Leonard Baskin | Six watercolours, 1983-1984, formerly owned by the Hughes family

Property of Frieda Hughes

Leonard Baskin

Six watercolours, 1983-1984

Each approximately 280 x 188mm., comprising:

i) Cyclamen, inscribed "Cyclamen | 1983 | Baskin" on verso;

ii) Parrot, inscribed "Macaw | 1984 | Baskin" on verso;

iii) Tiger Lily, inscribed "Tiger Lily | 5 Ap[ri]l 1983 | Baskin" on verso;

iv) Sparrowhawk, inscribed "Sparrow Hawk | 1984 | Baskin" on verso;

v) Seagull, inscribed "Black backed gull" | 1984 | Baskin" on verso;

vi) Shrike, signed by the artist on lower right-hand corner, inscribed "Shrike | 1984 | Baskin" on verso

The first of these watercolours was used to illustrate Hughes' poem "Cyclamens in a Bowl" in Flowers and Insects; Some Birds and a Pair of Spiders (London: Faber, 1986), pp. 22-23. Flowers and Insects includes a number of other illustrations based on watercolours by Baskin that are similar in style and subject to those found here.