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Triptych in Yew Wood: A stipple engraved goblet by Laurence Whistler, executed in 1971 image 1
Triptych in Yew Wood: A stipple engraved goblet by Laurence Whistler, executed in 1971 image 2
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Triptych in Yew Wood: A stipple engraved goblet by Laurence Whistler, executed in 1971

15 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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Triptych in Yew Wood: A stipple engraved goblet by Laurence Whistler, executed in 1971

the shape designed by the artist, the bowl engraved with scenes of Childhood, Youth and Age, on a teared knop, trumpet stem and folded foot, titled on the base 25.5cm high (stem repaired)

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Literature
Illustrated by Laurence Whistler in his book 'The Image on the Glass' (1975), pls.42 and 43 and p.55. The artist described the scenes thus...

"Three landscapes in the gaps between yew trees. To the left, childhood: a boy near a villa, watching a traction-engine. In the centre, youth: lovers on a bridge. To the right, age: an old man contemplating a terminal figure at the end of a tunnel of foliage."

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