Attributed to Gwendolen Raverat (1885-1957) British, Oil on Canvas. "The Black Piano". Titled verso. Gwendolen was an English wood engraver who was a founder member of the Society of Wood Engravers. Raverat was one of the first wood engravers recognised as modern. She went to the Slade School in 1908, but stood outside the groups growing up at the time, the group that gathered around Eric Gill at Ditchling and the group that grew up at the Central School of Arts and Crafts around Noel Rooke. She was influenced by the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists and developed her own painterly style of engraving. There was some similarity between her early engravings and those of Gill, and she did know Gill, but the similarity was based mostly on her black line style at the time, influenced by Lucien Pissarro, and the semi-religious themes that she then chose. One of her first wood engravings to appear in a book was "Lord Thomas and Fair Annet" in The Open Window (1911), which also featured a wood engraving by Noel Rooke. Overall Size: 19 x 22 1/4 in. Sight Size: 14 1/2 x 17 1/4 in. #2215