Page 58 - Studio International - January 1967

On exhibition

A selection from current and forthcoming exhibitions

London

1 & 2
Woman Crying Over Dead Child, 1966, No. 10 of a
folio of ten lithographs, in a limited edition of
seventy-five, imperial size 29 x 20+ in., and Woman
Shielding Her Child, No. 1 from the same folio, by
Shmuel Shapiro, at the Maltzahn Gallery and, from
February 7-28, at the Curwen Gallery. The folio is a
statement of death inspired by the systematic
massacre of the Jewish people.
Shapiro's lithographs have been produced by
including unusual autographic techniques, which
Stanley Jones, who was responsible for their
printing at Curwen Studio, describes: 'Some
drawings involved indirect tracing processes. For
example, to achieve the quality of the texture in
certain prints a viscous layer of printing ink was
applied to some tracing paper, which was then
placed ink-side down on to freshly-grained zinc
plate. The artist used a hard pencil to draw on to
the paper and through pressure imposed a greasey
drawing on to the zinc surface. Very careful etching
with solutions of gallic acid was used during the
processing of the drawing to make the image stable
for the pulling of the edition.' (Price: £195 per folio.)
3
Boat Race, a poster, designed by A. E. Marty for
London Underground in 1933—at a mixed pictures/
posters exhibition at Lords Gallery ending on
January 15. The gallery is also exhibiting posters
by Sonia Delaunay and watercolours and oils by
Henry Simpson. (Prices: A. E. Marty posters—£18
each, or £200 for set of thirteen, each signed;
Delaunay—£180—£250; Simpson—£20—£40.)
4
Lucca, 1966, etching by Ben Nicholson, one of a
set of ten called Architectural Suite, published by
Ganymed Original Editions and Marlborough Fine
Art in an edition of fifty. The first ten sets contain
a special version of Aquileia overpainted by the
artist. The suite is on view at Marlborough New
London Gallery on request. (Price: sets 1 to 10—
£630; sets 11 to 50—£420.)
5
A chalk nude study of 1810 by Géricault, in a Ewan
Phillips Gallery exhibition Géricault to Ernst—to mid-
January. The exhibition includes works by Theodore
Rousseau, Lebourg, Kokoschka, Marino Marini and
Kingerlee. (Price range: £15—£800.)