Lot 614: Frank Archer RWS RE 1912-1995- ''Job & his Friends''; etching

Frank Archer RWS RE 1912-1995- ''Job & his Friends''; etching, signed, titled and dated 1937 in pencil, 25x20cm, Provenance: with the Catto Gallery , London, according to label attached to the reverse, (2), (may be subject to Droit de Suite) Frank Archer for an Art Teacher's Diploma at Brighton School of Art (1932), and then took up a place at the Royal College of Art (1934-38). The engravings that he produced as a student won him the coveted Prix de Rome (1938) and led to his election to the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers (ARE 1940, RE 1960). After the war, Archer taught at Eastbourne School of Art, and later at Kingston College of Art, eventually becoming its head. Though he continued to use some kinds of printmaking, his essential development was as a painter with a breadth of vision. The Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours elected him as a member (ARWS 1971, RWS 1976) and mounted a retrospective of his work at the Bankside Gallery (1990).