Self-portrait, The Artist Standing, 1925

£435

SKU: 8519

Signed in pencil, titled and dated to reverse

Etching, numbered 46/75

Size:
Height – 37.5cm
Width – 28.6cm

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DESCRIPTION

Provenance:
Private collection

Presentation:
folio

Literature: Llewellyn, Sacha, and Paul Liss. Portrait of an Artist. Liss Llewellyn, 2021, p.266.

This etching was produced in an edition of 75.

Literature: H. Granville Fell Catalogue No 8 (F.8)

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THE ARTIST

Joseph

Simpson

1879 - 1939

Painter, illustrator and printmaker who was born and educated in Carlisle and who studied at the Glasgow School of Art, before moving to London in 1905.

He in initially designed posters and was soon befriended and encouraged by Frank Brangwyn.

Simpson exhibited at the Baillie Gallery, Brook Street Art Gallery, Fitzwilliam Museum, GI, ISSPG, Walker Art Gallery, Leicester Galleries, London Salon, RBA who elected him a member in 1908, RSA and RSW.

He was an Official War Artist with the RAF in World War I.

Works by Simpson are in the collections of the Ashmolean Museum, Hunterian, IWM, Scottish National Portrait Gallery and Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery.

Bibliography:
The Etched Work of Joseph Simpson by H. Granville Fell. Published by J.M. Dent and Sons, London, 1932

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