Wood engraving 1936
202 x 307 mm
Literature: Hughes-Stanton, Penelope, The Wood-Engravings of Blair Hughes-Stanton, Pinner, 1991, p.77, illus. p.173.
Extremely scarce - from the only edition of 20 although numbered by the artist from an edition of 12.
A fine impression printed on buff-toned Japanese vellum in its original frame.
Signed, dated, numbered and titled by the artist in pencil.
Carey, Frances and Griffiths, Antony, Avant-Garde British Printmaking 1914-60 British Museum Publications Ltd, London,1990, p. 100, This is the most abstract composition that Hughes-Stanton ever made and betrays a conscious determination to move away from the organic shapes that had dominated his earlier prints. He uses an extraordinary variety of methods of laying wood-engraved lines in order to create different textures and a range of grey tones.