SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963)

Study of a Figurine, Spain 1956 (1956 Spain)

Item Stock Code

10233

Item Medium Description

Pen and ink and pencil on paper

Item Signed, Inscribed, Dated Details

Signed with initials SP

European Dimensions

17.80 cm wide 25.50 cm high

UK/USA Converted Dimensions

7.01 inches wide 10.04 inches high

Item Framed/External Dimensions

31.00cm framed width 40.00cm framed height

Converted Framed/External Dimensions

12.20 inches framed width 15.75 inches framed height

Item Provenance & History

Frieda Hughes, the artist's daughter; to December 2011

Item Literature

Sylvia Plath, Crystal Gazer and other Poems by Sylvia Plath, Rainbow Press, London 1971, illustrated as a tipped in woodcut on japanned paper as the frontispiece, edition limited to 400 copies.

Frieda Hughes, Sylvia Plath as an Artist, The Mayor Gallery Ltd., London 2011, catalogue number 37, illustrated

Item Exhibition History

London, Mayor Gallery, Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings, November - December 2011

Item Description / Dealer Expertise

Sylvia Plath, the poet, is most well known for her first volume of poetry, Ariel and her semi-autobiography The Bell Jar.

She married Ted Hughes in June 1956 and on her honeymoon she drew and sketched. On August 28th 1956 she wrote to her grandmother, Auriel Plath, about these drawings: I fell I'm developing a kind of primitive style of my own which I am very fond of. Wait till you see them.

PLATH

Type	Artist/Maker
Country of origin	United States
Born	1932
Died	1963

Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. She also drew in pen and ink. Born in Massachusetts, she studied at Smith College and Newnham College, Cambridge before receiving acclaim as a professional poet and writer. She married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956 and they lived together first in the United States and then England, having two children together: Frieda and Nicholas. Following a long struggle with depression and a marital separation, Plath committed suicide in 1963.Controversy continues to surround the events of her life and death, as well as her writing and legacy.

Plath is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for her two published collections: The Colossus and Other Poems and Ariel. In 1982, she became the first poet to win a Pulitzer Prize posthumously, for The Collected Poems. She also wrote The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death.

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