Claude Flight

Redfern Gallery, London, where bought by Sir David Scott, 26 March 1930 for 12 guineas

STRUCTURE The work is on wove paper which has been laid down. SURFACE The surface of the sheet is in good overall condition. FRAME Held under glass and presented within a cream mount in a simple gilded rectilinear frame.
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'This is one of the first pictures I bought and I have never ceased to like it. It is a view over the South Downs in Sussex away to the sea which is seen as a faint line in the distance.' Sir David Scott

One of the great printmakers in linocut of the early twentieth century, Flight was one of the earliest English artists to introduce elements of Italian futurism to British art. A founder member of the "7 and 5 Club" in 1919, he went on to run the Grosvenor School of Modern Art with Ian McNab, which later became known as the most original school of British printmaking in the inter-war period. His watercolours are generally more conventional than his linocuts, but are executed in a vivid style which is unmistakably his own.