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1938 WALTER BIRD Art Deco FEMALE NUDE Woman England Large Original Photo Gravure |
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Print Specifications:
Photographer: Walter Bird (England, 1903 - 1969) - Renown
English photographer acclaimed for his outstanding art deco style
images of the female nude. Bird, along with John Everard and Horace
Roye (see our Ebay store for vintage Everard and Roye prints), became
England's most prolific and arguably the finest photographers of the female nude during the
1930's - 1940's. If you are familiar with and/or collect the work of
Walter Bird then you know the scarcity of these extraordinary 1938
large format prints.
Title: "Persephone"
Subject: Female Nude Study - Modernist, Art Deco
Date Of Negative: Circa mid 1920's - mid 1930's
Type Of Print: Vintage Sheet Fed Photogravure (Etched plate from the original image - authorized by Walter Bird)
Date Of Print: 1938
Original Issue: Bound sheet fed photogravure compilation
Paper: Fine satin/matte finish
Print Origin: England
Print/Plate Maker: Vandyck Ltd., London, England
Approximate Image Size Inches: 11 x 9 inches
Approximate Image Size Metric: 28 x 23 centimeters
Print Border: Yes - surrounding off-white print border
Condition Grade: Extra Fine++ (excellent for 75+ year old print)
Verso: Blank
Registered Vintage Print Serial #: 32P1DB4
Certificate Of Authenticity (COA): Yes - individual hand signed COA
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This is an authentic, vintage (NOT a modern reprint) 1938 Art Deco Photogravure (also known as héliogravure) by the renown British photographer Walter Bird.
Classic art deco design elements are evident in this beautiful nude
study by the deco era photographer known for his artistic renderings of
the nude. This
photogravure is printed on fine satin/matte finish stock and is blank
on the reverse side. Critically acclaimed throughout his career, Walter Bird who was initially trained as a painter, created
masterful art deco style photographs of the nude female form during the
1920's through the 1940's. A true master of lighting and composition, Bird's
nude studies were well known for both visual drama and artistic
beauty. Today his work is sought after by collectors and held in
numerous important collections throughout the world. His nudes from the
1930's in any form (silver gelatin or photogravure) are now very scarce. Please note that a computer scan cannot render nor
do justice to the beauty, detail and subtle tonality of the actual
print.
This
photogravure is guaranteed to be authentic and comes with a hand signed
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY (COA) with unique individual registered and
certified serial number from the Finephoto Archive & Database. Under
magnification this plate shows a tight "honeycomb" grid, uniform
pressing of ink and a wide range of tone - all indicative of a high
quality sheet fed gravure print. The watermark word "Finephoto" does not appear on the actual print.
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accept.ABOUT PHOTOGRAVURE: Photogravure (also known as Héliogravure)
is an intaglio print making process utilizing a carefully etched copper
plate made from the original negative/image. Prints are made by
pressing suitable paper heavily down upon the inked copper plate which
has been intricately etched to varying depths corresponding with the
actual tonality of the original negative, This precisely etched plate
combined with a fine "honeycomb" screen controls the amount of ink to
be transfered to the paper at any given point in direct proportion to
the variation of tone in the original image. The result is a true
continuous tone print which combines many qualities of a traditional
silver based photograph with a tactile feel similar to an etching,
engraving or lithograph.
Rich in tonal detail, the photogravure process produces delicately
rendered shades for a look which is unique in the world of photographic
print making. In the early to mid 1900's photogravure was selected
(when budgets allowed) for special high quality publishing and
portfolio projects, but due to it's significant expense and labor, the
process is rarely seen today. From
Man Ray and Ruth Bernhard to Brett Weston and Ansel Adams, many of the
world's most renown photographic masters have published their images in
the rich photogravure process.
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