Edward Burne-Jones - Saturn's Loathing |
A thing most repugnant to the Earth God; armed men joining battle in a cornfield and trampeling the ripe grain under their hourse's hoofs
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Framed size 39 x 38cm.
Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) was one of the most important artists of the Pre-Raphaelite movement and one of the greatest of all English Romantic painters. In the dawning Industrial Age it would become Burne-Jones’ destiny to cast a counter-spell of beauty in a world which had lost its magic.
Burne-Jones began the flower series for his own pleasure in 1882, as rest from more laborious work, keeping by him a list of beautiful flower names that he had met with.
He was fascinated by the associative powers of these names, using them to travel into his own inner world, peopled with biblical characters, heroes of Arthurian and classical legend and figures of pure fantasy.
All the pictures took the same form, a circle about six inches in diameter – a kind of magic mirror in which the vision appears.
The idea of reproducing them was considered from the first, but seemed then to be an impossibility. However, the wonderful advance of colour-printing and the special gift of M. Piazza in Paris, led Burne-Jones’ widow Georgiana to agree to publish shortly after the artist’s death.
These 38 exquisite prints were made in an edition of 300 with colour being applied by hand through stencils (pochoir), often further finished with freehand colour.
Choose any 2 for £1100 or 4 for £2000. |
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