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WILLIAM EVAN CHARLES MORGAN (1903-1979)
Engraving, 1929, on cream laid paper, signed, dated, titled and numbered 6/70 in pencil, the full sheet; together with two other engravings, The Source, 1927, signed, dated, titled and numbered 15/50 in pencil; Nymphs Bathing, 1928, signed, dated, titled and numbered 2/83 in pencil, each on laid paper, in good condition (3)
Plate 220 x 207mm. (8 5/8 x 8 1/8in.); Sheet 462 x 284mm. (18 1/4 x 11 1/4in.)
Footnotes
William Morgan studied at Camberwell School of Art and the Slade. He was a key figure in the revival of interest in engraving in the 1920s and was awarded the 1924 Prix de Rome, spending four years in Italy perfecting his technique. Inspired by Renaissance engravings, particularly the work of Durer, he produced a series of allegorical subjects, including Perseus which is considered to be his masterpiece.
The Source depicts the imaginary guardian of the spring of life in an enchanted forest and was selected as the artist's exhibition piece at the Royal Academy in 1928. In Nymphs Bathing he depicts three figures from three different viewpoints, doubtless influenced by the figures he would have seen in Italian paintings where the artists displayed their skill in rendering different aspects of the human form within the same image.
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