Les Enfants
Les Enfants
Hoyle set up Cambridge Print Editions which, with Christie's Contemporary Art, issued many of his later prints. In these he often experimented with subject matter and technique, mixing linocut, etching and acquatint to great effect, as in the present example. Hoyle met his future wife, Denise, in 1954, at the first Great Bardfield Open House exhibitiopn in which he exhibited. Their children, James and Nina, were born in 1956 and 1960 respectively. Denise was French-born and the family made frequent visits to Dieppe, where they owned a flat. It has yet to be established whether the present print was editioned, or if this is one of a small number of proofs made, or perhaps unique. The print is on wove paper, with aan unidentified watermark of a P and reversec P joined together. The print is in on a full sheet with good margins and deckle edges all round, and is in pristine, white condition. Apologies for the yellowing suggested by the photography - the paper is brilliant white.
Dimensions:
c.1961-64
Mixed media print on a full wove paper sheet with deckle edges all round, with an unidentified watermark, like a P and reversed P combined
Titled, signed and inscribed AP in pencil, all by the artist.
Holloway's Auctioneers 11/06/2019, Edna Read Collection, Milton Keynes
Pristine
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