Five linocuts, with program and invitation to Paris and London shows.
Five linocuts by the artist Margaret Harmsworth [Hon. Margaret Phillips], together with programme and invitation for shows featuring her at Galerie Huit, Paris, and Piccadilly Gallery, London.
Neither printed item is dated, but one is from a show at the Piccadilly Gallery in 1955, and the other, at Galerie Huit, Paris, is of an earlier date. The Galerie Huit item is printed on a one side of a piece of wove paper, folded to make two 11.5 x 15 cm pages, with the details of the exhibition on one page, and a drawing of a crying infant on the other. The Piccadilly Gallery programme, for a show featuring Harmsworth, Bernard Gay and Martin Bradley, is printed over a bifolium with leaves 12.5 x 20.5 cm. The five linotypes are originals on various types of paper, some with slight damage caused by removal from albums. ONE (23 x 15 cm): Mediterranean dock scene, with sailing boats to the right, and people parading among trees in front of dockside cafes on the left. Fraying to extremities. TWO (24 x 16.5 cm): Sun setting in ocean behind a range of mountainous islands, with palm trees on small islands before them. Printed initials 'M. H.' in bottom left-hand corner. Loss to top right-hand corner, creasing and fraying to extremities. THREE (11 x 8.5 cm): fisherman in sea beside canoe, setting sun in background. Slight damage to top right-hand corner. FOUR (9.5 x 6 cm): Heavily-inked image of Father Christmas driving a sleigh full of presents, 'happy C' behind him. FIVE (8 x 13 cm): Santa Claus entering a chimney, the word 'Merry' above him, and 'Christmas' beneath. Also included is an engraving of a tree, taken from a printed work. Margaret Harmsworth's father was the publisher, poet and artist Desmond Harmsworth (1903-1990). Her grandfather was the politician Cecil Harmsworth, and her great-uncles were the press barons Alfred Harmsworth, Lord Northcliffe, and Harold Harmsworth, Lord Rothermere.
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