| Title: |
Poissons (Fish) |
| Artist: |
Gross, Anthony (Dulwich, London, 1905 - Le Boulve, France, 1984) |
| Date: |
1951 |
| Medium: |
Original Etching & Engraving |
| Publisher: |
La Guilde Internationale de la Gravure, Geneva |
| 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' 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' Jeu de
Paume. |
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Anthony Gross' post war 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.
Relatedly, the physical immediacy of engraving began to dominate over
etching techniques. His prints from this period 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 Gross' 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. |
| Raisonne: |
Robin Herdman, The Prints of Anthony Gross, Aldershot, Hampshire, Scolar Press, 1991. |
| Edition: |
Catalogue #51-04. First state of two. Herdman notes that
Poissons was commissioned and published by the Guilde Internationale
de la Gravure, Geneva, in 1951 in a numbered edition of 200. Gross later
made a small second state of 60 impressions which he numbered in Roman
numerals. For the second state a few small fishes were added. The artist
then canceled the plate. |
| Provenance: |
This impression of Poissons (Fish) was formerly in the collection
of the Associated American Artists of New York. The A.A.A. was a major publisher
of contemporary American and International graphic art from the mid 1930's
through the 1970's. From 1964 to 1966, Gross was the Visiting Professor
at the Minneapolis School of Art and at this time (1964) the A.A.A. launched
a major exhibition entitled, "Anthony Gross: A Retrospective Covering
Thirty Years of Etching." It is likely, therefore, that this impression
of Poissons was included in the Associated American Artists exhibition. |
| Size: |
9 3/4 X 13 1/2 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.) |
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Matted with 100% Archival Materials |
| Condition: |
Printed upon thick hand-made Arches paper and with full
deckled margins as published in 1951 in the limited edition of 200 impressions.
Signed by Anthony Gross in the plate (lower left corner) and pencil signed,
titled and numbered, 167/200, by him along the lower plate-mark. Also,
in the extreme lower left margin of the paper the impressed publisher's
seal (G.G. in a circle - 'Guilde Gravure') is evident. Slight foxing exists
in the outer margins (well removed from the actual etching) else a finely
printed impression and in excellent condition throughout. Poissons
represents a superb, original example of the famous art of Anthony Gross. |
| Price: |
Sold - The price is no longer available. |
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