Lot 13
  • 13

Hambling, Maggi

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • Hambling, Maggi
  • The "First Editions: Re-covered" copy of:
  • book with new dust-jacket
Murdoch, Iris. The Sea, The Sea. Chatto & Windus, 1978, FIRST EDITION, original turquoise boards lettered in gilt, head and foot of spine slightly bumped

WITH AN ORIGINAL DUST-JACKET BY MAGGI HAMBLING, 205 by 505mm., ink on paper, signed and dated by the artist ("Hambling 2017")

Condition

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Catalogue Note

Maggi Hambling is one of Britain’s foremost contemporary artists, known for her portraits, paintings of the sea and her celebrated and controversial public sculpture including A Conversation with Oscar Wilde in London and Scallop, a 4-metre-high steel sculpture on Aldeburgh beach dedicated to Benjamin Britten. She won the Jerwood Prize for Painting jointly with Patrick Caulfield in 1995 and her work is represented in all major British collections from the British Museum to Tate.

I share with the author the inspiration of the sea