'A Ship at last light'
'A Ship at last light'

BY EDWARD MCKNIGHT KAUFFER, 1926

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'A Ship at last light'
By Edward McKnight Kauffer, 1926
Pencil and watercolour
13 by 9in. (33 by 24.8cm.)
Signed, dated and inscribed in pencil E. McKnight Kauffer/1926 for Muir with friendship.

Lot Essay

Cf: Mark Haworth-Booth, E. McKnight Kauffer. A Designer and his Public, London, 1979, Pl. 35, p. 50

The present Lot closely resembles McKnight Kauffer's frontispiece for Herman Melville's Benito Cereno, published by the Nonesuch Press in 1926. It has been described as 'one of the most brilliant designs he ever conceived...he built up a shimmering design of a ship becalmed at last light which has an intricate beauty of which the eye can never tire'.

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