20th Jan, 2019 13:00

The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction

 
  Lot 554
 

MARRIAGE FEAST AT CANA (1953), A LITHOGRAPH BY ALASDAIR GRAY

* ALASDAIR GRAY (SCOTTISH b 1934 - ),
MARRIAGE FEAST AT CANA (1953)
lithograph, signed and dated 1969
86cm x 103.5 cm. (33 7/8 x 40 3/4 inches)
Framed and under glass.
Label verso: The Dawson Gallery, 4 Dawson Street, Dublin.
Literature A Gray, A Life in Pictures, Edinburgh, 2010, pp 42-43. `The Marriage Feast'' parodies Kingsley Amis's account of a run-in with Dylan Thomas, casting Christ in the mad poet's role (with its wonderful opening line: ‘I met Jesus Christ only once, at Cana, at some sort of marriage feast’) Alasdair Gray. A large and extremely rare signed lithograph.

 

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Sold for £1,000
Estimated at £500 - £800


 
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