Blair Hughes Stanton British, 1902-1981
Lucifer, Mephistopheles and Beelzebub, 1932

£750

Woodblock print
Signed, titled, numbered (1/12) and dated (in margin)
18cm x 11cm (image size) (31cm x 22cm framed)

Blair Hughes-Stanton was one of the most technically accomplished artists of his time, creating fine engravings rarely rivalled. He studied at The Byam Shaw Art School, The Royal Academy Schools and at The Leon Underwood School of Painting and Sculpture between 1919 and 1924. Although an accomplished painter, he excelled as a wood-engraver and became one of the most significant book illustrators and designers of the 1920′s and 30′s. Hughes-Stanton specialised in the illustration and the production of illustrated books for small scale publishers such as The Golden Cockerel Press, The Cresset Press, The Greynog Press and his own Gemini Press. He counted D.H. Lawrence among his friends and made engravings for several of his works.