Lot #2221: PAUL LANDACRE - Headland, Big Sur Coast - Wood engraving

 

Artist: Paul Landacre (American, 1893 - 1963).
Title: "Headland, Big Sur Coast".
Medium: Wood engraving.
Date: Composed c1930. Printed 1931.
Dimensions: Image size: 6 x 8 in. (152 x 203 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $2,400
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $3,500/4,000
Lot Note(s): Signed with the initials in pencil, lower right; annotated "TP" lower left; signed with the monogram in the block, lower left. A trial proof apart from the edition of 500. Cream wove "Navarre" paper. Ample margins. Fine impression. Very good to fine condition. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Zeitlin & Ver Brugge 11; W87; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, “Paul Landacre: Prints and Drawings,” November 6, 1983, exhibition catalogue #3. Provenance: This impression formerly in the collection of the renowned cinematograher Lucien Ballard (1908-1988), a good friend of Landacre.
Comment(s): According to “Gordon’s Art Reference” another impression of this image sold for $3,500 at Swann Auction Galleries, NYC, 3/5/2015, lot #261. 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. [29991-1-2400-NA]