Simon Bussy Antique Black Cat Old WW1 Woodcut Painting Art Postcard

ABIZVAC2 A stunning undated but modern origin reproduction published postcard and souvenir from one of London's leading museums of this iconic monochrome woodcut of a black cat from Simon Bussy from WW1 (1918) with further details and museum logo on reverse capturing all the character of the wartime original unused and mint.

" The print relies entirely on a sharp, high-contrast black ink layer to define the cat's form against bare cream paper, removing all traditional Victorian textural shading. Bussy captures the feline in a tense, rounded hunch. The smooth mass of the body is balanced by an elongated, sharply curved tail that hooks dramatically into the negative space. rather than leaning into the illustrative realism of contemporary cat artists, Bussy used the raw texture of the woodblock to focus on pure, minimalist form. The original 1918 portfolio was printed in a strictly limited run of just 75 standard copies so today are exceptionally rare today and highly sought after by collectors of British Modernism..."