Lot 173: WRIGHT, KIT (b. 1944, poet and children's author)

PORTRAIT BY PETER EDWARDS (b. 1955),
charcoal drawing, head and shoulders, National Portrait Gallery exhibition label on verso, 231/4 x 161/2 in (59.1 x 41.9 cm).

PROVENANCE: Acquired from the artist.

EXHIBITED: National Portrait Gallery, Contemporary Poets, 1990 and as under Heath-Stubbs in this catalogue.

Peter Edwards writes: 'Study done during the painting of the large portrait. Kit came to my studio in Shropshire to do this one.'

For Peter Edwards see under Seamus Heaney (lot 68).