Lot 18
WILLIAM JOHNSTONE O.B.E. (SCOTTISH 1897-1981) §
WILLIAM JOHNSTONE & EDWIN MUIR - FOLIO OF LITHOGRAPHS & POETRY, 1981
Modern British & Contemporary Art
Auction: 16 August 2018 at 12:00 BST
£1,500
Description
Signed by Johnstone and numbered 27/50, featuring 21 lithographs, each signed in pencil, in original folio casing, with original tissue guards
Dimensions
32.5cm x 26cm (12.75in x 10.25in)
Footnote
Note: Johnstone on the folio, "I do not mean my lithographs to have a literal connection with the poems I have chosen by Ewin Muir. I have tried to relate my unconscious and surreal perceptions to those of the poet. The poems, re-read over many years, contain layered depths of unconscious feeling and tension. The poet never realised that he was a true man of genius; he remained a man of doubt."