Sir George Clausen Hand Numbered Limited Edition Print on Paper :"The Allotment Garden"
Title: The Allotment Garden
Dimensions (W x H ): Paper Size: 28 x 23 in | Image Size: 24 x 19 in
Edition | Medium: Each print is hand numbered, accompanied by a certificate signed by the Master Printer and is numbered to match the print. The editions are limited to 1880 copies. |
This Gouttelette print on paper is published with light-fast inks to BS1006 Standard onto acid-free calcium carbonate buffered stock, mould-made from 100% cotton and sourced from environmentally conscious paper suppliers. This product is exclusive to Rosenstiels.
About the Art: Superior Edition
About the Artist:
The London-born son of a Danish artisan and an Aberdonian mother, Clausen was apprenticed at 14 to the interior decorator George Trollope & Sons, later winning a scholarship to the Government Schools at South Kensington. He then worked in the studio of Edwin Long of Babylonian Marriage Market fame, who advised him to abroad.
Marriage in 1881 and a move to Childwickbury in Hertfordshire found Clausen surrounded by agricultural depression and rural life was harsh, but it was not all gloom, toil, ‘corns and dirty nails’. In contrast to these more sombre days are Clausen’s depictions of young village girls, created in both oils and pastels, quickly drawn with slashing strokes of acid green, yellow and orange.
Increasing mechanisation, the Boer War and the First World War extinguished scenes of simple life but Clausen, love of the countryside and its inhabitants were ingrained.
