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Artist: Sir
William Nicholson
English (1872-1942)
Also known as Beggarstaff
along with James Pryde, Scottish (1866-1941) | | Plate:
NS.12 | | Title: Skating / December |
| Description: Condition
A. Original Lithograph plate from "An Almanach of Twelve Sports"
Published by William Heinemann, London 1898.
Presented in 16 x 20 in. acid
free, archival museum mat, with framing labels. Ready to frame. Shipped boxed
flat via Fedex.
Certificate of Authenticity.
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of Sale |
| Sheet Size: | 9 1/2 in x 12 1/4
in | | | 24 cm x 31 cm |
| | Price: $250.00 USD |
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Skating.
Over the ice she flies
Perfect and poised and
fair-
Stars in my true-love's eyes
Teach me to do and to dare!
Now will I fly as she flies...
Woe for the stars that misled!
Stars that
I saw in her eyes
Now do I see in my head!
by
Rudyard Kipling
from "An Almanach of Twelve Sports"
"William Nicholson’s woodcut images are perhaps the most revolutionary British
prints of their era. He changed the whole concept of the visual imagery of woodcut
as a medium. Dramatic and revolutionary in concept, the woodcuts that he made
for the "Almanach of Twelve Sports" commissioned from him by his publisher
Heinemann. Each is a work of the very greatest genius. The bold simplicity of
the form, using just touches of definition, and the reduction of the drawing to
a pattern of black and white are illustrations of that genius... The bold and
stylized black border all suggest the influence of a knowledge of Japanese prints,
works which were hardly known at all in England at that date except through those
shown at the Great Exhibition in Paris. Yet at this period Nicholson had had no
real contact with French art and could only have seen such Japanese prints through
illustrations in magazines. It is a measure of the individual genius of his inspiration
that he arrived at the expression of such sophisticated and revolutionary visual
forms at such a young and inexperienced age.
Nicholson’s woodcuts were
hand cut by him on the blocks. the first impressions were then hand-printed in
black ink onto sheets of thin India paper mounted onto stiff card backing sheets.
The prints were then coloured each by hand by him in water-colour. The prints
were signed in black ink on the backing sheets. Following these impressions the
image was transferred to a lithographic stone and the popular edition "Almanach
of Twelve Sports" printed, with lithographic colours and no signature"
(Weston) | |
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