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Lot 2190A
* ALAN DAVIE CBE RA HRSA RWA (SCOTTISH 1920 - 2014), EL TERREMOTO gouache on paper, signed, titled and dated 89 56cm x 77cm Framed and under glass Note: Scottish painter, trained as a painter at Edinburgh College of Art from 1938 to 1940, initially favouring poetic imagery and coming into contact with modernism at exhibitions held in London of works by Picasso (1945; V&A) and Paul Klee (1945; Tate). He explored a diverse range of activities, however, before returning to painting from 1949 to 1953 he earned his living by making jewellery and in 1947 he worked as a jazz musician, an activity he continued in later life. He wrote poetry during the early 1940s. From 1953 to 1956 Davie taught in London at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, where he became interested in African and Pacific art. As early as 1958 Davie emphasised the importance in his work of intuition, as expressed in the form of enigmatic signs. During the 1960s, both in paintings and in coloured lithographs, he represented such images with increasing clarity at the expense of gestural handling. In 1971 he made his first visit to the island of St Lucia, where he began to spend half of each year and which brought Caribbean influences to bear on his suggestive imagery, as in Bird Gong No. 10, Opus 730 (1973; London, Brit. Council). Taking on the role of a disinherited shaman, Davie created a synthesis of mythologies from a variety of cultures for a modern civilisation devoid of its own village myths.
Lot 1295
DICKENS JR. CHARLES: (1837-1896) First Child of the English Novelist Charles Dickens. Dickens Jr. was the editor of his father's magazine All the Year Round and also a successful writer of dictionaries. A.L.S., Charles Dickens, one page, 8vo, King Street, St. James's, 17th April 1894, to Frank Finlay, on the printed stationery of St. James's Theatre. Dickens Jr. states '[George] Alexander desires me to thank you for your kind enquiry' and to report that, although he is unable to appear on Friday or Saturday, that he is very much better. Together with a second A.L.S., Charles Dickens, one page, 8vo (the lower third of the page missing and neatly trimmed), King Street, St. James's, 26th February 1894, to Miss. R. G. de Thiere, informing her that George Alexander regrets that he has no opening for his correspondent at present, but will certainly bear her in mind in the future. About VG, 2. £100-150 George Alexander (1858-1918) English Actor & Theatre Manager.
Lot 1493
JELLICOE EARL: (1859-1935) British Admiral of the Fleet during World War I. A.L.S., Jellicoe, one page, 8vo, Hatfield, 24th May 1918, to Mr. Knox. Jellicoe thanks his correspondent for having sent him the report of the work of the Missions to Seamen which he will read. Together with a second A.L.S., Jellicoe, two pages, 8vo, Isle of Wight, 6th March 1920, to Mr. Knox. Jellicoe states that he would gladly reconsider his decision if he could, but the date of the meeting makes it impossible for him to attend, explaining that he has to be in Cambridge and London, and remarking 'I am really very sorry as you know I simpathise greatly with the work of the mission'. Both letters bear the received date stamps of the Missions to Seamen. Light age wear and some minor traces of former mounting to the second letter, only very slightly obscuring the printed address and holograph date. G, 2. £100-120
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