#Pen and ink 1946

[theegoist]

László Moholy-Nagy (Hungarian, 1895-1946) - Composition with three Circles, Coloured crayon, ink and pen on paper, 42,5 x 35 cm (1946)

[thunderstruck9]

Léon Spilliaert (Belgian, 1881-1946), The Priest, 1902. Pen drawing and wash in India ink on paper, 29.7 x 18.5 cm.

[mybeingthere]

Léon Spilliaert

(Ostend 1881 - 1946 Brussels)

Végétation avec lis (Vegetation with Lily), 1913

Indian ink, pen, pencil on paper, 11.6 x 18.4 cm

Signed and dated lower left 25 Avril / 1913 / L. Spilliaert

[gacougnol]

Léon Spilliaert (1881-1946)

Seedlings around the trees

Gouache, pen, India ink and wash on paper (1933).

[riaaanna]

via Doyle:

An important 1969 letter and drawing from Freddie Mercury to Ibex bandmate Mick "Miffer" Smith

MERCURY, FREDDIE

Autograph letter signed and original drawing sent to Ibex bandmate Mick “Miffer” Smith. Paddington, London: 16 October 1969. A two-page autograph letter in dark blue ink from Freddie Mercury, signed "Fred," addressed to Mick Smith as "Miffer." The letter with Mercury's "40 Ferry Rd" address at the head. Each page 6 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches (17 x 13.5 cm). The letter in a framed display with a fine pencil portrait of Smith by Mercury signed "Ponce," this 6 3/4 x 5 inches (17 x 12 cm), the original postmarked mailing envelope in Mercury's hand addressed to Smith in Widnes, and an original ticket to the debut performance of Ibex at Honiton Hall (Penketh) dated 23 May 1969, the ticket with a scalloped edge in gold. The letter with a usual horizontal crease and a few faint spots to the second page, very fine and dark overall, the drawing with a few spots, the whole nicely framed together and the items have not been removed from the frame but does not appear laid-down; Together with the book Queen: As it Began, inscribed for "Miffer" by the fellow Ibex bandmates in 1992 (published after Mercury's death). Publisher's cloth in dust jacket, minor wear but a fine copy overall. Also offered in the lot is a Time Magazine publication offering early photographs of Mercury, Miffer and this early group of friends and bandmates.

A remarkable and rare letter from Freddie Mercury (1946-1991) dated 1969, in the salad days a year before the forming of Queen, with references to seeing Led Zeppelin, sexuality, songs he is writing, and upcoming performances. Freddie Mercury is best-remembered as a singer/songwriter but in the mid-1960s, Zanzibar-born Mercury was an aspiring student at Ealing Art College (Pete Townsend and Ronnie Wood also attended) and is known to have decorated his walls with drawings he made of Jimi Hendrix. Mercury was a very capable draftsman as attested by the detailed drawing offered with this letter which is published in Queen: As it Began. Graduating in the spring of 1969, Mercury bought a guitar, taught himself to play, and began writing songs. That summer he was introduced to the Liverpool-based heavy blues trio Ibex which comprised guitarist Mike Bersin and bassist John "Tupp" Taylor, both of whom have signed the volume here presented to the drummer, Mick "Miffer" Smith, who later recalled: "We auditioned Freddie to take over lead vocals from Mike ... we were all competent players, we could handle our instruments, but none of us was particularly good at singing. Freddie had a great voice, with a terrific range, but he didn't really know how to use it. Once we had Freddie, we were a little rough and ready, but we showed a lot of potential" (Queen: As it Began, p. 28). Ibex's first performance was at Honitan Hall in May of 1969 and a very rare artifact is a ticket to this debut concert framed alongside the drawing and letter. Mick "Miffer" Smith moved to the United States in late 1969 and Mercury briefly joined Sour Milk Sea before rejoining Bersin and Taylor to form Wreckage. Disbanded by March 1970, in April Mercury teamed up with guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor to form Smile. Joined by bassist John Deacon in 1971, they renamed themselves Queen and the rest is rock 'n roll history.

But just before Queen was formed, in October 1969, Freddie Mercury wrote this remarkable letter to his friend and bandmate "Miffer," who had returned to Widnes to assist his family. The letter is a tour-de-force of descriptive thought and a growing passion for writing music. Penned in dark blue ink in Mercury's distinctive hand with looping letters and neat circles dotting i's and j's, the letter opens with Mercury hoping that "this finds you in the pink of health" and jokes that he doesn't need to ask about Smith's "sexual pleasures of late as your kinky perverted mind will have led you to obscenities and variations never before performed in Widnes." After mentioning moving into his new flat (that at 40 Ferry Road in London) and nearly being "sacked" from his job (possibly as a baggage handler at Heathrow?), Mercury eloquently describes seeing Led Zeppelin at the Lyceum. Robert Plant's performance is described as "orgasmic" and he goes into detail about the masterful drumming of John Bonham which would have appealed to "Miffer," Ibex's hard-hitting drummer. On his sexuality, Freddie Mercury writes that "I hear from several sources that you've informed them that I've turned into a fully fledged queer ... Meanwhile I'm making do with John." Personal statements such as those from Mercury are rife with research potential.

The next two paragraphs are devoted to music. He reports on the upcoming gigs with Wreckage at St. Mark and St. John and most notably another "with Smile on Dec. 6th (Definite)," this one of Mercury's earliest performances with Brian May and the band that would become Queen. Still between the two groups, Mercury mentions entering Wreckage into the "Melody Makers Group contest" noting that the "top group gets loads of equipment and money. So we definitely need a thorough practice." He continues "I've written the words to the new songs, titled 'Green' 'Cancer on my Mind' and 'Without you.' Smile are playing with the Taste on Saturday and I'm going to ponce along." The drawing of Miffer present here is also signed "Ponce," a term used playfully and frequently by Mercury to describe his stage presence although in British slang this term has a multitude of meanings. The letter closes by asking after friends and is signed "All the best, Fred."

We trace few letters from Freddie Mercury in the auction record and none from this pivotal early period, written to a bandmate, and before the success of Queen changed his life forever.

[marejadilla]

Léon Spilliaert, “Cloud rolling on the beach”, ca 1900-1902. China ink wash, brush, pen on paper.

(1882 - 1946) Belgian symbolist painter, draughtsman, illustrator and lithographer.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servility, dictatorships promote cruelty; more abhorrent is the fact that they foster idiocy. Buttons babbling imperatives, effigies of caudillos, predetermined living and dying, walls adorned with names, unanimous ceremonies, mere discipline usurping the place of lucidity... Fighting those sad monotony is one of the writer's many duties. Will I have to remind readers of Martín Fierro and Don Segundo that individualism is an old Argentinian virtue?

Dictatorships foment oppression, dictatorships foster servility, dictatorships foster cruelty; but most abominable is the fact that they encourage idiocy. Buttons that babble imperatives, effigies of caudillos, pre-set alive and dead, walls exuberated by names, unanimous ceremonies, mere discipline usurping the place of lucidity ... To combat this sad monotony is one of the many duties of the writer. Will I have to remind readers of Martín Fierro and Don Segundo that individualism is an old Argentine virtue?

—Jorge Luis Borges, remarks to a gathering of Argentine writers ('Words spoken by Jorge Luis Borges in the food offered to him by the writers') in Aug, 1946. Below: The Hydra of Dictatorship, a pen-and-ink drawing by Jorge Luis Borges (1946)

(Robert Scott Horton)

[tail-feathers]

Paul Nash (1889-1946)

Watercolour, pen, ink, pencil, crayon, and chalk (1913).

[themuseumwithoutwalls]

MWW Artwork of the Day (10/29/23) Alfredo Ramos Martínez (Mexican, 1872-1946) Los Pulqueros (c. 1935) Pen & ink, brush & ink & charcoal on paper, 38.1 x 53.5 cm. Private Collection

Considered by many to be the father of Mexican Modernism, Ramos Martínez was a celebrated artist and educator best known for his serene and empathetic portraits of traditional Mexican people and scenes. As the poet Rubén Darío wrote, "Ramos Martínez is one of those who paints poems; he does not copy, he interprets; he understands how to express the sorrow of the fisherman and the melancholy of the village.” Pulque is an alcoholic beverage made from the fermented sap of the maguey (agave) plant. It is traditional to central Mexico, where it has been produced for millennia. It has the color of milk, somewhat viscous consistency and a sour yeast-like taste.

[mirellabruno]

Léon Spilliaert (Belgian, 1881-1946), Portrait of my sister Rachel, 1903-04. Pen and brush drawing in India ink on paper, 30 x 19 cm.

[tladb]

3 Circles 4 Lines --sref Moholy-Nagy

László Moholy-Nagy (Hungarian, 1895-1946) - Composition with three Circles, Coloured crayon, ink and pen on paper, 42,5 x 35 cm (1946)

The image which started this project of testing the text interpretation of Midjourney. This experiment uses 'Three Circles...' as a style reference to the prompt :

drawing of 3 separate circles, one circle is in the upper left corner, one circle left of the first circle and one circle is in the upper right, and 4 parallel lines at the bottom of the image, Coloured crayon, ink and pen on paper

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[thunderstruck9]

Léon Spilliaert (Belgian, 1881-1946), Portrait of my sister Rachel, 1903-04. Pen and brush drawing in India ink on paper, 30 x 19 cm.

[browncage9]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: CROSS Classic Century 4502 10kt Gold Filled Ball Point Pen NEW IN BOX.

[jedivoodoochile]

Ian Miller (English, b. 1946).

"The Werewolf Principle" / c. 1976–77.

Either just pen and ink on board, or mixing acrylic with ink.

A wonderfully trippy and detailed illustration by Miller in his distinctive style.

Featured on the 1977 Pan Books pb edition of Clifford D. Simak's SF novel, THE WEREWOLF PRINCIPLE (G. P. Putnman's Sons, hc, 1967).

—Back cover text—

In the middle-distant future, Andrew Blake, discovered on a distant planet huddled inside a capsule, is brought back to Earth suffering from total amnesia.

Over 200 years old, he think he thinks and acts like a man but becomes frighteningly aware of two alien beings that lurk within his body -- a strange biological computer and a wolf-like animal. With the latter in control he breaks out of hospital to look for his past...

'A fine example of genuine SF. It is well written, it has suspense, it is intelligently conceived. In short, it bears the usual Simak guarantee...first-class entertainment.' —THE SUNDAY TIMES

(See comments section for the published cover.)

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Also featured on the cover of Daniel Walther's French language SF novel, MAIS L'ESPACE... MAIS LE TEMPS (Fleuve Noir, pb, 1981).

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(Re-post, previously in the first "Genre Art" album, Aug. 2016.)

[arinewman7]

Femme avec le Sphinx

Leonor Fini (1908 - 1996)

Pen and ink, 1946

[marejadilla]

Léon Spilliaert, "Self-Portrait with Masks", 1903, graphite pencil, brown ink, Indian ink wash with brush and pen, graphite pencil cutout lines, blue pencil lines and gum arabic on wove paper. Public domain.

(1882 - 1946) Belgian symbolist painter, draughtsman, illustrator and lithographer.