Woman Sleeping (Cunard Line), 1932

Frederick Austin (1902 - 1990)

Woman Sleeping (Cunard Line), 1932

£790

SKU: 9591

Etching, 2nd state, inscribed in pencil. Paper size: 11 3/4 x 12 1/2 in. (30 x 34.5 cm)

Size:
Height – 21cm
Width – 26cm

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DESCRIPTION

Provenance:
Private collection

Presentation:
framed

Literature:
Llewellyn, Sacha, and Paul Liss. Portrait of an Artist. Liss Llewellyn, 2021, p.124.

A version of the same etching printed posthumous from the original plate, on ARCHES (250 g/m¬≤) paper is also available..

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.

Phyllis Austin with one of the portraits depicting herself

We are grateful to Portia Birch for assistance.

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THE ARTIST

Frederick

Austin

1902 - 1990

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.