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Salvo for Russia: Untitled
John Buckland Wright (New Zealander, 1897–1954)
After: Sir Roland Algernon Penrose CBE (British, 1900–1984)
After: Sir Roland Algernon Penrose CBE (British, 1900–1984)
1942
Medium/Technique
One from the portfolio of ten etchings and engravings
Dimensions
Sheet: 22.5 × 16.2 cm (8 7/8 × 6 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Richard E. Caves
Accession Number2022.1255.4
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAfrica and Oceania, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints – Portfolios
DescriptionSalvo for Russia. A Limited Edition of New Poems, Etchings and Engravings Produced in Aid of the Comforts Fund for Women and Children of Soviet Russia. Co-edited by Nancy Cunard and John Banting. With ten prints by John Banting, John Buckland Wright, Ithell Colquhoun, Roland Penrose (engraved by Buckland Wright), John Piper, Dolf Rieser, Charles Salisbury, Geza Szobel, Julian Trevelyan, Mary Wykeham, and four poems by Nancy Cunard, James Law Forsyth, James Findlay Hendry and Cecily Mackworth.
Provenance1988, sold by Redfern Gallery, London, to Richard E. Caves (b. 1931 – d. 2019), Cambridge, MA; 2022, bequest of Richard E. Caves to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 20, 2022)