Breakfast in Périgord: The model and the hour glass

细节

Sir William Russell Flint, R.A., P.R.W.S., R.S.W. (1880-1969)
Breakfast in Périgord: The model and the hour glass
signed with initials (lower right) and dated '3.2.67' (lower left) and inscribed '1 fine line block mounted, with 4 proofs please/Kindly be most careful not to rub the drawing. 12¾ x 7¾' (lower margin) and further inscribed '7"/53.7' (centre right margin)
white chalk on black prepared paper, unframed
15 x 10½ in. (38.1 x 26.7 cm.)

来源

with Perigord Fine Arts, Worcestershire.

出版

Sir W.R. Flint, Breakfast in Périgord, London, 1968, p. 85.

注意事项

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拍品专文

The present drawing was part of a series of studies that Russell Flint executed as an investigation into layout and decoration, being reproduced using a very disciplined and technical process known as 'fine line blocks' that depended on the fact that the white chalk remained pure in colour with no smudging or smoothing of the surface allowed.