To be auctioned at Bonham's next September 29:
Blazing a Trail
Modern British Women
Lot 3
Dora Carrington (1893-1932)
Wuthering Heights, Interior
inscribed 'Wuthering/Heights.' (lower left)
pen and ink and wash
21.6 x 25.5 cm. (8 1/2 x 10 1/8 in.) (sheet); 21 x 19.8 cm. (8 1/4 x 7 3/4 in.) (image)
Executed circa 1919
£ 1,000 - 1,500
€ 1,200 - 1,700
Provenance
Private Collection, U.K.
Exhibited
London, Barbican Art Gallery, cat.no.37
Certainly a book that caused some impression in her. In 1915, Dora Carrington
wrote to her friend, the artist Christine Kuhlenthal:
"I am reading Wuthering Heights again. How excellent it is!" (Carrington's Letters: Her Art, Her Loves, Her Friendships, 2017)
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