Eric Gill (1882-1940)
Gill family collection of photographs of the artist's work
£1,638
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
25 photographs of Gill's sculptures and commissions, all labelled to reverse in his hand, including: ‘BBC details of Ariel, unfinished’; bas-relief of Nausica and Ulysses, Midland Hotel, 1933; ‘Mankind' (Tate Collection); ‘Model for South Wind’ (St James’s Park Station); Madonna and Child, Glastonbury Abbey; Sir Charles Hamilton memorial, Broadway; St Dominic Caen, Blackfriars Priory, Oxford; garden statue, later in the collection of Roger Fry; crucifix for G.K. Chesterton’s grave, 1937; Coat of Arms for Jesus College, Cambridge, 1930-31; lychgate, West Dean Cemetery.
46 photographs inscribed to reverse by Mary Gill (wife), Petra Tegetmeier and Joan Hague (his daughters), Evan Gill (brother), and Sir William Rothenstein, including: War Memorial, Leeds University; door carvings, Radcliffe Library, Oxford; Lady Ottoline Morrell memorial, St Mary’s Church, Garsington; Mary Beatrice Johnson memorial, St James’s, Piccadilly, 1930; ‘The Golden Calf’; ‘The Divine Lovers’.
15 photographs inscribed verso by the artist or his wife.
9 photographs of works executed by Gill's assistants Antony Foster, Charles Blackman, H.J. Cribb and Laurie Cribb, 6 inscribed to reverse in Gill's hand, including Gill's own headstone, designed by Gill and carved by Laurie Cribb.
127 photographs of Gill's work, not inscribed, including: Mother and Child, commissioned by Rupert Brooke; portrait panel of Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist; ‘Ecstasy’ (Tate Collection); portrait panel of the Maharani of Bastar, Maharani Hospital, Jagdalpur; Herbert Trench gravestone, Boulogne Eastern Cemetery (200+)