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EDWARD McKNIGHT KAUFFER (1890-1954)

BIOMORPHIC RUG, CIRCA 1935

Details
EDWARD McKNIGHT KAUFFER (1890-1954)
BIOMORPHIC RUG, CIRCA 1935
produced by the Royal Wilton Carpet Factory Ltd, hand-woven wool
85 in. (216 cm.) x 61¼in. (156 cm.)
signed in weave EMcKK
Provenance
Frank Dobson R.A. (1888-1963) and thence by descent
Literature
M. Eidelberg (ed.), Design 1935 - 1965, What Modern Was, New York, 1991, p. 95, pl. 122, and back cover (example illustrated)
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

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Lot Essay

This important and widely-published carpet articulates a key transition in McKnight Kauffer's designs. Influenced in part by Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, and other members of the British avant-garde, the Synthetic Cubist planes of his earlier carpets have now been partly abandoned in preference towards the unrestrained, trompe-l'oeil effects of Biomorphism.

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