SKU: 9591
Frederick Austin
(1902 - 1990)
Woman Sleeping (Cunard Line), 1932
£9,500
Frederick Austin (1902 - 1990)
£360
Etching plate: 8 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. (21 x 26 cm) print: 11 3/4 x 12 1/2 in. (30 x 32 cm)
Size:
Height – 21cm
Width – 26cm
14 in stock
A limited edition of 8 impressions, printed on ARCHES (250 g/m²) paper, were produced in 2008 by David Maes.
This etching was created on the return from the Austin’s honeymoon. The newly-wed Phyllis Austin (Kneafcy), a Canadian Opera singer, is shown sleeping in the cabin of the Cunard ship on which they sailed from Canada in 1932. A box of her favourite Laura Secord Candies can be seen on the bedside table.
Phylis Austin with one of the portraits depicting herself
We are grateful to Portia Birch for assistance.
Printmaker and painter, born in Leicester, brother of the artist Robert Sargent Austin. He studied at Leicester School of Art and at Royal College of Art under Malcolm Osborne, William Rothenstein and Randolph Schwabe, 1924-7. Prix de Rome for engraving won in 1927. Exhibited RA, RE of which he was a member, and extensively abroad. British Museum, Graves Art Gallery in Sheffield and several foreign collections hold his work. Lived in London.
