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Design for a church carving
pencil on paper
15 x 4cm.
Provenance: Widow of the artist, Mary Gill.
£475 (framed)
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There: The Visitation, an
illustration to St. Luke
Wood engraving printed from the original block on handmade paper
1980
numbered from edition of 250, printed by the Libanus Press
17 x 21.5 cm. (sheet)
loose as issued in original folder
SOLD
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Christ as Minister
Proof Woodcut within wedding invitation for Gill's daughter
1930
19.5 x 10 cm. (sheet)
The full sheet in very good condition
Provenance: Widow of the artist, Mary Gill.
Reference: Skelton P725
SOLD
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On my bed by night
(The Song of Songs)
Wood engraving
artist's working proof with grilled window
1925
7 x 10.1 cm. (image); 11 x 13.5 cm. (sheet)
The full sheet in very good condition
Provenance: Widow of the artist, Mary Gill.
Reference: Skelton P320
SOLD
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His left hand
under my head (The Song of Songs)
Wood engraving
artist's working proof before lines on base of bed
1925
6 x 10.3 cm. (image)
image cut out and laid down
Provenance: Widow of the artist, Mary Gill.
Reference: Skelton P318
SOLD
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Earth Receiving (Procreant Hymn)
Copper engraving
Proof
1926
11.5 x 9.25cm. (plate); 24.5 x 18.75 cm. (sheet)
The full sheet in very good condition. Scarce copper engraving.
Provenance: Widow of the artist, Mary Gill.
Reference: Skelton P363;
£1,250 (framed in oak)
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The Leisure State
(Unemployment and Work and Culture)
Wood engraving
1933
signed and numbered from the edition of 18 by the artist in
pencil
The full sheet in very good condition
Provenance: Sebastian Pearson, Cambridge
Reference: Skelton P850
£950 (framed)
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Theresa and Winifred
Maxwell
Woodcut on handmade paper
artist's proof
titled and initialled in the plate
1923
13 x 17.5 cm. (sheet)
The full sheet in very good condition
Provenance: Widow of the artist, Mary Gill.
Reference: Skelton P255
SOLD
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Girl with a deer.
Ex libris Ananda Coomaraswamy
Proof Wood engraving
1925
6.5 x 6.5 cm. (image); 9.5 x 10.5 cm. (sheet)
The full sheet in very good condition, slight spotting to margins
Provenance: Widow of the artist, Mary Gill.
Reference: Skelton P173; [1900]
SOLD
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My love among
the lilies (The Song of Songs)
Wood engraving
artist's proof
1925
7 x 8.5 cm. (image); 9 x 13 cm. (sheet)
The full sheet in very good condition
Provenance: Widow of the artist, Mary Gill.
Reference: Skelton P327
£550 (framed)
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Skipping upon
the Mountains (The Song of Songs)
Wood engraving
artist's proof
1925
10.75 x 13 cm. (sheet)
The full sheet in very good condition
Provenance: Widow of the artist, Mary Gill.
Reference: Skelton P319
SOLD
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Blind Girl (design for advertisement for the Royal Institute for the Blind)
Wood engraving
artist's proof, initialled in the block
1939
14 x 6 cm. (image); 27 x 19 (sheet)
The full sheet in very good condition
Provenance: Widow of the artist, Mary Gill.
Reference: Skelton P991
£1,250 (framed in oak)
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Artist and Mirror (Skelton's variant state in white); Sculpture and the Living Model (not used by Gill, to reverse)
Wood engraving
artist's proofs
1932
12 x 7 cm. (image); 16 x 9 (sheet, irregular)
The full sheet in very good condition
Provenance: Widow of the artist, Mary Gill.
Reference: Skelton P836a
£1,450 (framed in oak to show both sides)
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Lovers 'the Raised Bottom'
Wood engraving
artist's proof printed on verso of a page from the New Testament
1934
7.5 x 12 cm. (image); 13.5 x 21.5 (sheet, irregular)
The full sheet in very good condition
Provenance: Widow of the artist, Mary Gill.
Reference: Skelton P878
£1,250 (framed in oak)
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The
Voice of my beloved (The Song of Songs)
Wood engraving
artist's proof
1925
14 x 10 cm. (image); 17.5 x 13 cm. (sheet)
The full sheet in very good condition
Provenance: Widow of the artist, Mary Gill.
Reference: Skelton P325
SOLD
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