Sleeping Poet

 

Arthur Henry Thomas Millier

  1893 - 1975 (biography)

1922  

etching 

4 7/8 x 6 5/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

50 

titled in another hand, lower left 

 

antique-white laid paper with partial watermark 

 

 

KAFA107 

SOLD

In a note to a collector Millier commented on 'Sleeping Poet': "Where all the prints of it are, I don't know. But it is my choice for Millier's best etching, I suppose because it made itself. The old Los Angeles Plaza was a beautiful and human place in those days. I believe the plate was made in 1922. I drew everything on the plate in the Plaza just as it happened. When I got it back to my room at First and Broadway I felt that something more was needed and just drew in the sleeper. He looked like a poet, hence the title." Arthur Millier, August 26, 1971.