9th Nov, 2023 10:30
The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction
* VICKY CASSIDY (SCOTTISH b. 1965)
THE BEE'S KISS
mixed media on paper, signed
mounted, framed and under glass
image size 50cm x 70cm, overall size 73cm x 92cm
Note: Vicky (Victoria) Cassidy is a Scottish artist who trained at Glasgow School of Art. Her delicate mixed-media artwork often bring together Eastern themes, figures and text. This painting is inspired by Robert Browning's poem "In a Gondola":
'The moth's kiss, first!
Kiss me as if you made me believe
You were not sure, this eve,
How my face, your flower, had pursed
Its petals up; so, here and there
You brush it, till I grow aware
Who wants me, and wide ope I burst .
The bee's kiss, now!
Kiss me as if you enter'd gay
My heart at some noonday,
A bud that dares not disallow
The claim, so all is render'd up,
And passively its shatter'd cup
Over your head to sleep I bow.'
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Sold for £60
Estimated at £200 - £300
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