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Gill letters being auctioned
Eric Gill LettersOn Thursday 26th April Bloomsbury Auctions will be selling a collection of 36 letters and postcards signed to his art dealer Mrs Cecily Marchant of the Goupal Gallery. The formal lot description is below, if you are interested in bidding on this unique collection, please contact me.
Gill (Eric, stone-carver, engraver, typographer, and author, 1882-1940)
Collection of 36 letters and postcards signed to his art dealer Mrs. Cecily Marchant of the Goupil Gallery,
6 A.Ls.s., the rest T.Ls.s., some with autograph additions or corrections, the majority concerning the deals being conducted on behalf of Gill by Mrs. Marchant, including comments on his exhibitions of drawings and carvings at her gallery, the output of other artists and his pupils and comments on “the Geneva work” (i.e. The “Creation of Adam” relief, which was for the League of Nations Council Hall), “If people are asking you questions you might say that the thing consists of three panels...The centre panel represents the Re-creation of Man, the left-hand panel represents Man’s Gifts to God, and the right-hand panel - God’s Gift to Man...But please don’t give this information to the press”, Gill comments frankly on the future of her art gallery and her role in it, “It is very true that the particular flair & the wide & long experience posessed by your husband are necessarily lacking in yourself...On the other hand...you have intimate knowledge of his aims & ideas...”, 30 pp. and 7 cards, sent from Pigotts, High Wycombe, Capel-Y-Ffin, Abergavenny, Jerusalem, Warsaw and “in pub...in Putney or not far off”, 4th December, 1926 - 7th October 1938; also included are a typed receipt signed by Gill for payment of works sold and a telegram from Gill to Mrs. Marchant, v.s.
An intimate and detailed insight into the creative and commercial facets of Gill’s artistic output.
Est. £4000-6000
Richard Caton
Marketing Manager
Bloomsbury Auctions
Joe Cribb