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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE DOWAGER COUNTESS BATHURST
CHRISTOPHER RICHARD WYNNE NEVINSON (1889-1946)
Looking Down into Wall Street
Details
CHRISTOPHER RICHARD WYNNE NEVINSON (1889-1946)
Looking Down into Wall Street
lithograph, 1919, on laid paper, signed and inscribed Steel and Steam, New York City in pencil, from the edition of 25, with wide margins, some soft, flattened creases in the margins, generally in good condition
Image 485 x 350 mm., Sheet 670 x 480 mm.
Looking Down into Wall Street
lithograph, 1919, on laid paper, signed and inscribed Steel and Steam, New York City in pencil, from the edition of 25, with wide margins, some soft, flattened creases in the margins, generally in good condition
Image 485 x 350 mm., Sheet 670 x 480 mm.
Literature
Black 54
Further Details
Nevinson's first New York prints were produced in 1919 and exhibited at a solo exhibition in October of that year. Looking down on Wall Street is an imposing lithograph seen from above, looking North East towards Brooklyn, with the Western tower of the Brooklyn Bridge in the distance. Nevinson produced a number of skyscraper views, all of which allude to his sceptical attitude towards the growing strength of the financial district, illustrated here by the tightly packed buildings towering over the diminutively small scale figures below. These strikingly angular viewpoints may also have been influenced by the pre-war book of photographs of the city taken by Alvin Langdon Coburn, titled New York, which included ten images of skyscrapers.
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