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Two Edward Lear Pictures on eBay

Posted on March 14, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, An Antique British Interior Sketch Signed E.L. Dated Jan 1st 1868. 6.75 x 5.55 inches the sheet. [I think I should know, but can’t remember what the object on the left is; can anyone remind me? Marco] eBay. … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Black Mountain, Cephalonia

Posted on March 12, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Black Mountain, Cephalonia. Watercolor on wove paper, circa 1863. 260×360 mm; 10 1/4×14 1/4 inches. Initialed and titled in pencil, lower right recto, and annotated “4” in pencil, upper left recto. Provenance Private collection, Massachusetts. invaluable.

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Edward Lear. Bedouin Soldiers on a Hillside

Posted on March 10, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Bedouin Soldiers Resting on a Hillside. Pen and brown ink on wove paper. 117×188 mm; 4 3/4×7 1/2 inches. Signed in ink, lower left recto. Provenance Private collection, Chicago. invaluable.

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Edward Lear, Saint Moritz, Switzerland

Posted on March 8, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Saint Moritz, Switzerland, watercolour on grey paper, depicting a panoramic landscape, with a village nestling at the foot of a range of snow-topped mountains, trees in the foreground to the left, and clouds gathering overhead, annotated in brown ink … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear: Moment to Moment

Posted on February 22, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

The exhibition, Edward Lear: Moment to Moment, opening on 9 September, now has a web page where you can find more information. Co-curated by Matt Bevis and Jonathan Watkins at Ikon in Birmingham.

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Edward Lear, Mount Delphi (1849)

Posted on February 8, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Mount Delphi. Signed and dated with multiple inscriptions: (bottom left) “Sunset 5. / 20. am. Mount Delphi from Livadia –  & Copias (an important former lake, drained in the late 19th century; it features in other Lear drawings, not ACOFUIS) April … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Hephaistion (1848)

Posted on February 8, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Hephaistion (incorrectly described as “The Acropolis” in the Auction web page). With seated figures in the foreground. On paper. Signed and dated. Inscribed: “Athens / June 10th 1848”. (reverse) Thomas Agnew & Sons label: “no 36717”; “no 75 … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, View of the Acropolis and the temple of Hephaistos, Athens (1848)

Posted on January 31, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, View of the Acropolis and the temple of Hephaistos, Athens. Pen and brown ink and watercolor over pencil, heightened with white; inscribed lower right: Athens – from the West / June 5-6-7- 1848 / 5; further inscribed with extensive … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Fort of Ile Sainte Marguerite, Cannes (1865)

Posted on January 29, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Fort of Ile Sainte Marguerite, Cannes. Pen and brown ink and watercolor, heightened with white; inscribed and dated lower  right: Fort of Isle Sante Marguerite / Cannes. 1.30 P.M. 10 april. 1865 / (131), and  elsewhere with extensive color … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Khan of Valaré (1857)

Posted on December 1, 2021 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, A landscape study with figures wearing fez hats, from a sketchbook,  depicting the site of the former khan of Valaré (Albanian Valarë). Inscribed and dated ‘Ruins of Han [sic] Valarè / April (1?) 1857’ (lower right) and with … Continue reading →

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