May 07, 2014 - Sale 2349

Sale 2349 - Lot 70

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
GILL, ERIC. Woman with Balloons. Wood-engraved proof after a drawing from life. 173x143 mm; 6 3/4x5 3/4 inches, sheet, on Chine volant, numbered 13/25 and signed by gill in pencil, lower margin, tipped to window matte with archival tape. Used subsequently for aillustration as Plate 90 of Engravings by Eric Gill (Gill 17) with a preface by Gill, printed at the Fanfare Press, London and published in Bristol by Douglas Cleverdon. Physick 387 Np, 1926

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with--An unsigned woodcut proof of Gill's bookplate for Miriam Rothschild titled Surrexit Alleluia, 120x70 mm, mounted at top corners to window matte. Skelton 527.