SOLDEvening, 1939
Passe-partout (ref: 3878)
Etching, 8 7/8 x 6 3/4 in. (22.5 x 17.2 cm.)
(12 3/8 x 10 3/8 in. (31.5 x 26.2 cm.) framed)
SOLDEtching, 8 7/8 x 6 3/4 in. (22.5 x 17.2 cm.)
(12 3/8 x 10 3/8 in. (31.5 x 26.2 cm.) framed)
Provenance: the artist’s family
Literature: Campbell Dodgson, Robert Austin, exh. cat.,Twenty-One Gallery, London, 1930; Gordon Cooke, Drawings and Prints by Robert Austin, exh. cat.,The Fine Art Society, London, 2001
Evening, a composition created during the early war years, is amongst Austin's most evocative images - the sense of time and place combine to give the scene an allegorical quality.
Austin was one of the greatest exponents of line engraving and etching. Campbell Dodgson, Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, who compiled the standard reference work on Austin, compared him to Albrecht Dürer, noting that Austin had ‘more than a touch of that master in him’ (Dodgson, Robert Austin, exh. cat.,Twenty-One Gallery, London, 1930).
We are grateful to Rachel and Clare Austin, Gordon Cooke and David Maes for assistance.
