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Melancholie by John Buckland Wright
Melancholie
John Buckland Wright
Title
Melancholie
Artist
John Buckland Wright
1897 - 1954 (biography)Year
1933
Technique
engraving
Image Size
8 1/8 x 6 9/16" platemark
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
22 of 30
Annotations
pencil titled, editioned, dated and inscribed: "for Cathal O'Toole - 1937"
Reference
Wright M40
Paper
cream Vidalon laid
State
published
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
16192
Price
SOLD
Description
Buckland-Wright's work was represented in the important 1944 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in New York titled "Hayter and Studio 17" which included 60 prints by 32 artists from 12 nations. This Surreal image done in 1933 may have been Buckland-Wright's response to Durer's engraving of the same title. The composition is filled with dream-like imagery: the draped window, the dead bird, overturned basket etc. This impression was in the collection of fellow Atelier 17 artist, Cathan O'Toole and is inscibed to him in 1937. For more information on Buckland-Wright see our Biography.