Description

Original etching, signed and titled in pencil in the artist s hand.

From an edition of 40.

Valentine was the wife of the Russian painter Yuri Annenkoff (1889-1974). They were friends and neighbours of Gross at Hameau Boileau.

‘I can do no more than salute the massive edifice of the accomplished work in etching and engraving. For here is a world spread before us, with innumerable landscapes, townscapes, buildings, people, through which we can move and share the artist’s unique perceptions.’
Michael Rothenstein, in the foreword to The Prints of Anthony Gross, Herdman, 1991.