ARTHUR MERRIC BLOOMFIELD BOYD (AUSTRALIA, BRITAIN, 1920–1999)
Narcissus Suite, 1983-84
Etchings with aquatint
An artists proof set of 25 plates, comprising;
Narcissus Laments Orpheus;
Echoes Answers-Unbuckling the Ripples from his Oar;
Narcissus’s Revolutionary Sayings-There is a Sense in Which…;
The Animal Programme-The Animal Kingdom Comes Awake;
At the Palace-While you are alive we have lent you the thing you call yourself;
Intermezzo Marsyas;
Narcissus’s Revolutionary Sayings-How Lucky You Are Narcissus;
Echo’s Farewell, A part of goodbye;
Narcissus Among the Anthropologists;
Echo’s Mooncalf;
The Rainbow Maker, I Walked into the Sky Tracing a Rainbow;
Transformation Scene I;
The Narcissus File;
Introduction-Rage of Revolution;
The Orchid On the Rock;
From the Autobiography of Narcissus-My Face Reflected;
Narcissus as Critic-But I Never Learned how to Play;
Postlude the Writer is Overwhelmed;
By the Waterfall-A Bird Darts through the Waterfall;
The Painters’ Banquet, Little Andrea Has Drawn a Sheep;
The Narcissus Emblems-Eaten Myself of the Water’s Top;
Transformation Scene II, Glazed By Starlight Terror of Dying;
The Burial of Narcissus;
The Making of a Monster, The Definition of Happiness Begins;
Narcissus Loses His Love-Hell, Hanging On.
The prints on Saunders mould made imperial paper
All signed in pencil
60.3 x 42.5cm
Provenance
Kingsbridge Art, London; Private Collection London and Sydney