Buckland Wright’s tribute to Dürer
Artist: John Buckland Wright (1897-1954)
Title: Melancholie
Date: 1933
School: New Zealand/British/French
Medium: engraving printed on laid paper
Dimensions: 208 x 168mm (plate mark), 360 x 265mm (support)
Watermark: see image below
Inscriptions/marks: artist’s initials in the image top right <<JBW>>, on the support in pencil lower left to lower right <<Melancholie 20/30…………John Buckland Wright 1933>>, verso bears artist’s stamp (see image below)
Condition: very fine
Description: Woman seated in an interior, with bowl of fruit in the foreground and a dead bird hanging below the window to left
Reference: Christopher Buckland Wright, The Engravings of John Buckland Wright, Aldershot, Scolar Press, 1990, M40
Provenance: Dunbar Sloane, Wellington, 10 May 2023, lot.260
