Lot 323: Patrick Graham (b.1943) WERE YOU BUT LYING COLD

Patrick Graham (b.1943) WERE YOU BUT LYING COLD AND DEAD, 1977 signed and dated lower right; inscribed upper centre and lower left acrylic, collage and pencil on paper 51 by 35cm., 20 by 13.7 5in. From the Ben Bulben series of June 1977. The lines of poetry written at the top of the composition are the first stanza of W.B. Yeats' He Wishes his Beloved were Dead, of 1899.