£575 

Frank Brangwyn:
The Printers, 1919 (V-1474)
Framed (ref: 6446)
Woodcut, on tinted paper

Tags: Frank Brangwyn print woodcut men Metropolitan work 1.PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST

Provenance: The Artist's Estate; Private collection

Literature: Dominique Marechal, Frank Brangwyn: Collection Catalogue, Bruges General Bank & Stedelijke Musea 1987, p. 130Catalogus 1937, Brussels, No 98; Illustrated : Modern Woodcuters No 2, Morland Press London 1920Dominique Marechal, Frank BrangwynCollectionCatalogue, Bruges General Bank & Stedelijke Musea 1987 p130

Llewellyn, Sacha, and Paul Liss. Portrait of an Artist. Liss Llewellyn, 2021, p.40.

Between 1900  and  1948  Brangwyn  produced  over  500  etchings.  His plates were frequently ‘deeply bitten’ and printed with a combination of raw sienna, burnt sienna and French black on buff coloured sheen paper, the  precise  inking and  wiping of  the plate  playing an  important  part  in the final production, producing dramatic chiaroscuro. For this reason Brangwyn liked to oversee the printing process himself and owned his own etching press.