An Inexperienced Witch
Lithograph, 1919, Black 61, edition 25. 23 x 16 1/8 in. Signed in pencil, lower right. Inscribed in ink, lower left, "To Dodie Smith elephants never..." and on the verso in ink, "Miss Dodie Smith." This is a very fine, dramatic impression printed on sturdy Japanese paper. The margins are full. The condition is very good apart from a few splashes of watercolor largely in the lower margin, slight foxing here and there and other minor defects. Dodie Smith (1896-1990) was a British writer and the author of "The Hundred and One Dalmatians." Provenance: Gordon Cooke, London (See Summer Catalogue 1992, # 111.)
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Making the Engine
Lithograph, 1917, Black 16, edition 200 signed and 100 unsigned impressions. 16 7/8 x 11 7/8 in. Signed, dated and numbered in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is also fine. This powerful image was part of a series of six prints called Britain's Efforts and Ideals: Making Aircraft. This was first exhibited at the Fine Art Society, London and received a very positive response. This series was Nevinson's first commission upon being appointed an official war artist in 1917.
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New York, An Abstraction
Drypoint, 1921, Black 77, Leicester Galleries 42; from a very small edition. 5 x 3 1/2 in. Signed in pencil and titled in pencil on the verso at the bottom. This is a fine impression printed on off-white laid paper bearing the watermark ENGLAND. The margins are full and the condition is fine apart from a faint suggestion of light toning within an earlier mat opening. One impression is located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Here we quote their comments from the Met's website entry: "In New York: An Abstraction", Nevinson effects a forward-facing view from a train rapidly moving through a valley of skyscrapers and tenement buildings as if it were cutting through the city itself. Shafts of light and shadows create multiple planes, which Nevinson compresses into a narrow, claustrophobic space. Nevinson omits the train itself, but creates the impression that the viewer is on a rollercoaster as it navigates what is likely part of the Third Avenue El, the elevated train." Nevinson also produced a 1920 oil painting of this same subject which is now in the Tate Gallery, London. Ex-collection: Osborne Samuel, London.
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Summer
Drypoint and etching, 1924-27, Black 111, edition unknown. 9 15/16 x 13 7/8 in. Signed in pencil, lower right. This is a superb impression of this uncommon print. Printed on a cream laid paper with full margins, the condition of this work is fine. There's just a small amount of toning and a tiny stain in the upper left corner of the margin, well away from the image. Decidely impressionist in nature, this unusual work of a man and woman relaxing in a small boat, hidden by sunlight and the tree leaves, was done while the artist was in Paris.
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