TWO PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE MERVYN PEAKE FAMILY ALBUM TOGETHER WITH A PRINT AND A BOOK

including a photograph of a dining table and another of a man with a branch, both framed and glazed, and a print of a family photograph, together with a copy of the book 'Mervyn Peake, An Exhibition of Certain Rare Dreams'

31cmx23cm frame, 20cm x 13cm without frame; 34cm x 26cm frame, 24cmx15cm without frame; 27cm x 21cm unframed (4)

Provenance: Viktor Wynd’s Museum, London.

For Mervyn Peake’s centenary in 2011 with the help of his son Sebastian Peake, Wynd curated an exhibition of his and his wife, Maeve Gilmore’s work. Sebastian allowed him to make these archival reproductions from his family photo album, a tiny handful of which he signed and were sold at the exhibition.

The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & UnNatural History is a contemporary reinterpretation of a Pre-Enlightenment Wunderkabinett or Cabinet of Curiosities. It is the creation of artist and writer Viktor Wynd, who has just opened a Falmouth branch of his museum inside the National Maritime Museum. His most recent book 'The UnNatural History Museum' was published by Prestel in 2020.