Author Archives: Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Ponte di Nona (1844)

Posted on November 5, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Ponte di Nona, 1844. Watercolour, over pencil, heightened with white, on light blue grey paper. Signed and inscribed Ponte di Nona lower left, dated Thursday. Feby. 1844 lower right. 11 x 18.5 cm. (4 1/4 x 7 1/4 in). Provenance: John … Continue reading →

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Two Bird Drawings by Edward Lear

Posted on November 2, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

Bonhams have added two drawings, both dated April 1846, to the lot in the previous post: [Two Mallards.] E. Lear. del. apl. 15. 1846. [A Black Swan.] E. Lear. del. April. 17. 1846.

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Ye Owly=Pussey=catte

Posted on October 6, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

The items below are for sale at Bonhams at impossible prices (as usual). I find it highly unlikely that the picture of the Owly=Pussey=catte can be dated 1846 like some of the others in the lot: for one thing Edward … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear & the Play of Poetry

Posted on October 2, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

At long last it’s out! Williams, James, and Matthew Bevis, eds. Edward Lear & the Play of Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Here is the table of contents: James Williams and Matthew Bevis,Introduction: Edward Lear and the Play of … Continue reading →

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Dear Edward Lear I Love Your Birds

Posted on September 29, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

Dear Edward Lear I Love Your Birds by Jeredith Merrin The Red and Yellow Macaw resplendent, And clearly your puff-chested model, Arching head over the arc of half-extended Red yellow blue wing, intended us to look. My first was in … Continue reading →

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Jennie Feldman, The Grey Bird

Posted on September 24, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

No bright rhyme for this backward glare, the oboe-squawk half throttled with hindsight’s effort. Barely, acrobatically, hanging on. Is it in the way fear squiggles a frown and overdoes the eye’s black brow that we glimpse relief? Gravity resisted against … Continue reading →

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Jennie Feldman, The Black and White Bird

Posted on September 22, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

Lifted birdily out of the sober quirks of sadness, not to be weighed down. Forget the palette, the easel-hours stuck sitting like a petrified gorilla— here’s quick strokes, dark washes. Poised ambiguities: landing / taking off? One bright eye unfailing dares … Continue reading →

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Jennie Feldman, The Pink Bird

Posted on September 20, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

How to get a grip – scant-toed chick number twenty-one at Bowman’s Lodge (Holloway), dislodged unfledged pink & clueless – sixty-odd years on? Eye skyward, whence come fantastical figments marvellous skews that fly thin air against our limits. Flap-flap absolomly … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear’s Indian Trees

Posted on September 15, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

For sale from Donald A. Heald. Indian Trees, Palms and Bamboos [cover title of an album of 19 original watercolours mostly of Indian landscape by Edward Lear] San Remo, Italy: 1878-1882. Folio. (19 x 12 inches). 19 original watercolour drawings … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear at 73½

Posted on September 13, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear. aet. 72.½ His cat Foss, aet 16.

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