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Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)

December Morning (1938), original copper plate, cancelled

SKU: 1602
Signed with initials in the plate
Original copper etching plate
6 1/8 x 5 1/4 in. (15.5 x 13.4 cm)
Presentation:
framed

Size:
Height – 15.5cm x Width – 13.4cm

DESCRIPTION

Provenance:
The Artist’s Studio

Austin’s early plates show an extraordinary sweetness of line and often, as in his large plates of deer, beautifully unified compositions.  There is in the best sense an academic quality about these, very proper in a man who was virtually a pioneer in his his art today.  About 1929 a close study of the German masters of engraving is evident.  But Austin has passed through his probationary stage and is master not only of his technique, in which no English engraver has surpassed him, but also in using his medium in a native, personal way. Already Mr Dodgson had noticed in his work ‘an aftermath of Pre-Raphaelitism…with its harking back to the past and its wealth of realistic detail.’   

Austin’s latest plates are contemporary in subject.  At the same time his interest in Millais, the Millais of book-illustrations, is explicit.  Surely this strain, at once homely, intimate and romantic, is at the centre of the tradition of English art.  Austin’s line remains clear: his tone is given by a number of short flicks and shadings.  He is thus nearer in technique to the fifteenth-century German engravers than to Durer or Lucas van Leyden. In drawing and composition there is nothing archaic. Of recent years he has produced three or four plates regularly each year.  Of these one or two commonly represent new treatments of subjects previously treated in a rather different way.  He is fascinated with certain subjects, bells, stairs, kneeling figures, weathered wood.But he also advances to new subjects; in 1936 two very fine portraits and in 1937 the Young Mother.

Extract from The English Print, Basil Gray, Adam and Charles Black 1937, on whose cover Austin’s Young Mother featured:

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THE ARTIST

Robert Austin
Robert
Austin
1895 - 1973

Printmaker and draughtsman, born in Leicester. He studied at the School of Art there and at the Royal College of Art, 1914-16 and 1919-22, winning the Rome Scholarship for engraving in the latter year. He taught engraving at the Royal College of Art, 1927-44, becoming Professor in the Department of Graphic Design, 1948-55. Showed with RWS, of which he was a member and President; RE, of which he was a member; and the RA, to which he was elected in 1949. Austin was a meticulous craftsman-engraver and a vigorous draughtsman, as his series of drawings of Women’s Auxiliary Air Force and ballooning activities done during World War II shows. The Tate Gallery holds his work.

The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, organised an exhibition of his work in 1980.

More recently he was the subject of two shows at the Fine Art Society plc (2001 and 2002), the latter organised in conjunction with Liss Fine Art Ltd.

MORE PICTURES BY ARTIST

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Pause for thought, circa 1930

£975.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
The Cathedral at Palma, Majorca, 1928

£1,000.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Sea Bouquet, 1940

£950.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Oostend 2

£250.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Deer, 1930

£1,200.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Women at Prayer, 1936

£195.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Choir Boys Cantua

£180.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Belfry Steps

£105.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
The Beltry, at Palma

£110.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Misty Morning

£180.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Stone Mason

£110.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Santa Barbara 2, circa 1926

£100.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Still Life Perugia

£120.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
The Angelus, 1922

£175.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Sottocastello, 1926

£110.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Burnham Market, circa 1930

£105.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Palm Sunday

£100.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Salus Infirmorum

£120.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Figure of Christ and peasant women

£140.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
The Cowherd

£120.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Woman and Sickle

£100.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Bouquet

£110.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Brook Farm

£150.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Man with Scyth

£155.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Winter Landscape with East Wind

£110.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Peasant woman digging

£100.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Rendez-vous

£110.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Roman Terrace

£190.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
At prayer

£120.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Sea Bouquet

£115.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Boy praying

£120.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
The Bell, no 2

£100.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Four Friends

£115.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
The tow rope, 1920

£140.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Ponte Pietra, Verona, 1925

£195.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Pause for thought

£120.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Four women at prayer

£190.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
The Curtain

£120.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Ex Libris – Eugénie STRONG

£115.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Evening, 1940

£380.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Girl on Stairs, 1937

£255.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Private with bandage, travelling in a railway compartment, circa 1918

£775.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
The Austin Family of Lingard House, 1936

£135.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Ling of Lingard, 1936 (CD 115)

£390.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Man with a Crucifix, 1924

£1,500.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Bookplate for M.N. Jackson

£360.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Horse Pulling Cart Uphill

£570.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Past and Present

£590.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Chorus Girl

£460.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Tree Study Eton

£475.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Street in Cologne

£600.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Lacemaker of Chartres

£1,580.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Man with a Cross, 1924

£1,500.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Church Tower at Stretton

£360.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Book Plate for the Prime Ministers Library (large version), 1931

£245.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Wherefore Plough, 1924

£520.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Prime Ministers Library (small version), 1931

£165.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Portrait of Noel Edwards, 1936

£320.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Winterlace II, 1954

£350.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Alice Lush, 1928 (CD 80)

£330.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Study of a girl’s head, 1936

£290.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Easter Sunday, 1940

£380.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Charles Murray, 1925 (CD 55)

£255.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Sisters on a Veranda

£2,050.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Hero’s Widow, 1944

£175.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Campbed, 1939

£860.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Bellringer’s wife

£1,440.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Hero’s Widow, (the original plate) 1944

£2,750.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
San Domenico Perugia, 1925

£975.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
The Bride

£990.00

Forthcoming
Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Evening, (the original plate) 1939
Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Still Life Perugia, 1932

£625.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Italian Bride

£1,050.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Sea Bouquet 1940

£880.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Foggy Dew

£750.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Girl on stairs, 1937

£2,090.00

Forthcoming
Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Wood carriers
Forthcoming
Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Brook Farm
Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Venice, Palazzo Pisani Moretta

£940.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Woman selling newspapers annoucing Peace Term, circa 1918

£1,500.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
The Choir, 1920

£975.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Study for The Curtain, 1930’s

£730.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Rob Aboard Ship, mid 1930’s

£770.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
The Horse of Ostend, 1921

£245.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Women in Church

£175.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Spanish steps Rome

£245.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
The Mother

£165.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Boy and Calf, 1927

£215.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Burnham Overy Staithe

£245.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Souvenir of Paris

£155.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
December morning, 1938

£290.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Church Tower at Stretton

£165.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Noel

£175.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Santa Barbara

£245.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
The Choir

£245.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Foggy Dew

£165.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Norfolk Landscape

£185.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Homeward

£215.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Near St. Martin’s Church – Leicester

£165.00

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
San Domenico Perugia

£245.00