Wood engraving Yvonne Skargon, cat

Name: Wood Engraving Yvonne Skargon, Cat
SKU: as811a072
Price: 30.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

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A wood engraving of a cat by Yvonne Skargon pencil signed and numbered 37 out of an edition of 1OO. The actual image measures 12cm x 8cm, the picture measuring 35cm x 25cm. Good condition throughout.

Born in 1931, Yvonne Skargon trained at Colchester School of Art of which John O’Connor was Principal at the time. Blair Hughes-Stanton was a visiting lecturer who inspired her to take up wood engraving. In the 1950s she embarked on a career working for publishers or free-lance, illustrating or designing books and book-jackets.
In 1967 Christophers, the wine merchants, started a monthly newsletter, to which Elizabeth David contributed and Yvonne Skargon illustrated with her own engravings. It was published as a book, Eat at Pleasure, Drink by Measure (1970). In 1976 she became visiting lecturer in wood engraving at the Royal College of Art, a stimulating task that only ended when the subject was dropped from the syllabus in 1980.
In 1981 she moved to to Lavenham in Suffolk and creating her own garden provided new inspiration for engraving, first in the Observer magazine and then in Hortus, the gardening quarterly . In 1990 she did roses for the Royal Mail commemorative stamps, adding watercolours of them for the special first-day cover envelopes.
Another unexpected success came from her engravings of her cats, The Importance of Being Oscar (1988) and Lily & Hodge & Dr Johnson (1991) becoming world bestsellers. This charming engraving probably depicts one of her cats sitting inside a shopping basket.
Yvonne Skargon died on 16 March 2O1O.

Price

£~~30.00~~

$~~38.12~~ USA

€~~35.09~~

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Period 1980s Antiques Origin English Item code as811a072 Status Sold

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