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Drawings for the Passion

8 large studies for ‘The Passion’ including: 1 charcoal drawing (36-5 x 24 cm); 1 ink and brush with a charcoal cubist still life on the verso (28-5 x 39 cm); 2 pencil drawings – 36-5 x 29 cm; 28 x 43-5 cm; 4 pencil drawings composed of 2 or more smaller drawings pasted together - 37 x 39 cm; 28-5 x 34 cm; 46 x 51 cm; 43 x 42 cm

Notebook No. 1

Cloth covered notebook with lined pages and printed cover titled ‘Students MSS Book’ filled with writing and a few small sketches in pencil and ink. Front and back endpapers are also filled with writing. The notes appear to have been taken from readings, not lecture notes, as they are in paragraph form and occasionally have page references. Some of the subjects include Wagner, Fetichism, Maeterlinck’s ‘Wisdom and destiny’, Edmund Gosse’s ‘Ibsen’, pictorial composition, Cubism, modern painting, Matisse, Monet, Gauguin, Renoir and many other artists.

Notebook No. 6

Notebook is bound in black speckled paper- covered boards with cloth backstrip, worn and largely disbound. Addresses on the front free endpaper include that of Albert Barnes. Pages are unlined. A number of rough pencil sketches, most of a cubist nature, are included, and summaries include The aesthetic attitude by Langfeld; the Picabia issue of The little review (Spring 1922); Projective ornament by Claude Bragdon; On a composition by Gauguin by Roger Fry; Dynamic symmetry in composition as used by the artist by Jay Hambidge, etc. Four oiled tracing paper sheets with notes and drawings have been loosely inserted.

Life drawings: sketchbook

Plain bound sketchbook (42.5 x 35.5 cm) with 8 full page drawings and 1 half-page bound in. 5 drawings removed along perforation. The drawings are ink and brush studies, apparently from models.

Figure drawings: pencil

File contains figure studies in pencil on paper. The group seems to be a combination of drawings from life and copies of poses from published sources.

Figure studies: line drawings

File contains pencil and charcoal drawings on paper consisting of figures drawn from life. With few exceptions they consist of simple outlines.

Prints

File contains 4 prints, including 2 prints from the same plate on different papers (12.5 x 10 cm

Watercolour sketch

File contains one drawing, red and black wash over pencil on paper, of a boy and girl picking apples. Two pencil sketches of entwined figures on the verso

Untitled figure drawings

File contains drawings received from Sylvia Ostry, as follows: Untitled (Seated figure), [ca. 1925]; Untitled (Seated figure in window), [ca. 1925]; Untitled (Three female nudes), [192-]; Untitled (Three female nudes in landscape), [ca. 1928]; Untitled (Female figures in mountainscape), [ca. 1928]

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