John Banting - The Oracle |
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Ink drawing.
Drawing for the Album of 12 Blueprints. Lithographs illustrated in Avant-Garade British Printmaking 1914-1960.
Born in London in 1902, Banting has been described as the nearest thing to a Surreallist that Britain ever produced.
Born in London, John Banting studied part-time at Westminster School of Art but probably the most important event in his artistic development was a visit to Paris in 1930 where he met leading surrealists. Banting was one of the few British artists to seriously embrace surrealism before the war and held his first solo show in 1931. Five years later he exhibited at the seminal International Surrealist exhibition in London.
As a printmaker Banting was famous for his blueprints using the cyanotype process which he initiated in 1931 with his Album of 12 Blueprints. The two important pen and ink drawings offered here, entitled The Secret Visit and The Oracle, were preliminary drawings for subsequent blueprints in the Album of 12 Blueprints. Both are illustrated in the catalogue, Avant-Garde British Printmaking 1914-1960, for the exhibition held at the British Museum in 1990. |
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