Illustration for Hieroglyphikes on the Life of Man by Francis Quarles

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Graham Sutherland, O.M. (1903-1982)
Illustration for Hieroglyphikes on the Life of Man by Francis Quarles
lithographs in colours, 1943, on two sheets of wove paper, each signed and dated in pencil, proofs aside from the edition of 50.
14½ x 10 in. (37 x 25.5 cm.) (2)

Literature

F. Quarles, Hieroglyphikes 1637, Menston, 1978.
M.Yorke, The Spirit of the Place. Nine Neo-Romantic Artists and their Times, London, 1988, p.131, illustrated.

Exhibited

London, Graham Sutherland, Olympia Loan Exhibition, February - March 2003.

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Lot Essay

During the war, Sutherland pursued interests aside from his work as an Official War Artist. He illustrated two poetry books, the second being the May 1943 edition of Poetry London No. 9, which published Sutherland's illustrations to Francis Quarles' 1638 Hieroglyphikes on the Life of Man (see lot 201).

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