Artist Robert Austin: Study of a girls head, 1936

Artist Robert Austin (1895-1973): Study of a girls head, 1936

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Robert Austin (1895-1973):
Study of a girl's head, 1936
Unmounted (ref: 5524)

Engraving


10.9 x 8.7 in. (27.6 x 22.1 cm)

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Provenance: The artist’s family

Literature: Campbell Dodgson, Robert Austin, exh. cat.,Twenty-One Gallery, London, 1930; Gordon Cooke, Drawings and Prints by Robert Austin, exh. cat.,The Fine Art Society, London, 2001

A limited edition has been printed posthumously from the canceled plate on GUARRO Superalfa (250 gm²).

Campbell Dodgson, Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, who compiled the standard reference work on Austin, compared him to Albrecht Dürer, noting that Austin had ‘more than a touch of that master in him’ (Dodgson, Robert Austin, exh. cat.,Twenty-One Gallery, London, 1930).