Winner, Gerd: Free Trade Wharf
£750.00
A superb unframed screenprint in excellent condition depicting the abandoned ‘Free Trade Wharf’ warehouses dating from 1796 in the old riverside neighbourhood of Ratcliffe located between Wapping-Shadwell and Limehouse.
The Free Trade Wharf was purchased by the Inner London Education Authority in 1977 with the intention of building a campus for the City of London Polytechnic but the plans fell through and the site remained vacant until the early 1980s when it was replaced by a distinctive residential development designed by the architects Holder Mathias Alcock.
The screenprint is signed and numbered 89 from the limited edition of 150.
More images can be provided on request.
Artist: Gerd Winner, (1936)
Title and date: Free Trade Wharf, 1972
Size: 61.0 x 103.0 cms.
Description
Artist Description:
Gerd Winner is a German painter, sculptor and a pioneering graphic artist. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin in the 1950s and 1960s where he lives and works today.
He developed a style of hyper-realism using computer techniques and photography producing several series of screenprints which frequently relate to uncelebrated and overlooked urban architecture.
In 1970, Winner came to London supported by the British Council and began an extensive cooperation with Chris Prater and the Kelpra Studios. Several series of London-based photorealist screenprints followed. St.Katharine’s Way, London Docks and London Transport were published by Marlborough Graphics in 1971 and in 1972, Kelpra Editions produced a further series which included Underground and Thames Sunday Afternoon.
Winner has works in most major international collections including The Tate and MOMA in New York.