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Modern British and Irish Art British and Irish Modern I Montpelier Street, London I 25 March 2020 London I 25 March I Montpelier Street, 25873 Modern British and Irish Art Montpelier Street, London I 12 May 2020 Modern British and Irish Art Montpelier Street, London | Tuesday 12 May 2020, at 1pm BONHAMS BIDS ENQUIRIES IMPORTANT INFORMATION Montpelier Street +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Janet Hardie The United States Government Knightsbridge +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Specialist has banned the import of ivory London SW7 1HH [email protected] +44 (0) 20 7393 3949 into the USA. Lots containing www.bonhams.com [email protected] ivory are indicated by the symbol To bid via the internet please Ф printed beside the lot number ILLUSTRATIONS visit www.bonhams.com Matthew Bradbury in this catalogue. Front Cover: Lot 232 Specialist Back Cover: Lot 5 Please note that bids should be +44 (0) 20 7468 8295 REGISTRATION Inside Front Cover: Lot 88 submitted no later than 4pm [email protected] IMPORTANT NOTICE Inside Back Cover: Lot 102 on the day prior to the auction. Please note that all customers, Frontispiece (Pg 3): Lot 35 New bidders must also provide PRESS ENQUIRIES irrespective of any previous proof of identity when submitting [email protected] activity with Bonhams, are bids. Failure to do this may result required to complete the Bidder SALE NUMBER in your bids not being processed. Registration Form in advance of 25873 CUSTOMER SERVICES the sale. 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Bonhams 1793 Limited Registered No. 4326560 Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Central Middlesex Acton Ln Hospital Park Royal Acton Ln Sale Cadogan Tate Coronation Road W e d s P a te a o r r n R k A v e R e s A o 4 a Information 0 y h a Park l C Royal iWestern Ave A40 R o Station a 0 d 0 Acton 0 North 4 Cemetery A Acton d Station a o R a i r o t c i V West Acton Horn Lane Station BIDS COLLECTION BUYERS STORAGE AND HANDLING VAT +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 COLLECTION & STORAGE CHARGES ON SOLD LOTS Will be applied at the current +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax AFTER SALE LOTS MARKED TP RETURNED TO CADOGAN rate on all above charges. 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Payment may CATALOGUE be made by cash, credit, or debit SUBSCRIPTIONS card(Please note: Amex is not accepted). To obtain any Bonhams catalogue or to take out an Information on charges annual subscription: due is available by email at Subscriptions Department [email protected] +44 (0) 1666 502200 or telephone on+44 (0) 800 988 +44 (0) 1666 505107 fax 6100. [email protected] Payment in Advance SHIPPING (Telephone to ascertain amount For information and estimates due) by: cash, credit or debit card. on domestic and international shipping as well as export Payment at time of collection by: licenses please contact Alban Cash, credit or debit card. Shipping on: +44 (0) 1582 493 099 [email protected] 1 AR PETER LANYON (BRITISH, 1918-1964) Study of Brit Asleep stamped with Estate stamp ‘Lanyon’ (on sheet verso) charcoal and crayon 51.5 x 74.5cm (20 1/4 x 29 5/16in). Executed in 1960 £2,000 - 3,000 €2,400 - 3,600 1 US$2,600 - 3,900 Provenance The Estate of the Artist Their sale; Bonhams, Knightsbridge, 19 July 2011, lot 172 Private Collection, U.K. 2 AR ROBERT ADAMS (BRITISH, 1917-1984) Two Little Gold Blocks signed, titled, dated and inscribed ‘ROBERT ADAMS/“TWO LITTLE GOLD BLOCKS”/1966. MAY./To Judith + Adrian.’ (on panel verso) painted wood relief 25.5 x 25.5 x 3cm (10 1/16 x 10 1/16 x 1 3/16in) (unframed) £1,000 - 1,500 €1,200 - 1,800 US$1,300 - 1,900 Provenance The Artist, by whom gifted to the family of the present owner Private Collection, U.K. 3 AR 2 WILLIAM TURNBULL (BRITISH, 1922-2012) Walking Man signed and dated ‘Turnbull 53’ (lower right) ink 22.5 x 12cm (8 7/8 x 4 3/4in). £800 - 1,200 €950 - 1,400 US$1,000 - 1,500 Provenance With James Hyman Fine Art, London, where acquired by the present owner in 2005 Private Collection, U.K. 3 For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 4 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. 4 4 AR BEN NICHOLSON O.M. (BRITISH, 1894-1982) Provenance December 1957 (for Jeanne Coppel) The Artist, by whom gifted to pencil and oil wash Jeanne Coppel, Paris, and thence by descent to her son 18 x 25.5cm (7 1/16 x 10 1/16in). His sale; Christie’s, Paris, 11 December 2007, lot 192 With Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London, 2008 Private Collection, Madrid, from whom acquired by the present owner £6,000 - 8,000 €7,200 - 9,500 The present work was gifted by Ben Nicholson to fellow artist Jeanne US$7,700 - 10,000 Coppel, a Romanian artist who worked mostly in collage. She settled in France in 1919 after studying in Berlin and Paris. For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. MODERN BRITISH AND IRISH ART | 5 5 AR MICHAEL CANNEY (BRITISH, 1923-1999) Squarefold No 2 signed, titled and dated ‘michael canney ‘85/ Squarefold No 2’ (on backboard) alkyd on board 24 x 24cm (9 7/16 x 9 7/16in). £2,000 - 3,000 €2,400 - 3,600 US$2,600 - 3,900 Provenance The Estate of the Artist 5 6 AR MICHAEL CANNEY (BRITISH, 1923-1999) Construction 2 signed, titled and dated ‘michael canney ‘91/ CONSTRUCTION 2’ (on backboard) alkyd on board 30 x 30cm (11 13/16 x 11 13/16in). £2,500 - 3,500 €3,000 - 4,200 US$3,200 - 4,500 Provenance The Estate of the Artist 6 For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 6 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. 7 7 AR JOHN WELLS (BRITISH, 1907-2000) reliefs, which in themselves were a development of his coloured Relief on a Seventh Module (Homage to Ben and Gorin) reliefs begun the year before. Nicholson wrote to his wife, Winifred, oil on carved wood in a perspex box frame following a visit to see her in Paris during 1933 that his aeroplane 61 x 122cm (24 x 48 1/16in). journey home had a profound effect on him. He referenced the white Please note that this work bears signature and number ‘John clouds more than once, and Jeremy Lewison comments: Wells/4.7bb’ (on a Wills Lane Gallery label verso) Conceived in 1970 ‘The ability to pass from one level to another with abruptness and precision, bypassing intermediate planes, is a quality found in Nicholson’s reliefs and was paralleled in his description of the flight. £5,000 - 7,000 The purity of the white cloud, moreover, may have had some bearing €6,000 - 8,300 on his next major advance, the making of white reliefs.’ (J. Lewison, US$6,400 - 9,000 Ben Nicholson, Phaidon Press, London, p. 16) Provenance John Wells was acquainted with Ben Nicholson from a young age, With Wills Lane Gallery, St.