Tuesday 29 June
Modern British and 20th Century Art 2pm Lot 1 - 201
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Lot | Title | Estimate | Hammer price | |
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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 |