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The latest flagship sales of Modern and Contemporary art in New York showed a return to some normality after a difficult 14 months. The sighs of relief at the auction houses were almost palpable after the supply of major works had dropped off considerably during the pandemic but recovered signifi- cantly here, with some big-ticket items coming forward for last week’s series.
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Auction heads become dealers Pick Newton’s homage to Dorset Two long-standing auction department of the heads launch second careers as dealers this week month. tops Gloucestershire house sale David Houlston (oak furniture and works of art) and Paul Raison (Old Masters) Duke’s sale of property from Wormington Grange near paints manufacturer Winsor & Newton, enjoyed only a both recently left senior positions at Broadway in Gloucestershire held in Dorchester from modest career and went largely unrecognised during his Bonhams and Christie’s respectively. May 12-14 included a record for the Modern British lifetime. At a low ebb in the wake of the First World War Houlston began working as a general painter Algernon Newton (1880-1968). he had once been reduced to selling his works on street valuer at Phillips Chester in the 1990s and spent 15 years heading Phillips’ and then The artist’s monumental 6ft 8in x 8ft 10in (1.74 x corners, and did not merit an entry in The Macmillan Bonhams’ vernacular furniture sales. 2.72m) A Dorset Landscape was on the market for the Encyclopedia of Art after his death. He had recently moved to a consultancy first time since it was bought in June 1928 at the Royal The small loan exhibition The Peculiarity of Algernon Newton (1880-1968) held by Katz in 2012 helped put back role – his final sale with Bonhams was the Academy. Estimated at £60,000-100,000, it sold at John Douglas metalwork collection (see last on the map a painter whose moody urban views are today £225,000 to London dealer Daniel Katz, one of several week’s ATG, No 2492). much admired for their unsettling sense of menace or phone bidders, against private and institutional interest. Based in the Cotswolds, near Newton, the grandson of one of the founders of art foreboding. Continued on page 6 Continued on page 4
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Encouraging signs at the big New York sales Continued from front page
While demand may not have been ‘white hot’, the totals were a marked improvement on the most recent comparable events. Last July, the live-streamed ‘cross-continental’ auctions at Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phil- lips (effectively two or three series merged together) raised Above: the flagship auctions at Sotheby’s New York hosted a $934m (£741.64m) including Le Bassin aux nymphéas by Claude Monet – small number of socially distanced bidders in the room. The premium. $61m (£43.6m) at Sotheby’s New York. auction house reported its livestream attracted 1.7 million The current series in New views around the world. York is set to end about 50% up on this figure, generating a total London in February 2013 for with 49 of the 50 lots finding Asia, made the fourth-highest the Marion collection of Con- of $1.37bn (£978.6m) with four- £25.5m. Here, Femme assise près buyers (98%), while its 21st price for the artist and sold well temporary art added a further day sales still to take place at d’une fenêtre (Marie-Thérèse) was Century evening sale made above the $15m (£8.37m) it had $157.2m (£112.3m) to the the time of going to press and offered with an ‘estimate on $210.5m (£150.3m), selling 37 fetched in the same rooms in bottom line. Phillips holding back its auc- request’, reportedly in the of 39 lots (95%). May 2004. Overall the sale Meanwhile, Bonhams held a tions until June. region of $55m. generated $221.3m (£158.1m) 32-lot Impressionist and Christie’s two evening sales After a 20-minute bidding Title maintained with 31 of the 33 lots (94%) Modern Art sale in New York were branded 20th Century battle which came down to two Unlike Christie’s, Sotheby’s selling on the night. on May 13 which made a total Art and 21st Century Art for phone bidders, it was sold at maintained the Impressionist While Sotheby’s had a scat- of $13.8m (£9.88m). It was led the first time, although curi- $90m (£64.3m) – the fifth- & Modern and Contemporary tering of socially distanced by a 1937 Picasso portrait of ously its day sales were left highest price for a Picasso but art nomenclature for its even- clients in the room for its sales, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Femme unchanged and still billed the highest price for any work ing auctions. auctioneer Oliver Barker au Béret Mauve, that made Impressionist & Modern and sold at auction since Claude Monet featured prominently conducted the firm’s Contem- $9.15m (£6.54m). Contemporary Art. Monet’s Meules made $97m again here with the evening sale porary art evening sale and Although it sold below its The top lot of the week was (£75.2m) at Sotheby’s New in the Imps & Mods category stand-alone sale of the Mrs $10m-15m estimate, it was the offered at Christie’s 20th Cen- York in May 2019, well before on May 12 led by one of the art- John L Marion collection via second-highest price for a pic- tury Art sale on May 13: a 1932 the pandemic. ist’s many waterlilies paintings. video-link from London. ture at Bonhams, only behind Pablo Picasso portrait of Marie- Christie’s 20th Century Art Le Bassin aux nymphéas, which The former event offered 32 a £15.2m Fragonard portrait Thérèse Walter that the vendor evening sale raised a premium- was knocked down at $61m lots, all of which were sold for a sold in London in 2013. had acquired at Sotheby’s inclusive $481.1m (£343.6m) (£43.6m) and underbid from $218.3m (£155.9m) total, while £1 = $1.40
Moving On: Keverne sale Houlston and Raison join trade Continued from front page David marathon brings £4.8m Houlston Stow-on-the-Wold, Houlston and wife (left) The first of two Bonhams sales dispersing 1992 to start his own business together Carolyn, previously a textiles and Paul the remaining stock of the long-established with Miranda Clarke, his wife and specialist at Phillips, will deal from Raison Chinese art dealership of Roger Keverne business partner. The gallery at 16 Clifford home and online via houlston.uk.com. (right). was a marathon affair. Street, Mayfair, closed in June 2020. The couple will sell period oak, Offered without reserve, the 421 lots Keverne is particularly known for his vernacular furniture, textiles, Previously international chairman took 15 hours to sell on May 11 with three expertise in early Chinese bronzes and it metalwork and related works of art. of Old Master pictures at Christie’s, in four pieces selling above estimate. was an archaic ritual wine vessel (fanglei) There is speculation Houlston’s Raison left the auction house after 33 The sale total with premium from the Shang dynasty that provided the departure may mean the end of the years at the end of last year. Among was £4.8m. top lot. Guided at £50,000-80,000, it regular Oak Interior sales at Bonhams. the notable sales he was involved in The Part II Roger brought £150,000 (plus 27.5/25% These were long conducted in during his long career was the Keverne Ltd: Moving premium). Chester before moving to Oxford rediscovery of Rubens’ Lot and his On sale of similar size Pictured left is one of a (Bonhams’ spacious facility at Shipton- Daughters which made £40m in July will be held on June 7. number of lots that took multi- on-Cherwell, near Kidlington) in 2014 2016 – Christie’s house record for an Keverne, the son of estimate sums. This large and then to New Bond Street from Old Master painting. It is now on a Yorkshire coal- painted stucco head of Guanyin 2015. In 2019 they returned to Oxford loan to the Metropolitan Museum of mining engineer, from the Yuan or early Ming in the belief that vendors of oak and Art, New York. began his six decades period c.1350-1400 improved on vernacular material are better served Based in London and via the in the trade at auction a modest guide of £1500-2000 to by a country rather than a central website paulraison.com, Paul house Spencers of bring £48,000. London saleroom. Raison Fine Art will offer valuations Retford before specialising Working in clay applied over a A Bonhams spokesperson told and advice for sellers, collectors and in Chinese art at London wooden core allowed for the ATG: “We can confirm that we will institutions, as well as collection dealership Spink. creation of these monumental retain our expertise in selling oak building and management services. Rising to head the Asian works – this head measures an furniture, including collections, which The main focus will be on European department by the age of impressive 2ft 3in (67cm) high. we are to be offering predominately in paintings from 1200 to 1850. just 28, he left Spink in Roland Arkell our Knightsbridge saleroom.” Roland Arkell & Alex Capon 4 | 22 May 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
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Northern Italian School, 18th Century, Drover on a track (detail), oil on Nicolae Grigorescu, (Romanian, 1838 -1907), A woman at her bureau canvas, 70 x 97cm. £7,000 - £10,000 (plus BP). (detail), oil on canvas, 41 x 28cm. £20,000 - £30,000 (plus BP).
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Franz de Paula Ferg, (Austrian, 1689-1740), Figures and a dog at rest Circle of Caspar Netscher, (Dutch, 1639-1684), Portrait of a lady (detail), oil on copper, 24.5 x 21.5cm. £2,500 - £3,500 (plus BP). (detail), oil on canvas, 49.5 x 40cm. £2,000 - £3,000 (plus BP). bellmans.co.uk Newpound, Wisborough Green, West Sussex RH14 0AZ
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Pick of the week Left: Regent’s Canal, Paddington, 1940, by Algernon Newton – Algernon Newton: £75,000 at Woolley & Wallis. artist now firmly back in favour Continued from front page
In 1928 A Dorset Landscape was described by The Times as ‘the picture of the year’. It is a capriccio, or fantasy, and represents a distillation of what Dorset is famous for: Corfe Castle predominates, with an the peerage in 1947 he was offered a hereditary title offered for sale by Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury the expanse of water representing Poole Harbour and but rejected it, saying “I see no point in inflating my previous day (May 11). Regent’s Canal, Paddington, chalk downland; a rural idyll evocative of Thomas grandson’s expenditure at the tailors”. signed and dated [19]40, was just the sort of oil that Hardy’s novels. It is thought the painting was done as a It was, indeed, his grandson John Evetts (a furniture earned the artist the nickname ‘the Canaletto of paean to the novelist, who had died in January 1928. consultant to the Landmark Trust) who last year chose Britain’s canals’. Measuring a more typical 20in x 3ft At the RA, priced at £420, it was bought for to sell the family seat and move to a smaller property. 4in (51 x 76cm), it had been sold by the Leicester Wormington – a neoclassical mansion built in the The price for A Dorset Landscape (£282,000 Galleries, London, in 1941 and last appeared at auction 1770s by local architect Antony Keck – by Maud Clegg including 25% buyer’s premium with ARR also due) at David Lay in Penzance in 2009. (1872-1933), American heiress and wife to General is thought to be the highest at auction for Newton, Estimated at £25,000-35,000, it sold for £75,000 Lord Hastings Ismay (1887-1965). bettering the view of City of London from Hampstead (plus 25% buyer’s premium). Another version of the ‘Pug’ Ismay was one of Churchill’s most trusted sold by Bonhams in June 2015 for £105,000. same scene, also dated 1940, was offered last year by wartime advisers who later oversaw the partition of London dealership Abbott and Holder with the asking India as Mountbatten’s chief of staff and served as British canal ‘Canaletto’ price set at £70,000. the first secretary general of Nato. When elevated to Coincidentally, a second work by Newton had been Roland Arkell
collection of Sir Thomas Law- interest in Italian 19th century Mayfair galleries will be rence (1769-1830) and then paintings. installed in areas across the passed to his dealer (and major West End including Bond creditor) Samuel Woodburn, Street, Cork Street, Berkeley who sold it at Christie’s in 1860 Dai appointed Square and Grosvenor Square. Precious for £2.50. by Gurr Johns For more details see metals It was later owned by British mayfairartweekend.com/ collector Captain Norman Gurr Johns has appointed Lilly sculpture-trail/ On Friday, May 14 , Robert Colville (1893-1974), Dai as business development who also owned Raphael’s director, Asia. She will split her Michael Bloomstein of Head of a Muse that sold at time between London, Greater Brighton was paying the Christie’s and Eye of Above: Head of a Bear by Christie’s in 2009 for a China and south-east Asia. following for bulk scrap the Collector event Leonardo da Vinci – estimate hammer price of £26m. Gurr Johns offers advisory against a gold fix of: £8m-12m at Christie’s. services, including brokerage, Eye of the Collector, a fair founded $1833.50 €1516.50 £1303.62 valuations, collection manage- by Nazy Vassegh (who previ- Da Vinci sketch Fusari joins 19th ment and art finance. Dai ously ran Masterpiece London), Gold comes to auction century art team previously worked for other art has created an online partner- 22 carat: £1153.16 per oz advisory businesses in the UK ship with Christie’s. (£37.08 per gram) A sketch of the head of a bear Bonhams has appointed Mar- and has a diploma in the his- The auction house will pro- by Leonardo da Vinci is coming tina Fusari as a specialist in its tory of decorative arts from duce and host an online 18 carat: £943.49 (£30.34) to auction at Christie’s this 19th century paintings Sotheby’s Institute of Art. platform showcasing highlights 15 carat: £786.25 (£25.28) summer. department. from Eye of the Collector 2021. The auction house said it is Originally from Italy, she Eye of the Collector X Christie’s 14 carat: £733.83 (£23.60) “one of only eight drawings by has worked in Turin, Paris and Mayfair sculpture will run alongside the event. 9 carat: £471.75 per oz da Vinci known to be in private London, most recently at trail back again Galleries taking part include hands outside of the British Christie’s where she was asso- those selling items from ancient (£15.17 per gram) Royal Collection and the ciate director and specialist The second Mayfair Sculpture artefacts to Contemporary art 12 Month High: ▲ £18.82 Devonshire Collections at business getter in the 19th cen- Trail, a Mayfair Art Weekend col- such as Tornabuoni Art, 12 Month Low: ▼ £14.19 Chatsworth”. tury European & Orientalist laboration with Art in Mayfair, Michael Hoppen Gallery, Head of a Bear has an esti- art department. will be held on June 2-27. Whitford Fine Art, Ariadne, Hallmark Platinum mate of £8m-12m and is on Fusari has a particular Sculptures selected by Pangolin London, Rebecca £24.10 per gram public exhibition at Christie’s Hossack Gallery, Modernity in Rockefeller Centre in New and Kallos Gallery. The bou- York, before moving to Chris- tique art fair will be held at Two Silver Far left: tie’s Hong Kong from May Temple Place running from Martina Fusari £15.98 per oz for 925 20-25. It will then go to London September 8-11. of Bonhams. standard hallmarked where it will be on view from Vassegh, Eye of the Collector 12 Month High: ▲ £17.65 June 1-6 prior to Christie’s Left: Lilly Dai CEO, said: “This hybrid, Exceptional sale on July 8. has joined global model will ensure that 12 Month Low: ▼ £10.36 The drawing was once in the Gurr Johns. Eye of the Collector reaches a 6 | 22 May 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
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truly international audience.” Woolley & Wallis, The Eye of the Collector X Salisbury, May 11 Christie’s partnership will be Sir Kyffin Williams accompanied by an event (1918-2006), Standing hosted by Christie’s Education, Most read stones at Penrhos Feilw, which will provide an opportu- oil on canvas, nity for global audiences to 2ft x 3ft (61 x 91cm), explore the works exhibited. The most viewed stories for with provenance. week May 6-12 on Estimate: £15,000-20,000 Above: the funerary statue that is antiquestradegazette.com Hammer: £24,000 being returned to Libya. Funerary statue 1 Exceptional Lalique returns to Libya to the importance of the statue, Ceylan vase stars in Kunstauktionhaus Schloss, Ahlden, May 8 our pick of five A funerary statue from Cyrene noting that only a handful of Monumental 19th century Meissen auction highlights (near present-day Shahhat in these sculptural types are porcelain tureen after a design by Libya) dating to the 2nd cen- found outside Libya. 2 Ancient Libyan statue JJ Kaendler for the ‘Swan Service’ tury BC is being returned to The museum gave evidence returned home with of 1738. Libya. It was seized by Border for the prosecution in a court the help of the British Estimate: n/a Force officials at Heathrow air- case in 2015, and the judge Museum and HMRC Hammer: €20,000 (£17,350) port several years ago having ruled that the sculpture was been illicitly imported into the owned by “the state of Libya”. 3 Napoleon St Helena UK to be offered for sale. Since the court case the shirt and cane feature In 2013 specialists at the statue has been stored at the in auction to mark British Museum were asked to museum and it will now be bicentenary of his assist in the identification. transferred to the Libyan death Roseberys, London, May 8 Museum staff alerted HMRC Embassy. 4 Sotheby’s shakes up its Old Masters and A Jun ware planter, the bowl with flaring Fine Art teams rim and drainage holes to the interior, on a carved wood stand, 10in diameter x 5 ‘There are more book 8½in high (25 x 22cm). Hope vase was used as buyers out there than Estimate: £1200-1500 we realised’ – ATG’s Hammer: £13,000 an Oklahoma table interview with Pom Harrington HIGHEST MULTIPLE OVER TOP ESTIMATE A previously lost bronze and ormolu vase designed and commissioned by Thomas Hope has been discovered in Tulsa, Rowley’s, Newmarket, May 8 Oklahoma, where it had been converted into a table base. Georgian parcel gilt corbel or The 2ft 2in (65cm) vase, the pair to another in the V&A, comes wall bracket, 2ft 1in (66cm) up for auction at Heritage in Dallas on June 18 with a guide of high, probably c.1740. $40,000-60,000. Estimate: £200-300 Hope commissioned the vase in the Greek Revival style for Hammer: £11,000 the dining room of his house on Duchess Street in London – the inspiration for his influential book titled Household Furniture and In Numbers Interior Decoration. It was made by acclaimed French artist Alexis Decaix based on Hope’s design, which mirrored a classical volute (spiral scroll) krater. 257 Barry Hawkins, Downham Hope experts Philip Hewat-Jaboor (chairman of Masterpiece Market, Norfolk, May 12 London) and William Iselin (London-based decorative arts The number of bitcoins needed Chinese hardwood four- consultant) worked with Heritage to confirm the vase’s to buy Banksy’s oil painting panel screen set with authenticity. Love is in the Air (2005) at ceramic famille rose panels “The appearance of this second example confirms Hope clearly Sotheby’s New York on of landscapes and figures, took great care to ensure the vases would be displayed in perfect May 12 (shown below). Selling probably Republican. harmony, which supports what is known about his incredibly at $12.9m (£9.2m) including Estimate: £80-120 meticulous nature and approach to collecting,” they said. premium, it was the first Hammer: £5500 Heritage specialist Karen Rigdon physical artwork for which the discovered the piece in the collection auction house said it would of the late David D Denham. accept payment by crypto “The estate is unsure when currencies. the vase first entered Denham’s Clarke & Simpson, collection or when it was made into Framlington, Suffolk, May 12 a side table [with the addition of a Late 17th or early 18th century circular glass top],” she said. “But chinoiserie lacquered wood Denham was a well-known social panel painted with birds, insects figure in the area and admired for his and flowers, probably English, collector’s eye.” 20in x 2ft (49 x 61cm) Roland Arkell Estimate: £40-60 Hammer: £2300 Left: vase designed and commissioned by Thomas Hope Source:Source: Bid Bid Barometer Barometer is isa snapshot a snapshot of sales of sales on thesaleroom.com on thesaleroom.com for January for May 8-16, 6-12, 2019 2021.. ‘Highest‘Highest pricemultiple over overestimate’ top estimate’= Our selection = Our of selection items from of theitems top from10 highest the top hammer 20 highest prices hammeras a – estimate $40,000-60,000 at pricesmultiple as of a the multiple high estimate of the high paid estimateby internet paid bidders by internet on thesaleroom.com bidders on thesaleroom.com Heritage on June 18. ‘Top‘Top sellingselling lots’ lots’ = =Our Our selection selection of itemsof items from from the top the 10 top highest 20 highest hammer hammer prices paidprices by internetpaid by internetbidders on bidders thesaleroom.com on thesaleroom.com
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Wang Bu, iron red painted Large 18thC Cuzco School painting ‘Our Lady Valvanera’, Monumental Old Master painting, follower Old Master painting, manner of Peter Louhan porcelain plaque, oil on canvas, size: 56 x 41in. of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), ‘The Virgin Paul Rubens (1577-1640), 1 size: 16 ⁄4 x 10in. and Child with Saint Elizabeth and Saint ‘The Judgement of Solomon’, John the Baptist’, oil on canvas, sight size: oil on canvas, sight size: 33 x 45in. 56 x 44in
Auguste-Xavier Leprince (1799-1826), Donald Allen Mosher (Massachusetts 1945-2014), oil on canvas painting of cattle in a landscape. Eastern Point Lighthouse (Gloucester Massachusetts), oil on canvas, sight size: 16 x 24in.
Monumental 17thC painting of Samson and Delila, Monumental 18thC French School Old Master painting of cherubs, ‘Susanna and Elders’, 17thC Flemish School, 1 oil on canvas, sight size: 46 x 58in. likely the infant Bacchus, oil on canvas, size 29 x 58 ⁄2in. oil painting. Online bidding via:
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Lot No. 0008 Lot No. 0013 Lot No. 0029 Lot No. 0030 Lot No. 0031 Egyptian Human-Headed Egyptian Hellenistic Marble Greek Greek Amphora Canopic Jars Green Schist Heart Scarab Sphinx Trapezophoros Marble Gorgon Fragment with Herakles Estimate: £60,000 - 80,000 Estimate: £10,000 - 14,000 Estimate: £15,000 - 20,000 Estimate: £15,000 - 20,000 Estimate: £8,000 - 10,000
Lot No. 0037 Lot No. 0038 Lot No. 0085 Lot No. 0096 Lot No. 0097 Elymaean Hellenistic Graeco-Roman Gold and Roman Gold Roman Marble Roman Marble Silver Bowl with Animals Emerald Necklace Element Set Satyr Mask Harpocrates Statue Pair Head of Harpocrates Estimate: £80,000 - 100,000 Estimate: £10,000 - 14,000 Estimate: £30,000 - 40,000 Estimate: £25,000 - 35,000 Estimate: £20,000 - 30,000
Lot No. 0098 Lot No. 0114 Lot No. 0132 Lot No. 0176 Lot No. 0215 Roman Fresco of a Byzantine Gold Sumerian Neo-Sumerian Western Asiatic Zoomorphic Roman Military Commander Ring with Jesus and Archangels Pictographic Tablet Head of a Nobleman Vessel with Stopper Lid Estimate: £25,000 - 35,000 Estimate: £15,000 - 20,000 Estimate: £4,000 - 6,000 Estimate: £30,000 - 40,000 Estimate: £18,000 - 24,000
Lot No. 0290 Lot No. 0314 Lot No. 0389 Lot No. 0440 Lot No. 0482 Greek Tinned Viking Age Ottonian Renaissance Gothic Statue of Christ Large Fossil Halisaurus Chalcidian Helmet Pattern-Welded Sword Bust of Marcus Aurelius as 'Man of Sorrows' Arambourgi Mosasaur Skeleton Estimate: £12,000 - 17,000 Estimate: £8,000 - 10,000 Estimate: £40,000 - 60,000 Estimate: £30,000 - 40,000 Estimate: £4,000 - 6,000
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Warm welcome to the Cotswolds Second sale since auction house move and name change is a British art pottery showcase success
by Terence Ryle 1 The Cotswolds’ newest auction house – Kinghams (23% buyer’s 2 premium) – set out its stall last month with a sale of British art pottery that topped £535,000. The name above the door is familiar: George Kingham recently bought out business partner Gary Orme, changing the name of the firm from Kingham & Orme while moving the saleroom from Evesham to Moreton-in-Marsh. 3 A Fine & Decorative Arts auction had been held on March 5-6. The 234 lots (of which 75% were sold) offered on April 17, however, were themed around the factories and designers championed by veteran London specialist dealer and publisher Richard Dennis. Marking 50 years since his first Doulton exhibition, 6 he lent his name to the sale and 7 consigned a small percentage of lots. The Martin Brothers, inevitably, dominated the top of the sales sheet but other favourite names in strong demand included the likes of Christopher Dresser, Della Robbia and William De Morgan. Dresser ‘owl’ Best of Dresser’s nine Aesthetic Movement pieces for Minton was a c.1870 ‘owl’ vase. Standing 7½in (19cm) tall, it was estimated at £400- 600 but sold to a UK collector at £3800. A 17in (44cm) tall, c.1897, sgraffito 4 decorated pottery vase by Cassandra Annie Walker for Della Robbia, Bids came from Europe, the USA, the flag for Lambeth with the c.1885 had taken £2100 at Christie’s South Asia, New Zealand and Australia but stoneware mouse Guy Fawkes figure Kensington. Pitched at £800-1200 it was largely UK private buyers who group. at Kinghams, it went to a German took the top lots. The 4¾in (12cm) tall group incised bidder at £4600 hammer. with a monogram and I see no reason Pieces by the Passenger brothers, Barlow sisters why gunpowder treason should ever two of De Morgan’s trusted staff who Doulton remains rather out of favour, be forgot is seldom seen for sale. It resurrected the company in 1922 five with even Hannah Barlow meeting doubled the lower estimate, going to years after de Morgan’s death, met resistance for anything pitched in a Midlands collector at £8000. contrasting fates. four figures. The best of her 14 lots Doulton’s Burslem period was A 13in (33cm) twin-handled was a pair of 14in (35.5cm) high, dominated by art director Charles amphora-form vase by Fred, c.1885, c.1906, stoneware vases sgraffito Noke who launched so many of the stalled shy of estimate at £13,500. decorated with goats and donkeys firm’s most popular ranges including However, Charles’ best piece, a which went a shade below hopes at the HN series of figures and character c.1890, monogrammed 13¼in (34cm) £900. jugs. tall double lustre ‘Antelope and Hannah’s sister Florence fared One early design for the HN Fruiting Tree with Lizards’ dish more a little better. Her c.1883, 11½in series was a variation of his ‘Two than doubled top estimate in selling (29.5cm) tall stoneware pâte-sur-pâte Heads Are Better Than One’ Double at £5000. footed vase decorated with a band of Jester (HN3655). Designed in 1920, The buyer, again a German flamingos sold on its lower-estimate this 16¾in (42.5cm) tall figure was collector, was part of the considerable of £1500 to an online buyer. unusual in that the figure held a Mr international interest in the May 17 5 It was left to current market Punch marotte, absent from most sale. favourite George Tinworth to fly figures carrying this number. It sold 10 | 22 May 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
PAGE 010, 011, 012, 013, 015 2493.indd 1 14/05/2021 11:22:38 8 1. Martinware 1898 grotesque bird – £42,000 at 10 Kinghams. 2. Martinware 1885 canine figure– £40,000. 3. Martinware 1880 ‘penguin’– £36,000. 4. Cassandra Annie Walker for Della Robbia vase – £4600. 5. David Burnham Smith, 2001 jar and cover – £2200 at Kinghams. 6. Charles Passenger for De Morgan plate – £5000. 9 7. Charles Noke Double Jester figure – £7000. 8. Francis Edwardes /William Moorcroft flambé bear – £4500. 9. Christopher Dresser for Minton ‘owl ‘ vase – £3800. on the lower £7000 estimate. Richard Dennis has promoted during Noke himself was always prouder his 50 years at his Kensington shop. 10. George Tinworth for Doulton Guy Fawkes mouse group – £8000. of inventing, with Bernard Moore, Top-seller was a 1990 signed 11¾in the famous Royal Doulton flambé (30cm) tall porcelain sculpture of a glazes which first appeared in 1904. head encased in two intaglio moulded These developed into the Sung wares, detachable blocks which took £4200 Buyer makes Smart choice introduced in 1919, and then, in 1925, against a 2000-3000 estimate. the rare Chang wares. Among Burnham Smith’s output A week after Kinghams’ (23% buyer’s premium) inaugural Once hugely popular, these were what would be described as Moreton-in-Marsh sale of British art pottery, the new technical triumphs are a little less homage works – his Martinesque Cotswolds rooms enjoyed a big hit in miniature – more sought today. Best of the seven Sung birds in porcelain rather than specifically this portrait, right, by one of Britain’s works was a c.1928 ovoid shouldered earthenware, providing an affordable greatest miniaturists: John Smart (1743-1811). ginger jar and cover by Arthur Eaton. alternative to the pieces produced at Signed and dated JS 1788 I, meaning it was Painted in the round with a romantic Southall a century and more earlier. painted while Smart was plying his lucrative trade landscape, the 12½in (32cm) tall vase The best-seller was a 9½in (24cm) in India, the watercolour was in a 2½in (6.4cm) tall went below estimate at £3600. tall jar and cover modelled as a long- gold frame with a woven hair panel to the reverse. Best of the Chang lots to get away billed bird dated July 2011. It took a Family information and research indicates the was a c.1925 high-shouldered form top-estimate £2200. sitter was Sarah Anne Fane (nee Sarah Anne Child vase by Noke and the great Doulton 1764-93), Countess of Westmorland. artist Harry Nixon. Standing 7¼in ...and the real thing Entered into Kinghams’ April 23 jewellery sale, it (18.5cm) tall, it took £1600 against The 23 sellers from 29 offerings of was in good condition with only very minor rubbing an estimate of £1000-1200. Martinware prices started at a treble- towards the edges. Estimated at £4000-6000, it sold to estimate £280 for a 1909 stone and a private UK bidder at £15,000. Flambé versions silver-mounted inkwell by Edwin Flambé glazes were championed by Martin. other factories in the first quarter of The serious five-figure bids came the 20th century. for the iconic grotesques by Robert De Morgan belter in Belfast At the Cotswolds sale a 10in Wallace Martin, 11 out of 13 of which (25cm) tall electric blue and purple got away totalling £352,000 – all Bloomfield Auctions (15% buyer’s ovoid high fired vase by the Ruskin going to an overseas collector. premium) in Belfast achieved a Pottery in 1913 doubled the top Bird jars led the day. One, 14¾in house record on May 11 with the estimate at £2400 and an apparently (37.5cm) tall, was incised to the head sale of this William De Morgan unrecorded, c.1925, 6½in (17cm) Martin Bros, 9-1898, London & Southall, vase for £15,000. long flambé bear, a model by Francis and to the body R W Martin & Brothers The 13½in (34cm) two- Arthur Edwardes and William 9-1898. With a characteristically evil handled vessel, with a Merton Moorcroft, went within estimate at half wink, it was pitched at £25,000 Abbey mark, is decorated in the £4500. but took £42,000. Isnik taste with a floral design in Demand and prices for Fairyland Also taking £42,000, just above turquoise, blue, black and green. lustre bowls by Daisy Makeig Jones lower estimate, was a similarly sized It dates to c.1882-88. for Wedgwood have slipped in the and marked bird jar. Encouraged by William Morris, De last couple of years. A 10in (25cm) A less familiar bid was an earlier Morgan moved from his Chelsea home diameter octagonal bowl, painted work resembling a penguin. The and decorating workshop to Merton in with the Fairy in a Cage pattern to the 12in (30.5cm) tall bird marked for 1882, giving him the space to throw pots interior and the Woodland Elves VII 1880 went a shade over estimate at and vases of his own design for the first time. Toadstools pattern to the exterior, took £36,000. Above: De Morgan vase – He was there for six years until the eight-mile a within-estimate £1300. A non-avian creation, a stoneware £15,000 at Bloomfield. journey proved too much for William and he Her vases can fare better. A large sculptural grotesque monk jar from moved his business to Sands End in Fulham. 14in (36cm) tall rouleau form vase 1900, was the projected star but In perfect condition, this vase came for was in the flambé pattern and, failed against hopes of £60,000- sale from the estate of a gentleman who had collected antiques for many years. against a £1500-2500 estimate, made 80,000. Bloomfield managing director Karl Bennett told ATG: “It was a complete shock to £3400 from an online buyer. Martinware pieces did not have to see a piece of De Morgan here. I didn’t think we would ever find one in Northern be birds to get away, however. Others Ireland and certainly not one this good.” Homage to Martin Bros... included a (13cm) tall grinning dog, The buyer, at a price that was on par with other vases of this type sold in the past Among the modern pieces there or at least recognisably canine, decade at specialist sales in the UK, was an English collector. were 14 by David Burnham Smith figure which took a lower-estimate Roland Arkell (1937-2019) one of the many potters £40,000. n antiquestradegazette.com 22 May 2021 | 11
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Right: Fijian kava bowl – £55,000 at Lyon & Turnbull.
Figure Above left: Queen Anne or George I period needlework sampler – £10,000 at Lawrences. Above right: Bristol orphanage sampler – £5500 at Bentley’s. out what Samplers sew good at a Fijian a string of auctions bowl is worth Estimated at just £80-150, a Queen Anne showing potential employers their abilities. or George I period needlework sampler This example offered at Bentley’s (19% sold for £10,000 via thesaleroom.com at buyer’s premium) in Cranbrook, Kent, on This Fijian kava bowl, or daveniyaqona, carved in the form of a shallow figure, Lawrences (25% buyer’s premium) of May 1 with a modest guide of £140-160 would have been used for both the consumption of kava (yaqona – the Crewkerne on April 23. was one of the finest of its kind. Measuring intoxicating liquor of the pepper plant) by priests during religious rites and to hold Key to its appeal is the relatively early 21½ x 17in (55 x 44cm), it was sewn by sacred oil. date – Grace Simpson, 1714 – the period Amelia Fox of New Orphan House, Ashley The high concentrated liquid was consumed using a straw (also known as a when the typical format of the English Down, Bristol, and dated 1868. burau) in the hope of allowing communion with ancestor spirits. sampler evolved from the band sampler, Her considerable skill with a needle and A variety of bowl shapes were made; one in the form of a winged bird was sold typically filled with rows of repeating thread earned a hammer price of £5500 – by Devon saleroom Rendells for an unexpected £4600 last December. However, patterns worked in coloured silks, to the among the highest ever paid for a Bristol the anthropomorphic types are particularly rare and perhaps made at a single squarer shape worked with words and orphanage sampler. Other examples sold in centre. pictorial motifs. recent years have achieved prices between The form (fewer than 10 are known) is today better known from the many lie The result was something that could £1000-3400. 19th century homages designed by Christopher Dresser for manufacture in iron at be displayed on the wall in the style of a Kendrick and pottery at Linthorpe factory. painting or a print, rather than kept rolled By ‘Jane Ann’ This 10½in (27cm) Fijian example, offered for sale by Lyon & Turnbull (25/20% up as a long, narrow reference piece. Another Bristol orphanage sampler buyer’s premium) in Edinburgh on May 5 from a UK private collection, was This 14 x 12½in (36 x 32cm) example measuring 10½ x 11in (26 x 27cm) was acquired by the vendor’s father in the mid 1960s. was worked with central alphabets and offered by Tennants (17.5% buyer’s It has the patination and kava deposits indicative of use. An example at the Glory be to God within a scrolling border premium) just a few days later on May 7. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, shares the same subtle slant in the of decorative flowers. The fanciful ho-ho Probably made at Ashley Down, it was shoulders – suggesting it was deliberate – while in stylistic terms, the piece bears bird above and the white hart below were worked by a ‘Jane Ann’ and is dated 1871. closest similarity to an early 19th century example collected by Captain Henry particularly charming features. Intriguingly, she has added three-digit Denham of HMS Herald in 1854, now displayed in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. numbers into the sampler fitted among Estimated at £8000-12,000, it took £55,000. Produced by orphans the numerous details, which could be Nineteenth century orphanage samplers bed numbers of her fellow orphans - or Cycladic head represent a different collecting subset. acknowledging the other girls who helped Also headlining this sale titled African & Oceanic Art, Antiquities and Natural Sentiment is just as important as with her sampler. History was a Cycladic marble head made c.2600-2400BC. needlecraft. Estimated at £300-500, it sold at £6000. It was the Cycladic people The New Orphan Houses in the Ashley Roland Arkell who produced the very first Down district in the north of Bristol were masterpieces of Greek marble once the largest orphanage in the UK. sculpture. Idols such as this – it Built between 1849-70 by the Prussian measures just 4½in (11.5cm) evangelist George Müller (1805-98), the five tall – were carved throughout the houses held 2050 children at any one time. archipelago for more than 1000 Some 17,000 passed through the doors Left: years. Though originally painted before the buildings were sold to Bristol Cycladic with blue or red pigments, it was City Council in 1958. marble head their minimalist appearance that Skill with a needle was a key part of – £22,000 stimulated many of the great 20th an education that also included scripture, at Lyon & century artists, including Brancusi, arithmetic, grammar, history, geography, Turnbull. Modigliani, and Picasso. Swedish drill and singing. This example had a provenance The fabric samplers stitched by the to a Swiss private collection and girls closely followed a set pattern: all had been acquired in 1992. It sold have shared alphabets, motifs, and are within estimate at £22,000. worked in red thread on cream linen. Kept Above: Bristol orphanage sampler Roland Arkell as keepsakes, they were also useful when – £6000 at Tennants. 12 | 22 May 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
PAGE 010, 011, 012, 013, 015 2493.indd 3 14/05/2021 11:23:26 Chinese lots emerge from Hampshire estate The double-gourd dragon vase phone to a Far Eastern buyer at Qianlong mark and probably of and on a lotus capped base, the 7in shown here was one of two excellent £110,000. the period brought further eastern tall x 4¼in wide (18 x 11cm) figure Chinese pieces to emerge from a A real surprise from the same delight. estimated at £3000-5000 went back deceased Hampshire estate into source was a large porcelain panel Modelled with one hand raised east at £26,000. Selborne auction house Hannam’s painted with a temple in a hongmu (23% buyer’s premium) rooms on hardwood frame. Catalogued as May 4, writes Roland Arkell. Daoguang (1821-50), the 19½in tall Bearing a Qianlong mark and panel was estimated at £200-300 probably of period, the 14½in (35cm) but went to an Eastern buyer via tall vase was a rare piece similar thesalerooom.com at £17,000. to one in the Shanghai Museum. Hamman’s was aware of what it had Buddhistic deity and estimated the vase at £15,000- Entered by a London collector, 20,000, hoping for more, but was a polychromed lacquer bronze delighted when it went over the of a Buddhistic deity bearing the
Guarding in comfort
Intended to keep servants warm in the draughty watches of day and night at the entrances to grand houses, this porter’s chair below was bought at Christie’s in 1989 and used in the vendor’s living room ever since. Catalogued as Georgian or a little earlier at Batemans (20% buyer’s premium) April 10 sale in Stamford, the 4ft 7in (1.40m) tall oak chair had a hinged panel below the solid seat chair to reveal a useful storage Above left: double-gourd dragon vase – £110,000 at Hannam’s. compartment. Above right: large porcelain panel catalogued as Daoguang – £17,000. Pitched at £400-600, about what the vendor recalled paying 32 years ago, it sparked a four-way battle among online bidders before selling at £4800. Strong result Modern & Contemporary Delighted with that result, the vendor then consigned into the auction house’s May 1 sale a 17th century German iron strongbox which he bought British Art at Christie’s South Kensington in 1986 along with the receipt showing the hammer price of £450. Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers Tuesday 25 May, 11am The 2ft 5in (73cm) wide box is of a type which, although produced in quantity in the Nuremberg area from the late 16th to the 18th centuries, later became known as ‘Armada chests’. With hammered riveted joints throughout and decorated with an engraved pierced frieze of four male profiles with rams’ horns, it had wrought-iron carrying handles and came with one working key to lift the lid – although the key for the internal strongbox with its elaborate and engraved mechanism was missing. Again reflecting the original purchase price, it was pitched at £500-800 but went to a specialist dealer at £1850. Terence Ryle
William Roberts RA, British, 1895-1980 - The Dressing Room, 1966; Pen, black ink, black chalk and watercolour, squared on paper £20,000 - £30,000*
Above: porter’s chair – £4800 at Scan the QR code to view the auction catalogue Batemans. www.roseberys.co.uk
Right: 17th century strongbox – Email [email protected] for more information £1850. 70/76 Knights Hill, London SE27 0JD | +44 (0) 20 8761 2522
*Plus Buyer’s Premium +VAT (30% inclusive of VAT)
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Left: George Left: Tinworth chess Tinworth menu pieces – £1000 at holder for Doulton Potteries Auctions. Lambeth – £1600 at Ewbank’s.
Right: Neil Armstrong character jug – £3900 at Potteries Auctions.
Tinworth’s mighty mice and a giant leap for mankind
Even 40 years ago, when the market sale to Ewbank’s (25% buyer’s premium) £10,000) were a black king, red bishop and space helmet handle – certainly appealed. for George Tinworth (1843-1913) Decorative Arts auction in Woking on April red knight. It took £3900 (estimate £3000-6000). anthropomorphic mouse groups was in 29. Estimated at £500-800, it took £1600. Leading this sale of collectable Another prototype character jug its relative infancy, this 3½in (9cm) model ceramics was a prototype character jug featuring Robert Lee to one side and above would have been a bargain at £1. On board of the astronaut Neil Armstrong modelled Ulysses S Grant to the other sold at £1900, Part of a celebrated set of menu holders Three pieces from a Tinworth mouse chess by Timothy Pots in 2008. Considered by while that of James Dean took £1800. designed for the Doulton Lambeth factory set sold for £1000 at Potteries Auctions Doulton for the 2009 character jug of the The latter, with a ‘Property of Royal c.1886, one mouse plays a musical box, the (20% buyer’s premium) in Stoke-on-Trent year, it was never put into production. Doulton’ backstamp was designed in 2005 other a triangle. on March 12. These one-off jugs can bring quite different for the Celebrity Film Star Collection that It was found in a charity shop in the The trio of pieces (from a highly prices but the subject matter of this was shelved after the project ran into 1970s by a vendor who consigned it for desirable set that can bring close to example – together with Apollo rock and copyright issues. Roland Arkell
MODERN ART + Mallams DESIGN 1788 DESIGN THURSDAY 27 MAY
John Ward (b.1938) Vessel £3000-5000
MODERN ART WEDNESDAY 26 MAY Bryan Pearce (1929-2007) Wills Lane, St Ives, 1975 oil on board £4000-6000
Enquiries: Catalogue, Viewing Times Mallams Auctioneers [email protected] & Online Bidding: Bocardo House, St Michael’s Street 01865 241358 www.mallams.co.uk Oxford OX1 2EB
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Owner was key to Strong demand Collection amassed by well-known art world figure and his late wife enthralled bidders
by Alex Capon 1 2 Works from either a distinguished collection or well-known owner offered with appealing estimates are an enticing prospect at auction. And so it proved for a consignment matching both descriptions at a recent Gloucestershire sale. On offer was a large group of items from the collection of the art historian, curator and broadcaster Sir Roy Strong. Amassed with the help of his late wife, the set designer Julia Trevelyan Oman, the works drew plenty of interest at Chorley’s (22.5% buyer’s premium) in Cheltenham on April 27. The pictures, costume designs, photographs, works of art, furniture and antiques, as well as some of Sir Roy’s trademark flamboyant garments, came from the couple’s rural Herefordshire home, The Laskett. They lived there for over 40 year. With live events able to restart wife were never collectors as such but years and together created one of the recently, the sale was announced at had acquired works mainly through most renowned private gardens in the the end of March. “The telephone gifts, inheritance and friendships. country. was going incessantly,” said Chorley, The collection represented an Julia died of pancreatic cancer “not just from clients but also the “odd potpourri of stuff”, he said, in 2003. Sir Roy, now 85, decided Almost every square press.” The auctioneers also had to “reflecting the lives of two people to downsize last year. In August “inch inside was add an extra day to the viewing such who moved in the arts in a particular he bequeathed the house and covered with art and was the interest from people wanting period”. garden to the horticultural charity objects but it was to attend. Perennial which has opened it to In terms of the auction itself, Old Master the public and Sir Roy, moving beautifully furnished Chorley felt that the extra interest in While a few of his famous silk coats from the 24-bedroom property to a the items due to the connection to Sir (offered as individual lots) and two-bedroom townhouse in nearby Roy was reflected in the final prices. his ‘outrageous’ shirts and jackets Ledbury, took the opportunity to The sale was dominated by private (organised into group lots) sold in the have a major clear-out. bidders although there was some £100-200 range, the pick of the Old The 477 lots at the auction decent trade interest as well as some Masters in the sale (a subject in which represented the bulk of the collection keen participation from people who Strong specialised) was an 3ft 8in x from The Laskett – all of the pictures, knew Sir Roy personally. 2ft 11in (1.11m x 88cm) oil on panel. for example, were hanging on the Overall the collection raised a Catalogued as a 17th century walls somewhere in the house. hammer total of £182,000 with only English School portrait of Anne four lots failing to sell and many Shirley, an Elizabethan lady who Bursting with art making significant multiples of their married into the Brooke family from Director and auctioneer Simon estimates. Shropshire, it had a Latin inscription Chorley told ATG that he first went As you might expect from someone stating that it dated from 1603 when to the property last June after a who served as director of both the sitter was 47. contact who had worked there had the National Portrait Gallery and With a coat-of-arms to the upper recommended the Cheltenham firm. the Victoria and Albert Museum left, the work attracted good interest “Almost every square inch inside the works included some notable against a £1000-2000 estimate even was covered with art and objects but pictures, including some relating though the fact that it was heavily it was beautifully furnished,” Chorley to the worlds of theatre, ballet and restored may well have limited its said. opera which pointed more toward value. It sold at £6500. While Sir Roy initially selected 70 Above: a photograph of Sir Roy Strong Julia’s vocation (she had worked Despite some decent action among items to sell, the consignment grew from 2007 taken by John Swannell in at the Royal Opera House, the the 20 or so other Old Masters at over the following months as the the gardens of his home, The Laskett in Glyndebourne Festival, the National the sale, it was a sketch by David auctioneers made subsequent visits Herefordshire. Items from the property Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Hockney (b.1937) that proved the to the property, although the planned were consigned by Sir Roy to Chorley’s Company). financial highlight of the collection. date of sale itself had to be pushed and sold last month, including this signed In a recent interview with The The couple knew the artist well. In back due to the second lockdown last photo that made £160. Times, Sir Roy insisted that he and his his diaries, the third volume of which 16 | 22 May 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
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Artist destined to cover wildlife and nature
As the son of an entomologist and ornithologist, the artist David Morrison Reid-Henry (1919-77) was destined for a career observing wildlife and nature. Following in the footsteps of artists such as Archibald Thorburn and George Edward Lodge, he produced many meticulously detailed and realistic 3 4 studies of birds in their natural habitat. 5 Having been taught by Lodge as well as his own father George, a notable painter in his own right, his 1. A drawing of Sir Roy Strong by David pictures appeared as plates in David Hockney – £19,000 at Chorley’s. Bannerman’s Birds of Cyprus and Colin 2. Portrait of Richard Hamilton at Cadaqués, Harrison’s The History of the Birds of an etching by Hockney that was a wedding Britain among other books. gift from the artist to Sir Roy and his wife When it comes to today’s Julia – £6000. commercial market, depictions of Above: Greenland Gyrfalcon by David 3. Portrait of Cavafy in Alexandria, an etching game birds and birds of prey are Morrison Reid-Henry – £5000. and aquatint by David Hockney – £2800. particularly favoured. This was shown by the performance of an eyecatching 4. Portrait study of Lady Diana Cooper by gouache and bodycolour of a Greenland Sir Cecil Beaton – £6000. Gyrfalcon that turned heads at – apparently he would release a work 5. Portrait of Anne Shirley catalogued as Dawsons (23% buyer’s premium) in only if he felt it was flawless. ‘English School, early 17th Century’ – £6500. Maidenhead, Berkshire on February 25. With the striking features of the bird The 2ft 6in x 22in (77 x 56cm) and the good condition of the painting signed work was dated 1952. It came making it highly desirable against a to auction from a private Oxfordshire £300-500 pitch, it was taken up to was published in November, Sir Roy National Portrait Gallery, aged 32. house and it was unusual to have £5000 at which point it was knocked said of Hockney: “He remains on my At the sale, it generated substantial the subject so ‘close up’ in a work of down to a private collector. The price rather short list of originals.” interest, especially against the this scale. The painterly precision appears to be one of the highest, if not The top lot of the collection, it £4000-6000 estimate which was underlined Reid-Henry’s perfectionism the highest, for the artist at auction. was a reflection of their personal quickly surpassed. It was eventually acquaintance – a portrait study of Sir knocked down at £19,000 to the UK Roy himself that Hockney had made trade. at Cecil Beaton’s house on a weekend inscription in red crayon reading: For Other than another artist’s proof stay in May 1969. Hamilton gift Roy and Julia from David H Oct 1971. from the collection of artist RB The 13¼ x 9¾in (34 x 25cm) pencil Two prints by Hockey also sold above The print shows Hamilton sitting Kitaj that made £8400 at Christie’s drawing was a bit faint and had some predictions. One was a portrait of on a chair smoking – an image in February 2008, this appears to slight discolouration to the paper, but fellow artist Richard Hamilton, an captured by Hockney on a trip to the be the highest sum for this print at the face was deemed well executed etching from 1971 which was one of coastal town of Cadaqués in north- auction. while the combination of artist and 11 artist’s proofs (an edition of 30 was east Spain where Hamilton had The other Hockney print was an sitter lent obvious appeal. It also had also printed). bought a house and made a notable etching and aquatint Portrait of Cavafy a good date for a Hockney drawing Having been given by the artist as body of work himself. in Alexandria which was from an plus it was made just two years after a wedding gift to Sir Roy and Julia, it Estimated at £2000-3000, it sold Sir Roy was appointed director of the carried the artist’s signature and an at £6000 to a UK private buyer. Continued on page 18
UNDER £700
Good art at a Sold: £650 Sold: £190 Sold: £280 great price in Seascapes are the favoured subjects of regional sales James P Power (fl.1920s-60s) was an artist The London-born and largely self taught known to have worked in Cornwall, Belgium painter Edward Wesson (1910-83) developed Realist artist Peter Cosslett (b.1927) and the Netherlands. Paintings of Looe, St a technique for creating compositions although the artist, who was born in Cardiff Prices do not include buyer’s premium Ives and Mousehole have emerged before. using simple economical brush strokes. At but lives in Torbay, also produced a number of One came up at Halls of Shrewsbury on Roseberys in south London on March 2 this winter scenes. A 11¾ x 15¾in (30 x 40cm) oil February 3. The 18½in x 2ft (47 x 61cm) oil on 8 x 11in (21 x 28cm) watercolour, pen and on canvas of a snowy landscape appeared at canvas came from a Herefordshire country black ink study of West Chiltington Church Franklin Browns of Edinburgh on February 27, house and was estimated at £200-300. was estimated at £150-250. estimated at £200-300.
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Far left: Tamara The Laskett contents sale Karsavina in Fokine’s ballet was Beaton’s sketch of Lady Diana Continued from page 17 Firebird by Laura Cooper – a sitter whose life as the Knight – £3800 daughter of a duke, a celebrated edition of 75. Produced for the artist’s at Chorley’s. project ‘Illustrations for Fourteen debutante, actress, wife of a famous Poems by CP Cavafy’, the impression diplomat, lady of letters and Left: watercolour here was signed and dated 66 and character in at least half a dozen by Nicholas was a good clean copy depicting the famous novels remains a subject of Georgiadis of bespectacled Greek poet. Estimated great fascination. Rudolf Nureyev’s at £400-600, it took £2800, again Beaton was a friend of the sitter costume for The selling to a UK private buyer. and some of his photographs of Nutcracker – her are now part of the National £1500. Beaton sketch Portrait Gallery’s permanent Another art world figure that collection. Sir Roy also became a Sketches relating to the theatre, ballet her all her life and later sold at the sale the Strongs knew well, Sir Cecil friend after meeting her through and opera were a notable feature of of her studio. Beaton (1904-80), was represented Beaton and this pencil sketch, which the lots from The Laskett, the home Estimated here at £600-800, it sold by eight works in the sale. Strong showed her in a wide-brimmed hat, of Sir Roy Strong and his wife Julia at £3800 to a UK private buyer, a sum had famously staged the first was believed to date from the late Trevelyan Oman, sold by Chorley’s. in the upper bracket for one of the photographic exhibition at the 1930s. Uppermost among them in terms artist’s ballet sketches. National Portrait Gallery when 600 Estimated at £600-800, it sold of price was a simple watercolour Beaton portraits went on display in at £6000 to the UK trade. Beaton of the Russian ballerina Tamara Nureyev in Nutcracker 1968 – a show that was part of his drawings can make substantially Karsavina in the title role in Fokine’s Among the 16 costume designs in the project to transform the conservative more, particularly for more worked Firebird. sale was a work by the Greek designer image of the institution. up examples, but this price exceeded It was drawn by Dame Laura Nicholas Georgiadis – a signed Included in the auction were a the £1600 for an ink and watercolour Knight (1877-1970), the only artist watercolour of Rudolf Nureyev’s handful of Beaton’s photographs of of Diana and her husband Duff allowed access behind the scenes costume for The Nutcracker at The Sir Roy himself that made between Cooper sold from the Vivien Leigh at Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes Royal Opera House in 1968. Estimated £200-850. However, the lot that collection at Sotheby’s in September company, and this 13¾ x 9½in (35 x at £800-1200, it took £1500, again drew the most attention at Chorley’s 2017. n 24cm) signed sketch had stayed with selling to a UK private buyer.
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The last days of witch hunts Rare work detailed the trial of the last woman to be condemned for witchcraft in England
by Ian McKay 1
Bid to £2000 at Dominic Winter (20% buyer’s premium) on April 7-8 was a 1712 first of Francis Bragge’s Witchcraft Farther Display’d, a rare work that opens with an account of the case of Jane Wenham – the last woman to be condemned for witchcraft in England. When the judge at her trial was assured by her accusers that Jane could fly, he pointed out that there was actually no law against that in England, but she was eventually found guilty and he had no choice but to sentence her to be hanged. Jane did eventually receive a 2 royal pardon but the case prompted a pamphlet war between those of 3 opposing views and eventually led to the Witchcraft Act of 1735, which abolished witch hunts and even forbade accusations of witchcraft. Crime and punishment Sold at £3000 was a 1773, first edition of The Newgate Calendar, or Malefactor’s Bloody Register..., bound as five volumes in contemporary calf. Originally published in 50 parts, these tales of crime and punishment have been regarded as a forerunner of the crime fiction genre and an important source for the social 4 5 history of Georgian Britain.
Varied selection 1. Sold at £500 was a coloured aquatint of 1851 by CN Smith 4. ‘Dick Spot causing the Pedlar to break his Earthenware’, a Earlier printed works included a after Samuel Aitken of an Extraordinary and Daring Feat of plate from a 1798 account by “a lifelong acquaintance” of The 1486, Venetian printing of Paul of Horsemanship that took place at White’s Hotel in Aylesbury Life and Mysterious Transactions of Richard Morris..., the name Venice’s commentary on what are following a steeplechase meeting. No fewer than three riders by which this conjuror was born. It was one of the scarcer known in English terms as Aristotle’s succeeded in riding their horses up the stairs to where they of three works on witchcraft and related practices that were ‘Posterior Analytics’. Containing were dining and jumping them over a large table. In the process bound as one and sold for £1900. detailed and contemporary they created a considerable amount of damage. 5. ‘View at St Rollox, looking South East’, one of a rare set marginalia and in a now worn 16th 2. Sold at £2000 was a rare mezzotint by Henry Robinson of four hand-coloured lithographs produced by the Scottish century vellum binding, it sold at depicting a ...Representation of the Meteor which was seen on painter and photographer David Octavius Hill and issued in £8500. Aug. 18th 1783. Called the ‘Flying Dragon’ after it broke up, it is 1832 to mark the Opening of the Glasgow and Garnkirk Railway... Among the many maps, examples reckoned to have been one of the brightest such objects ever It sold for £1300 at Dominic Winter. of Christopher Saxton’s maps of seen over northern Europe and lit up the night sky – “the whole 6. Specimens of Mao Zedong’s signature are extremely rare Norfolk and Gloucestershire, dated face of the country being instantly illuminated”. 1574 and 1577 but both slightly later at auction and this example, on the back of a printed invitation issues of around 1579 and exhibiting 3. Bound in contemporary calf and further protected by an card to a buffet party in a Peking hotel that was in 1960 hosted contemporary colouring, were sold at over-wrapper of green and white glass beadwork, a 1667 by the China-Latin America Friendship Association, topped the £2600 and £2000 respectively. Edinburgh edition of The Psalms of David... realised £2000. South Cerney sale at £20,000. Bid to £8500 against an estimate of £300-500 was an 1836 transcript of a 1582 licence relating to the collector on truly grand scale. and contained in a contemporary marriage of William Shakespeare Among bookbinding tools and vellum binding with green fabric ties, and Anne Hathaway. related material offered at the sale’s was sold at £2600. n It was produced for and bears end were a number of folio volumes of pencil notes in the hand of Sir blank hand made paper. More lots from this 550-lot auction are Thomas Phillipps, one of England’s One such volume, running to 178 described in the caption stories above. most famous bibliophiles and a leaves, dated to the late 17th century 6 20 | 22 May 2021 antiquestradegazette.com
PAGE 020-021 2493.indd 1 14/05/2021 11:52:08 Send your books news to Ian McKay at [email protected]
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May 18* 4 24 lots Books, Maps & Ephemera, HRD Auction Rooms - Brading 01983 402222 May 18* 4 12 lots Books & Glamour Magazines, Rogers Jones - Colwyn Bay 01492 532176 May 18* 4 9-lot Book Section, Fonsie Mealy - Castlecomer +353 56 44 41229 May 18* 4 7-lot Book Section, Lyon & Turnbull - Edinburgh 0131 557 8844 May 18* 4 5-lot Book Section, Chalkwell Auctions - Long Melford 01702 613260 ends May 18* 4 36-lot Book & Adult Magazine Sections, Beeston Auctions 01328 598080 May 18-19* 4 Sports Memorabilia & Ephemera, Tim Davidson - Nottingham 0115 986 8550 May 19 4 Antiquarian & other Books, incl Ornithology, Thomson Roddick - Carlisle 0131 440 2448 May 19 4 Irish interest Books, Maps, Periodicals, Ephemera, Purcell - Birr +353 57 912 0270 May 19 4 Online: Books & Works on Paper, Forum Auctions - London 020 7871 2640 May 19* 4 25-lot Book Section, Trevanion Auctioneers - Whitchurch 01948 800202 May 19* 4 10-lot Book & Map Section, Golding Young & Mawer - Lincoln 01522 524984 May 19* 4 9-lot Book Section, British Bespoke Auctions - Winchcombe 01242 603005 May 19* 4 7 lots Books, Sheppards - Durrow +353 57 874 0000 May 19* 4 6 lots Maps, John Nicholson’s - Haslemere 01428 653727 ends May 19* 4 47 boxed lots of Books, Keys - Aylsham 01263 733195 Above: sold at £13,000 at Sotheby’s was a framed pair of cabinet photo-portraits of the May 19, 26, 27, 28* 4 Autographs, Chaucer Auctions - Folkestone 0800 1701314 dapper Oscar Wilde, a portrait taken in 1889 and signed early in the following decade, May 20* 4 Literature Sections: Military & Aviation History, Dominic Winter - S Cerney 01285 860006 and his wife, Constance. The latter is signed and dated 1892. ends May 20* 4 15-lot Book Section, Golding Young & Mawer - Louth 01522 524984 May 20 4 David Beazley Angling Prints Collection, Forum Auctions - London 020 7871 2640 May 20-21* 4 10 lots Books & Maps, Fieldings - Stourbridge 01384 444140 Cuddled up with a good read May 21* 4 7-lot Book Section: RP Miller Collection, Bishop & Miller - Stowmarket 01449 673088 May 22* 4 Book Section, Ward & Co - Pontrilas 01981 240140 A couple of Winston Churchill letters A thoughtful, sympathetic but May 22* 4 11-lot Book Section, Tennants - Leyburn 01969 623780 were among the more successful lots sometimes stirringly worded letter of ends May 22* 4 8 lots Harry Potter & other Books, Thimbleby & Shorland - Reading 0118 950 8611 in a second selection from a History condolence that Churchill wrote in May 22-23* 4 20-lot Book Section, Hawley’s - North Cave 01482 868193 in Manuscript collection* formed 1942 to Pamela, Countess of Lytton, May 23* 4 6 lots Books & Maps, Featonby’s - North Shields 01912 522601 over the last 20 years and offered at on learning of her son’s death in May 24-25* 4 9 lots Books & Comics, Stacey’s - Rayleigh 01268 777122 Sotheby’s (26/20/13.9% buyer’s battle during the Second World War ends May 25 Science Books & MSS, Sotheby’s - London 020 7293 6182 premium). doubled its high estimate to sell at May 25* 4 52 lots Motoring Literature, Lawrences & Transport Collector - Crewkerne 01460 73041 Almost trebling the high estimate £60,000. May 25* 4 MSS Section: Antiquities Sale, TimeLine Auctions - Harwich 01277 815121 at £55,000 in this sale that ran As a young woman Pamela had May 25* 4 Ephemera Sale, Kings Russell - London 020 3773 2290 online from April 13-27 was a letter been his first love, and was to remain May 26* 4 Literature Section: Sports Memorabilia, James & Sons - Fakenham 01328 855003 in which Churchill, writing in 1927 one of his closest friends. Pamela’s May 26-27* 4 Literature Section: Golf & Sports Memorabilia, Mullock’s - Church Stretton 01694 771771 to TE Lawrence about his specially eldest son had died in an air crash in May 26-27* 4 6 lots Books: Modern Art & Design Sale, Mallams - Oxford 01865 241358 inscribed subscription copy, praises 1933 and her younger son’s death in May 27 4 Books, MSS & Works on Paper, Forum Auctions - London 020 7871 2640 Seven Pillars of Wisdom and contrasts it the first Battle of El Alamein, while 4 with The World Crisis, his own ongoing serving as a tank commander, would May 27* 10 lots Militaria Books, Lawrences - Crewkerne 01460 73041 4 history of the First World War, which have been devastating. May 27* Book Section, Auction Antiques - Hele 01392 719826 4 he likens to a potboiler. Churchill nevertheless wrote “..Let May 28* Entertainment Memorabilia & Autograph Sections, East Bristol Auctions 0117 967 1000 4 He tells Lawrence that on a three- us thank God that after its fearful May 29* 23-lot Book, Map & Ephemera Section, Stamford Auction Rooms 01780 411485 4 day visit to Paris he had never left peril England – for whom all may be May 29* 5 lots Books & Maps, Cottees Auctions - Poole 01202 723177 4 his apartment except for meals, and offered – stands safe and glorious, May 29* Book Section, Michael J Bowman - Newton Abbot 01626 324071 “...lay all day cuddling your bulky & that its heroes have not given tome... I marched with you on those their lives without a purpose being Sales marked with an * are those in which books and ephemera form part of a larger endless journeys by camel, with fulfilled...” sale. Sales marked 4 are viewable on thesaleroom.com never a cool drink, a hot bath, or a In a Christie’s sale of 2003 the Auctioneers are asked to send details of specialist book sales, as well as those sales square meal except under revolting letter had sold for £52,000. that may contain significant book and ephemera sections, to: conditions. What a tale!”. Ian McKay Tel: +44 (0)1795 890475 email: [email protected] First seen at auction at Sotheby’s Thatcher shock in 1981, it was offered at Christie’s One of the truly surprise results in New York in 2004, where as part of this Sotheby’s sale was provided by the extensive Spiro family collections a 15in (38cm) wide group portrait of it had made $50,000 (then around Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet, £27,000). taken in December 1981. Signed on the mount by all those present, it was sold for £20,000 against an estimate Welcoming consignments for our forthcoming calendar: of just £200-300. Images of Angling: the David Beazley Collection of Angling Prints (Online) Thursday 20th May * The first part of this collection was sold Fine Books, Manuscripts & Works on Paper Thursday 27th May in July of last year and reported in ATG Travel Books, Maps and Atlases (Online) Wednesday 9th June No 2459. The Stephen White Space Collection (Online) Thursday 10th June Books and Works on Paper (Online) Thursday 24th June Left: signed by both Queen Elizabeth and Signed and Inscribed: A Gentleman’s Library Wednesday 7th July the late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, of Modern Literature this 1958 photograph depicts the young Fine Books, Manuscripts & Works on Paper Thursday 8th July royal couple in a woodland setting, together with their children, Charles and Anne. It was valued at £700-900 but sold Catalogues and bidding at: forumauctions.co.uk at £6000. antiquestradegazette.com 22 May 2021 | 21
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