^#620 ^Lot 648 Sylvia Plath

Poet, novelist and short story writer (1932–1963), who committed suicide after her separation from her husband and a long bout with depression. Charming original vintage unsigned ink sketch of a tea kettle on an off-white 5.5 x 4.25 sheet, identified on the reverse in pencil by her husband, Ted Hughes, “By Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes.” In fine condition. Plath was an accomplished artist, who developed what she called ‘a kind of primitive style of my own which I am very fond of.’ A major retrospective of her drawings took place in London in 2011. This is the first Plath we have ever offered.