£50
Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954), pochoir lithograph on paper, Frontispiece from Benito Cereno, 26cm x 16cm, mounted and framed. Hand-coloured through stencils and printed in a limited edition on Van Gelder paper at the Curwen Press for Nonesuch Press in 1926. Ed. 429/1650. Desmond Flower wrote that this Frontispiece “was one of the most brilliant designs ever conceived; with pen and
two tints, grey and mauve, he built up a shimmering design of a ship becalmed at last light, which has an intimate beauty of which the eye can never tire.”
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