£3,500 

Eric Gill:
Self Portrait (Physick 497), 1927
Framed (ref: 7269)
Signed and numbered 9/10

Tags: Eric Gill engraving artists at work men portraits 1.PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST

Provenance: The Artist's Estate; Private collection

Literature: Llewellyn, Sacha, and Paul Liss. Portrait of an Artist. Liss Llewellyn, 2021, p.276.

This wood engraving was based on a drawing of the same date and was used as a frontispiece to Engravings by Eric Gill with a preface by the artist, printed by the Fanfare Press, London and published by Douglas Cleverdon, Bristol in 1929. Gill is wearing a version of the paper hat traditionally worn by stone masons.

Produced  in 1927 in a limited edition of ten prints one from the same edition is in the collection of Tate Britain. 

An edition of 400 (unsigned) prints were also issued.