Price: £450
Subject: Art & Architecture
Published Date: 1950
Stock Number: 73859
(Your basket is currently empty)- [Proof wood-cut:] 'View over Boboli Gardens from Piazzi Pitti - a room 3rd Floor', 76/150 COPIES, dated 1908 in pencil at foot of image, and signed by Craig with his initials in 1925, inscribed by the artist in pencil to 'Mr and Mrs Ashley Clarke from EGC', tipped to art-paper, very faint spotting, 5 x 14.5 cm approx. (image size), displayed in a mount, very good condition- [Proof wood-cut:] 'Lorenzo & Jessica running away with wild music playing' (Block No 223, State 2, No 1), inscribed by the artist in pencil 'To Virginia - 1950 - an unfinished oddity', tipped to card, 9.5 x 8.5 cm approx. (image size), very good condition- Two copies of Janet Leeper's Edward Gordon Craig, King Penguin Books 40, 1948: one in very good condition and inscribed by Craig ('To Ashley Clarke, without excuses, from EGC, 1948'); the other in poor condition and inscribed by the author ('Virginia & Ashley, from Janet, with love, 22 October 1948, 18 November 1948') (Fletcher & Rood B31a)
Description: various sizes and formats, mixed condition, as listedPublication Details: various publishers, 1925-circa 1950
Notes: The recipients were the British diplomat, ambassador to Italy, and his wife, the art historian Virginia Surtees; a copy of a letter to Clarke from the V & A Museum, in 1968, thanks him for the loan of materials (including the present work) for an exhibition, accompanied by a listing of the items.[With:] A Living Theatre: The Gordon Craig School, The Arena Goldoni, The Mask. Setting fort the Aims and Objects of the Movement and Showing by Many Illustrations the City of Florence, The Arena. Florence, 1913, SECOND EDITION, various engravings both historical and contemporary (including by Craig),...more
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