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Eric Gill

  1882 - 1940
 
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The Harem

The Harem   1925

Original wood engraving.

Very good impression, as published by Douglas Cleverdon in 1929.

£145



Girl Sleeping sold

Girl Sleeping   1925

Original wood engraving.

Very good impression, as published by Douglas Cleverdon in 1929.

SOLD



Girl in Bath: II sold

Girl in Bath: II   1923

Original wood engraving.

Very good impression, as published by Douglas Cleverdon in 1929.

SOLD



Dress, 1920

Dress, 1920   1921

Original wood engraving.

Very good impression, as published by Douglas Cleverdon in 1929.

£125



Flying Buttresses sold

Flying Buttresses   1926

Original line engraving.

Very good impression, as published by Douglas Cleverdon in 1929.

SOLD



Woman with Balloons

Woman with Balloons   1926

Original wood engraving.

Very good impression from the first published edition, as issued by Douglas Cleverdon in 1929.

£145

 

Eric Gill was one of the greatest and most influential wood engravers of the 20th century. His work is dominated by two overriding themes, religion and eroticism. The apparent contrast of these two subjects was reflected in the man himself. A lay brother of the order of St. Dominic and a true artist-craftsman, Eric Gill found the essential source of inspiration for his art through the licentious sexual nature of his own life. [more]