Abstract design (Christmas greetings card)

Maker

(artist)
1920-1999

Title

Date of Production

1956

Medium

paint on card

Dimensions

Height: 12.5 cm
Width: 10 cm

Accession Number

D.2017.XX.4

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library (R.H. Wilenski Archive), transfer, 2017

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

A group of seven prints by Stanley Hayter, plus two each by Joan Ellis and Merlyn Evans, one each by Patrick Heron, Michael Kennedy, Cecil Mary Leslie and Marion Mitchell, and three by an unknown artist (18 prints in total) were transferred to the Gallery’s Prints and Drawings Study Room from a store in the Witt Library containing archival material of notable art historians with Courtauld Institute connections. They were discovered in a file of images (mostly photographic reproductions) of the work of twentieth-century British artists formed by R. H. Wilenski (1887-1975), art critic and historian, and author of the polemical book, The Modern Movement in Art (1927).

Wilenski was acquainted with many of the artists about whom he wrote. Most of the prints in the collection are in the form of greetings cards inscribed by the artists to Wilenski, indicating close friendships.

Provenance

presumably sent by the artist to R.H. Wilenski (1887-1975), Christmas 1956; bequeathed by him to the Witt Library as part of his archive? transferred from the Witt Library to the Samuel Courtauld Trust, 2017

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: blue ballpoint, whole card: “Christmas Greetings to you both[? word unclear] / from / Delia & Patrick Heron / 1956”.

Collector's mark: none.

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