$2,400
Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800
Auction: April 6, 2017 11:00:00 AM EDT
1926, pencil signed (from the edition of 120), with wide margins. Wood engraving on wove paper.
image: 5 1/2 x 8 in. (14 x 20.3cm)
sheet: 8 3/4 x 11 1/4 in. (22.2 x 28.6cm)
[Burne-Jones, 6]
Provenance: Harbor Gallery, New York, New York.
Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Washington, D.C. (acquired directly from the above in 1988).
note:
Created during a so-called " intense mystical period" born out of extreme loneliness in Alaska and Newfoundland, this image was made in illustration of the poem "An Ancient to Ancients" by Thomas Hardy :
"...And ye, red-lipped and smooth-browed;
list, Gentlemen;
Much is there waits you we have missed;
Much lore we leave you worth the knowing,
Much, much has lain outside our ken;
Nay, rush not: time serves:
we are going, Gentlemen."