Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch: Piken ved vinduet (The Girl at the Window) (Woll5)

1894

Jim Dine drew the plate for this image in the same period as his “Thirty Bones of My Body” 1972 portfolio of drypoint tool images. Crisbrook paper (30 x 22 in. / 76.2 x 56 cm.) and p...

Artist: Eileen Alice Soper (English, 1905-1990) Title: "Spring Song" *Signed by Soper in pencil lower right Year: 1924 Medium: Original Etching on cream laid paper Limited edition: 178 Printer: Likely printed by Eva Soper, London, UK Publisher: H C Dickens, London, UK Reference: "The Catalogue Raisonne of Prints and Etchings of George and Eileen Soper" - Beetles No. 83, page 119, 141, 157 Sheet size: 8.13" x 10.13" Image size: 6.63" x 9.63" Condition: Paper trimmed in the margins. A few faint areas of discoloration. It is otherwise a strong impression in very good condition Notes: Provenance: private collection - Boulder, CO. Biography: Eileen Soper was born in 1905 in the Municipal Borough of Enfield and moved to the house where she was to spend the rest of her life in Harmer Green, Welwyn in the Hertfordshire countryside in 1908. The house she later named "Wildings" was built by her father, the artist George Soper...

Clearly Sanders was looking at ancient Mesopotamian figures. Even the elaborate feathered wings can be found there -- made about 5000 years ago! There's an initial 'S' in the plate...

Sander's figures are captivating. Here a women stands facing right, just touching, and holding still, a globe shape, on a flat surface. It was difficult getting the color to show p...

Clearly Sanders (1906-1967) was a master at these minimalist figurative prints. It's all about atmosphere and tension. Perhaps reflecting the print here, (Lovers), he, in fact, w...

For a print that's nearly one hundred years old it feels very contemporary. Signed in pencil; titled in lower margin in pencil.