Austin Osman Spare (British, 1886-1956)Metamorphosis, Portrait of Oswell Blakeston signed, dated and inscribed 'Oswald Blakeston 1933/by Austin Osman Spare' (lower right)watercolour, pencil, gouache and chalk on paper38.5 x 28cm (15 3/16 x 11in).with a further unfinished portrait in pencil, on the reverse, by the same handFootnotes:ProvenanceFrederick R. Koch (1933–2020)With The Fine Art Society, London, June 1977Sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 12 May 1994, lot 88Alan Michael HarrisIn the early 1930s, Spare moderated the grotesque style that had dominated his work of the previous decade, and so found a new generation of collectors. Among them was the writer and artist Oswell Blakeston (1907–1985), then just embarking on his career. In his short introduction to the Artist's 1936 exhibition catalogue, Blakeston (real name Henry Joseph Hasslacher) noted that Spare might lay claim to 'the first text-book on how to be a surrealist and why', citing the automatic drawing processes Spare described in The Book of Pleasure, (1913). Blakeston's semi-fictional memoir, For Crying Out Shroud (1969), offers a warm and humorous account of visiting Spare in his studio during the early 1930s. In this fine profile drawing, which exhibits the fluid pencil plumes typical of this period, the artist has included a self-portrait, upper left.We are grateful to Robert Shehu-Ansell for compiling this catalogue entry.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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Joe Tilson R.A. (British, born 1928)Le Crete Senesi, Sasso signed and dated 'Tilson/1993', also titled, dated and inscribed with stencil 'LE/CRETE/SENESI,/SASSO./TOSCANA/1993' (on panel verso)oil on canvas and wood relief108 x 90.5cm (42 1/2 x 35 5/8in).(unframed)Footnotes:ProvenanceWith Theo Waddington Fine Art Ltd, LondonThe Artist, from whom acquired directly by the present owner, circa 1997Private Collection, U.K.ExhibitedSiena, Palazzo Pubblico, Joe Tilson: Le Crete Senesi, 30 April- 28 May 1995, no. 17This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Carel Weight R.A. (British, 1908-1997)Spencer Park signed 'Carel Weight' (upper right)oil on board51 x 61cm (20 1/16 x 24in).Footnotes:ProvenanceWith Business Art Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts, London, where acquired by the present owner, 10 November 1980Private Collection, U.K.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Sir Lawrence Gowing (British, 1918-1991)Portrait of Miss U oil on canvas102.5 x 81.5cm (40 3/8 x 32 1/16in).Footnotes:ProvenanceWith Thomas Agnew & Sons, LondonPhilip Rieff and Alison Douglas Knox, PhiladelphiaExhibitedPhiladelphia, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1991 (catalogue not traced)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
William Roberts R.A. (British, 1895-1980)Woman Picking Nuts signed 'William Roberts.' (lower left)pen and ink on paper9.5 x 13.5cm (3 3/4 x 5 5/16in).Executed circa 1953Footnotes:ProvenanceErnest Cooper Sale; Sotheby's, London, 3 March 1999, lot 120 (part lot)With Abbott & Holder, London, where acquired by the family of the present owner, 15 August 2001, and thence by descentPrivate Collection, U.K.ExhibitedWorthing, Worthing Art Gallery, Paintings and Drawings by William Roberts RA, 29 April-3 June 1972, no. 71(e) (as Olive Picking)London, Abbott and Holder, The June 'Selected Six (Twelve!)', Pen and Ink Drawings by William Roberts R.A. (1895-1980), June 1999, no. 5 (as A Woman Picking Nuts)The present lot was produced for Ernest Cooper's health-food business, The London Health Centre. Cooper was one of William Roberts' main patrons, and commissioned illustrations for the company from the late 1940s until 1965, when the Centre passed into new ownership.We are grateful to David Cleall and Bob Davenport for information provided about this lot.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Ken Howard R.A. (British, 1932-2022)India Buildings, Water Street, Liverpool signed 'Ken Howard' (lower right)oil on canvas76 x 51cm (29 15/16 x 20 1/16in).Footnotes:ProvenanceWith Business Art Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts, LondonThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Guy Taplin (British, born 1939)Goose Head I signed, titled, numbered and stamped with foundry mark 'G TAPLIN/GOOSE HEAD I/5/25/PE' (to underside)bronze with a green patina22cm (8 11/16in) longFootnotes:ProvenanceDame Elisabeth Frink, by whom gifted to the present ownerPrivate Collection, U.K.Please note that this lot is offered together with a copy of A. Csáky and I. Collins, Birds of Creation, Guy Taplin, Csáky Art, Sonning-on-Thames, 1998This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
HOMER. - George CHAPMAN (translator). The Odysseys of Homer, Prince of Poets, Never Before in Any Language Truly Translated Done According to the Greek… with Introduction and Notes by the Rev. Richard Hooper. London: Gibbings and Company, 1897. 2 vols., 8vo (172 x 129mm.) (Browning to margins, a few small marginal tears.) Original red cloth, art nouveau gilt decoration to covers and spines, t.e.g. (sunning to spines, lightly rubbed, upper hinge of volume 1 weakening). - And a further twenty-seven volumes, mostly illustrated (including 'The Persian Letters of Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, Baron of Brède and of Montesquieu', [1892], 8vo) (29).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
ANTIQUE & ART REFERENCE. - Andy McCONNELL. The Decanter, an Illustrated History of Glass from 1650. Suffolk, Woodbridge: Antique Collector's Club, 2004. First edition, signed by the author, 4to (273 x 218mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Toning.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket. - And a quantity of approximately fifty-five volumes related to art, antique reference and interiors (including 'The First Georgians, Art & Monarchy 1714-1760', 2014, 4to). Provenance: the property of Michael Godfrey (a quantity).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
CRADDOCK, Harry. The Savoy Cocktail Book. London: Constable & Company, Ltd., 1930. First edition, first issue, 8vo (191 x 122mm.) Numerous illustrations by Gilbert Rumbold, the tipped-in 'Bacardi Cocktail' slip on p.25. (Toning, minor marks to p.11 and p.53.) Original boards with art deco design (surface abrasion to lower cover, spine seam split and upper cover weakening, rubbing to extremities). Note: first issue with the numbered title-page.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
GAUDIER-BRZESKA, Henri. - Horace BRODZKY (introduction). Gaudier-Brzeska Drawings. London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1946. First edition, 4to (275 x 216mm.) Tipped-in colour plates, black and white illustrations after Gaudier-Brzeska. (Toning, occasional corner crease.) Original pictorial cloth (lightly bumped). - And a further eighteen volumes of art reference (including Andrew Wyeth's 'The Helga Pictures', 1987, 4to) (19).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
ART & ANTIQUE REFERENCE. - Susan Weber SOROS (editor). James 'Athenian' Stuart 1713-1788, the Rediscovery of Antiquity. New York: Yale University Press, 2007. 4to (303 x 224mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Toning.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket. - And a quantity of approximately seventy-five volumes related to art and antique reference (including Daphne Foskett's 'Miniatures', 1990, 4to). Provenance: the property of Michael Godfrey (a quantity).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
ART DECO. - Claude LINOSSIER (illustrator) and Maurice de GUERIN. Le Centaure. Lyon: Audin pour Le Cercle Gryphe, 1929. Limited edition of 133 copies only, this being unnumbered and out-of-series, 4to (282 x 229mm.) 73 woodcuts by Phillipe-Charles Burnot after designs by Claude Linossier in red and black, many enhanced with silver. (Spotting to the first quire, toning.) Original card covers, unbound as issued (light rubbing to extremities). Note: the first book published by the Le Cercle Gryphe and the only book illustrated by the Art Deco coppersmith Claude Linossier.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
BINDINGS. - Alice MEYNELL. The Flower of the Mind. London: Grant Richards, 1898. Limited edition, being one of only 250 specially bound, 8vo (185 x 123mm.) (Spotting to endpapers and half-title.) Original red half calf, elongated art nouveau flower in gilt to spine, t.e.g. (minor stain to upper cover, slight fading to spine). Provenance: Sybil Smith (gift inscribed from verso the front-free endpaper). - And a quantity of approximately forty-five further volumes (including five volumes of works by John Ruskin, bound by Bickers & Son, 1876-1885, 8vo). Provenance: the property of Michael Godfrey (a quantity).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
CESCINSKY, Herbert. The Gentle Art of Faking Furniture. London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1931. First edition, 4to (251 x 189mm.) Portrait frontispiece, numerous black and white photographic illustrations. (Toning, spotting to title-page and endpapers.) Original black cloth, gilt lettering to spine (fading, upper hinge weakening). - And a further seventeen volumes (including Christopher Wordsworth's 'Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive and Historical', 1844, 8vo, and 'A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: The Tragedie of Julius Caesar' edited by Horace Howard Furness, 1913, 4to) (18).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
ARR CHARLOTTE FAWLEY b.1935TWO SKETCHES OF DANCING MICE, TOGETHER WITH PICNIC MICE, THE NAUGHTY MICE & DANCING PIGSeach: signed titled and inscribed Tales of Beatrix Potter Ballet; two dated 07 one dated 08each: pencil and watercoloureach sheet: 30.5 x 21.8cm; 12 x 8 1/2in(5)unframedAfter graduating from the Blackpool School of Art in the late 1950s Fawley moved to London where she forged her career as an art director in advertising and television, and as a comic strip illustrator under the pseudonym Audrey Fawley and Audrey Fawkes for such leading childrens' weeklys as Swift, Tammy, Robin and Bunty. She subsequently became an invited artist to the Royal Opera House where she has sketched many different productions, including the ballet Tales of Beatrix Potter which inspired the present watercolours. She commented of her work. 'For me, dance expressed in art is about energy and emotion. One line can sometimes express just that. A splash of colour will enhance the drama, be it passion, joy, anger or despair ... I am fortunate to have opportunities to draw some of the greatest dancers and singers in the world today.'*sold without reserveThe drawings are in very good condition with vibrant colours. A few drawings exhibit minor creases to the top edges.
ARR CHARLOTTE FAWLEY (b.1935)PETER RABBIT, JEMIMA PUDDLEDUCK, JEREMY FISHER, SQUIRREL NUTKIN & MRS TIGGYWINKLEeach: signed titled and inscribed Tales of Beatrix Potter Ballet; two dated 07 one dated 08each: pencil and watercoloureach sheet: 30.5 x 21.8cm; 12 x 8 1/2inunframed(5)After graduating from the Blackpool School of Art in the late 1950s Fawley moved to London where she forged her career as an art director in advertising and television, and as a comic strip illustrator under the pseudonym Audrey Fawley and Audrey Fawkes for such leading childrens' weeklys as Swift, Tammy, Robin and Bunty. She subsequently became an invited artist to the Royal Opera House where she has sketched many different productions, including the ballet Tales of Beatrix Potter which inspired the present watercolours. She commented of her work. 'For me, dance expressed in art is about energy and emotion. One line can sometimes express just that. A splash of colour will enhance the drama, be it passion, joy, anger or despair ... I am fortunate to have opportunities to draw some of the greatest dancers and singers in the world today.' *sold without reserveThe drawings are in good condition, vibrant colours. The drawing of the duck exhibits two minor creases to the top edge.
ARR NANCY DELOUIS (b.1941)VIELLESsigned N Delouis lower left oil on canvas image: 70.5 x 89cm; 27 3/4 x 35inframed: 91 x 110cm; 35 3/4 x 43 1/4inExhibited:Messum's Fine Art, Nancy Delouis, 2012, no. 46Picture surface including impasto in very good condition, with bright and attractive colours. Not relined on original canvas.
ARR DAVID SINCLAIR, R.S.W. (b.1937)STILL LIFE WITH AN ORIENTAL BOWL AND EGGSHELLS and STILL LIFE WITH GRAPES AND EGGSHELLS (a pair)each: signed D.Sinclair lower leftoil on canvaseach: image: 29 x 24cm; 11 1/2 x 9 1/2ineach: framed: 48 x 43.5cm; 19 x 17 1/4in(2)Provenance:Ewan Mundy Fine Art, Glasgow*sold without reserve
ARR Property from a Private Collection LEONARD JOHN PEARCE (1931-2018)A THREE MASTED BARQUE UNDER FULL SAILsigned John Bower lower rightoil on panelimage: 22.5 x 35cm; 8 1/2 x 13 3/4inframed: 26 x 40cm; 10 1/4 x 15 3/4intogether with an etching of another Three masted barque under full sail on the high seas by the same hand(2)Pearce trained at City and Guilds, had a fascination with typography and pursued an early career in graphic design, becoming a member of the Royal Society of Industrial Artists and Designers. His interest in marine painting developed in the 1970s, signing his early work with the pseudonym John Bower as in the present example. His marines were especially prized by collectors of the genre in the USA, where he had a succession of one-man shows in Connecticut at the Seaport Museum, Mystic, and Workshop Gallery, Greenwich; in New York at Kennedy Galleries and the Incurable Collector, and on Long Island in Horton Point Lighthouse Museum. In 1982 Pearce was a medallist at the International Maritime Art Exhibition, and the following year was elected a member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists.
ARR SIR JONATHON MILLER CBE (1934-2019)UNTITLED Xmixed media collageimage size: 42.5 x 31cm; 16 3/4 x 12 1/4inunframedSet within a display case, to be sold with a newspaper extract on Miller's abstract art from The Friday Review, 26th October 2001. Sir Jonathan Miller was a British theatre and opera director as well as actor, author, television presenter, humourist and physician. Trained in medicine and specialising in neurology, he maintained his interest in theatre and performing arts. In the early 1960s, after co-writing, producing and staring in the satirical comedy revue Beyond the Fringe, with Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett, Miller's career began to grow. As a writer and presenter of more than a dozen BBC documentaries, Miller became a television personality and public intellectual in Britain and the United States. Miller began directing operas in the 1970s, directing and producing shows for the Kent Opera and Glyndebourne.
Nine bottles of Scotch Whisky, comprising: The Black Grouse, 40% vol 1l; The Ledaig Single Malt from The Isle of Mull, 42% vol, 70cl; Glen Moray Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky, Elgin Classic, 40% vol, 70cl, two bottles; Whyte & Mackay Triple matured, 40% vol, 70cl; MacAthur's Select, 40% vol, 70cl; Cu Dhub (Black Dog), 40% vol, 7cl; Old St Andrews Clubhouse, 40% vol, 500ml; and The Art of Golf Malt Whisky, 12 years, 40% vol, 50cl.
![George James Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle (1843-1911)"Oak Tree at Ampthill [Park House, Berkshire]",titled verso,watercolour](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ba593ef4-cdcf-4e4c-95ee-af2600f5279b/d17905b0-a265-4e9f-9816-afcb011b4107/468x382.jpg)
George James Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle (1843-1911)"Oak Tree at Ampthill [Park House, Berkshire]",titled verso,watercolour and bodycolour,39 x 56cms, framed.Provenance: Carlisle Art Gallery exhibition; 'George Howard and His Circle', November 1968, No. 13. Leighton House Art Gallery, Kensington, London.Private collection, Brampton, Cumberland.Ampthill Park House, Berkshire was one of the family homes belonging to the Earl of Carlisle.
Edward Horace Thompson(1879-1949)"An Autumn Morning; Derwentwater & The Jaws of Borrowdale (East Side of Friar's Crag) (From National Park)."signed, and further signed, dated August 1948, and titled to old backing paper verso,watercolour,28 x 45cms, framed.Provenance: Weetslade Fine Art, 7th Spring Exhibition 1990, No.68.
David Roberts RA RBA(1796-1864)A working sketch for "Temple called El Khasne, Petra",inscribed 'Perta March 7th 1839',32 x 25cms, framedProvenance: label verso reading 'Presented to Sir William Strang, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., M.B.E. by King Abdullah of Transjordan on the occasion of Sir William Strang's visit to Amman on May 30th 1949'. Also with The Fine Art Society label dated April 1949. Sold by the family of Sir William Strang. For more items from the estate of Sir William Strang see lots 1044-1056 of this auction.Notes: David Roberts, already a respected topographical artist, left London on 21st August 1838 and reached Alexandria on 24th September. His purpose was to travel the Near East, making drawings of the great sites of historical and religious interest. Roberts spent three months sailing up the Nile from Cairo as far as Nubia and Abu Simbel. Back in Cairo in January 1839, Roberts made the acquaintance of Mr J. Pell, and agreed to travel with him to Syria via Suez and Mount Sinai. They and a fellow Scot, John Kinnear, along with their servants, departed on 7 February.After pausing a few days at St. Catherine's Monastery in Sinai, the party moved along the Gulf of Aqaba. At Aqaba they dined with the local sheikh, with whom they negotiated safe passage to Hebron via Petra and Mount Hor. Enduring sandstorms, bandits, illness, and physical hardships along the way, the group arrived in the village of Hebron, where they stayed with the only Christian family from 16-18 March 1839:"On turning round the side of a hill, Hebron first bursts upon you. The situation is beautiful, and the houses, gleaming brightly in the noonday sun, reminded me of England...I made two coloured sketches of the town" (the artist's journal, as quoted in Ballantine, 1866, p.124).Having learnt that Jerusalem was quarantined for plague, they made a detour via Beth Gebrin, the ancient Eleutheropolis, Gaza, Askelon, Ashdod, Jaffa, and Lod. They entered Jerusalem on Good Friday; the quarantine was removed that morning, and they were just in time for Easter celebrations. Accommodation was hard to come by, but luckily they met Elias, with whom they had stayed in Hebron, and he was able to find them lodgings. Continuing on through Galilee, Roberts stopped in Nazareth, Cana, and Acre, before reaching Baalbek in the Lebanon. By now ill, Roberts pressed on to Beirut. From there he began the long journey home, arriving in London in July of 1839.Roberts's intent was to produce lithographs, based on his sketches, for sale to the public. Both his former publishers, Messrs. Finden, and John Murray, turned him down before Francis Graham Moon agreed to the project. Roberts produced a series of finished watercolours, including the present lot, which he had worked up from sketches made during his tour.
![Edward Horace Thompson(1879-1949)"Skiddaw Greets the Morning Sun, Derwentwater from w[est] Lodore, Late Autumn."signed, and f](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ba593ef4-cdcf-4e4c-95ee-af2600f5279b/b292c129-6d17-4150-9c2a-afc10120539a/468x382.jpg)
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