New York, An Abstraction - CHRISTOPHER R.W. NEVINSON

Medium: drypoint

CHRISTOPHER R.W. NEVINSON
British, (1889-1946))

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.      SOLD

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