" A Street By Night"

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(1926-27)

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"A Street By Night", 1926-27, drypoint, 7 7/8" x 11", with 'Handmade' watermark, deckles on all sides, signed and numbered 91/100, listed in volume 5, Fine Prints of the Year 1927, in very good condition [Appleby 128].

Edmund Blampied (1886-1966) was born in St. Martin, Jersey, Channel Islands.   Having shown early interest and ability in drawing, he pursued studies at the Lambeth Art School in London and had his first exhibition at the Leicester Gallery in 1913.  He was a prolific artist and the most popular of all the Jersey artists. His oeuvre is broad, but it is his depiction of the rural pre-World War II Jersey Island lifestyle that was to become the dominant character of his work.

Blampied's etchings and drypoints, of a way of life that disappeared with World War II, capture lost moments in time never to be regained or experienced again but through his artwork. His ability to render the timeless essence of Jersey rural agrarian community and the toils and struggles of a pre-mechanized world are portrayed vividly in "A Street By Night"

Edmund Blampied's drypoint is in a  23 3/8" x 26 3/8" with an aged red/silver and metallic leaf undertone, textured highlights in read and black painted and refinished to expose streaking, cracking and voids, pyramid shaped with rounded raised lip frame.  The khaki linen outer and fango grotto brown inner acid and lignin free mats are protected with Acrylite-AR OP3 (UV) by CYRO ..... SOLD