ALASDAIR GRAY (SCOTTISH 1934-2019) §
MARY ON VERY STRIPED COVERLET, 1984-2010
£6,300
Auction: 22 January 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Inscribed with title and dated upper left, signed and inscribed with title verso and dated ‘drawn 1984, coloured 2010’, ink and acrylic on brown paper
Dimensions
39cm x 89cm (15.5in x 35in)
Footnote
Literature: ‘A Life in Pictures: Alasdair Gray’, published by Canongate, 2010, p.152.
“I drew May Hooper in the middle 80s when I felt free enough to use a think-nibbed script fountain pen whose angle varied with the outline of the stroke, which was enough to suggest the volume of bare limbs et cetera without any of the hatching I kept for her garment. I liked the contrast between these and meant to fill a small book with pictures.”