Modern British & 20th Century Art

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
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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 stamp
ink and watercolour
44 x 34cm
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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 Act II', also bears studio stamp
ink and watercolour
44 x 34cm
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Portrait of a seated man
watercolour and wash
47.5 x 34.5cm
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Provenance
Sale, Christies London, Cecil Beaton - The Estate of the Late Miss Eileen Hose, 21 June 1988, lot 97

Mr Lytton Strachey
titled, dated and signed 'Mr Lytton Strachey, 1931, Max' (lower centre)
pencil and watercolour
32 x 18.5cm
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Exhibited
London, The Leicester Galleries, Sir Max Beerbohm, 1952, no.35
Private collection

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." Max 1929' (lower right)
ink and wash
31 x 36cm
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The present work was executed after the publication of Robert Bridges' (Poet Laureate 1913-1930) 'The Testament of Beauty' in 1929

Exhibited
London, The Leicester Galleries, Sir Max Beerbohm, 1952, no.138
Private collection

Children in a park
numbered '21/100' (in lower left margin)
woodcut
16.5 x 12cm

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
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Rising - Early Morning
signed 'Diana M Bloomfield' (lower right)
pencil and wash
50.5 x 34cm
(unframed)
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Provenance
Private collection, UK

Footnote
Diana Bloomfield studied at Harrow School of Art and the Hampstead Garden Suburb Institute from 1947. She was strongly influenced by the work of Eric Gill and went onto specialise in wood engraving. She received a commission from Penguin for various publications including Walter de la Mare's poetry anthology for children, 'Come Hither'.

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 same hand
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Bookshop and Sparrows
signed 'Drawn by Mr Hoffnung' and dedicated (lower right)
pencil, ink, watercolour and bodycolour
33 x 37cm
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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
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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 number of times

Study of a nude woman (Lynn Carter)
pencil
75 x 55cm
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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 number of times

Youth Marching
watercolour
17 x 15cm
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Portrait of a lady
signed and dated 'John 1941' (lower right)
chalk
43.5 x 31cm
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Study of deck on a naval vessel
charcoal
54 x 76cm
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Provenance
Mercury Gallery, London
Private collection, UK

Sunday Morning Bathers
signed in pencil 'E Blampied' (in lower margin)
etching
25 x 32.5cm
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End of the Day
signed in pencil 'E Blampied' (in lower margin)
etching
16 x 22cm
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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 printed signature
prints
each image size 15 x 19.5cm
(all unframed)
(6)
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Still Life with landscape beyond
signed and dated 'Michael Rothenstein 1982' (lower right)
watercolour, ink and pencil
60cm x 90cm
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Provenance
The Artist, from whom acquired directly by the family of the present owner, personal friends of Michael and Sam Rothenstein, thence by descent