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Stonehenge Original woodcut, printed in colours. Beautiful signed proof impression of this famous image from the only published edition. SOLD |
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Magpie Original woodcut, printed in colours. Signed trial proof impression, prior to the published numbered edition. SOLD |
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Kingfisher in Winter Original woodcut, printed in colours. Outstanding signed proof impression with exceptionally bright, unfaded colours. From the only published edition of 150 signed and numbered proofs. SOLD |
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Cuckoo Original woodcut, printed in colours. Signed trial proof impression printed in variant colours, prior to the published numbered edition. SOLD |
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Cuckoo Original woodcut, printed in colours. Very good signed proof impression with fresh, unfaded colours. From the only published edition of 100 signed and numbered proofs. SOLD |
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Jackdaw Original woodcut, printed in colours. Signed trial proof impression, prior to the published numbered edition. SOLD |
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Swans in Flight c.1929 Original woodcut, printed in colours. Very good signed proof impression with fresh, unfaded colours. From the only edition of 100 signed proofs.
One of A.W. Seaby’s finest images, this masterly colour woodcut rivals the colour woodblock prints of the Japanese masters. Seaby considered this to be his finest composition and he repeated the image in reverse on a second series of blocks. SOLD |
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The influential woodcut artist Allen William Seaby was, rather appropriately, the son of a cabinet maker and carpenter. He studied the art of colour woodcut printing at the Reading School of Art under the pioneer of Japanese woodcut printing in Britain, Frank Morley Fletcher and he went on to become a member of staff at Reading in 1899, remaining there for the rest of his career. A.W.Seaby became a particular expert in the art of colour woodcut printmaking and his prints were exhibited worldwide. He won the gold medal for colour woodcut printmaking in Milan in 1906, and the gold medal at the Printmaker’s Society of California in Los Angeles in 1937. Allen William Seaby was also a watercolourist and book illustrator. Seaby specialised in the depiction of British wildlife, and in particular in the depiction of birds. [ more] |
