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Auction date Tuesday 29 June 2021

Tuesday 29 June

Modern British and 20th Century Art 2pm Lot 1 - 201      

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Total lots: 201

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
1 Cecil Beaton (British, 1904-1980)
Five designs for red dresses
each signed 'Beaton' (lower right), one dated '1927', one dated '1960', two dated '1967', pencil and watercolour on paper
each 36 x 26.5cm
(5)
ARR
£1,000 - £2,000 £4,000 View
2 Cecil Beaton (British, 1904-1980)
Costume design for the character Violet in 'The Return of the Prodigal' by St. John Hankin, The Globe Theatre, 1948
signed 'Beaton' (lower right), and inscribed 'Violet Act II', also bears studio…
£300 - £500 £1,100 View
3 Cecil Beaton (British, 1904-1980)
Costume design for Audrey Fildes playing Stella Faringford in 'The Return of the Prodigal' by St. John Hankin, The Globe Theatre, 1948
signed 'Beaton' (lower right) and inscribed 'Miss Fildes Stella…
£300 - £500 £700 View
4 Cecil Beaton (British, 1904-1980)
Sketch of Yehudi Menuhin OM, KBE (1916-1999)
stamped ‘Cecil Beaton from Miss E. Hose’ (lower left) and inscribed with sitter (lower left)
pencil on paper
27 x 20.5cm
ARR
£200 - £300 £240 View
5 Cecil Beaton (British, 1904-1980)
Sketch of Michael Aspel
stamped ‘Cecil Beaton from Miss E. Hose’ (lower left) and inscribed with sitter (lower right)
pencil on paper
28.5 x 18cm
ARR
£150 - £250 £150 View
6 Cecil Beaton (British, 1904-1980)
Sketch of Alexander Douglas Home KT, PC (1903-1995)
stamped ‘Cecil Beaton from Miss E. Hose’ (lower left) and inscribed with sitter (lower right)
pencil on paper
26 x 18cm
ARR
£150 - £250 £320 View
7 Cecil Beaton (British, 1904-1980)
Sketch of Julian Bream CBE (1933-2020)
stamped ‘Cecil Beaton from Miss E. Hose’ (lower left and verso) and inscribed with sitter (upper right)
pencil on paper
32 x 25.5cm
ARR
£150 - £250 £100 View
8 Studio of Cecil Beaton (British, 1904-1980)
Portrait of a seated man
watercolour and wash
47.5 x 34.5cm
ARR

Provenance
Sale, Christies London, Cecil Beaton - The Estate of the Late Miss Eileen Hose, 21 June 1988, lot 97
£200 - £400 £180 View
9 Max Beerbohm (British, 1872-1956)
Mr Lytton Strachey
titled, dated and signed 'Mr Lytton Strachey, 1931, Max' (lower centre)
pencil and watercolour
32 x 18.5cm
ARR

Exhibited
London, The Leicester Galleries, Sir Max Beerbohm, 1952,…
£800 - £1,200 £4,200 View
10 Max Beerbohm (British, 1872-1956)
Publicity (Mr Shaw to the Laureate)
inscribed, signed and dated 'Publicity Mr. Shaw, to the Laureate: "Bravo! Without and blarney, Bravo! But look here: you'll never cut me out unless you broadcast.…
£600 - £800 £900 View
11 Eric Ravilious (British, 1903-1942)
Children in a park
numbered '21/100' (in lower left margin)
woodcut
16.5 x 12cm
£150 - £200 £170 View
12 Barbara Jones (British, 1912-1978)
The Jolly Farmer, Farnham
signed and dated 'Barbara Jones 1944' (lower right) and signed and titled on the artist's label (attached to the backboard)
watercolour
37 x 55.5cm
ARR
£200 - £300 £5,500 View
13 Diana Bloomfield (British, 1915-2010)
Rising - Early Morning
signed 'Diana M Bloomfield' (lower right)
pencil and wash
50.5 x 34cm
(unframed)
ARR

Provenance
Private collection, UK

Footnote
Diana Bloomfield studied at Harrow School of…
£100 - £200 £650 View
14 Gerrard Hoffnung (British, 1925-1959)
I bet I am giving you a bit of a fright
signed 'Mr Hoffnung' (lower right) and inscribed with title (upper right)
pencil, ink and watercolour
23.5 x 29cm
together with The Harpist, a print after the…
£250 - £350 £580 View
15 Gerard Hoffnung (British, 1925-1959)
Bookshop and Sparrows
signed 'Drawn by Mr Hoffnung' and dedicated (lower right)
pencil, ink, watercolour and bodycolour
33 x 37cm
ARR
£200 - £400 £1,100 View
16 Mervyn Laurence Peake (British, 1911-1968)
A boy sat in a bowl (thought to be one of the artist's sons)
signed 'Peake' (lower left)
pencil, charcoal, watercolour and gouache
32 x 25cm
ARR

Provenance
Acquired from the artist by the vendor's…
£300 - £500 £2,400 View
17 Mervyn Laurence Peake (British, 1911-1968)
Study of a nude woman (Lynn Carter)
pencil
75 x 55cm
ARR

Provenance
Acquired from the artist by the vendor's mother. Peake was a personal friend of the vendor's mother, and drew and painted her a…
£200 - £300 £320 View
18 Augustus Edwin John (British, 1878-1961)
Youth Marching
watercolour
17 x 15cm
ARR
£150 - £250 £1,400 View
19 Augustus Edwin John (British, 1878-1961)
Portrait of a lady
signed and dated 'John 1941' (lower right)
chalk
43.5 x 31cm
ARR
£500 - £700 £700 View
20 David Muirhead Bone (British, 1876-1953)
Study of deck on a naval vessel
charcoal
54 x 76cm
ARR

Provenance
Mercury Gallery, London
Private collection, UK
£300 - £500 £240 View
21 Edmund Blampied (British, 1886-1966)
Sunday Morning Bathers
signed in pencil 'E Blampied' (in lower margin)
etching
25 x 32.5cm
ARR
£150 - £250 £260 View
22 Edmund Blampied (British, 1886-1966)
End of the Day
signed in pencil 'E Blampied' (in lower margin)
etching
16 x 22cm
ARR
£150 - £250 £320 View
23 After Elizabeth Rivers
Gathering a Seaweed Harvest; Hauling Turf from the Quay; Loading Cattle for the Galway Fair; Dancers at the Ceilidhe; Onlookers at the Ceilidhe; Interval in the Ceilidhe
a set of six
each with…
£200 - £300 £160 View
24 Michael Rothenstein (British, 1908-1993)
Still Life with landscape beyond
signed and dated 'Michael Rothenstein 1982' (lower right)
watercolour, ink and pencil
60cm x 90cm
ARR

Provenance
The Artist, from whom acquired directly by the…
£500 - £700 £480 View
25 Ludovic Rodo Pissarro (French, 1878-1952)
Study of a lady in a hat
stamped with studio stamp (lower right)
black chalk and pastel
41.5 x 44cm
ARR

Provenance
Galerie Aittouares, Paris, where purchased by the present owner
£150 - £250 £150 View
26 Josef Kopf (Austrian, 1873-1953)
Still life of flowers in a jug
signed and dated 'Jos Kopf 1925' (lower right) and bears E Stacy Marks Ltd Fine Art Dealers label (to back of frame)
oil on panel
32.5 x 23cm
ARR
£200 - £300 £900 View
27 ANATOLY YAKIN (RUSSIAN, 20th CENTURY) AFTER EDWIN LONG
Queen Esther
inscribed (verso)
oil on canvas
69 x 53cm
£100 - £150 - View
28 Vladislav Nagornov (Russian, b. 1974), after Pierre Paul Leon Glaize
The Italian Musician
inscribed (verso)
oil on canvas
71 x 54cm
£200 - £300 £150 View
29 Jean-Franck Baudoin (French, 1870-1961)
Campagne en fleurs
signed 'JF Baudoin' (lower right)
oil on canvas
46.5 x 61cm
ARR
£300 - £500 £550 View
30 WITHDRAWN Tina Blau (Austrian, 1845-1916)
Landscape at Dusk
signed 'T Blau' (lower right)
oil on canvas
13 x 23cm
- - View
31 Conrad Felixmuller (German, 1897-1977)
Selbstbildnis mit nackter frau (Self portrait with naked woman)
signed, inscribed and dated 'C Felixmuller Berlin 36' (upper left) and inscribed and dated 'WN: 683-1936' (verso)
oil on canvas
60.5 x…
£10,000 - £15,000 £14,000 View
32 Pierre-Eugene Montezin (French, 1874-1946)
Carriole sur la route bordee d'arbres
signed 'Montezin' (lower right)
oil on canvas
55 x 56cm

Provenance
Kurt E Schon, New Orleans, 1984

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity,…
£4,000 - £6,000 £5,000 View
33 After Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
La Goulue
bears signature and numbered '287/500' (in margin)
coloured engraving
29 x 23cm
£100 - £150 £80 View
34 After Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Reclining Woman, Lassitude; Woman Waking up in Bed; Woman with Tray, Breakfast each numbered in pencil '178/1250' (lower right)
three reproduction prints of three of the lithographs from Elles
each…
£100 - £150 £40 View
35 Emmanuel Charles Benezit (French, 1887-1975)
Arcueil La Vache Noire
signed and dated 'E.C Benezit 1906' (lower right) and titled (lower left)
pencil and watercolour
15.5 x 17.5cm
ARR

Provenance
Mercury Gallery, London
£100 - £150 £150 View
36 Emmanuel Charles Benezit (French, 1887-1975)
Bords de Riviere
watercolour, pencil and gouache
14 x 10cm
ARR

Provenance
Mercury Gallery, London
Private collection, UK
£80 - £120 £120 View
37 EMMANUEL CHARLES BENEZIT (FRENCH, 1887-1975)
Feuilles d'etudes
pen, ink and coloured chalk
30 x 24.5cm
ARR

Provenance
Mercury Gallery, London
Private collection, UK
£40 - £60 - View
38 FERNAND LEGER (FRENCH, 1881-1955)
La Ruche, Extrait du Portfolio "La Ville"
printed signature (in plate) and numbered in pencil '156/180' (in lower margin)
lithograph
48 x 37cm
ARR
£150 - £250 - View
39 After Pablo Picasso
Composition SP 28
lithograph
published by School Prints Ltd.
49 x 76cm
ARR
£200 - £300 £380 View
40 Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)
Don Quixote
signed in blue chalk 'Picasso' (in lower margin)
lithograph
59.5 x 44cm
ARR

Provenance
Private collection, UK
£800 - £1,200 £950 View
41 Henri Laurens (French, 1885-1954)
Composition 1947
colour wood engraving
36.5 x 25.5cm
together with another Laurens engraving
(2)
ARR

Provenance
Lumley Cazalet, London
Private collection, UK
£200 - £300 £200 View
42 BEATE HULBECK (GERMAN, B. 1903-?)
Abstract collage
signed and dated 'Beate Hulbeck 57' (lower right)
mixed media
48 x 35.5cm
ARR
£50 - £70 - View
43 After Raoul Dufy
The Band
lithograph
published by School Prints Ltd.
48.6 x 76cm
ARR
£150 - £200 £120 View
44 Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867-1947)
La Toilette
etching
21.5 x 16cm

Provenance
The Folio Society, Collectors' Corner, London
Private collection, UK
£100 - £150 £150 View
45 Andre Derain (French, 1880-1954)
Two graces and a man (Illustrations pour le Satyricon)
etching
28.5 x 23.5cm
together with two other etchings from the same series; Grotesque satyr and a nude; and Statue and a man, each 28.5 x 23…
£150 - £250 £110 View
46 Grigorij Filippovski (Russian, 1909-1987)
Portrait of Boris Pasternak
etching
30 x 22cm

Footnote
Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) is best know for his seminal novel Dr Zhivago. Seen as anti-communist by the Soviet authorities, publication was…
£50 - £70 £200 View
47 Marian Kratochwil (Polish, 1907-1997)
End of the Day, Andalucia
initialled 'MK' (lower left) and inscribed with title and artist's name (verso)
oil on canvas
51 x 61cm
ARR
£200 - £300 £650 View
48 Marian Kratochwil (Polish, 1907-1997)
The War of Nettles and Thistles, Edinburgh, 1945
signed and dated 'Marian Kratochwil 45' (lower left) and inscribed with title and artist's name (verso)
oil on board
39.5 x 54cm
ARR
£200 - £300 £240 View

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