Box LTFBOX/MYERS Box 2

Scope and contents Drawing depicts Rosalia Lombardo 1918-1920 in the centre of the image, and Sicilian bandits Gaspare Pisciotta 1924-1954, and Salvatore Giuliano 1922-1950 on either side of Rosalia. In the centre of the drawing are two dead bleeding foxes. Text inscribed in black ink below figures: My poor dreams of love, blissful in the best of the joy you are perished, proud but unlucky that like the birds in the woods you are perished. The text is inscribed over a scene at Il Porto showing the small figure...

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Shows a portrait of a sleeping man with red hair with gold leaf painted above his head and a circular drawing of a bird with an egg pasted into the drawing.

Described by Vali Myers in 'Vali Myers: Drawings 1949-79' p. 72-73: 'The face of a sleeping man. Above him is his dream-bird with an egg between her feet'.

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Shows the face of Bacchus with a curled tongue and beard.

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Described by Vali Myers in 'Vali Myers: Drawings 1949-79', London, Open House, 1980, p. 76-77: 'Portrait of a young Italian poet, Gianni Menichetti, who was born in Tuscany in a village built on the ruins of an Etruscan town. Nearby him is his great black goat, Batienne. There is an old belief that a Golden Toad was worshipped long ago by the Etruscan people and lies buried somewhere in this ancient land.

Scope and contents Shows Mary Magdalene with tear drops running down her face, and a bird sleeping in the palm of her hand. Described by Vali Myers in 'Vali Myers: Drawings 1949-1979' p. 90-91: A whore with flowers, sister of Lazarus the leper, who washed the feet of Jesus with her tears and anointed them with precious ointment. Mary Magdalene, looking for the body of her Lord at daybreak sees the vision of Jesus through a veil of tears and believes him to be the gardener. The last lines written by...

Scope and contents Described by Vali Myers in 'Vali Myers: Drawings: 1949-79', London, Open House, 1980, p. 114-115: 'A white Lubra dreaming in the desert, holds her spirit-fox in her arms. Everything is hot and golden, flaming like the dun. Far away is the small figure of a man swinging a bullroarer-Kunapipi, the Great Mother was killed by a man, Eaglehawk. As she died she cried out and her sound entered every tree. Eaglehawk cut a bullroarer from a tree and in swinging it gave back her cry,'mumuna'. This is...

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Shows a portrait in profile, with long red hair and a wild horse running in the distance near a scroll of a Willy Willy or tornado.

Described by Gianni Menichetti in 'Notes about Vali's drawings in this book' (YMS 16336 Box 6/3): A self-portrait in profile, dreaming in the Never Never. A wild horse, a bumby, runs in the desert swept by a willy-willy (Australian Aboriginal name for cyclone).

Scope and contents Shows the figure of a pearl diver with a pearl between her teeth, with two eels on either side. Described by Gianni Menichetti in 'Notes about Vali's drawings in this book' (MS 16336, Box 6/3): Precious pearls are born out of pain, sickness and suffering. Vali, far from running away from pain, always dived, like a real shaman, into the darkest depths of her inner sea, like a pearl-diver looking for treasures. This one is flanked by two moray-eels.There is a pencil...

Scope and contents Shows the central figure of a courtesan, with bare breasts, waves of long red hair, a sunflower and the figure of Foxy curled between them. Above the figure are scenes of Mount Vesuvius erupting, and around the figure are sailing boats, views of Il Porto with animals depicted including Ruby the pig, dogs, hen and chicks and eels swimming in the water below. Described by Gianni Menichetti in 'Notes about Vali's drawings in this book' (YMS 16336, Box 6/3): The ancient city of...