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Vorticism, War and Peace
Cattle Market, Braintree, 1937
Lithograph after a linocut on a machine-made lithographic cartridge
paper Signed in pencil lower right, from the proposed edition of
approximately 400
Printed by Curwen Press Ltd, published by Contemporary
Lithographs Ltd, London
58.5 x 82 cm (23 x 32 ¼ in)
Literature:
Bawden Editioned Prints, Jeremy Greenwood & Elspeth Moncrieff,
published by The Wood Lea Press, 2005, MG.25, p.42
Contemporary Lithographs published two series of lithographs
in 1937 and 1938. A leaflet published in early 1937 states, each
lithograph has been drawn on the stones by artists at the works of
the Curwen Press.' Though all the other prints in the first series were
indeed autolithographs, Bawden's Cattle Market , the first print in
the series, is self evidently transferred from a linocut. Curwen by
then had been transferring Bawden's linocut images to wallpapers
and posters for more than ten years.
The Contemporary Lithographs leaflet referred to the edition of
each lithograph as 400 copies, but the venture was not a commer-
cial success and far fewer copies were made and sold.
£ 7,500 / $ 11,000
