March 2, 2013
Live AuctionRadisson Edwardian Hotel
140 Bath Road
Heathrow, UB3 5AW United Kingdom
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Viewing NotesNB - BIDDING WILL START FROM LOT 695. This auction is re-scheduled from Sunday, 24th February due to a power failure in the hotel and surrounding area. Lots 695-1146 of the original auction are now being offered for sale on Saturday, 2nd March at 12 noon. Existing commission bids will remain in place, although we are accepting additional bids and the sale will also be hosted live in the usual fashion.
Sale NotesNB - BIDDING WILL START FROM LOT 695. This auction is re-scheduled from Sunday, 24th February due to a power failure in the hotel and surrounding area. Lots 695-1146 of the original auction are now being offered for sale on Saturday, 2nd March at 12 noon. Existing commission bids will remain in place, although we are accepting additional bids and the sale will also be hosted live in the usual fashion.
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Lot 579: NB - LOT SOLD 24TH FEBRUARY
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Description: KNELLER GODFREY: (1646-1723) English Painter. D.S., G. Kneller, one page, 4to, n.p., 5th April 1715, being a record of Annuities received by Kneller. The partially printed document states that Kneller has received the sum of £50 for three months Annuity due at Lady Day, being part of £200 payable per annum by virtue of an Act of Parliament in 1707. Signed by Kneller in the right margin and bearing several countersignatures. Kneller's signature is a little faded, although perfectly legible. Light overall age wear and staining, neatly laid down and with some small areas of paper loss. FR
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Lot 580: NB - LOT SOLD 24TH FEBRUARY
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Description: MORRIS WILLIAM: (1834-1896) English Textile Designer & Artist, associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Arts & Crafts Movement. A.L.S., William Morris, one page, 8vo, Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, 9th July n.y., to Mr. Burns. Morris informs his correspondent that he cannot venture out on Sunday evenings 'on account of the necessity of my nursing the Hammersmith Branch' although adds that he could do it on a week day. Some minor, light overall staining, otherwise VG
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Lot 581: NB - LOT SOLD 24TH FEBRUARY
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Description: KNIGHT LAURA: (1877-1970) British Painter. A small 4to printed brochure entitled The Royal Academy Illustrated 1957, being a souvenir of the 189th Exhibition, published for the Royal Academy of Arts by William Clowes & Sons Limited, London, and featuring many black and white illustrations of paintings etc. Signed by Laura Knight to the first advertisement page in bold black fountain pen ink, 'Love from Laura, At the Royal Academy' and dated 3rd May 1957 in her hand. Knight has added an original ink drawing to the Winsor & Newton advert, incorporating a drawing of a clown with outstretched arms into their printed design. To the blank inside front cover Knight has also added another black pen and ink drawing of a man and woman seated in half length poses together, sharing a bottle of wine. The advertisement page also bears three other unidentified signatures. Accompanied by several loosely inserted newspaper articles. Some age wear to the spine and outer covers, G
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Lot 582: NB - LOT SOLD 24TH FEBRUARY
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Description: JOHN AUGUSTUS: (1878-1961) Welsh Painter. A good collection of ten A.Ls.S., Augustus John (and two signed with his first name only, and one unsigned), twelve pages (total), 8vo, Fryern Court, Fordingbridge, Hants, February 1960 - August 1961 (a few with n.d.), all to [the art collector, Stephen] Teltch. John writes a series of letters about his work, in part, 'I had had a number of paintings photographed and four more are being done today. I will send you the lot as soon as possible....None of these things have been exhibited and as you will see, some of them are unfinished but maybe I can use a model and so complete them in some cases....I have started another of the same child who is rather elusive as she goes to school, but comes here sometimes during her holidays.' (4th February 1960), 'It is no good me trying to think in terms of money. I simply can't do it as my absurd estimate for the drawings shows. I have now got Dudley Tooth to undertake such matters for me, as he is known to you & has always been straight with me. I find it difficult to think of anything but The Triptych, which is well on the way to getting done. I hope you'll find time to come....& have another look at it....' (19th December 1960), 'Please do not show your God-child my hasty remarks about her drawings. I was in a hurry and found it impossible to flatten out the drawings as they had been so tightly rolled up. My wife was engaged in packing them up again when I caught sight of some I hadn't seen. But I was too late & I only caught a glimpse of one or two which I would have been glad to examine for they gave me "the impression" of being far more interesting than those I had seen. Perhaps after all I needn't have mentioned Rembrandt whom your Godchild may know as much about as I do! I would hate to have done her an injustice & now look forward to seeing more of her work but not rolled up.' (23rd February 1961), 'Since meeting you at Tooth's exhibition....I have been working on the left hand panel of those monstrosities which you have seen. A large fund left by some artist called Abbey....have decided to acquire the middle panel at a price which my wife assures me will ruin me in taxation. Having as you know, no talent for arithmetic I have left it to Tooth....to conduct my affairs.' (6th April 1961), 'How very good of you to send me that noble present of brandy!....I have been working on the Triptych which shows signs of completion....I have a good model here, though Sara is good - in parts. Like most school girls, she can't keep still for more than a minute.' (August 1961?), 'I keep working on the Triptych every day & sometimes it keeps me awake at night. It is impossible to know when to stop.' (June n.y.). Together with Dorelia John (1881-1969) Model for Augustus & Gwen John, latterly the former's common-law wife. A.L.S., Dorelia John, one page, 8vo, 19th August 1960, also to Teltch, apologising for not having thanked him previously for the brandy ('but there has been so much to do lately') and continuing to send the regards of herself and her husband. Also including Josette Jones (1894-1989) English Painter, pupil of Augustus John and Walter Sickert. A.L.S., Jo, three pages, 8vo, n.p., n.d. ('Friday'), to Emo (?), announcing 'I feel most distressed that John should have written to you like that....He says he so hopes his letter did not sound pompous and offend you...."This I should greatly regret as I find Mr. Teltch "maj simpatico".....Augustus obviously feels he wrote a tactless letter. How extraordinary about the drawings - what could he have meant?' A good series of letters with interesting content. Some very minor, light age wear to a few letters, otherwise VG, 12 As these letters illustrate, John continued to work right up until his death. He makes several references to his last work, a studio mural in three parts. The left hand panel showed a Falstaffian figure of a French peasant in a yellow waistcoat playing a hurdy gurdy while coming down a village street. It was the artist's final goodbye.
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Lot 583: NB - LOT SOLD 24TH FEBRUARY
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Description: LOWRY L. S.: (1887-1976) English Artist. A signed 20.5 x 17 colour print of Lowry's painting entitled Landscape with Farm Buildings, published by Venture Prints, 1974, in a limited edition of 850. Signed by Lowry in bold pencil with his name alone to the lower white border, which also features the blind embossed stamps of the Fine Art Trade Guild. Professionally matted in green and cream with pale decorative borders and framed and glazed in a brown wooden frame to an overall size of 31.5 x 27. EX
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