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Lettice Sandford
Unititled
(Two female nudes with urn)
1935
SOLD

Incredible economy of line

Artist: Lettice Sandford (1902-1993)
Title: Illustration to the title page of The Golden Bed of Kydno, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1935
Date: 1935
School: British, British XXth-century
Medium: line engraving
Dimensions: 175 x 160mm
Watermark: none
Inscriptions/marks: mounter’s marks in pencil bottom right
Condition: good, four pin holes at the four corners
Description: Two women, one seated and one kneeling seen from the back who is touching the inner thigh of the seated frontal nude. An urn in the shape of a Greek amphora to the left of the figures.
Provenance: Dunbar Sloane, Wellington, 2022