Three figures

Etching, 39 x 49 cm (plate line); 56 x 76 cm (sheet), signed in the image and dated ’71, untitled, editioned 13/30 lower right, signed by Hermia Boyd in pencil lower left, minor handling creases, unframed.

A fine large format Hermia Boyd etching illustrating two crouched figures and one standing figure at the base of a castle which appears to be afire.

Hermia Boyd (née Lloyd Jones, 1931-2000) was a sculptor, potter and painter, and wife of the artist David Boyd (1924 – 2011).

Provenance:

The estate of the late Barbara Blackman (1928 – 2024)

The estate of the late Felicity St. John Moore (1933 – 2025), art historian, curator and authority on the celebrated Australian artist Charles Blackman (1928-2018)

by descent.