Lot #21 - Claude Flight
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Auction House:Deutscher and Hackett
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Sale Name:Important Australian + International Art
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Sale Date:28 Aug 2019 ~ 7pm (AEST)
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Lot #:21
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Lot Description:Claude Flight
(1881 – 1955, British)
Descent From The Bus, c.1927
colour linocut; edition: 8/50
31.5 x 15.5 cm
signed and numbered lower right within image: CLAUDE FLIGHT 8/50
EXHIBITED: "Exhibition of Oils, Watercolours, Lino-Cuts and Sculpture by Claude Flight", The Redfern Gallery, London, 1927, cat. 32 (another example); "Exhibition of Lino-Cuts by Claude Flight, R.B.A", Albany Gallery, London, 1931, cat. 4 (another example, as ‘Descent from Omnibus’); "British Printmakers 1812 – 1940", Mathiesen Fine Art, London, December 1979 (another example); "Out of the Book and On to the Wall: The Relief Print", Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 20 February – October 1984 (another example); "The Grosvenor School. British Linocuts Between the Wars", Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 22 January – 20 March 1988; Cleveland Museum of Art, 9 August – 2 October 1988; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 22 October – 18 December 1988, cat. 20 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, p. 27); "Claude Flight and His Followers: The Colour Linocut Movement between the Wars", National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 18 April – 18 July 1993 and touring (another example); "British Modern Prints from the British Museum: from the Great War to the Grosvenor School", University of San Diego, San Diego, 10 February – 19 May 2017 (another example) -
Provenance:Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne (as ‘Design for a Window’); Ken and Joan Plomley Collection of Modernist Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above in July 1980
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References:Konody, P. G., "Observer", London, 19 June 1927, p. 14; Laver, J., ‘Recent Etching and Engraving’, "Artwork", London, vol. 3, no. 11, September – November 1927, p.151; Coppel, S., "Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School," Scolar Press, Aldershot, England, in association with the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995, cat. CF22, pl.7, pp. 78 (illus., another example)
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Notes:Other examples of this print are held in the collections of the British Museum, London and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
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Estimate:A$4,000 - 6,000
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Realised Price:
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Category:Art
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