Gwen Raverat

A Figure Study

Gwen Raverat's original wood engraving, A Figure Study is printed upon tissue thin paper resembling chine colle and with full margins as published around 1930. It is signed in pencil by the artist. A Figure Study may possibly be connected to a 1931 commission where the British artist designed costumes and scenery for Ralph Vaughn Williams's ballet, 'Job, A Masque for Dancing'. This engraving is a fine, original example of the art of Gwen Raverat, one of England's greatest wood engravers.

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Title:	A Figure Study
Artist:	Raverat, Gwendolen Mary 'Gwen Raverat' (Cambridge, England, 1885 - 1957)
Date:	c. 1930
Medium:	Original Wood Engraving
Note:	Gwendolen Mary Raverat 'Gwen Raverat': During the 1930's British wood engraving reached perhaps its finest period. Such masters as Gordon Craig, Robert Gibbings, Arthur Eric Gill, Gertrude Hermes, Paul Nash, and Leon Underwood produced many masterworks within this medium. With her many fine figure studies and landscape engravings, Gwen Raverat clearly belongs to this heralded group. Born in Cambridge, Gwen Raverat was the daughter of Sir George Darwin and the granddaughter of Charles Darwin. She studied painting in London at the Slade School of Art (1909-1911) under Henry Tonks, Fred Brown and Philip Wilson Steer. She then went to Paris to study at the Sorbonne where she met and married Jacques Pierre Raverat, a fellow student.
	Gwen Raverat lived and worked in both France and Italy until her husband's death in 1925. She then returned to Cambridge where she illustrated many fine books, including A Sentimental Journey (1932) and Countess Kate (1948). Gwen Raverat was a founding member of the Society of Wood Engravers (1920) and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers (1934). Her wood engravings are today included in many major collections, including that of the British Museum, London.
	Despite the fact that Gwen Raverat was a close friend of Eric Gill and other important British engravers, her style of art was less decorative and more Impressionistic than other English artists. In many of her engravings she was more akin to the French school, particularly the wood engravings of Auguste Lepere. She was also one of the first British engravers to promote white line engraving.
	A Figure Study may possibly be connected to a 1931 Gwen Raverat commission where she designed costumes and scenery for Ralph Vaughn Williams's ballet, 'Job, A Masque for Dancing'. In its simplicity of line and design it is a classic delineation of gesture and emotion.
Size:	4 1/4 X 3 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Framed and Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed upon tissue thin paper resembling chine colle and with full margins. Signed in pencil along the lower margin twice (once verso and once recto) by Raverat. A fine, deeply printed impression and in excellent condition throughout. This original wood engraving represents a fine example of the art of Gwen Raverat, one of England's greatest wood engravers.
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