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Kenneth Broad

  1889 - 1959
 
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Zinnias sold

Zinnias  

Original woodcut, printed in colours.

Good impression with clear, fresh colours from the only edition of 150 signed and numbered proofs.

SOLD



A Breton Fair sold

A Breton Fair   1932

Original woodcut, printed in colours.

Excellent impression with strong, bright colours from the only edition of 150 signed and numbered proofs.

SOLD



The Harbour – Brittany sold

The Harbour – Brittany   1932

Original woodcut, printed in colours.

The artist’s number ‘1’ proof. Outstanding impression with excellent fresh colours from the only edition of 150 signed and numbered proofs.

SOLD



St. Martin’s-in-the-fields, London sold

St. Martin’s-in-the-fields, London   c.1930

Original woodcut, printed in colours.

Very good impression with fresh, bright colours from the only edition of 150 signed and numbered proofs.

SOLD



The New Fair - Mitcham sold

The New Fair - Mitcham   1925/6

Original woodcut, printed in colours.

Very good impression with strong, bright colours from the only edition of 150 signed and numbered proofs.

SOLD

 

The accomplished colour woodcuts of Kenneth Broad record daily life in and around London and parts of northern France during the 1920’s and early 1930’s.

Kenneth Stephen Broad was born at Stamford Brook in west London and went on to train at the Westminster School of Art. Like the outstanding etcher William Walcot, Kenneth Broad became a London based architect by profession, whose passion outside the rigid framework of draftsmanship was original printmaking – a field of art in which he was particularly gifted. He exhibited together with William Giles and Ethel Kirkpatrick as a member of The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society at the Royal Academy in London and was an early member of the Colour Woodcut Society, becoming its president in the mid-1930’s.

Kenneth Broad’s earliest Royal Academy exhibits date from around 1922 and by the early 1930’s his colour woodcuts were being exhibited and handled by the famous dealers P. & D. Colnaghi in London’s Bond Street. In 1926 he exhibited his colour woodcut of “A Sussex Farm” at the 7th International Printmakers Exhibition in Los Angeles. Despite declared editions of 150 impressions each, Broad’s colour woodcuts are now comparatively scarce. After his death, all of Kenneth Broad’s woodcut blocks were destroyed by his son, as stipulated in his will. [more]