ERIC GILL (1882-1940) Nude portrait of Beatrice Warde
monogrammed and dated 20.4/32 lower right, pencil on buff paper, 36cm x 26cm; with another nude pencil sketch verso, inscribed "Chelsea 1.12.31" lower left, housed in a double sided frame
Literature: This work appears to be the basis for a wood engraving (Pl. 12), featured in Gill's 'Twenty Five Nudes', J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. for Hague & Gill Ltd., 1938
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Beatrice Lamberton Warde (September 20, 1900 – September 16, 1969, née Beatrice Becker) was a twentieth-century writer and scholar of typography. As a marketing manager for the British Monotype Corporation, she was influential in the development of printing tastes in Britain and elsewhere in the mid-twentieth century and was recognised at the time as "one of the few women typographers in the world". Her writing advocated higher standards in printing, and championed intelligent use of historic typefaces from the past, which Monotype specialised in reviving, and the work of contemporary typeface designers.
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