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Cover Design for Contemporary Poetry and Prose

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photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zürich / Hauser & Wirth
Cover Design for Contemporary Poetry and Prose
photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zürich / Hauser & Wirth
photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zürich / Hauser & Wirth

Cover Design for Contemporary Poetry and Prose

Date1937
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1353
Date Order NumberAG 37.23
Dimensionspaper: 216 x 140 mm
Signature

unsigned, undated

Inscriptionpen & ink over pencil c. CONTEMPORARY/POETRY/AND/PROSE; l.l. contributors in this number./Isaac Babel/David Gascoyne/Kenneth Allott/James Collier/Francis Scarfe/Sheila Legg/Roger Roughton/Alfred (illegible surname)/St J. Perse/WG Archer/Antonia White/Edgar Foxall/Paul Eluard; lower centre MARCH 1937/No3/ONE SHILLING AND SIXPENCE/in pencil, l.r. No 9/March 1937
Ownershipprivate collection, UK
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This is the only extant sketch for the cover of Contemporary Poetry and Prose which lists the contributors.

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