1942 The Life and Opinions of Walter Richard Sickert

Description

Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed

Presentation copy from Graham Greene, with his ink inscription to the recto to the front endpaper,

'Sept. 1. 1939 - 1944, In love and gratitude, from your bastard, G'.

This is to Greene's first mistress, Dorothy Glover, to whom he signed himself 'your bastard'. As per the items intended for the Sothebys 15th December 2011 sale of Greene's personal correspondence.

A biography on the life of Walter Sickert, a British Post-Impressionist artist, who had an important influence on the avant-garde style of art.

Illustrated with a frontispiece, thirty-one plates, twenty-one full-paged line drawings, and tail pieces.

Collated, complete.

Written by Robert Emmons.

From the library of Gutala Krishnamurti, the Indian publisher. A postcard from Matthew Sturgis is loosely inserted, thanking Krishnamurti for lending Sturgis this book. Sturgis is a historian and biographer. 

Four newspaper clippings relating to Sickert loosely inserted.

The second impression of this work.