10th Jul, 2022 12:00
The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction
THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT, THE LARGE COLOUR ETCHING BY JOHN BELLANY
* JOHN BELLANY CBE RA HRSA (SCOTTISH 1942 - 2013),
THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT
three plate etching in colours on paper, signed, titled and numbered 66/200
image size 74cm x 60cm, sheet size 101cm x 85cm, overall size 113cm x 97cm
Famed and under glass.
Note: This exceptional etching was commissioned as one of six by the Royal Academy of Arts (London) and Merivale Editions to celebrate the bi-centenary of the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1991). The six invited prominent Academicians responded very differently to the commission and produced a limited edition of 200 signed prints of their image. John Bellany and Eduardo Paolozzi both produced images relating to Queen of the Night from Mozart's opera The Magic Flute. Tom Phillips and Elizabeth Blackadder created images reflecting personal responses to the life and music of the composer. Peter Blake was inspired by the picture of Mozart as child genius and combined the portrait with extracts from manuscripts, documents and other images. David Tindle created an empty, cold music room with a ghostly mirror conceived as a monument to Mozart. "The Queen of the Night" is one of the largest of Bellany's signed limited editions and is marginally larger than the "Bellany Sextet" etchings, one of which currently holds the auction record for a single Bellany print of £1500 (hammer).
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Sold for £900
Estimated at £500 - £800
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