Original artwork of a Trojan horse by Edie Sedgwick, accomplished in mixed media on artist paper cut to form, applied to a black 10.75 x 7.75 sheet and affixed to the original mount, which is signed in blue ballpoint, “Edith Sedgwick, ‘60,” whose added dimension to the work gives the horse a stone or marble appearance. Matted to an overall size of 20 x 16.5. In very fine condition
Sedgwick left the St. Timothy's School boarding school in 1959 and returned to her family’s La Laguna ranch in California, where she remained until she was sent to the private Silver Hill psychiatric hospital in New Canaan, Connecticut, in the fall of 1962. Her date notation of 1960 places her at the age of either 16 or 17 when this work was created. An exceptionally early piece from Sedgwick, whose love for horses remained a constant throughout her short life.
From the Michael Post Collection.
