Lot #2026: PAUL LANDACRE - Downpour - Wood engraving

 

Artist: Paul Landacre (American, 1893 - 1963).
Title: "Downpour".
Medium: Wood engraving.
Date: Composed 1928. Printed 1931.
Dimensions: Image size: 6 x 7 1/4 in. (152 x 184 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $800
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $1,500/2,000
Lot Note(s): Signed with the initials in pencil, lower right; annotated "TP" lower left. A trial proof apart from the edition of 500. Cream wove "Navarre" paper. Ample margins. Fine impression. Very good to fine condition; would be fine save a very small fox mark, middle left margin; affixed to very thin and supple archival acid-free support sheet, not mount/board. Provenance: This impression formerly in the collection of the renowned cinematograher Lucien Ballard (1908-1988), a good friend of Landacre.
Comment(s): A very early, rare print. There are no auction sales in the past 35 years found in “Gordon’s Art Reference.” Our example is from a collection of unbound and unsewn portfolio plates engraved and printed by Landacre, which later formed the basis of his work “California Hills and Other Wood Engravings." Image copyright © The Estate of Paul Landacre/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. [30003-2-800-NA]