Lot 34: In Flight

In Flight (Dickson62) The rare linocut printed in pale blue, dark blue and light brown, 1933, an excellent impression, on white mulberry, signed in pencil, one of a small number of impressions, with margins, 86 x 100mm (3 3/8 x 4in)(B)(unframed)

86 x 100mm

"Beaumont drew inspiration for this work from Edward Mcknight Kauffer's influential woodcut 'Flight' (1917) and its equally striking reworking as a London Underground poster design for the Daily Herald 'Soaring to Success' (1918). In Beaumont's simple and elegant rendition he reduces the birds to little more than overlapping chevrons to express mass movement of birds in flight." Tim Dickson, Leonard Beaumont: A Biography & Print Catalogue Raisonne (Rowsley: Derwent Wye, 2013), 87.