Original Signed Painted Portrait of an Unidentified Young Woman
de Plath, Sylvia
- Usado
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Near fine.
- Librería
-
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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The approach to this piece speaks to her early experimentation with the kind of art that would inspire her writing as an adult. Plath would later write to her mother, "I feel I'm developing a kind of primitive style of my own which I am very fond of" (August 28th, 1956). In 1958, she wrote that her "deepest source of inspiration" was "the art of primitives like Henri Rousseau, Gauguin and Paul Klee and De Chirico [...] Once I start writing, it comes and comes" (quoted in Clark, 518). As this letter suggests, Plath did not merely dabble in art: it was in many ways central to her creative practice. According to Dorothy Moss, curator of the 2017 Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery exhibition of Plath's art, "ONE LIFE: SYLVIA PLATH, "I think that once you know that she drew and painted and sketched constantly as a child, and realize that she went to college to major in art, you'll start seeing how vivid her descriptions are, and how beautifully she put visual images into words." That exhibition prominently featured Plath's painting "Triple-Face Portrait" (1950), which shares a decidedly similar outlook and sensibility with this piece.
Provenance: Purchased by a previous owner directly from Sylvia's mother Aurelia, who was a personal friend of the buyer. Plath's mother received little money from Plath's increasingly lucrative estate which was controlled by her husband, the poet Ted Hughes, thus forcing her mother to sell many Plath's personal items to supplement her meager income.
A moving and vibrant original work from one of the defining authors of the 20th century, capturing her youthful exuberance of creative energy that would be transformed from visual media into the written word. 17.75'' x 12.75'' (image). Original gouache painting on stiff arts' paper. Housed in a metal frame (easily removable). Signed by Plath on verso: "Sylvia Plath / (Age 16) / 26 Elmwood Rd / Wellesley, Mass." With Plath estate seal on both front (lower left corner) and back. Light edgewear, a few creases at the corners and some waviness to the paper from painting and only noticeable on the verso.
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 51496
- Título
- Original Signed Painted Portrait of an Unidentified Young Woman
- Autor
- Plath, Sylvia
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near fine.
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- n.p.
- Lugar de publicación
- (Wellesley, Mass)
- Fecha de publicación
- 1949
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