Three AM A Corner by Madison Square at Night

by Christopher Richard Waynne Nevinson

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Price

$16,000

Dimensions

6.880 x 9.940 x 1.500 inches

Title

Three AM A Corner by Madison Square at Night

Artist

Christopher Richard Waynne Nevinson

Medium

Mixed Media - Drypoint Etching On Paper

Description

Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (13 August 1889 - October 1946) was an English painter. He is often referred to by his initials C. R. W. Nevinson, and was known as Richard.
Richard Nevinson is one of the most famous war artists and was the son of the war correspondent and journalist Henry Nevinson and the suffrage campaigner and writer Margaret Nevinson. Educated at Uppingham School, which he hated, Nevinson went on to study at the St John's Wood School of Art. Inspired by seeing the work of Augustus John, he decided to attend the Slade School of Art, part of University College London. There his contemporaries included Mark Gertler, Stanley Spencer, Paul Nash and Dora Carrington.
Gertler was, for a time, his closest friend and influence, and they formed for a short while a group known as the Neo-Primitives, being deeply influenced by the art of the early Renaissance. However, Gertler and Nevinson subsequently fell out when they both fell in love with Carrington. Whilst at the Slade, Nevinson was advised by his Professor of Drawing, Henry Tonks, to abandon thoughts of an artistic career. Nevinson's war memoir Paint and Prejudice (London, Methuen, 1937) must be treated with some caution. Although lively and always colourful, it is as in parts inaccurate, inconsistent, and misleading.

On leaving the Slade, Nevinson befriended Marinetti, the leader of the Italian Futurists, and the radical English writer and artist Percy Wyndham Lewis, who founded the short-lived Rebel Art Centre, whose members included Edward Wadsworth and Ezra Pound. However, Nevinson fell out with Lewis and the other 'rebel' artists when he attached their names to the Futurist movement. Lewis immediately founded the Vorticists, an avant-garde group of artists and writers from which Nevinson was excluded (though he is said to have coined the title for the Vorticists' famous magazine, BLAST).
At the outbreak of World War I, Nevinson joined the Friends' Ambulance Unit with his father, and was deeply disturbed by his work tending wounded French soldiers. For a brief period he served as a volunteer ambulance driver, before ill health soon forced his return to England. He used these experiences as the subject matter for a series of powerful paintings, which used Futurist techniques to great effect.
His fellow artist Walter Sickert wrote at the time that "Nevinson's painting La Mitrailleuse (now in the Tate collection) will probably remain the most authoritative and concentrated utterance on the war in the history of painting."
The Neighborhood Gallery on Fine Art America is offering this etching in its original frame which measures 14.25" x 18" in height. It is hand signed on the lower right. Additional photos are available upon request. It has been recently appraised and all documentation will be forwarded to the buyer. For more information or to arrange an in person viewing call Richard Beau Lieu at 561-736-8181 or email: beaulieustudios@aol.com

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February 13th, 2024

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