On the Stocks
Artist: Muirhead Bone
Muirhead Bone (1876-1953), On the Stocks, lithograph, 1917, signed in pencil lower right [also signed in the stone], in very good condition (remains of hinging verso), printed on a handmade cream wove paper, 13 7/8 x 18, the sheet 15 1/4 x 21.
Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, New York, with their mat and annotations.
A very good impression.
Bone started his printmaking career in lithography, eventually achieving renown as a leader of the British Etching movement through his work in etching and drypoint. On the Stocks suggests that lithography, rather than drypoint, would seem to be just the right medium to capture the rough [...]