The only reason we have Anne Henderson's work on Modern Printmakers today is because Dominic Winter have one of her rare colour linocuts for sale later this month (above). I am not convinced either of the titles given are hers so I won't repeat them. I think both are on tissue and artists tended to avoid inscribing their work on that type of paper. The edition number is 1/20. Take from that what you will.
She died in 1981 not long after the revival of interest in pre-war colour prints began.
The Dominic West print of the boats which has sold is actually titled, "Fishing Boats, St. Tropez" and the ship deck is called....unsurprisingly, "The Deck" of which a copy is held in the Christchurch Art Gallery (which has a fab collection of interwar prints). They CAG list her birth year as 1910 and death as 1981. Their print of "The Deck" is 94/208 which seems like an astonishing run to me. It also states that she she is "thought to have studied....at the Grosvenor School.." The problem is that the Grosvenor School didn't keep student lists and there was no formal curriculum: students paid to attend Claude Flight's linocut classes or MacNab's wood-engraving classes on a drop-in, pay-as-you-go basis, for as little as a few weeks (Dorrit Black did three months which was unusual). So suggesting she studied there is good for sales, but ultimately impossible to verify. Her name doesn't appear in any exhibition lists, so we can divine that the connection is puffery....or sales guff. I will say though, that the Fishing Boats, St. Tropez has a little of the Grosvenor feel, but it is a bit muddled from my perspective. There is my two cents.
ReplyDeleteI assumed it was the Mediterranean from the details so the title you provide gives us a bit more of an idea about her artistic aims.
DeleteJohn Platt stayed at St Tropez in the summer of 1922. He had gone over to Chantemerle sur Seine in company with Fletcher and Seaby to stay with the Feddens. Platt knew Claude Flight from the Army Service Corps and it was Chantemerle where Flight had his cave-house. Presumably he was there for the summer, too. There is the painting of Platt on the terrace painted by Fletcher on the last day of their stay in July, 1922. Oscar Wilde had stayed at the same house not long after his release from Reading.