Goethe's Prometheus, translated by André Gide, illustrated by Henry Moore (1950)

Henry Spencer Moore

lithographs on Malacca de Lana paper and pages of vélin du Marais paper

The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate

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Classification:

Print, Book Illustration

Materials:

Malacca de Lana paper, Vélin du Marais paper

Physical Object Description:

Published as an unbound book in deluxe and standard editions with a French translation by André Gide of Goethe's Prometheus and eight full-page and six small lithographs CGM 19-32 and one lithograph CGM 18 on the cover, all unnumbered and unsigned. The deluxe edition contains a suite of lithographs printed on Malacca de Lana. The first eight copies of the deluxe edition also have a suite of the first state of lithographs printed on Malacca de Lana and an original drawing.

80 numbered pages of vélin du Marais in ten unbound signatures of 2 leaves contained in a square-folded light brown paper cover with CGM 18 on the front within a Solander box covered in beige paper with a design incorporating the letter 'P' on the front and the title on the spine, both printed in red.

Technique:

Lithograph

Dimensions:

39 x 29 cm

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1952

Scheme:

Historic Purchase by Purchaser (1914-2008)

Ownership history:

Purchased by Sir Philip Hendy (1900-1980) for the Contemporary Art Society, 1951; presented to The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate, 1952; whereabouts unknown

Relationship:

Philip Hendy The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate

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