Lot 564

FREDERICK LANDSEER MAUR GRIGGS (1876-1938)
SARRAS






Auction: Day Two inc FL Griggs : A Cotswold Legacy | Lots 334 to 654 | Thursday 16th October from 10am
Description
watercolour, initialled lower left F.L.G., inscribed verso SARRAS/ F.L. GRIGGS RA
Dimensions
14cm x 18.5cm (frame size 23.5cm x 28cm)
Provenance
F.L. Griggs, and by family descent, see lot 549 for more details
Footnote
Literature: Comstock F.A. A Gothic Vision: F. L. Griggs and His Work, Massachusetts: Boston Public Library, 1966
This fine watercolour of Sarras envisions the Arthurian Grail city as a Gothic, mystical sanctuary. One of four such watercolours, it complements Griggs's celebrated etchings Sarras and Lanterns of Sarras. Together, these works reveal Griggs’s enduring fascination with Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur and the sacred symbolism of place.





