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Lot 137
* ISHBEL MCWHIRTER RCA (BRITISH b 1927 -), AWAY IN A DREAM watercolour on paper, signed and dated 81cm x 55cm Mounted, framed and under glass Note: Born London in 1927 to a Scottish father and a Welsh mother, and a descendant of the Bard Hedd Wyn, Ishbel McWhirter was brought up in north Wales. She boarded and studied at A.S.Neill’s Summerhill School, resulting in her first solo show in London's Bond Street aged 18. Invited by the great Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka to become his pupil, which continued for 7 years. Kokoshka wrote in 1945, " I see my pupil Ishbel McWhirter moved by curiosity...she pictures her heroines with a serene remoteness, lovely restraint, and the strangeness of the designers of the white funeral vases of ancient Greece ." Kokoshka encouraged her ‘lively un-English palette’ which has resulted in her vibrant watercolours and oils, often of the Menai Strait. Of her portraits, Kokoshka stated it appeared the colour came through the skin rather than being applied by a brush. She is best known for her portraits which include: Melvyn Bragg, Sir Kyffin Williams, Barbara Hepworth, Tilda Swinton, Nelson Mandela and Lord Scarman. In 1990 in honour of her time with Kokoschka she was invited to hold an exhibition at his birthplace near Vienna. Collections include: National Portrait Gallery, London; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh; National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth and Oriel Mon, Llangefni.
Lot 35
* MICHAEL SCOTT (SCOTTISH 1946 - 2006), COME SAIL YOUR SHIPS AROUND ME oil on canvas, signed 120cm x 117cm Framed Notes: This lot includes a hardback copy of "Michael Scott, Testament" published in 2010. The painting features as a full page image on page 81 and confirms it was completed in 2001.This painting was inspired by "The Ship Song", the 1990 indie classic love song written and first performed by Nick Cave. The title of the painting is the first line of the song. The song has been covered by numerous artists most notably the 2010/11 collaboration of over 100 musicians as a promotional film and song for the Sydney Opera House. What became known as "The Ship Song Project" took almost a year to complete and in the first 24 hours after its launch, the film clip was shared online more than 1.7m times. It became a major media success and is credited with bringing about a 40% increase in ticket sales at the SOH. Michael Scott's large work rarely appears at auction but The Bathers, a 36 x 40 inch oil on canvas sold at Christie's, London on 28th October 2004 (lot 299) for £7170 (premium) and At The Riverbank, a smaller example was sold by McTear's for £4000 (hammer) - lot 1720, 26th August 2014. Born in Aberdeenshire in 1946, Michael Scott (Mike Scott) studied Political Science at Liverpool before doing a one year's teacher training course in Huddersfield. After moving to Glasgow, Scott took a full-time research post at Glasgow University followed by a lecturing post at the re-named Glasgow Caledonian University. By 1997 demand for his work had become so great that he had to resign his post at the University to paint full time. Awards Include: The David Cargill Senior Award, Royal Glasgow Institute. Exhibitions Include: 1988~John D Kelly Gallery, Glasgow: 1994~Roger Billcliffe Fine Art, Glasgow ~Contemporary Fine Art, Eton; 1995~Portland Gallery, London; 1997~Fosse Gallery, Stowe on Trent ~Contemporary Fine Art, Eton; 1998~Portland Gallery, London; 2001~Portland Gallery, London, 2004~Portland Gallery, London; 2010~A Memorial Exhibition, Roger Billcliffe, Glasgow. Collections Include: Distillers plc, Robert Fleming Holdings Ltd, Spencer Stuart & Associates, Teachers Whisky, Whyte and Mackay and others. To mark the 10th aniversary of Michael Scott's death, The Roger Billcliffe Gallery staged an exhibition of his work 1st April - 30th April 2016.
Lot 39
* ANNE MACKINTOSH, MAY BLOSSOM oil on panel, signed 60cm x 77cm Framed and under glass. Label verso: Barclay Lennie Fine Art Ltd, 203 Bath Street, Glasgow. With stock no 59 and dated 2/6/90. Note: Anne Mackintosh is one of the UK's most celebrated portraitists whose commissions have included HM King Hussein of Jordan (4 portraits), HM Queen Noor of Jordan, HRH Princess Raiyah of Jordan, Nelson Mandela (for Glasgow Caledonian University), Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, John Major, Prime Minister, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, one official, one domestic portrait, Lord Lang of Monkton, one official, one domestic portrait, Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, David Cameron Prime Minister, Donald Dewar (First Minister of Scotland), The Duchess of York, HIRH Archduchess Elyssa of Austria, Yitzhak Rabin Prime Minister of Israel (Posthumous Painting), Seve Ballesteros (3 portraits), Tom Kite, The Hon Lord Cullen, Lord and Lady Hanson, The Hon Robert Hanson, The Hon Brook Hanson, Lord and Lady White, The Hon Lucas White, Lord MacFarlane of Bearsden, Lord and Lady Harris of Peckham, their children and grandchildren, The Hon Lord Johnston, Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, Danielle Steel and 7 of her children, Richard North Patterson, Author, Andrew Neil, Robert Carlyle, Actor, Countess de Pelet, Baronesses Alex, Helen and Julia van Tuyll van Serooskerken, Drs Vera and Gerald Weisfeld and Family, Michael Winner, Film Director, Major General and Mrs. Patrick Cordingley, The Late John Smith, politician and numerous others.
Lot 33
Early aviation interest piece comprising of fretwork presentation silver inscribed 'Presented to Anthony Jannus by Aero Club of St. Louis commemorating his flight from Omaha to New Orleans Nov 6th - Dec 16th 1912 worlds hydroplane distance record of 1975 miles, worlds hydroplane distance period aviator and passenger 1010 miles. Reverse stamped Sterling with makers mark RWNOC124 and further mark for Mermod.Jaccard and King co. (18.5cm diameter) and a commemorative envelope and letter slip 24th anniversary of the first commercial airline in the world St. Petersburg to Tampa Florida 1914, January 1938 Tony Jannus pilot with postal stamp and postage marks with St. Petersburg 1938 stamp (2)
Lot 1075
A collection of prints of the Napoleonic period including: Baines, Edward (publisher) c.20 engraved maps, scenes and portraits from his History of the Wars of the French Revolution published between 1814-1817, some framed, various sizes. Baines (1774-1848) was proprietor of the Leeds Mercury and a determined political commentator, whom William Cobbett called 'the Great Liar of the North'. His History was initially offered in parts, starting in 1814. It would be unlikely many would have anticipated the dramatic return of l'Empereur, making this work one of the first contemporary histories of the war - having not actually finished yet. This discrepancy of dates (some plates before the return, some during the final year, and some from the immediate period after) makes the subjects especially interesting. One of the 1814 plates is a map of the French Empire, showing the heights reached, where one of the latest (1817) is Napoleon's final surrender on Bellerophon. Boussod, Valadon & Cie. (publishers) 5 coloured lithographs, framed, various sizes, late 19thc (post 1884 when Groupil & Cie became Boussod, Valadon & Cie). The publishers were major art dealers in late-19th century Paris. Their core business was the creation and sale of reproductions such as these, but they also sold original works by artists such as Bouguereau, Monet and Corot. The firm played a part in the story of Van Gogh as his uncle Vincent was a partner from 1861 till retirement in 1872, and his cousin Theo joined the firm in 1873. Van Gogh himself worked for them for 6 years in their offices in The Hague, London and Paris until they dismissed him after an unauthorised Christmass absence. With 2 other framed, coloured Napoleonic prints and some others. [Qty]
Lot 1082
An interesting collection of signed Music Programmes from the mid 1940's belonging to Music Critic F.M. Lyne (also radio presenter) to include photographs of presentations along with a signed Letter and three cards and a photograph from performer Eva Turner and eight signed Programmes, each with personal messages from performers such as Myra Hess, Kirsten Flagstad, Cortot, Edwin Fistler, also a script for Lyne's first radio show and a letter from Jessica O'Shea
Lot 224
Funerary Cone, New Kingdom, 1550-1077 BC. A ceramic cone with the wide, flat end stamped with a series of hieroglyphs in several horizontal lines. Funerary cones were small cones made from clay that were used in ancient Egypt almost exclusively in the Theban Necropolis. The items were placed over the entrance of the chapel of a tomb. They first appear in the eleventh dynasty but a re generally undecorated. During the New Kingdom the cones were smaller in size and inscribed in hieroglyphs with the title and name of the tomb owner, often with a short prayer. Size: 12.5cm.
Lot 332
A buff pottery storage vessel of unusual squat disc shape with a short flaring mouth. Some small chips and general surface wear. Greek 4th century BC.Ex. Collection: Livingston Ludlow Biddle [USA, 1877 - 1959]. Acquired in 1903 while touring the Mediterranean on board Alcedo, at the time the largest private yacht in the world belonging to his uncle George Drexel. Biddle was descended from a wealthy Philadelphia banking family and devoted much of his time to the arts. His son helped create the National Endowment for the Arts [NEA]. The glamorous steam and sailing yacht Alcedo was built in Glasgow Scotland in 1895. She was 300 foot long and required 100 crew to operate. She was enlisted into the US Navy in 1917 and became the first American ship to be sunk by enemy action during World War 1 with the loss of 21 souls. Intact Size: 37mm x 59mm.
Lot 338
A pottery lekythos made in the Apulian, South Italian region. It is decorated with a white geometric net pattern. The body is decorated with a net-pattern of white crosshatching on a reserved ground. There is a wave-pattern around the shoulder. There are rays on the upper neck. The decoration is clearly inspired by vases of the Attic Bulas group of the end of the fifth and the first half of the fourth centuries. Bodies decorated with black net-patterns highlighted with white dots are extremely common, and even an occasional wave-pattern turns up which this example has. The lekythos was used for storing oils, such as olive oil. A small example like this could have stored perfumed oil or was left as a grave good. Complete and intact. Some surface loss on side. Ex. Private collection, Michael Green, Devon. 140mm.
Lot 340
A black glazed pottery kantharos wine cup with a wide body and two ring handles surmounted by horizontal thumb-spurs. Ex. Collection: Livingston Ludlow Biddle [USA, 1877-1959]. Acquired in 1903 while touring the Mediterranean on board Alcedo, at the time the largest private yacht in the world belonging to his uncle George Drexel. Biddle was descended from a wealthy Philadelphia banking family and devoted much of his time to the arts. His son helped create the National Endowment for the Arts [NEA]. The glamorous steam and sailing yacht Alcedo was built in Glasgow Scotland in 1895. She was 300 foot long and required 100 crew to operate. She was enlisted into the US Navy in 1917 and became the first American ship to be sunk by enemy action during World War 1 with the loss of 21 souls. 104mm.
Lot 530
Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II Temple Foundation Brick, 605-562 BC A baked clay rectangular brick with thirteen columns of cuneiform text mentioning the foundation of a temple by Nebuchadnezzar II. 19cm. Nebuchadnezzar II (from the Akkadian meaning "O god Nabu, preserve/defend my firstborn son") was king of Babylon from 605 BC to 562 BC, the longest and most powerful reign of any monarch in the Neo-Babylonian empire. Nebuchadnezzar was the eldest son and successor of Nabopolassar, an Assyrian official who rebelled and established himself as king of Babylon in 620 BC; the dynasty he established ruled until 539 BC, when the Neo-Babylonian Empire was conquered by Cyrus the Great. Nebuchadnezzar is first mentioned in 607 BC, during the destruction of Babylon's arch-enemy Assyria, at which point he was already crown prince. In 605 BC he and his ally Cyaxares, ruler of the Medes and Persians, led an army against the Assyrians and Egyptians, who were then occupying Syria, and in the ensuing Battle of Carchemish Necho II was defeated and Syria and Phoenicia were brought under the control of Babylon. Size: Provenance: Ex. Swizterland Collection, acquired over the last decade on the art market.
Lot 1110
GLENLIVET 1943 GORDON & MACPHAIL PRIVATE COLLECTION AGED 70 YEARS Active. Ballindalloch, Banffshire. Distilled 14 January 1943, matured in first fill sherry hogshead no. 121, bottled 11 June 2013, bottle no.6 of 42. 70cl, 49.1% volume, in wooden presentation box, with certificate of authenticity, and small sample.
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