SKU: 11106
Robert Austin
(1895 - 1973)
The Angelus, 1922, original copper plate
£4,400
Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
£320
Size:
Height – 22.8cm
Width – 19.2cm
6 in stock
Literature: Fine Art Society 2001 Drawings and Prints by Robert Austin – with a Complete Catalogue of His Prints. London 2001
Noel Edwards was married to the Dean of Canterbury. She was also a former pupil of Austin’s in the engraving School at the Royal College of Art.
This is the 11th and final state of Austin’s celebrated print. Copies
(before cancellation) are in the museum collections of the Hunterian
(Glasgow) and Ashmoleon (Oxford).
Printmaker and draughtsman, born in Leicester. He studied at the School of Art there and at the Royal College of Art, 1914-16 and 1919-22, winning the Rome Scholarship for engraving in the latter year. He taught engraving at the Royal College of Art, 1927-44, becoming Professor in the Department of Graphic Design, 1948-55. Showed with RWS, of which he was a member and President; RE, of which he was a member; and the RA, to which he was elected in 1949. Austin was a meticulous craftsman-engraver and a vigorous draughtsman, as his series of drawings of Women’s Auxiliary Air Force and ballooning activities done during World War II shows. The Tate Gallery holds his work.
The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, organised an exhibition of his work in 1980.
More recently he was the subject of two shows at the Fine Art Society plc (2001 and 2002), the latter organised in conjunction with Liss Fine Art Ltd.
