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Helen Saunders: Modernist Rebel - Modernist Rebel (Paperback)
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Helen Saunders: Modernist Rebel - Modernist Rebel (Paperback)
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This welcome catalogue accompanies The Courtauld's display of the
work of Helen Saunders (1885–1963), the first monographic
exhibition devoted to the artist in over 25 years. After years of
obscurity, Helen Saunders: Modernist Rebel reconsiders her work as
an important part of the story of British modernism. One of the
first British artists to pursue abstraction, Saunders was one of
only two women to join the Vorticists, the radical but short-lived
art movement that emerged in London on the eve of the First World
War. Her extraordinary drawings capture both the dynamism of modern
urban life and the horrors of mechanised warfare. Following the
war, she turned her back on Vorticism and pursued her own path,
working in a more figurative style. Due in part to the loss of a
significant portion of her oeuvre, including all of her Vorticist
oil paintings, this remarkable artist fell into obscurity. Only in
recent years has her work begun to be rediscovered and celebrated
as an important piece of the story of British modernism. A group of
20 drawings gifted in 2016 by her relative, the artist and writer,
Brigid Peppin, has transformed The Courtauld into the largest
public collection of Saunders's work in the world. These drawings
trace Saunders's artistic development in the orbit of Roger Fry and
the Bloomsbury Group, keenly attuned to contemporary art in France,
to the ground-breaking abstraction of Vorticism. Following the
disruption of the First World War and the disbanding of the
Vorticists, Saunders turned again to figuration, developing her own
approach to landscape, portraiture and still life which she would
pursue alone for the rest of her career, exhibiting sporadically
and never again joining a group of artists. This interest is
revealed here in a group of landscapes created in L'Estaque in the
south of France in the 1920s, which show the artist responding both
to her surroundings as well as to predecessors such as Paul
Cézanne and Georges Braque who had previously worked in the area.
Featuring essays by Brigid Peppin and Jo Cottrell on Saunders's
artistic education and career and on her relationship to the places
of Vorticism in London, and catalogue entries by Rachel Sloan, this
volume sheds light on an artist who steadily pursued her own path
and whose contribution to the story of modern art is being newly
appreciated.
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