Lot #1694: GUSTAVE BAUMANN - All the Year Round: Title Page - Original color woodcut

 

Artist: Gustave Baumann (German/American, 1881 - 1971).
Title: "All the Year Round: Title Page".
Medium: Original color woodcut.
Date: Composed 1912.
Dimensions: Overall size: 10 3/8 x 8 1/4 in. (264 x 210 mm). Image size: 7 7/8 x 6 1/8 in. (200 x 156 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $100
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $150/200
Lot Note(s): Stamp signed with the initials, lower right. Cream wove paper. Wide margins. Fine impression with heavy ink application. Very good to fine condition. Literature/catalogue raisonne: See: Acton, Krause, and Yurtseven's 'Gustave Baumann - Nearer to Art,' pgs. 20 & 21 (illustrated as plate 14); and David Acton's 'Hand of a Craftsman - The Woodcut Technique of Gustave Bauman,' pg. 77. Provenance: Through the artist Will Vawter.
Comment(s): Included in the suite of 13 woodcuts (the twelve different months & the title page) published in "All the Year Round" as the title page. We could not find a stamp signed impression of this print at auction. [26450--100-NA]