| Title: |
Valentine's Fortune |
| Artist: |
Gross, Anthony (Dulwich, London, 1905 - Le Boulve, France,
1984) |
| Date: |
1930 (Second and final Edition: 1968) |
| Medium: |
Original Etching on Zinc |
| Publisher: |
London Graphic Art Associates |
| Note: |
Anthony Gross: One of England's most famous artists
of the twentieth century, Anthony Gross achieved international recognition
for his etchings, engravings and paintings. His graphic oeuvre consists
of almost four hundred catalogued prints, created from 1920 to 1984. |
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Anthony Gross's formal artistic education began in 1923
when he entered the Slade School, under Professor Henry Tonks. Also at
this time he studied etching techniques under W. P. Robins. Later that
year, Gross moved to Paris to study engraving under Charles Waltner at
the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. At this time he also created and published over
sixteen etchings (most dealing with subjects in Normandy) which were highly
received in both France and England. In 1926 Gross completed his education
by studying printing techniques under Joseph Hecht, in Paris. There he
met and befriended a fellow British student, Stanley William Hayter. |
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By 1930 the art of Anthony Gross was frequently exhibited
throughout Europe and America. In 1933 he became a full member of La Jeune
Gravure Contemporaine and exhibited with this Society for the remainder
of his life. In 1941 Gross was appointed an Official War Artist, along
with Edward Ardizzone and Edward Bawden. During the remainder of the war,
he painted the North Africa Campaign, the Normandy Invasion, the Liberation
of France and the final campaign through Germany. His war art was the
subject of 1946 exhibitions at London's Tate Gallery and Paris's Jeu de
Paume. |
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Until about 1926 Anthony Gross's etchings were firmly in the traditional
British school. After that date, however, his graphic art moved towards
his own unique investigations. He now completely worked from life, making
the spontaneity and tension of this approach a vital component of his
art. His prints from the 1930's are now acknowledged as modern masterworks. |
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Gross was elected the first President of the Printmaker's
Council in 1965. In 1979 he became an Associate of the Royal Academy and
was appointed Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers.
The following year he was elected a Royal Academician. Public Museums
that today house examples of Anthony Gross's original etchings and engravings
include, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum, London,
the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa,
the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Cabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe, Rome,
the Louvre, Paris, the Smithsonian Institute and the National Gallery
of Art, Washington, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern
Art, New York and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. |
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Valentine's Fortune dates from 1930. Valentine (seated
in the foreground) was the wife of the Russian painter Yuri Annenkoff
(1889-1974). He is probably the wonderfully expressive man seated in the
background. They were friends and neighbours of Anthony Gross when he
lived at the Hameau Boileau. In 1930 a first edition was struck with forty
signed and numbered impressions taken from the zinc plate. In 1968 the
second edition appeared and was published by the London Graphic Art Associates.
For this the second state, some corrosion was removed from the plate and
a few lines were also erased by Gross to the right. This impression hails
from the second edition which was published in seventy-five signed and
numbered impressions. After this second edition the plate was canceled.
Thus only 115 impressions (combined) of this masterpiece were printed. |
| Raisonne: |
Robin Herdman, The Prints of Anthony Gross, Aldershot,
Hampshire, Scolar Press, 1991. |
| Edition: |
Catalogue #3010. Second State of Two, as published
in the Limited edition of seventy five impressions, numbered 65/75. |
| Size: |
12 1/4 X 9 1/4 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.) |
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Framed and Matted with 100% Archival Materials |
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View larger Framed Image |
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| Condition: |
Printed upon hand-made rag paper and with full, deckled
margins as published in London in 1968. Signed, titled and numbered, '65
/ 75', by the artist in pencil along the lower plate-mark. Containing
very faint traces of matte burning in the outer margins else a finely
printed impression and in excellent condition throughout. This original
impression of Valentine's Fortune represents a superb example of
the famous British art of Anthony Gross. |
| Price: |
Sold - The price is no longer available. |
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