The Roy Davids Collection
Catalog Information: 283 lots | 282 with images
Date: 2005
Auction House:
Bonhams
Location:
United Kingdom
Lot 1: ALDINGTON, RICHARD (1892-1962), novelist, poet and literary scholar, one of the founders of the Imagist Movement with Ezra Pound and his own wife Hilda Doolittle)
PORTRAIT BY JULIET PANNETT (b.1911), charcoal drawing heightened with colour, inscribed by Juliet Pannett "Aldy" and 'R. Aldington', 18 x 12 in. (45.7 x 30.5 cm.)
Lot 2: ARCHER, WILLIAM (1856-1924, theatre critic) AND MOORE, GEORGE AUGUSTUS (1852-1933, Irish novelist and playwright)
PORTRAITS BY SIR MAX BEERBOHM (1872-1956), pen and ink, depicting Archer, in Scottish dress, and Moore, holding a cudgel, in conflict with one another, signed 'Max' and inscribed by him 'George Moore: thwill ye tread on the tail ar me coa [...more]
Lot 3: BARETTI, GIUSEPPE (1719-1789, poet, critic, friend of Johnson, Reynolds and the Thrales, Secretary for Foreign Correspondence to the Royal Academy)
PORTRAIT BY JOHN WATTS (fl. 1776-1780) AFTER SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS P.R.A. (1723-1792), mezzotint, half-length, seated reading, lettered in the inscription space with the painter's, the engraver's and the sitter's names and as published 18 July 1780 by [...more]
Lot 4: BARKER, GEORGE (1913-1991, poet, novelist, playwright and script writer)
PORTRAIT BY LUCINDA DOUGLAS-MENZIES (b. 1956), photograph, bromide fibre print, head and shoulders, photographer's stamp, her signature and name of sitter and date 1990 in pencil on verso, extremely fine, 151/2 x 113/4 in. (39.4 x 29.2 cm.)
Lot 5: BARRIE, SIR JAMES MATTHEW, (1860-1937, playwright and novelist, O.M.)
PORTRAIT BY ALVIN LANGDON COBURN (1882-1966), photogravure print, proof before letters (no printed plate number or facsimile signature), head and shoulders, 'J.M. Barrie' written in pencil on the mount by Coburn, tipped onto a mount different [...more]
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