wood engraving 23 cms x 20 cms
Several of Cooper’s contemporaries at the Grosvenor School in the 1930s were making lino-cuts under the tutelage of Claud Flight, in a style strongly influenced by Vorticist and Futurist art. This wood-engraving displays a similar aesthetic.
A night-time street scene, full of modernist imagery of motorcars and electric lighting, becomes an almost abstract composition.
Tantalisingly, the catalogue for a group show at the Wertheim Gallery in 1937 lists an oil painting by Suzanne Cooper also entitled ‘Fog’. At least a dozen of her paintings were sold during the 1930s: their present whereabouts are now unknown.
£245