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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Fine Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  21 Nov 2012 ~ 6pm
• Lot #:
  396
• Lot Description:
  Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd
  (Australia, Britain, 1920–1999)
  Narcissus Suite, 1983-84
  Etchings with aquatint; The prints on Saunders mould made imperial paper (25)
  60.3 x 42.5cm
  All signed in pencil
• Provenance:
  Kingsbridge Art, London; Private Collection London and Sydney
• Notes:
  An artists proof set of 25 plates, comprising; Narcissus Laments Orpheus; Echoes Answers-Unbuckling the Ripples from his Oar; Narcissus’s Revolutionary Sayings-There is a Sense in Which…; The Animal Programme-The Animal Kingdom Comes Awake; At the Palace-While you are alive we have lent you the thing you call yourself; Intermezzo Marsyas; Narcissus’s Revolutionary Sayings-How Lucky You Are Narcissus; Echo’s Farewell, A part of goodbye; Narcissus Among the Anthropologists; Echo’s Mooncalf; The Rainbow Maker, I Walked into the Sky Tracing a Rainbow; Transformation Scene I; The Narcissus File; Introduction-Rage of Revolution; The Orchid On the Rock; From the Autobiography of Narcissus-My Face Reflected; Narcissus as Critic-But I Never Learned how to Play; Postlude the Writer is Overwhelmed; By the Waterfall-A Bird Darts through the Waterfall; The Painters’ Banquet, Little Andrea Has Drawn a Sheep; The Narcissus Emblems-Eaten Myself of the Water’s Top; Transformation Scene II, Glazed By Starlight Terror of Dying; The Burial of Narcissus; The Making of a Monster, The Definition of Happiness Begins; Narcissus Loses His Love-Hell, Hanging On.
• Estimate:
  A$30,000 - 50,000
• Realised Price:
  *****
  

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• Category:
  Art

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