Paris, buttress of the Pont Neuf (small) (E933)

Zwanzig Graphische Arbeiten

1921

Zinc, 35.5×22.2cm
Edition: 500 copies must have been taken since this was included in Zwanzig Graphische Arbeiten. Plate destroyed.


Owners: Bangor, Welsh Library, Brangwyn gift, April 1956. Bewdley (T-2492). Cleveland (1924.232) Dudley P Allen Fund and (2010.676) gift of John Bonebrake. Koriyama, purchased 2020. London V&A (E.1920-1921) signed in full in pencil. Milwaukee (M1943.246) gift of Mrs Albert T Friedmann. New York (22.106.62[1]) transferred from Library, 1922. San Francisco (1963.30.13782) Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts.


Related works: This and Paris, study of figures (E934) were cut from Paris, Buttress of the Pont Neuf (E932)


Lit: Gaunt, 1926 (279A). Miller Corinne, ‘Swiftness, vigour and exuberance. Frank Brangwyn and the artist print’ in Horner/Naylor, 2006, p121. Horner, 2023, p180


Ill: Gaunt, 1926 (279A). Horner/Naylor, 2006, p125. Yates Jeremy, Brangwyn. Frank Brangwyn RA 1867-1956. The Bangor Collection, Bangor: The University of Wales & The Gwynedd Museum and Art Gallery, 2006, p54.
Film Mapleston/Horner, 2006. Horner, 2023, p180

The plate for E932 was reduced along the bottom and right hand edges, the seated figures foreground removed and a hunched figure moving to left, together with vague outline of two animals, introduced.