William Nicholson, Sports as Months of the Year
Original lithograph. Framed.
£195
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“When William Nicholson designed his stylish ‘London Types’ in 1898 – that together with his ‘Almanac of Twelve Sports’ and ‘An Illustrated Alphabet’ were to make his reputation as a printmaker – his son Ben, who was to eclipse him entirely in the history of British Art through his Modernist works, was only five years old.
While working within the culture of the British popular print, William Nickerson deliberately chose to use the coarse-grained side of the wood block in his wood cuts, in a style that owed more to Toulouse Lautrec and Japanese precedents than to native visual traditions – which give these prints an innovative quality, even as they might seem to be celebrating unchanging roles in British society.’ – The Gentle Author.
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