拍品 30
30
Songs of Experience
Songs of Experience
Songs of Experience
20 更多
Songs of Experience
23 更多
“William Blake is unquestionably important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.” — Maurice Sendak
WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)

Songs of Experience

估價
美元 1,000,000 – 美元 1,500,000
估價不包括買家酬金。成交總額為下鎚價加以買家酬金及扣除可適用之費用。
試用
Scroll to top
WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)

Songs of Experience
細明拍品專文更多來自
細節
WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)
Songs of Experience
Printed by the author, 1794 [but 1793].

· One of only four copies printed of the exceptionally rare first issue of Songs of Experience, one of only two copies still complete, and the only one in private hands
· The first of Blake’s works created using his newly developed method of color printing
· With provenance dating back to the painter and important Blake patron, Ozias Humphry
· With uncut sheets and its original buff paper wrappers, as it would have left Blake’s hands
來源
Ozias Humphry (1742-1810), English miniature painter and patron of William Blake (bequeathed to:)
William Upcott (1779-1845), English librarian and antiquary (his sale, Messrs. Evans, 15 June 1846, lot 65, to: Evans)
R. Sykes (inscription to upper cover)
Robert Arthington (1823-1900), English investor and philanthropist (his sale, Sotheby’s, 17 May 1866, lot 18, to: Pickering)
C.H. Jephcott, Cottingham, Yorkshire (Sotheby's, 28 December 1948, lot 98; acquired by:)
Earl of Crawford and Balcarres (sold by Quaritch in 1984 to:)
Justin Schiller (bookplate; sold in 1994 to Maurice Sendak).

榮譽呈獻

Nathalie Ferneau
Nathalie Ferneau Head of Sale, Junior Specialist

查閱狀況報告或聯絡我們查詢更多拍品資料

+1 (212) 636 2236

拍品專文

相關文章

更多來自 莫里斯·桑達克：藝術家、收藏家與鑑賞家

查看全部
查看全部