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London County Council Hall under Construction 1919 Original etching and drypoint Excellent signed proof impression, aside from the normal edition of 75 signed and numbered proofs. From the artist’s own personal collection. £285 |
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Waterloo Place 1912 Original etching with touches of drypoint First state proof, before any of the tonal drypoint work was added. The artist's own working proof. SOLD |
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Waterloo Place 1912 Original etching and drypoint Excellent signed proof impression printed with considerable plate tone. SOLD |
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An Obscure Turning, Venice c.1914 Original etching. Early trial proof impression from the artist’s own personal collection, prior to the introduction of much heavy drypoiny work. Signed and further inscribed “A imp.” in pencil. £520 |
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A Cardinal’s Palace, Venice c.1914 Original etching with drypoint. Exceptionally rich and highly atmospheric hand titled proof printed in warm brown ink, with extensive painterly use of plate tone. Inscribed “A Cardinal’s Palace No.I”. SOLD |
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A Cardinal’s Palace, Venice c.1914 Original etching with drypoint. Working proof from the artist's personal collection. SOLD |
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Doorway at Night, Venice 1920 Original etching with drypoint. Superb trial proof impression printed in black ink with considerable plate tone. Signed in pencil by the artist and inscribed “A imp” twice; further inscribed “Doorway at Night, Venice III”. £480 |
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Admiral’s House, Amsterdam 1902-24 Original etching with drypoint. Very fine signed proof impression in brown ink, printed by the artist himself. From the artist’s own personal collection. £480 |
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Blackfriars 1914/1919 Original etching and drypoint Unique proof with a pencil ‘butterfly’ introduced by hand, near the centre of the foreground wall – from the artist’s own personal collection. SOLD |
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Westminster 1912 Original etching Proof from the artist’s own personal collection. SOLD |
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War Declared: Under Charing Cross Bridge, August 4 1914 1914/1919 Original etching and drypoint A very early proof in the second state (of five). The artist’s own personal working proof impression, inscribed in pencil, verso, “Property, Dawn Addams” (the artist’s granddaughter). SOLD |
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Victory Loan Scene, Trafalgar Square, London, Christmas Eve 1919 Original etching and drypoint Working proof impression from the artist’s own personal collection. SOLD |
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Parliament Square 1920 Original etching and drypoint Outstanding working proof impression from the artist's own personal collection. SOLD |
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Parliament Square 1920 Original etching and drypoint Unique hand worked proof impression from the artist’s own personal collection, heavily worked up in dark chalk with the figures of angels in the sky above Parliament and Westminster Abbey. SOLD |
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The accomplished etchings of the American printmaker Clifford Isaac Addams rank amongst some of the most impressive and atmospheric etched works by any of Whistler’s followers. Born in New Jersey, Clifford Addams was trained as apprentice to an architect. He won a travelling scholarship from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1899 which enabled him to travel to Paris to study painting. There he enrolled in Whistler’s newly established Académie Carmen, which was run by Whistler’s long-term model Carmen Rossi. It was here that Clifford Addams met and married Inez Bate and together they became apprenticed to Whistler, pledging the “Master faithfully to serve, his secrets keep and his lawful commands obey”. Inez was appointed Massière of the Académie until its closure, on Whistler’s instructions, in 1901. The Addams’ followed Whistler to London when he returned in 1902, for they were by now his legal apprentices, and they visited him regularly until his death the following year.
All of Clifford Addams’ etchings of London date from between the years 1902 and 1920. In 1920 Clifford Addams abandoned his wife and family, returning to America where he became a member of the Brooklyn, Chicago and Philadelphia Societies of Etchers – he had been elected president of the Philadelphia society by 1930. [ more] |
