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SILVER Seller in Milano, Italy
"Dying Day" aquatint from 1928 by George Percival Gaskell (Shiply, Yorkshire 1868 – Hampstead 1934). Size: 227 x 305 mm. Overall sheet Size: 356 x 475 mm. Engraver and landscape painter trained at the Royal College of Art in London and later in Paris and Italy. Professor of Art History at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and London. From 1896 until his retirement in 1930 he was principal of Regent Street Polytechnic, London. His work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolors and Royal Society of British Artists of which he was elected a fellow in 1896. He often etched using the mezzotint or black technique in research continuous of light effects, demonstrating a personal sensitivity for the modulation of tones, of the atmospheres in the mists, in the clouds or on the mirrors of water. A large example of his production is held in the British Museum in London and the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio. Poetic sunset over an open mountainous landscape, crossed by the tranquil silver bed of a river, untouched by human presence. The spaces are built through a scale of gray and black and the now twilight light of the day illuminates the body of water. The sky is clear. Bottom left in the wide white margin in pencil: Dying Day/Pattern (from sheel)/15/11/28. Excellent state of conservation. Wide margins beyond the edge of the copper. Watermark: BASINCWERK – PARCHMENT
ID: 11318-1683730105-63228
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