Sep 19, 2017 - Sale 2454

Sale 2454 - Lot 481

Price Realized: $ 15,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
GERALD L. BROCKHURST
Jeunesse Dorée.

Etching, 1942. 275x225 mm; 10 7/8x8 7/8 inches, full margins. Third state (of 3). Edition of 75. Signed in pencil, lower right. A superb, richly-inked impression.

Brockhurst (1890-1978) was born in Birmingham, England, and was brought up mainly by his mother, both in England and the U.S. He started making etchings, mostly based on his paintings, in the early 1910s, encouraged by the English printmaker Augustus John. Fletcher 80.