Model Crouching

 

Bolton Brown

  1865 - 1936 (biography)

1923  

lithograph in sanguine ink 

11 3/4 x 8 5/16" image 

pencil, lower right; monograph in stone 

approx. 24 

in stone: title; annotated: "BB 501, C 434" beneath hand 

Brown / Adams 501, illust. pg.78; Kleeman catalogue list, pg. 4; L/C 44 

Basingwerk Parchment cream wove 

published 

artist 

RoCo1006 

$1,200.00 

This impression is llustrated on page 78 of "Crayonstone - The Life and Work of Bolton Brown" by Clinton Adams. In 1924 Brown commented about this print: "In Italy was a little holding of land - 'five fields' - she told me herself, holding up her spread hand. She helped work them - this peasant girl. This is a drawing of her very beautiful body. The print is in red and of extreme tenderness....No commercial ink will print like this-...[made by] an ink maker [who] ground in specified varnishes mineral pigments brought to him by mr."