A beautiful antique etching entitled 'Concert' by Elyse Lord depicting three women playing different instruments. Wonderful image. Beautiful muted colour palette. So evocative of the 1920's style & design.
"Concert" is illustrated as Plate VI in "The Studio" publication "Masters of the Colour Print I - Elyse Lord" by Malcolm Salaman in 1927. Salaman writes about this image:
"One seems to 'hear' these prints as well as see them, for the colour sings; so in this enchanting "Concert" one may hear strange and lovely music that Persian lovers might have listened to in Omar's day. How stifling the heat, how languorous the air! And those young musicians, so beautifully grouped by the tree to share what shade they may from the slender foliage, perhaps they are only wooing with melodious plaint and gentle zephyr that will kindly pass their way. But what exquisite factors of design are their strange instruments, and what a print to live with - its lovely orchestra of colour offering a soothing influence for a hundred changing moods."
Circa 1920's. Measures 14" x 12.5." $185.00.
*Elyse Ashe Lord (1900–1971) was a British artist and illustrator who worked in watercolours and drypoint etching. She trained at the Heatherley School of Art in Chelsea, and the first public exhibition of her work was in 1919. Her drawings were exhibited at the Brook Street Gallery in 1921.In 1922 she became a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours. Various large exhibitions of her works were held during her lifetime. Although she never visited the far east, her images typically draw on the Art Deco movement & ideas of Oriental culture. She was a popular artist, even during a time period when the art market & decorative arts particularly, was suffering from the economic crisis of the 1930s.