A brilliant example of New Zealand’s greatest mezzotint artist
Artist: John Drawbridge (1930-2005)
Title: “The Concert—Vermeer (with Matisse)“
Date: 1983
School: New Zealand
Medium: Mezzotint
Dimensions: 250 x 160mm (plate), 720 x 570mm (sheet)
Watermark: C M Fabriano 100/100 Cotton
Inscriptions/marks: on the support in pencil lower left to lower right border <<26/100. IMP. “The Concert—Vermeer (with Matisse).” John Drawbridge. 1983.>>
Condition: Brilliant impression on large sheet of heavy Fabriano paper.
Description: Based on Johannes Vermeer’s The concert formerly in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, stolen in 1990. The two Dutch paintings on the back wall replaced with images derived from the works of Henri Matisse.
Provenance: Gingko Gallery, Christchurch
