Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1966) §
'Impieta', 1925
£2,016
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 June 2023 at 11:00 BST
Description
woodcut, showing a bacchante carried by Bacchus and a faun, signed and dated by Waugh lower right, title lower right, both in pencil, mounted, framed and glazed, mount aperture 8 x 10.5cm
Footnote
Note: A rare survival from the young Waugh's brief period as an aspiring artist, dating from the year after he left Oxford with a disappointing third-class degree in history, and three years before he published his first book, a study of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. One other copy traced, at the Harry Ransom Center (accession number 94.14.6), where catalogued as a 'Nude man and satyr carrying man's body with chalice in hand'.
Provenance: Presented by Waugh to Joyce Gill (née Fagan), a long-standing friend with whom he had a passionate affair during the unhappy period of the drawn-out annulment of his first marriage to Evelyn Gardner (see lot 284); thence by descent.