Signed and signed in the plate etching.
From the Charivari Suite.
From the edition of 50.
The Charivari suite consisted of seven etchings. Charivari translated to english means 'Rough Music', which was the old custom whereby those who had incurred general disapproval in a town or village by unuequal marriage, immoral behaviour, or the like, were subjected night and day to a discordant noise of musical instruments, pots, pans etc. Gross witnessed such an event involving a village woman in 1960.
Please note, edition number may vary.
‘I can do no more than salute the massive edifice of the accomplished work in etching and engraving. For here is a world spread before us, with innumerable landscapes, townscapes, buildings, people, through which we can move and share the artist’s unique perceptions.’
Michael Rothenstein, in the foreword to The Prints of Anthony Gross, Herdman, 1991.