Newhaven Harbour By Eric Ravilious Small framed

Pre-framed small print of Eric Ravilious Newhaven Harbour print using a solid oak moulding and acid-free off white bevelled cut mount. Ready to hang Image Size 170mm x 120mm . framed size 300mm x 250mm. Newhaven Harbour, 1937 Ravilious produced Newhaven Harbour in 1937 for Contemporary Lithographs Ltd, a venture which enlisted many of the most talented artists of the 1920’s and ‘30’s. They produced auto-lithographs – lithographs on which the artists themselves worked (rather than simply the printer). These works were disseminated widely, often to schools. The idea was to bring artistic excellence to those who neither owned, nor had easy access to art through public galleries. Ravilious called Newhaven Habour his ‘homage to Seurat’. Seurat (1859-91) developed the pointillist technique. He applied tiny dots of pure pigment, finding that this produced luminosity and brightness of colour in his paintings. As homage the work is certainly effective. Newhaven Harbour is one of Ravilious’s best loved works.