Gross (Anthony) - Clos des Cèdres

Clos des Cèdres. Signed aquatint by Anthony Gross on handmade paper, numbered 14/50, image size 25 X 32cm, [1954].

Mounted, framed and glazed. With the label of the Alexander Gallery, Bristol on the verso. Fine condition.

Gross's works are held too many public collections to attempt to list. Suffice it to say that after a spell as a war artist, Gross returned to working in London, in Chelsea, Greenwich and Blackheath, while in the mid-1950s working partly in Le Boulvé. He produced lithographs for J. Lyons and Co., and illustrated editions of Wuthering Heights and The Forsyte Saga. In 1954 he designed the famous dust jacket for the first edition of Lord of the Flies.From 1948 to 1954 he was a life drawing tutor at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, afterwards becoming Head of Printing at the Slade School of Fine Art. From 1948 to 1971 Gross's work was exhibited in London and New York in one-man shows and as part of The London Group. In 1965 he became the first president of the Printmakers Council. He became an honorary member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in 1979, the same year being elected as an Associate of the Royal Academy; becoming a Senior Academician in 1981, and receiving an CBE in 1982.