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An image of (Illustration for Peter Porter's poem 'The unicorn in the forest') by Arthur Boyd

Arthur Boyd

(Australia, England 24 Jul 1920–24 Apr 1999)

Title
(Illustration for Peter Porter's poem 'The unicorn in the forest'), from the portfolio The Lady and the Unicorn
Year
1973-1974
Media category
Print
Materials used
etching, aquatint
Edition
Artist's proof C for edition of 52
Dimensions

60.4 x 43.0cm platemark; 79.4 x 57.2cm sheet

Signature & date
signed l.r., pencil "Arthur Boyd". Not dated.
Credit
Purchased 1989
Accession number
13.1989.5
Copyright
© Reproduced with permission of Bundanon Trust
Location
Not on display
Bibliography (5)

Darleen Bungey, Arthur Boyd: A life, Sydney, 2007, 510, 512.

Dr Ursula Hoff, The art of Arthur Boyd, 'Part III: 1971-1983', pg. 64-86, London, 1986, 70, 71.

Hendrik Kolenberg, Arthur Boyd: 30 paintings 1985-1994, 23 etchings 1993, ''The writer and his muse': Etchings 1993', pg.37-38, Collingwood, 1994.

Hendrik Kolenberg, Arthur Boyd retrospective, 'Works on paper', pg. 160-67, Sydney, 1993. cat.no. 18

Peter Porter, The lady and the unicorn, London, 1975, (illus.). not paginated