"Girl with Angel Fish" by Amos Langdown, South African, (1930-2006) Featured

"Girl with Angel Fish" by Amos Langdown, South African, (1930-2006) FeaturedColor Woodcut, 1965, 16 3 4 x 10, no stated ed. but probably small, glue residue showing at margin corners, Slight foxing and handling creases in margins, signed and dated in pencil, on cream japan paper. Langdown was a prominent South African painter and also a masterful and prolific printmaker, who favored native South African subjects in his work. He won a grant from the South African governmet to study abroad in Holland, and had a distinguished

surface loss center top & right margin edge verso from previous hinge removal

a few marginal specks elsewhere

A fine impression of this New York Central Park subject

Though the margins may bear flaws

5-7/8 x 8-1/8

13-3/4 x 10

a pale water spot to lower right margin

His architectural subjects manifest a fascination with pattern

who was equally at home with painting

actual number printed unknown

On thick cream wove paper

Nordfeldt to a small group of modernist painters in Provincetown in the winter of 1915