(dragon and song)

 

Olaf Abrahamsen Willums

  1886 - 1967 (biography)

1919  

woodcut, attached to sheet with hand written music score and poem. 

6 1/4 x 7 1/2" image size, woodcut 

pencil, lower right 

proof, edition not stated 

'From Olaf Willums Oslo' in ink on support sheet with the muscial score 

 

buff laid affixed to cream laid 

proof 

artist 

2121 

$400.00 

This work is a combination of music, poetry and printmaking. At the top of the left sheet is the hand written music, beneath which is a woodcut of a dragon by Norwegian artist Olaf Willums. An accompanying sheet, to the right, has a poem which the music accompanies. It is dedicated "London, 19th of June, 1919 / In memory of C.S. Matulaito." From the collection of Danish critic and author Georg Bröchner, who wrote for the British art magazine "The Studio" in the early 20th century. He has annotated the work in ink: "From Olaf Willums, Oslo."