BAWDEN (Edward) Four prints from Bawden’s Portuguese series
of linocuts first published in ‘Bawden in Portugal’, Motif, no.9, 1962, pp.19-30, comprising ‘Obidos’ (image area 30 x
32cm), ‘Lamego’ (28.5 x 39cm), ‘Beja’ (30.5 x 44cm) and ‘Evora’ (30 x 40cm).
Printed in black and two or three colours. Individual prints laid down on board and framed.
Paper sunned throughout but the inks fast save for the grey in ‘Beja’ which has
faded significantly. A few old and unobtrusive damp-stains. A most attractive group.
These are almost certainly not original linocuts but proofs of the prints as
they appeared in Motif, printed from
sets of line blocks. Bawden gave the original designs to the National Gallery
of Scotland in the 1980s. £150
