THE GRAVE-CIRCLE AT MYCENAE, 1933
Black chalk and watercolour. 19 x 16in. (48 x 40.5cm.)
Signed, inscribed Mycenae and dated 1933 on the reverse.
Provenance
Sotheby’s studio sale, 24th April 1985, lot 507.
Exhibited
Cheltenham, Cheltenham Municipal Gallery, 1936, No.38.
Penzance, Framer’s Gallery, 1980, No. 8.
Mycenae was the centre of power in the Archaic period of ancient Greece. The ruins sit atop of a rocky hill protected by the famous Cyclopean walls. The grave circle contains six royal shaft graves.