Fear Gives Wings to Courage
Patrick Procktor RA
Sadie and Prudence, 1969-70
Aquatint
25 x 45 cm (image)
From the edition of 75 impressions
Signed and numbered
From a series of works completed using quotes from Baudelaire, based on a series of drawings done in late 1968 in a New York apartment and subsequently worked up as...
From a series of works completed using quotes from Baudelaire, based on a series of drawings done in late 1968 in a New York apartment and subsequently worked up as a series of watercolours, then prints. Procktor's lover, Gervase, and the actor Eric Emerson appear in each of the five prints.
Literature
A Decade of Printmaking, Charles Spencer (ed.), Academy Editions, 1973 (illus. p. 71)
Tessa Sidey, Patrick Procktor: Prints 1959-1985, The Redfern Gallery and Editions Alecto, 1985 (cat. no. 12)
