Eric Gill (1882-1940)

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Eric Gill (1882-1940)

Standing Boy

pencil, pen and black ink
6¾ x 5¼in. (17.2 x 13.3cm.)
Executed in 1911
and two other pen and black ink drawings by the same artist, 'Standing Boy, Front View' and 'Standing Woman, Side View' (3)

Lot Essay

The two drawings of a standing boy are studies for a carving of Cupid which Gill made for Roger Fry's garden at Guildford in 1911
(see R. Speaight, The Life of Eric Gill, London, 1966, p.53).

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