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Study of a Figurine, Spain 1956 ( Spain 1956 )
SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963)
Signed, Inscribed, Dated
Signed with initials SP
Medium
Pen and ink and pencil on paper
Dimensions:
17.80cm wide
(7.01 inches)
25.50cm high
(10.04 inches)
External Dimensions
31.00cm framed width
(12.20 inches)
40.00cm framed height
(15.75 inches)
Description / Expertise
Sylvia Plath, the poet, is most well known for her first volume of poetry, Ariel and her semi-autobiography The Bell Jar.
She married Ted Hughes in June 1956 and on her honeymoon she drew and sketched. On August 28th 1956 she wrote to her grandmother, Auriel Plath, about these drawings: I fell I'm developing a kind of primitive style of my own which I am very fond of. Wait till you see them.
Exhibition History
London, Mayor Gallery, Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings, November - December 2011
Provenance
Frieda Hughes, the artist's daughter; to December 2011
Literature
Sylvia Plath, Crystal Gazer and other Poems by Sylvia Plath, Rainbow Press, London 1971, illustrated as a tipped in woodcut on japanned paper as the frontispiece, edition limited to 400 copies.
Frieda Hughes, Sylvia Plath as an Artist, The Mayor Gallery Ltd., London 2011, catalogue number 37, illustrated
Status
FOR SALE
