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1930 Print Birthday Infanta Oscar Wilde Pamela Bianco Costume Royalty Art XDF6

1930 Print Birthday Infanta Oscar Wilde Pamela Bianco Costume Royalty Art XDF6

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This is an original 1930 black and white relief line-block print of an illustration from, The Birthday of the Infanta, written by Oscar Wilde.

CONDITION

This 81+ year old Item is rated Very Fine ++. Light wrinkling. No natural defects. No surface rub. No tears. No water damage. Please note: There is printing on the verso.

  • Product Type: Relief Line-block Print; Black / White
  • Grade: Very Fine ++
  • Dimensions: Approximately 6.5 x 9.5 inches; 17 x 24 cm
  • Authentication: Serial-Numbered Certificate of Authenticity w/ Full Provenance
  • Protection: Packaged in a custom archival sleeve with an acid-free black board (great for display, gift-giving, and preservation)

This piece was illustrated by Bianco, Pamela Ruby. Artist name printed on page - bottom center of image.

Bianco, Pamela Ruby

Pamela Ruby Bianco (1906 - 1994) became an internationally recognized child prodigy at the age of twelve following her first solo exhibition at the Leicester Gallery in London. Her early artistic creativity and exceptional ability was encouraged by the literary and artistic circle surrounding her from an early age. This atmosphere and upbringing was attributable to her father, Francisco Bianco, a book department manager, and her mother, Margery Williams, who in 1922 wrote The Velveteen Rabbit (or How Toys Become Real), drawing inspiration for the story from her children's penchant for expressive play, creativity, and imagination.

In 1922, Bianco held her first American exhibition, arranged by Mitchell Kennedy at Anderson Gallery. Her work and the exhibition were met with immediate success, prompting Bianco and her parents to move to New York. That same year, Bianco printed her first lithographs with the renowned American printer George C. Miller. From 1924 to 1928, Bianco was a member of the Studio Club and exhibited throughout the United States and Europe. The imagery of this time, graphically rich and bold still life subjects and flowers, continued to bring her acclaim and it was during this time she developed as an American Modernist painter and printmaker, receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1930. Following the Fellowship, she spent a year in Florence and Rome, during this time writing Starlit Journey.

The chronology of her work includes her early drawings, watercolors, and illustrations; paintings from the 1920s produced in London and Wales; New York City paintings and paintings of rural America produced in Connecticut and Maine in the 1920s and 1930s; Modernist lithographs during the 1930s; portraits and graphically bold and stylized flowers during the 1930s and 1940s; and surreal paintings produced during the 1960s. Her final works are characteristically obsessive and meticulously detailed paintings.

During her adult life she continued to live in an atmosphere of creativity, moving among artistic and literary circles she had been accustomed to since her youth. Dividing her time between America and Europe, especially Italy, France, and England, Bianco developed and maintained wide ranging friendships, including the poets Gabriel d'Annunzio, Walter de la Mare, and Richard Hughes; American artists Joseph Stella, Leonora Carrington, and Joseph Cornell, British artists James Manson and William and Ben Nicholson; as well as Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, George Gershwin, Cecil Beaton, Charlie Chaplin, and Eugene O'Neill, all of whom were also patrons and collectors of her work.

Pamela Bianco died in New York in 1994. A decade later, England & Company held the first retrospective exhibition of her work in December 2005. This exhibition was comprised of a substantial group of the illustrations, watercolors, and delicate early drawings that had brought her recognition as a young girl. Her work has been in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago and the San Diego Museum of Art.

The drawings, illustrations, and watercolors Bianco executed as a child and early adolescent are precursors to an "untrained" aesthetic that increasingly gained popularity and acceptance, being coined in 1972 by art critic Roger Cardinal as "outsider art" and acting as an English synonym for "art brut." The art loosely associated with the term "outsider" falls into various categories, including art brut, folk art, intuitive art/visionary art, marginal art/art singular, naïve art, neuve invention, and visionary environments. Notable "outsider" artists include Ferdinand Cheval, Felipe Jesus Consalvos, Henry Darger, and Scotti Wilson.

Keywords specific to this image: uniform, costume, fashion

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