SKU: 9591
Frederick Austin
(1902 - 1990)
Woman Sleeping (Cunard Line), 1932
£9,500
Frederick Austin (1902 - 1990)
£3,300
Signed and dated in the plate
The original etching plate
6 7/8 x 5 3/4 in. (17.5 x 14.5 cm)
Size:
Height – 17.5cm
Width – 14.5cm
1 in stock
Literature: WW2 – War Pictures by British Artists, Edited by Sacha Llewellyn & Paul Liss, July 2016, cat 93, page 138.
This poignant wartime image carries the artists initials and the
dates ’39 and 45 within the plate, (on the sack and wooden bar of the
threshing machine). As such it it clearly has allegorical overtones.
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.
