拍品专文
For a sequence of furniture attributed to Edwin Lutyens, see lots 296-300.
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细节
ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT – A collection of papers including architectural plans, drawings, caricatures, and letters relating to the office of the architect Edwin Lutyens, ca. 1903-1913.
22 architectural plans and views, some signed, most matted or on board; 15 sketches, many signed by Edwin Lutyens, all but 2 matted, various sizes (c.66-265 x 59-168mm); a quantity of other ephemera including letters, postcards, drawings, photos, and newspaper clippings; in a custom blue cloth box (375 x 480mm). Provenance: Sotheby's London, 28 April 1988, lots 519, 527, and 528.
Drawings and ephemera relating to the Arts & Crafts circle of Edwin Lutyens, the greatest British architect of the 20th century. This assemblage of drawings, letters, and papers encompasses a cross-section of the network of artists, architects, and thinkers who worked together as part of the Arts & Crafts movement in the early 20th century. The majority of the architectural drawings are signed by Thomas Raffles Davison, editor of The British Architect and Northern Engineer, and depict buildings by Lutyens. Prominently represented are the Deanery at Sonning, Thunder House, and Little Thakeham. The correspondence largely concerns the relations between the Gimson family and Lutyens. Brothers Ernest and Sydney Gimson were both highly influenced by a 1919 lecture by William Morris on “Art and Socialism” at the Leicester Secular Society. Ernest became an important Arts & Crafts designer, while his brother—although rejecting Socialism after all—continued to be an active personality in the movement. Sydney’s son Humphrey went on to work for Lutyens’s architectural office, and the letters here trace the beginnings of this professional relationship. Also present is Humphrey’s school drawing book from 1903-4, which contains striking botanical illustrations drawn from life, as well as stylized designs for bookplates and decorative patterns inspired by them.
22 architectural plans and views, some signed, most matted or on board; 15 sketches, many signed by Edwin Lutyens, all but 2 matted, various sizes (c.66-265 x 59-168mm); a quantity of other ephemera including letters, postcards, drawings, photos, and newspaper clippings; in a custom blue cloth box (375 x 480mm). Provenance: Sotheby's London, 28 April 1988, lots 519, 527, and 528.
Drawings and ephemera relating to the Arts & Crafts circle of Edwin Lutyens, the greatest British architect of the 20th century. This assemblage of drawings, letters, and papers encompasses a cross-section of the network of artists, architects, and thinkers who worked together as part of the Arts & Crafts movement in the early 20th century. The majority of the architectural drawings are signed by Thomas Raffles Davison, editor of The British Architect and Northern Engineer, and depict buildings by Lutyens. Prominently represented are the Deanery at Sonning, Thunder House, and Little Thakeham. The correspondence largely concerns the relations between the Gimson family and Lutyens. Brothers Ernest and Sydney Gimson were both highly influenced by a 1919 lecture by William Morris on “Art and Socialism” at the Leicester Secular Society. Ernest became an important Arts & Crafts designer, while his brother—although rejecting Socialism after all—continued to be an active personality in the movement. Sydney’s son Humphrey went on to work for Lutyens’s architectural office, and the letters here trace the beginnings of this professional relationship. Also present is Humphrey’s school drawing book from 1903-4, which contains striking botanical illustrations drawn from life, as well as stylized designs for bookplates and decorative patterns inspired by them.