Wood Engravings from Song of Solomon
From the suite of 11 prints Buller made for the Hebrew classic Song of Solomon. The series was praised by John Hetcher in Print Collector's Quarterly,1930, ". . . essentially a new work of art, equally valid and equally dignified, as the text itself ."
"These dramatic and powerful works mark a culmination of her interest in the formal Cézannesque problems she had been exploring" - Patricia Ainsile, Cecil Buller, Modernist Printmaker, Glenbow Museum, 1989.
Reproduced in The Studio, the important British magazine which documented the international revival of block printing. In 1931 the same blocks were used to illustrate Cantique des Cantiques (Song of Songs), published by Editions des Raisin, Paris.
| Horses, from Song of Solomon (also titled White Horses) - - 1929, Wood Engraving. Ainslie 41c. Edition 25. Signed and numbered 6/25 in pencil. Image size 6 x 4 1/2 inches (152 x 114 mm), sheet size 12 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches (318 x 194 mm). A fine, black impression, on cream wove Japan, with full margins (1 1/4 to 4 1/4 inches), in excellent condition. Printed by Féquet, Paris. SOLD |
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| Man and Woman, from Song of Solomon (also titled Man and Woman Lying Down, and Until the day break and the shadows flee away) - - 1929, Wood Engraving. Ainslie 41j. Edition 25. Signed and numbered 16/25 in pencil. Image size 5 15/16 x 4 1/2 inches (151 x 114 mm), sheet size 11 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches (286 x 210 mm). A fine, black impression, on cream wove Japan, with full margins (1 1/8 to 3 inches), in excellent condition. Printed by Féquet, Paris. SOLD |
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| Man, from Song of Solomon (also titled The Fighter) - - 1929, Wood Engraving. Ainslie 41g. Edition 25. Signed and numbered 16/25 in pencil. Image size 5 15/16 x 4 7/16 inches (151 x 113 mm), sheet size 11 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches (298 x 191 mm). A fine, black impression, on cream wove Japan, with full margins (1 1/8 to 4 inches), in excellent condition. Printed by Féquet, Paris. SOLD |
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