print
- Museum number
- 1969,0614.49
- Title
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Object: Sortie d'usine No.1
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Series: Sortie d'usine
- Description
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Park scene with children and dog, three women to left, factory chimney behind. 1930
Etching
- Production date
- 1930
- Dimensions
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Height: 239 millimetres
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Width: 305 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Text from Frances Carey & Antony Griffiths, 'Avant-Garde British Printmaking 1914-1960', BMP 1990, no.106.
The 'Sortie d'Usine' series consists of six plates made in 1930-31. At the time, Gross was living in Paris near the Porte d'Auteuil, on the edge of the poor working-class suburb called the 'Zone'. The life of this area served as the subject for his paintings and drawings, as well as for this set of prints which begs comparison with Hayter's series of 'Paysages Urbains'. Despite a few obvious similarities - notably the transparent figures placed in false perspective against the buildings - Gross was never a member of Atelier 17 (although a personal friend of Hayter from 1926), and never subscribed to its theories or participated in its researches.
Some, perhaps all, of the 'Sortie d'Usine' series was reprinted by Gross in a further edition in 1968.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1990/1 Sept.-Jan., BM, 'Avant-Garde British Printmaking 1914-1960', no.106
- Acquisition date
- 1969
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1969,0614.49