£350
Mask 1, 1919 (V-2931) v2
Framed (ref: 9600)
Signed, numbered 71 Inscribed VI
Woodcut
6.3 x 4.3 cm
Provenance: The Artist's Studio
Literature: Dominique Marechal, Frank Brangwyn: Collection Catalogue, Bruges General Bank & Stedelijke Musea 1987, p. 269 Shaw-Sparrow, Prints & Drawings by Frank Brangwyn, John Lane, The Bodley Head London 1919 p18.
Brangwyn produced a series of woodcuts of masks. These were possibly inspired by the carvings on the Pont Neuf in Paris.
A giant of twentieth century art, admired by luminaries such as Kandinsky, Klimt, Toulouse-Lautrec, Tiffany and Bonnard, Brangwyn remains today a figure who has never managed to reclaim the space which for the first half of the twentieth century he largely occupied on the International stage. There are many reasons why Brangwyn remains out of vogue today – he was a maverick and he was prolific and his work refuses to be easily categorized.
