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Barnett Freedman:
Trial proof for People, 1947
_folio (ref: 9559)

Lithographic proof, printed by Curwen Studio

Tags: Barnett Freedman lithograph leisure life drawing men Metropolitan music reading women

Provenance: The Artist's son

Literature: Mason, Emma, Barnett Freedman, Designs for Modern Britain, Pallant House Gallery, 2020, p. 96

People  was the first of the lithographs by Barnett Freedman commissioned by Messrs J. Lyons & Co Ltd.  The other two were The Window Box, 1954, and Music 1951.

The composition  is related to the Tate's Street Scene

Freedman at work on People, 1947