Lynd Ward 1930 SPHINX STUDY of ANCIENT EGYPT EGYPTIAN Art Deco Print Matted


Lynd Ward 1930 SPHINX STUDY of ANCIENT EGYPT EGYPTIAN Art Deco Print Matted

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Lynd Ward 1930 SPHINX STUDY of ANCIENT EGYPT EGYPTIAN Art Deco Print Matted:
$25.00


Art deco, bevel-mattedPRINT from MAD MAN\'S DRUM, A NOVEL IN WOODCUTS, published in 1930 and illustratedwith woodcuts by Lynd Ward.Read more about this wonderfully talented, uniqueand acclaimed illustrator from the deco / modernist era belowbelow.

TEXT: NONE

ARTIST: LYND WARD (READ MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST AND THE BOOK BELOW)


CONDITION: EXCELLENT / PERFECT— Clear,clean, bright and white. No marks,tears, creases or folds and GOOD MARGINS.GREAT DEFINITION. A REALLY INTERESTINGIMAGE.

This PRINTis about 85 years old and guaranteed to be original. It’s an original ILLUSTRATION from the aforementioned book, and NOT A MODERN REPRODUCTION.

The print is 3 1/2\" x 3 1/2\". Matted the print measures 6\" x 8\". This is a standard size mat that will fit into a standard size frame—no costly custom frames required. Best to buy several, frame and cluster in a nice grouping.

ALL OF OUR MATTED PRINTS ARE WRAPPED IN CLEAR CELLOPHANE ENVELOPES, WHICH ARE BOTH PROTECTIVE AND PERFECT FOR GIFT GIVING.

· 1. The father is introduced. He is a slavetrader and comes across an African playing a drum. He steals the man andhis instrument, sells his captive as a slave and returns home rich with a chestof gold and the drum he stole. He uses his wealth to upgrade his home, butlacking musical interest he places the drum on display, along with the sword heused to secure his family’s wealth. The slave-trader becomes a respectedmember of the community.

· 2. The main character – the scholar, is introduced. The father findshim playing the drum. He disciplines his child and sets him to workmastering the texts in his massive library. There will be no time formusic, which the man associates with savagery. Paradoxically, he desiresto return to his old job in Africa. Thefather is lost at sea. While he paid for his crimes, the family inheritsthe wealth and the drum and his father’s lesson to his son to savor theintellectual over the emotional.

· 3. Explores the adolescence of the scholar. He ignores the life aroundhim for his books and embraces religion for the sake of his mother

· 4. The young man turns his back on sex, drink, and camaraderie. He isdeveloping to be a strange young man. Learning in his books of ancient Egypt, he turnshis back on Christianity by throwing a cross on the ground. His mothertrips on the cross and dies in the fall. This section ends after hismother’s funeral.

· 5. The intellectual reaches middle age. He makes some astronomicaldiscovery and but his results are taken with indifference by otherastronomers. Reaching the peak of his career, he chooses to marry, notfor love, but as something he has to do. He is brutally cold.

· 6. The misery of the wife comes into play. She produces two girls for theintellectual but she is very unhappy and unfulfilled. She meets a musician and enters into anaffair, which ends in her death

· 7. The scholar’s second daughter gets involved with a labororganizer. He is told of the man and his communist sympathies so hearranges for his arrest. The daughter is dejected since the trial (whichthe scholar plays a key role in prosecuting) ends in the hanging of the labororganizer.

· 8. The scholar tries to persuade his second daughter to follow hispath, but she rejects the intellect. She meets a womanizer (or maybe apimp) who seduces her and begins selling her to the men of the community.

· 9. Inthe final section, the cold scholar learns that his daughter has become aprostitute. The pimp returns a small flower belt and throws theintellectual out on the street. He pleads for aid from the community, whoviciously laugh at his misfortune. Finally, surrounded by the graves ofthe people in his life he goes insane, takes the drum he was forofferden to useas a child and goes off with the flute player.


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All of our prints arebevel matted ina very high quality, and simple off-white/ivory matting. The BLACK ACID FREE BACKING, which is not attached to the print, but which should be kept with the print when framed, also meets the same high quality standard. We take pride in what we sell—look at our response.

All mats are acid-free and the small piece of tapeused to attach the print to the top of the mat is artists tape. This print is truly ready to be framed and preserved.

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Lynd Ward 1930 SPHINX STUDY of ANCIENT EGYPT EGYPTIAN Art Deco Print Matted:
$25.00

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