SKU: 9591
Frederick Austin
(1902 - 1990)
Woman Sleeping (Cunard Line), 1932
£9,500
Frederick Austin (1902 - 1990)
£3,750
Size:
Height – 16cm
Width – 10cm
1 in stock
Literature: Llewellyn, Sacha, and Paul Liss. Portrait of an Artist. Liss Llewellyn, 2021, p.379.
This remarkable imagine is thought to have never been editioned. It would appear to pre date Robert Austins Self and Jackdaw, 1943, which possibly was made in response to this.
Robert Austin – Self and Jackdaw 1943
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.
