Alberto Morrocco (Scottish 1917-1998) §
Collection of original sketches for Zodiac: Journal of Aberdeen University Medical Society, 1948-9
£630
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
17 pen-and-ink sketches on paper or card, various dimensions (11.5 x 16cm to 19.5 x 25cm), variously signed ‘AM’, ‘Morrocco’, or A. Morrocco, several with editorial annotations in pencil or green ink, a few with corrections in white ink, corner-mounted to rectos of versos of card leaves in modern album, recent manuscript captions to mounts with details of the images' publication, 2 sketches with contemporary editorial annotations mounted below. Together with 3 similar sketches by another unidentified artist apparently for the same publication (bound into the same album), and an original copy of each Zodiac number (Vol. 1 Nos. 4-5) in which the sketches are published
Provenance
From the collection of A. T. Mennie, editor of Zodiac; thence by direct descent to the present owner.
Footnote
A substantial collection of original drawings by Morrocco, shedding light on an early and obscure chapter in his artistic career.