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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Richard Dorment art critic of The Daily Telegraph wrote of Drury as a real artist one whose works are the product of deep thought and profound technical efforts. He may be amongst the finest practitioners of the art of etching in England in this century.” Paul Drury’s obituarist described him as ‘one of the most distinguished etchers and draughtsmen in that remarkably gifted generation of printmakers who grew up between the two World Wars. His landscapes contain a deeply poetic quality which was to exert a powerful influence on the succeeding generation of neo-Romantic artists.” Drury is best known for his print September (1928) and he was at the centre of the revival of the pastoral tradition at Goldsmiths College in the 1920s in rejecting the plein air tradition of etching prevalent at the time. In this he was joined by Graham Sutherland William Larkins Bouverie Hoyton Robin Tanner and others. As a portraitist he was unparalleled by any printmaker of his generation. This book will be a revelation to anyone interested in the techniques of printmaking. The ?uvre is remarkable for the range of techniques demonstrated as for the quality of the work. (LL)