Original watercolour [Amaryllis in bud]

Shakespear [Pound] (Dorothy)

Original watercolour [Amaryllis in bud]

[With:] An original pencil drawing of an Italian roofscape to the verso.

Description: watercolour on paper, a little tattered at the edges, pin holes in corners, the drawing to the verso with some paint dabs for the other work, 32 x 25 cm approx, good condition

Publication Details: circa 1963

Notes: Two pieces of artwork by Ezra Pound's wife, the painting a more finished work - the sheet was presented to poet Michael Alexander in the 1960s, as per his note in the corner of the pencil drawing.Alexander had first visited Pound in 1962, to ask if he would accept the dedication of his translations of 'The Earliest English Poems', and was a regular visitor (in Rapallo and Venice) over the following decade.

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Price: £800

Subject: Art & Architecture

Published Date: 1963

Stock Number: 73147

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