Edward Lear-Pencil drawing

View of the Corfu citadel. Pencil drawing. Unsigned.

Sight: 6 1/2" H x 10" W; Frame: 12 1/2" H x 15 1/2" W

Exhibited:Early English Drawings and Watercolors: Francis Barlow to Alfred Stevens

Oct 22-Nov 15, 1963 (The Drawing Shop-1078 Madison Avenue)

Original catalogue included with purchase.

P.O.A.

Edward Lear first visited Corfu in 1848 and the island seems then to have made a deep impression on him. At all events, he returned in 1855, after further travels in Greece, Albania, Egypt and elsewhere, and for the next years Corfu was to provide him with the nearest he got to a winter base until, in 1870, he finally settled at San Remo.

Lear’s letters and journals written on Corfu present a deeply moving account of an artist battling with his solitude and relentlessly pursuing his vocation in a world with whose values he is so much at odds.