Derrick Greaves - Flower and Shadow

Flower and Shadow

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Title:	Flower and Shadow
Artist:	Greaves, Derrick (Sheffield, England, Born, 1927)
Date:	1970
Medium:	Original Silk-Screen
Note:	Derrick Greaves: A major twentieth century British painter and printmaker, Derrick Greaves studied at the Royal College of Art from 1948 to 1952. He was then awarded the Abbey Major Scholarship to complete his education in Italy, 1952 - 1954. During the 1960's Greaves taught at both the Maidstone College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools. From 1983 to 1991he also served as the Head of Printmaking at the Norwich School of Art.
	Derrick Greaves's first one man exhibition of art took place in 1953 at the Beaux Arts Gallery, London. Since that time his paintings and prints have been the subject of showings at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, the Galliria La Citta, Verona, Italy, the Arts Council Gallery, Belfast, David Hendrick's Gallery, Dublin, the Cranfield Institute of Technology and at Gallerie Daniel Wahrenberger, Zurich, Switzerland. In 1980 a major exhibition was held at the Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, entitled, 'Derrick Greaves: Retrospective Exhibition of Prints, 1969 - 1980'.
	Derrick Greaves has also participated in important group exhibitions such as, the Venice Biennale (1956), the Carnegie International Exhibition, Pittsburgh (1964), British Painting, Royal Academy, London (1977, 1989 & 1990), the Royal College of Art and the Tate Gallery (1987). His paintings and original prints are now included in the following public collections; Arts Council of Great Britain, Bank of Ireland, Dublin, the British Museum, the Chantrey Bequest, Johannesburg Public Gallery, South Africa, the New York Public Library, the North Wales Association of Arts, Northwestern University, Chicago, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
	As an original printmaker, Derrick Greaves has produced large, individual silkscreens and etchings (such as this example) and original graphic works for fine, illustrated books. In this latter category he has illustrated such books as Also (1972), The Songs of Bilitis (1977), The Sower as Self-Portrait, Homage to Van Gogh (1986) and Sanskrit Love Poems (1987). Flower and Shadow belongs to a very large portfolio of ten silkscreens by Greaves which was published in London in 1970 under the title of Ten Flower Pieces. Each silkscreen was printed in a limited edition of fifty impressions.
Provenance:	From the collection of Roger Trlak and bearing his inventory number, 'T-880', on the verso. Roger Trlak (1934-1975) established the commercial art company of Martin-Trlak in Chicago. In 1972 he also opened the RST Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona where he exhibited not only his own large collection of mostly contemporary art but also held important exhibitions of many modern artists. These Included such major American and international printmakers as Joseph Hirsch, Luigi Lucioni, Jacob Landau, Birgit Skiold, Derrick Greaves and Paul Wunderlich. Among Trlak's closest friends in the arts community were Raphael Soyer, Ivan Albright and Hans Burkhardt. Contemporary prints and paintings were constantly exhibited at the RST Gallery until it was closed in 1975 due to Trlak's untimely death.
Edition:	Limited edition of fifty impressions, numbered 49/50.
Size:	22 7/8 X 31 1/8 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed upon, hand-made, laid paper and with full margins as published in London the limited edition of 50 signed impressions. A strongly printed full colour impression and in excellent condition throughout. Signed, dated and numbered, '49/50' by Greaves in pencil under the image. This large, original silkscreen stands as a fine example of the important English art of Derrick Greaves.
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