SELECTED GROUPS

The AUGUST SELECTED GROUP 09

LOUISA HODGSON (1905-1980)

 These are remarkable, quirky and poetic, monochromatic watercolours by the Newcastle muralist – see her work in the Laing Art Gallery –and tempera painter. They date from the 1930s.


 ‘No.1 / Keats / ‘Or like stout Cortez…/Silent, upon a peak in Darien’ /
On first looking into Chapman’s Homer’.
13x10 inches. Signed on the original backing. Artist typed label.
£775.



 ‘No.2 / Keats / ‘Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains / one minute past. / Ode to a Nightingale’.
9x12 inches. Signed on the original backing and inscribed
‘(With apologies to the painting of ‘John Keats by Joseph Severn)’. Artist typed label.
£775



No.3 / Coleridge / ‘As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing.’/ Kubla Kahn’.
11x10 inches. Signed on original mount. Artist typed label.
£775.



 ‘No.4 / Tennyson / ‘Of love that never found his earthly close / what sequel’ / Love and Duty’.
13x10 inches. Signed on original mount. Artist typed label.
£775.



No.5 / Wordsworth / ‘The beetle loves his unpretending track / The snail the house he carries on his back / The far –fetched worm with pleasure would disown / The bed we give him, though of softest down’ / Liberty’.
10x13 inches. Signed on original backing. Artist typed label.
£775.



No.6 / Browning / ‘He who works in fresco, steals a hairbrush’/ One Word More’.
13x9 inches. Signed on the original backing. Artist typed label.
£775.




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