Portrait of Barnett Freedman 1940s
Pen and ink
26 x 20 cm
Inscribed on reverse in ink Portrait of Barnett Freedman and in pencil Portrait By Derain
Provenance: Estate of Lewis Morley, Sydney, by descent until 2024
Tipped in to Lewis Morley's copy of André Derain by Gaston Diehle, with Morley's Library label to the front end-paper.
Barnett Freedman (1901-1958) was a British painter, illustrator and lithographer who illustrated Tolstoy's War and Peace for the Limited Editions Club in 1938. In the same year they published Oscar Wilde's Salome, with gouache drawings by Andre Derain produced as pochoir. Freedman had become interested in the difficult medium of auto-lithography, where the artist draws his own designs on to the stones without the intervention of a trade craftsmen or photomechanical means.
At the outbreak of the Second World War, Freedman was appointed as a full-time salaried war artist by the War Artists' Advisory Committee and sent to France in April 1940. Derain stayed in Paris throughout the war
Unframed, comes with the book
Item #7442
Price: $1,500.00