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OROVIDA CAMILLE PISSARRO
Epping 1893 – 1968 London
Daughter of Lucien Pissarro and granddaughter of the Impressionist painter,
Camille Pissarro, Orovida learnt to etch on her grandfather’s press in Eragny.
Wild animals, observed at London Zoo, were the subject of a number of her etchings.
She was obviously taken with the decorative possibilities of the repeated parallel stripes of the zebras.
Zebra and Foal
Ashmolean (Nicholson Supplement)
82
200 x 175 mm
Original etching, 1938.
Signed in pencil, dated and numbered.
Edition of 50.
On Arches watermarked laid paper.
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EDWARD BOUVERIE HOYTON
Lewisham 1900 – 1988 Newlyn
A contemporary student of Graham Sutherland, Paul Drury
and William Larkin at the Goldsmiths College in the early 1920’s,
Hoyton won the Prix de Rome in 1926.
In 1934 Hoyton was employed as Lecturer in Engraving at Leeds
School of Art and in 1941 settled in Cornwall, when he was appointed
Principal of Penzance School of Art.
In Cornwall during the Second World War he knew Naum Gabo and
William Nicholson and Hoyton’s etchings of this period reflect this
interaction in their larger scale, and surreal and abstract tendencies.
Bather
170 x 278 mm
Drypoint, c1945.
An unsigned proof.
On stiff textured wove paper.
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AMY F GREEN S.W.A.
A Reading artist exhibiting from 1936
A watercolour painter of landscapes and a printmaker, Amy Green was a member of the Society of Women Artists and exhibited with the society regularly from 1938 till 1973, with hiatus during the War.
Already before the outbreak of the Second World War she had a one woman show at the London Bond Street Cooling Galleries.
In 1938 she produced a number of small hand-coloured wood engravings for use as greetings cards.
The two images offered here are samples. Other similar subjects are available.
Patience
78 x 52 mm
Hand-coloured wood engraving, 1938.
On trimmed thin japan mounted by the artist onto stout textured wove paper.
£50
A penny to spend
90 x 65 mm
Hand-coloured wood engraving, 1938.
On trimmed thin japan mounted by the artist onto stout textured wove paper.
£50
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FRANK HILL
Wandsworth 1881 -1981
A watercolour painter, designer and etcher, Hill exhibited at the annual Salons of the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and the Manchester Art Gallery, from 1926.
The Sprinter
150 x 213 mm
Etching & drypoint, c1935.
Signed in pencil and annotated “own proof”.
Proof aside from the formal edition of 20.
On thin fibrous cream laid paper.
Slight foxing, mainly at the sheet edges.
£200
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THEODORE ROUSSEL
Lorient, Brittany 1847 – 1926 St Leonards-on-Sea
Roussel came to England in 1877 to study English painting of the 18th & early 19th centuries and decided to stay permanently in London. He met his wife and when they married in 1879 they settled in Chelsea.
In 1885 he met Whistler and they became close friends.
Roussel had briefly experimented with etching when he was in France and abandoned the technique. Whistler persuaded him to take it up again.
The Terrace, Monte Carlo,
End of the Afternoon, April 1905
Hausberg 62 iv/iv
153 x 240 mm
Drypoint, 1905-06.
Signed in pencil.
Printed by the artist, probably in the 1920’s.
One of about 20 impressions in the final state (there were a total of 30 across the four states).
On japan, a little cockled and time-stained.
£600
Based on drawings made in Monte Carlo on holiday in 1905.
Roussel made a preliminary drypoint study, in reverse to the final print.
These and one other Monte Carlo view are his only subjects from outside England.
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