John William Waterhouse RA was an English painter known for having worked first in academic style, then for adopting the style and subjects of pre -raphaélite fraternity. His works are known for their representations of women from ancient Greek mythology and the Arthurian legend. Naked in Rome of English parents, both painters, Waterhouse then moved to London, where he enrolled in the Royal Academy of Art. He quickly started to participate in their annual summer exhibitions, focusing on the creation of large canvases representing scenes from daily life and mythology of ancient Greece. Many of his paintings are inspired by authors such as Homer, Ovide, Shakespeare, Tennyson or Keats. Waterhouse's work is exhibited in many major museums and art galleries, and the Royal Academy of Art has organized a big retrospective of his work in 2009.
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About the artwork
According to the Original Drawing by John William Waterhouse & for the first time in the world in lithography.
Signed & numbered edition of 50 copies.
Always, this drawing, one of the most famous by John William Waterhouse, has been presented partially cut off. This lithograph therefore offers this drawing for the first time in its entirety, as Waterhouse drew it in 1904.
From the drawing to its printing, this lithograph was entirely made by hand. With the same technical and artistic constraints, the same gestures reproduced on the same machines of yesteryear. Drawing on stone, color printing color by color on Marinoni Voirin lithographic press from 1920.
Title: The Girl of the Wind (Study for Boreas), 1904 / Technique: Lithography / Publication date: 2015 Publisher: France Art Diffusion / Paper: BFK Rives 270g / Justification: Signed & numbered in pencil by the 2 lithographers and the publisher / Publisher's dry stamp / Certificate of authenticity
Artwork details
- Type: Limited Edition
- Medium: Prints | Lithograph
- Style: Figurative
- Subject: Portraits | Female
- Year: 2015
- Edition: of 50
- Size: 81 x 62 cm
- Ready to hang: No
- Frame: No
- Signed: Yes, In the board
- Materials: Lithograph on paper
81 x 62 cm
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John William Waterhouse
La Fille du Vent | The Girl of the Wind (Study for Boreas), 1904, 2015
Prints, Edition of 50
81 x 62 cm
$1,165.00
Limited Edition: Only 1 left of this edition
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