Edwin Dikinson
Olive and Porch of the Maidens
(1120)
1961
Athens, Greece
Pencil on paper
9 x 11 1/2 in. (22.9 x 29.2 cm)
Signed, inscribed, dated lower left: "E W Dickinson / Athens / 1961 / Nov. 5"
Inscribed lower right: "the fallen & eaten olive"
Inscribed, numbered on bottom: "and night / the day of the gt. [great] rain"
Inscribed on cornice: "The mistake in < [angle]"
Inscribed lower right: "the fallen & eaten olive"
Inscribed, numbered on bottom: "and night / the day of the gt. [great] rain"
Inscribed on cornice: "The mistake in < [angle]"
Private Collection
Photo: Geoffrey Clements
Notes
Drawn in Athens, Greece, on the Acropolis, November 5 (journal). ED note from back of a photograph: "(View towards top of the Parthenon from back of the Porch of the Maidens) Athens the day of the night of the great tragic downpour! rising wind - everything blowing about weighted everything. ate the last olive to fall." To HDB, 6 November 1961: "I commenced drawing yesterday. I drew the olive tree of the Erectheum . . . The sacred olive tree is there, one live tree - the wind was high - and an olive dropped, I quickly picked it up & ate it. The most famous olive tree on earth." Journal, November 5 1961 "mis-read the 2nd angle which crowded me. 3 olives dropped from the tree in the high wind; I pocketed 'em When finished I packed up, turned around & there was Pat looking very attractive. . . "I made a bad mistake in an angle (the 2nd left) having read it right but did it wrong. It crowded right through the whole effort. No more !"Provenance
Private Collection
Private Collection