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British and European Art I Montpelier Street, London I 20 March 2019 25218 Montpelier Street, London I 20 March 2019 London I 20 March Montpelier Street, British and European Art British and European British and European Art I Montpelier Street, London I 20 March 2019 25218 British and European Art Part I: Victorian & British Impressionist Art Part II: 19th Century European, Impressionist & Modern Art Montpelier Street, London | Wednesday 20 March 2019 at 1pm BONHAMS BIDS ENQUIRIES Please see page 2 for bidder Montpelier Street +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Veronique Scorer information including after-sale Knightsbridge +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax +44 (0) 20 7393 3962 collection and shipment London SW7 1HH [email protected] [email protected] www.bonhams.com Please see back of catalogue To bid via the internet please visit Thomas Seaman for important notice to bidders VIEWING www.bonhams.com +44 (0) 20 7393 3960 IMPORTANT INFORMATION Sunday 17 March [email protected] 11am to 3pm Please note that bids should be The United States Government Monday 18 March submitted no later than 4pm PRESS ENQUIRIES has banned the import of ivory 9am to 4.30pm on the day prior to the auction. [email protected] into the USA. Lots containing Tuesday 19 March New bidders must also provide ivory are indicated by the symbol proof of identity when submitting Ф printed beside the lot number 9am to 4.30pm CUSTOMER SERVICES Wednesday 20 March bids. Failure to do this may result in this catalogue. in your bids not being processed. Monday to Friday 9am to 11am 8.30am – 6pm REGISTRATION Bidding by telephone will only be +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 SALE NUMBER IMPORTANT NOTICE accepted on a lot with the lower Please note that all customers, 25218 ILLUSTRATIONS estimate in excess of £500. irrespective of any previous activity Front Cover: Lot 88 with Bonhams, are required to CATALOGUE Live online bidding is available Back Cover: Lot 232 complete the Bidder Registration £12 for this sale Inside Front Cover: Lot 3 Form in advance of the sale. 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Lots not collected Payment at time of collection by this time will be returned to by: the department storage charges cash, cheque with banker’s card, may apply. credit, or debit card. Part I Victorian & British Impressionist Art Lots 1 – 133 WORKS FROM THE ANDREWARTHA COLLECTION OF PICTURES BY JOHN CYRIL HARRISON Lots 1 – 11 1 JOHN CYRIL HARRISON (1898-1985) Born in Wiltshire, ‘Jack’ Harrison started drawing from a young age Writing about his technique Harrison noted, ‘I have been asked “How and studied at the Slade School of Art following his service in WWI. is it possible to draw a bird in flight accurately, and make it look as After visiting British Columbia in his teens Harrison settled in Norfolk if it is flying?” … I never copy photographs… Birds in flight can only where much of his best work would be produced. He was closely be drawn from memory. The eye must be trained to a high pitch… associated with the Norfolk Naturalists Trust, donating a work each catching the bird’s position in a fraction of a second and reflecting year for their series of Christmas cards. it in the mind until it can be drawn. After much practice, and a thorough knowledge of the bird itself, it is possible to hold the most Harrison continued to travel extensively including trips to Scotalnd, difficult attitudes of flight in the mind indefinitely. But first one must be Iceland and Africa. While in Scotland Harrison spent time with the a master of drawing, have exceptional powers of observation and a naturalist , Seton Gordon, producing numerous studies on Golden thorough and complete knowledge of the bird to be drawn, it’s form Eagles and their eyries, as can be seen in lot 3. Harrison also anatomy and habits. Above all one must be gifted without a profound illustrated Gordon’s ‘Days with the Golden Eagle’ (1927). His other rhythm of flight and power of movement.’ (A bird artist on his job, publications included ‘Bird Portraits’ in 1949, illustrations for Jean Country Life, October 12, 1945). Delacour’s ‘The Pheasants of the world’, Brown and Amadon’s ‘The Birds of Prey of the World’ (1968), David Evan’s ‘The Birds of Prey of Harrison’s work was regularly exhibited at the Tryon Gallery. In his the British Islands’ (1980), and McKelvie & Tyron’s ‘The Game Birds preface to ‘The Game Birds of the British Isles’ Almer Tryon, a life- of the British Isles’ (1989). long friend and champion of Harrison’s work noted he was a ‘quiet sportsman and skilful artist [whose] game birds in flight surpass even those of Archibald Thorburn.’ 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. 1 AR JOHN CYRIL HARRISON (BRITISH, 1898-1985) Grouse at dawn signed ‘JCHarrison’ (lower right) watercolour 54.6 x 74.9cm (21 1/2 x 29 1/2in).(I) £4,000 - 6,000 €4,600 - 6,900 US$5,200 - 7,700 Provenance Anon. sale, Christie’s, London, Watercolours and Pictures of Birds, 15 March 1994, lot 41. The Tryon Gallery Ltd., London. 2 AR JOHN CYRIL HARRISON (BRITISH, 1898-1985) Soaring over the Cuillins, Isle of Skye signed ‘JCHarrison’ (lower right) watercolour 45.7 x 31.1cm (18 x 12 1/4in).(I) 2 £3,000 - 5,000 €3,400 - 5,700 US$3,900 - 6,500 3 AR JOHN CYRIL HARRISON (BRITISH, 1898-1985) Shooting up signed ‘JCHarrison’ (lower right) watercolour 59 x 43.2cm (23 1/4 x 17in).(I) £3,000 - 5,000 €3,400 - 5,700 US$3,900 - 6,500 Provenance The Tryon Galleries Ltd., London. 3 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. BRITISH AND EUROPEAN ART | 5 4 5 4 AR 5 AR JOHN CYRIL HARRISON (BRITISH, 1898-1985) JOHN CYRIL HARRISON (BRITISH, 1898-1985) Distant gunfire Partridge at dusk signed ‘JCHarrison’ (lower right) signed ‘JCHarrison’ (lower right) watercolour watercolour 38.1 x 55.9cm (15 x 22in).(I) 33.7 x 47.7cm (13 1/4 x 18 3/4in).(I) £3,000 - 5,000 £3,000 - 5,000 €3,400 - 5,700 €3,400 - 5,700 US$3,900 - 6,500 US$3,900 - 6,500 Literature Colin Laurie McKelvie & The Honourable Alymer Tryon, The Game Birds of The British Isles by J.C. Harrison’, Ashford Press Publishing, Hampshire, 1989, plate IX. 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. 6 6 AR JOHN CYRIL HARRISON (BRITISH, 1898-1985) Over a snowbound corrie signed ‘JCHarrison’ (lower right) watercolour heightened with white 33 x 45.7cm (13 x 18in).(I) £3,000 - 5,000 €3,400 - 5,700 US$3,900 - 6,500 7 AR JOHN CYRIL HARRISON (BRITISH, 1898-1985) Flying through the winter twilight signed ‘JCHarrison’ (lower right) watercolour 65.4 x 36.8cm (25 3/4 x 14 1/2in).(I) £2,500 - 3,500 €2,900 - 4,000 US$3,200 - 4,500 7 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.
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