Live Auction 20038An Aesthetic Odyssey: The Peter Rose and Albert Gallichan Collection
HERBERT JAMES DRAPER (1864-1920)
Lot 219

HERBERT JAMES DRAPER (1864-1920)

First sketch for 'Icarus'

Closed30 September 2021

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GBP 10,625

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HERBERT JAMES DRAPER (1864-1920)
First sketch for 'Icarus'
with studio stamp (lower right)
black and white chalk on buff paper, watermarked 'CANNON & MONTGOLFIER'
12 ¾ x 19 ¾ in. (32.5 x 50.2 cm.)

The artist, and by descent.
with Julian Hartnoll, London, where purchased for the present collection.

Specialist note


The Lament of Icarus is one of Draper's best-known works, depicting the eponymous reckless son dragged onto a rock by three mourning nymphs. Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1898, Draper made many detailed drawings of each individual figure before painting a highly finished composition study. The model for Icarus was an Italian, Luigi di Lucca, whose distinctive strong bone structure appeared in many of Draper's works of the 1890s.