literally in the
large dimension of its width. It is equally
original in its composition and spatial organisation,
with the clump of trees centre right brought
to the fore, enhanced by the looping curve
of the path, probably the rue de l’Hermitage,
on the right, effectively distancing the cottages
nestling at the foot of the Côte des
Boeufs .
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MYRA
K HUGHES A.R.E.
Born
in Ireland. Died
1918 in Hindhead, Surrey
Myra
Hughes was the daughter of Sir Frederick
Hughes of Rosslare Fort, County Wexford.
She studied at the Royal College of Art under
Frank Short & Constance
Pott.
Dunstanburgh
Castle
163 x 252 mm
Original drypoint, 1914.
Signed, dated and entitled.
A dedicated proof
to Frederick Dawtry Drewitt
From an old fellow
student with kind remembrances. M.K.Hughes
to Dr Drewitt.
On cream laid paper.
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Ex
collection Dr F D Drewitt. Drewitt attended
Sir Frank Short’s etching classes
at the Royal College of Art from about 1911.
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