Thirty Paintings.

Heath (E.M.)

Thirty Paintings.

With Foreword by Edward Garnett.

Description: FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and 29 further monochrome plates of work, a couple of faint spots to prelims, pp. [xi], Plates, 4to, original quarter natural linen with dark brown boards, printed labels to backstrip and upper board, that to latter faintly spotted, a few spots to edges and endpapers, tail edge roughtrimmed, dustjacket foxed, very good

Publication Details: Jonathan Cape, 1935

Notes: Inscribed by Heath on the flyleaf, to a fellow artist: 'Muirhead Bone, with E.M. Heath's grateful remembrances, July 1935'. Ellen Maurice Heath, taught by Walter Sickert (who painted her portrait), was a painter of landscapes and portraits; amongst her sitters for those in the latter category, included here, were Joseph Conrad, Edward Garnett, and the young David Garnett. Heath had, in fact, by the time of this publication, been Edward Garnett's companion for almost forty years, and was later described by the son in his memoir as 'practically one of our family'. She was the daughter of rural ...moreInscribed by Heath on the flyleaf, to a fellow artist: 'Muirhead Bone, with E.M. Heath's grateful remembrances, July 1935'. Ellen Maurice Heath, taught by Walter Sickert (who painted her portrait), was a painter of landscapes and portraits; amongst her sitters for those in the latter category, included here, were Joseph Conrad, Edward Garnett, and the young David Garnett. Heath had, in fact, by the time of this publication, been Edward Garnett's companion for almost forty years, and was later described by the son in his memoir as 'practically one of our family'. She was the daughter of rural author Richard Heath, and her work was admired by D.H. Lawrence, who considered – in a letter to Eddie Marsh – that 'she does some awfully original things'. HIDE

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Price: £200

Subject: Art & Architecture

Published Date: 1935

Stock Number: 73767

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