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Lot 156
A SMALL WORLD WAR ONE ERA cushion with ornate stitching and a frieze of Fleurs de France, well-made but slight staining, a French Carte Postal card, with velvet 'flowers of France' design and two Irish medals, Eire Black & Tan medal, with Comrac (struggle) bar, un-named but pin bar is marked to reverse, P.Q.&Co. (P Quin was one of the authorised makers of this medal), together with Eire Uprising medal, dated 1916 to reverse(copy?)
Lot 162
TWO GROUPS OF MEDALS, as follows, British War & Victory medals, named 49513 Pte J.S.Browning, South Wales Borderers & Group of four WWII medals, 1939-45, Italy Stars, Defence & War Medal attributed to S/Sgt Raymond Edward Moore RAMC, with original paperwork, box of issue and other documents confirming issue of medals etc
Lot 164
A BOX CONTAINING WORLD WAR TWO MEDALS, CAP BADGES AND EPHEMERA, to include, 1939-45, Burma Stars, Defence & War Medals, together with four Cap badges, RAC, 3rd Carabenieres, two x York & Lancaster Regt, three x Coronation & Jubilee Medallions and lots of original documents, Soldiers book etc relating to Trooper 7963387 Rex Horsfall Royal Armoured Corps, including a poor quality copy of the Star War Map, also included is a WWI British War Medal, named 203827 Pte E Horsfall, W York Reg't
Lot 173
THE SIGNIFICANT AND WELL DESERVED BRITISH EMPIRE MEDAL GROUP TO A WORLD WAR TWO VETERAN, WHO SERVED IN THE NORTH AFRICA, ITALY, & NORTHERN EUROPE CAMPAIGNS, INC GERMANY & SERVED WITH THE INTELLIGENCE CORPS, BEING ONE OF THOSE FROM 45 SECTION F.S.S. WHO WERE INVOLVED WITH THE ARREST, DETENTION & INITIAL INTERRORGATION OF HEINRICH HIMMLER, 135702 A/W.O. Class 2 Grenville GRAYER, group is as follows, all loose ready for wear or mounting, British Empire Medal GRI plain cypher in original box of issue, named 135702 AWO CL 2 Grenville Grayer. I.C. (Intelligence Corps) 1939-45, Africa, Italy, France & Germany Stars, Defence & War Medal. All un-named as issued, with this group is an original Shoulder Cloth Insignia Patch for Thirty Corps and a Bronze coloured Souvenir Medallion celebrating 30 Corps, struck in Belgium, with its original box, GRAYER joined the Army in 1939 and initially served with the R.A.S.C., but sometime between the North Africa/Sicily/Italy Campaigns Grayer returned to the UK and joined the Newly formed Intelligence Corps, completing his training in Scotland attached to the 45th Field Security Section, by this time with the rank of Sgt, working with amongst others a Sgt Britton, who would feature heavily with Grayer and his section at the end of the War, like thousands of other allied troops the Intel Corps, were heavily involved in the preparations for D-Day, Grayer entered the Invasion on D-Day +2 (June 8th, 1944) and would see action and involvement whilst serving in 30 Corps, Commanded by Leuit-General Sir Brian Horrocks, who would achieve fame for his valiant efforts in Operation Market Garden in September, 1944, as the War progressed and German forces retreated Grayer and 45 FSS found themselves in Northern Germany when the Nazi's surrendered in May 1945, During the morning of May 20th, 1945, a group of five German officers and seven other ranks were detained at the Bridge control at Bremervorde, they were handed over to 45 FSS for checking etc, It became apparent that three further Germans were in the vicinity and on May 22nd they were taken into custody by Sgt Britton and NCO’s from the section at the same check-point, information from immediate relatives of Grayer point to the fact one of the Germans, looked suspicious, and although he had recently issued papers stating he was a Sgt Heinrich Hizinger, Grayer was suspicious and this resulted in his initial questioning, Hizinger was asked to write a page of ‘lines’ to test his handwriting etc, the papers he was in possession of also caused concern as it was known that high ranking Nazis were copying these papers to avoid their true identities, during this time of Detention, Hizinger eventually revealed his true identity and whilst being examined by a Doctor, bit down on a cyanide capsule resulting in his death, Grayer liberated the following two items as ‘Tropaion’ or Trophies of War, page of written lines, written by Himler whilst being detained, Silk Toiletry bag in blue/cream coloured material, recovered from Himmler's possessions, the archive also includes an original photo of the recipient with colleagues from 45 F.S.S. Intel Corps, original papers and folder of paperwork from 30 Corps Intelligence Summary No 500 includes many intercepts showing life at the front from the German perspective, many other items of papers, photos, forms etc, include a photocopy of the arrest report of Himmler, which was signed by those present, including Grayer, a wealth of other paperwork including media from the time one photo showing Grayer, from the paper Nord Eclair September 1944, also present is a large double side silk Escape style map, all things considered an amazing archive
Lot 176
A GROUP OF WORLD WAR TWO MEDALS INCLUDING GENERAL SERVICE MEDAL, to include 1939-45, Burma Stars, Defence & War Medal, together with Geo VI General Service Medal, (Malaya Bar) named 21005754 Dvr. K.R.Foxall. Royal Signals, mounted on a wearing bar, original ribbons contained in a gold flake tin
Lot 180
A SMALL ARCHIVE OF MEDAL & MATERIAL RELSATING TO SERVICE IN THE BOYS BRIGADE, to include copies of the Boys Brigade Song Book and 1933 Jubilee Book, together with Boys Brigade Side Cap complete with metal badge, boxed Imperial Service Medal, named Duncan Moodie Pearson with the original award document, small AIF WWI era badge mounted on card, together with a small black and white photograph of Pearson
Lot 184
GENERAL SERVICE(CANAL ZONE BAR) & CADET FORCES MEDAL PAIR, on a jacket pocket wearing slide, GSM ERII named to 22798440 CFN (Craftsman) K.G.Butterfield REME, some slight discrepancies in naming and depth of lettering, the bar has not been attached correctly, Cadet forces medal, ERII with bar, named Fl. Lt. K.G.Butterfield RAF VR(T)
Lot 198
A WORLD WAR ONE ARCHIVE OF MEDALS, DEATH PLAQUE, PHOTOS, etc to include, WWI Victory Medal named 93031 GNR F Walker R.A., Memorial Death plaque in Card folder, named Frederick Walker and a WWI silk postcard 'From your loving Son' written on reverse 'Love from Frederick July 29th, 1917 Belgium',**2 days before his death** Frederick Walker was KIA on 31st July 1917, on the Belgium front, and is buried in the Huts Cemetery in Belgium, he was 19 years old, WWI Princess Mary tin, two boxed medals, National Service & Defence Medal, various pin badges, Cap badges, buttons etc, a boxed 9ct gold hallmarked Birmingham Medallion from the BSA (Birmingham Small Arms Co) to a Victor Smith for long Service 1895-1923 approximate weight 11.1 grams, two framed Military Photographs and a large formal photo of a WWI period Soldier
Lot 227
A WOODEN MADE HERALDIC SHIELD, made to display two swords and daggers in a cross design, possibly European, all items present but some damage to scabbards etc, together with a replica Japanese short Katana sword, a French Ysataghan Bayonet, which the blade has been heavily painted over, no maker marks visible, a short sword, with the markings Pro deo et patria (For God and Country) possible European manufacture, complete with scabbard, but too long for this weapon, blade approximately 44cm, a Tourist style Kukri dagger, complete with scabbard and two smaller daggers and an original boxed RAOB GLE medal named to Bro Albert Brown
Lot 1730
A 9' 6" vintage Mitre-Hardy 'The Alder Trout Fly Rod' No.76255 three section split cane rod in original canvas bag - sold with a 10' 5" antique Chas Farlow, Maker, 191 Strand, London, Prize Medal 1862 four section fishing rod with three dark wood sections and lighter repaired cane top, also an 8' combination three section split cane rod in canvas bag
Lot 693
Civil ladies division Order of The Member of The British Empire MBE medal and ribbon, hallmarked silver, Garrard & Co. London, 2.5", in a Garrard & Co. Ltd fitted case; together with a miniature MBE dress medal, 1.25" (2)-** Presented to Maude Ellafred Evans, later Maude Ellafred Castle-Smith (1892-1974) 3rd June 1919.
Lot 1290
Collection of British Royal Mint Silver Proof Coins in Original Case with Certificate of Authenticity, includes 1997 Golden Wedding £5, 1981 Charles and Diana Wedding Crown, 1990 Piedfort 5p, 1994 D-Day 50p, 1977 silver jubilee crown, Australian 1995 Kookaburra 1oz, 2000 Millennium £5, 1996 Football £2 and a CN commemorative medal for the Fourth Railway Bridge.
Lot 177
Athletics, Katarina Johnson Thompson signed 10x8 colour photograph. Johnson Thompson (born 9 January 1993) is an English heptathlete. She won the gold medal at the 2019 World Championships and broke the British record with a score of 6,981 points, which ranks her at No. 6 on the all-time heptathlon lists. Good condition Est.
Lot 224
HOLLOWAY JINGLESJOHN (NACY A., editor) Holloway Jingles. Written in Holloway prison during March and April, 1912. Collected and Edited by N.A. John, Glasgow, FIRST EDITION, signature of C[onstance] L[ouise] Collier on title, half-title, stitched with the original white, purple and green ribbon in pictorial printed wrappers with 2 views of a prison cell, edges frayed, covers near detached with tears to spine, 8vo, Glasgow, W.S.P.U., [1912]Footnotes:RARE ASSOCIATION COPY BELONGING TO ONE OF THE HOLLOWAY PRISONERS convicted following the organised window-smashing which took place in London in March 1912. Only one copy of the pamphlet has been traced in auction records, as part of a lot sold in 1983, whilst WorldCat lists just six copies, three on each side of the Atlantic.The poems, along with the sketches for the front cover, were smuggled out of Holloway by two of the prisoners, one of whom was Nancy John, a member of the Glasgow section of the WSPU who edited the anthology: 'Miss John, one of our best speakers, bewailed the fact that she hadn't even hit the window, and yet she got two months' (unpublished memoir of Helen Crawfurd, Agnes Macdonald Collection, Edinburgh Central Libraries). The sixteen contributors include Emily Davison (the final piece, 'L'Envoi'), and 'Laura Grey' (Joan Lavender Bailie Guthrie, 1889-1914), who went on hunger strike whilst serving her six months' sentence, and was forcibly fed. She was subsequently awarded a hunger strike medal, but it is thought she had became addicted to veronal, which was used to ease pain caused by force feeding, and she took her own life two years later, at the age of twenty-five.Another of the prisoners in Holloway was Constance Louisa Collier, who would have been 58 in 1912, and to whom this copy belonged. Collier is recorded as having been a 1911 census 'resister', declaring 'As I have no parliamentary vote because women are not persons - I decline to fill in the census paper which is for the enumeration of the persons in the country. C.L. Collier' (reprinted in Jill Liddington, Vanishing for the vote: Suffrage, citizenship and the battle for the census, Manchester University Press, 2014). Provenance: C.L. Collier, signature dated August 1912 on half-title; Rev. Frederick Hankinson (1875-1960); Reginald Andrew Couzens (b.1904); thence by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 266
DOWNING (EDITH)Hunger-strike medal awarded by the WSPU to Edith Downing, in silver and enamel construction, the top bar fitted with pin and the obverse engraved 'For Valour', the suspension bar in silver and enamel (the reverse engraved 'Fed by Force 1/3/12' and the obverse with striped enamelled bars), the disc 22mm. diameter, engraved on the obverse 'Hunger Strike', and on the reverse 'Edith Downing', maker's name engraved on reverse of top bar ('Toye 67 Theobalds Rd/ London'), overall c.75 x 40mm.; in original purple roan presentation box, lined with green velvet, padded silk inner lid with dedication to Downing printed in gilt, box c.60 x 102mm., [1912]Footnotes:HUNGER STRIKE MEDAL OF WELSH-BORN SUFFRAGETTE AND SCULPTOR EDITH DOWNING.Edith Elizabeth Downing (1857-1931) was born in Cardiff and spent most of her working life in Chelsea, where she became known primarily for her bronze and marble busts and figures. In 1908 she joined the Chelsea branch of the WSPU along with her sister, using her artistic talents to support the cause, helping to organise processions with Marion Wallace-Dunlop and selling her work to raise funds.Her first arrest came in 1911 when she broke a window of Somerset House and was sentenced to a week in jail. The following year she was again arrested for throwing a stone through a West End shop window during a mass WSPU window-smashing campaign. This time she was sentenced to three months in Holloway Prison, where went on hunger strike and was forcibly fed. A vocal critic of police and prison brutality, hers was one of the embroidered signatures on the Suffragette Handkerchief. On her release in June 1912, Downing was awarded the WSPU medal. Her sister Caroline was also awarded a medal, which is now part of the collection in the Houses of Parliament.The military-style medals were awarded by the leaders of the WSPU to suffragettes who had gone on hunger-strike in protest at not being recognised as political prisoners. They hang on a length of ribbon in the WSPU colours from a silver pin bar engraved 'For Valour' in the style of the Victoria Cross. On the obverse is engraved 'Hunger Strike', and the reverse is engraved with the name of the recipient. Some medals had silver bars added in recognition of periods of hunger strike, or striped enamelled bars to denote forcible feeding. Edith Downing's medal has a silver bar engraved 'Fed by Force 1/3/12', actually the date she was imprisoned prior to going on hunger strike and being forcibly fed.The medals were made by Toye & Co. at a cost of £1.00 each, and were first presented in St James' Hall in early August 1909, to women who had gone on hunger strike while serving sentences in Holloway Prison. Downing's medal comes in its original purple box with green velvet lining, and the wording on the inside lid, printed in gold on white silk 'Presented to Edith Downing by the Women's Social and and Political Union in recognition of a gallant action, whereby through endurance to the last extremity of hunger and hardship a great principle of political justice was vindicated'.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 267
DOWNING (EDITH)Silver 'Portcullis' or 'Holloway' brooch awarded to Edith Downing, depicting the portcullis of the House of Commons, two hanging chains and superimposed broad arrow in purple, green and white enamel, with safety chain and pin, stamped 'SILVER and Toye & Co/London' on reverse, 25 x 20mm., [1909]Footnotes:Known variously as the Portcullis Badge, Holloway Prison Brooch and the Victoria Cross of the Union, the silver brooch was presented by the WSPU to women imprisoned at Holloway Prison for militant suffragette activity. Designed by Sylvia Pankhurst and manufactured by Toye & Co. London, it includes the portcullis symbol for parliament, the chains of imprisonment and the broad arrow of the prison uniform picked out in purple, white and green enamel, the colours of the WSPU. Having been initially mentioned in Votes for Women on 16 April 1909, the first brooches were presented by Christabel and Emmeline Pankhurst, Annie Kenney and Emmeline Pethick Lawrence at a large meeting at the Albert Hall on 29 April to coincide with the meeting in London of the International Woman's Suffrage Alliance. It was presented with the illuminated addresses also designed by Sylvia Pankhurst that had been awarded to released prisoners since September 1908.This brooch was awarded to Welsh-born suffragette and artist Edith Downing (1857-1931). Whilst producing artwork and sculpture to raise proceeds for the WSPU and collaborating with Marion Wallace-Dunlop on numerous processions, pageants and tableaux, she was also involved in more dangerous militant protest. On 18 November 1910 she was arrested after being involved in the brutal 'Black Friday' disturbances, during which she declared that she nearly lost her life (Crawford, p.172). In March 1912 she was again arrested after breaking the window of a fine art dealer in Regent Street as part of a 200-strong protest and sent to Holloway for four months where she took part in hunger strike (for which she received a Hunger Strike Medal) and was forcibly fed.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 213
DUVAL (NORAH)Autograph album bearing ownership inscription of Norah Duval of Westfield Terrace, Chapel Allerton, containing c.20 signatures, pencil drawings and watercolours, including an inscription by Emily Wilding Davison dated 11 March 1913 ('Who would be free herself must strike the blow!'/ 'Rebellion against tyrants, is obedience to God!' 'Deeds, not Words!'), green cloth, worn, 97 x 153mm., 1911 to 1913 [dated 8 August 1911]; with a leather presentation case for a Hunger Strike Medal bearing the lettering inside 'Presented to Norah Duval by the Women's Social & Political Union in recognition of a Gallant Action whereby through endurance to the last extremity of hunger and hardship, a great principle of political justice was vindicated', 60 x 100mm.; together with a cartoon by Cecilia Forbes-Robertson depicting Norah Duval standing over a bemused policeman, having just smashed a window, toffee hammer in hand, signed 'C.F.R/ 1912', pencil and watercolour, 262 x 180mm., and another caricature of Norah Duval by an unknown artist, in crayon, 260 x 156mm., [n.d.] (4)Footnotes:'DEEDS NOT WORDS': Emily Wilding Davison inscribes an autograph book for Norah Duval.Norah was the daughter of militant suffragists Emily and Ernest Duval and sister of Elsie, Victor, Barbara and Millicent. She followed in the family tradition and was incarcerated in Holloway for militant acts and was a recipient of the Hunger Strike Medal (not included in the lot). Her autograph album bears the address of the art critic Frank Rutter, a long-time friend of the Duval family with whom she was staying. It was at his wedding in 1909 that Victor met his future wife Una Dugdale and in 1913 he gave Elsie Duval a reference to find work in Europe after her escape from the Cat and Mouse Act, also allowing his house in Leeds to become a haven for those recovering from hunger strike. It is probably through Rutter that the Duvals met the Forbes-Robertsons. Cecilia studied at the Royal Academy in 1917, exhibited between 1917 and 1921. Her brother was the artist Eric Forbes-Robertson, whose wife Janina painted Barbara Duval's portrait also in the present sale. Provenance: Sotheby's, 15 December 1987, lot 244 (part).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 214
DUVAL (ELSIE)Illuminated printed address bearing stamped signature of Emmeline Pankhurst ('E. Pankhurst') presented to Elsie Duval 'On Behalf of all Women who will win freedom by the bondage which you have endured for their sake, and dignity by the humiliation which you have gladly suffered for the uplifting of our sex, We, the Members of the Women's Social and Political Union, herewith express our deep sense of admiration for our courage in enduring a long period of privation and solitary confinement in prison for the 'Votes for Women' Cause...', beneath large chromolithographed Angel of Freedom vignette, within a purple, green and gilt foliate border incorporating the portcullis and prisoner's arrow motif, calligraphic name of recipient, one leaf, printed by 'Weiners, London, W.', light dust-staining, framed and glazed, address 486 x 318mm., with frame 680 x 505mm., unexamined out of frame, [September 1908 onwards]; with a similar printed certificate addressed to Elsie Duval, bearing the stamped signature of Emmeline Pankhurst ('E. Pankhurst'), within a black and white foliate border beneath the WSPU roundel in purple, white and green, one leaf, dust-staining, marks and small tears, framed and glazed, 380 x 275mm., with frame 570 x 455mm., unexamined out of frame (2)Footnotes:These illuminated addresses were designed by Sylvia Pankhurst to incorporate the purple, green and white colours that the WPSU had adopted in June 1908 and were presented to ex-prisoners who had suffered for the cause. The 'Angel of Freedom' device was a strong 'brand' logo also used on other WPSU artefacts such as the tea-service and medallion included in this sale. From April 1909, the meeting of the International Women's Suffrage Alliance, the addresses were accompanied by a Holloway Brooch (not present).Elsie Duval (1892-1919), a member of the WSPU from 1907, was born into a family of passionate supporters of the suffrage movement and was the first woman to be released from Holloway under the so-called 'Cat and Mouse Act' in 1913. Her mother, Emily Duval, was arrested on six occasions between 1908 and 1912 and her brother Victor founded the Men's Political Union for Women's Enfranchisement. Elsie too was arrested many times and served several sentences in Holloway. In 1912 she was arrested after smashing the window of Clapham post office and sentenced to a month's imprisonment during which she was force-fed nine times and subsequently awarded the Hunger Strike Medal by the WSPU. After being accused of arson, she fled to Europe with her husband, only returning at the beginning of the First War when an amnesty to suffragettes was in place. Her weakened health meant that she succumbed to influenza in 1919, as did her sister and fellow-suffragette Barbara.Provenance: Sotheby's, 15 December 1987, lot 244 (part).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 22
CLAUDE MICHEL "CLODION" (Nancy, 1738 - Paris, 1814)."Triumph of Bacchus". Early 19th century.Patinated bronze.Veined marble pedestal.Signed on one side.Measurements: 37 x 23 x 19 cm ; 40 cm (height with pedestal).Patinated bronze sculpture representing the triumph of Bacchus. In this group of sculptural figures there is the Roman God of the vine and the wine, Bacchus with a classical half-naked maiden and a beautiful pair of cherubs, one dancing while holding a tambourine and the other sitting on the shoulders of Bacchus during a bacchanal.Claude Michel, known as Clodion, was born in Nancy, but in 1755 he moved to Paris to study in the studio of his uncle, the sculptor Lambert Sigisbert Adam, with whom he remained for four years. After his uncle's death he became a pupil of Jean Baptiste Pigalle, Madame de Pompadour's favourite sculptor. His work soon began to be recognised and in 1759 he won the grand prize for sculpture at the Académie Royale. In 1761 he was awarded the first silver medal for studies on models, and a year later he was awarded the Grand Prix de l'Académie Royale, consisting of a pension to further his training in Italy. Clodion was very active in Rome between 1767 and 1771. On returning to Paris he set up his own studio, where he worked with his brothers depicting mythological scenes, groups of dancers, nymphs and bathers in a language somewhere between Rococo and Neoclassicism. His works were in great demand, from the Parisian salons to Catherine II of Russia. Clodion's works are held in the Louvre (Paris), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg), the Victoria & Albert Museum (London), the Art Institute of Chicago, the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles), the Frick Collection (New York) and the Kimbell Museum (Forth Worth, Texas), among many others.
Lot 90
JOSEP MARIA SUBIRACHS SITJAR (Barcelona, 1927 - 2014)."Seguretat.Terracotta.Unpublished work. Under the prior knowledge and supervision of Judit Subirachs, bronze copies of this sculpture can be made.Signed on the back.Attached certificate of authenticity issued by Judit Subirachs, daughter and curator of Subirachs' work.Measurements: 55 x 42 x 20 cm.This terracotta is contextualised in Subirachs' first period, when the young artist began to work as a collaborator in the workshop of the Noucentista sculptor Enric Casanovas. Although the master died a few months later, Subirachs has always acknowledged the profound artistic legacy he left him. Corredor-Matheos said of this early period: "The measure, clarity and balance that emanate from Josep Maria Subirachs' early terracottas are also recognisable in later sculptures, when the artist would have opted for another aesthetic". Although the present work lacks any of the characteristic features of Subirachs's later sculpture, it is an exceptional example of the Catalan's mastery of modelling technique and excellence in the rendering of physiognomies.After entering the workshop of a gilder who was fond of sculpture at the age of fourteen, where he modelled his first works in clay, in 1942 he entered the workshop of the sculptor Enrique Monjó as an apprentice. Five years later he began to work as an assistant to Enrique Casanovas. In 1948 he made his debut at the Casa del Libro in Barcelona, and in 1951 he travelled to Paris to complete his training, with a scholarship from the Institut Français in Barcelona. He returned to his native city in 1953 and was awarded the Sculpture Prize at the Jazz Salon. After two years working and exhibiting in Belgium he returns to Spain, and in 1958 he is awarded the Gran Premio San Jorge by the Diputación de Barcelona and the "Julio González" by the Cámara Barcelonesa de Arte. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Asia and the United States, and in 1988 he was awarded the Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts. In 1980 he was elected member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Jorge. He is represented at the Centro Reina Sofía, the MACBA Museums in Barcelona, Ibiza, Seville and New York, the Fine Arts Museums of Bilbao, Birmingham, the Vatican, Taipei and Nebraska, the Museo al Aire Libre del Paseo de la Castellana in Madrid, the Petit Palais Museum in Geneva and the Millesgärden in Stockholm, among others.
Lot 91
JOAN REBULL (Reus, 1899 - Barcelona, 1981)."Girl".Stone sculpture.Signed on the lower right-hand side.Measurements: 62 x 27 x 20 cm.This work is an eloquent example of the most personal work of Joan Rebull, an artist who develops a language with classical aesthetic roots, based on the principles of nobility, beauty and proportion, which nevertheless uses an idealisation and a synthesis of forms in accordance with the avant-garde and not with the models of Classical Antiquity. Thus, we are faced with a serene, balanced child portrait with a certain immutable, archaic and almost sacred character in the perfection of its proportions and structural lines, which establishes a bridge between the ancient idols and avant-garde plastic research.Considered to be the most outstanding Catalan sculptor of his time, Joan Rebull began in the world of sculpture in his native city under the guidance of the sculptor Pau Figueres. In 1915 he moved to Barcelona to begin his artistic training at the La Lonja School of Fine Arts, while at the same time working in the workshop of the marble worker Bechini. In 1916 he made his solo debut with an exhibition at the Centro de Lectura in Reus, and the following year he founded, together with other artists, the group known as "Els Evolucionistes" (The Evolutionists), which aimed to counter the Catalan Noucentisme. In 1921 he received a grant from the Círculo Artístico and travelled to London and Paris, where he was particularly impressed by the ancient art housed in their museums. Between 1926 and 1929 he lived in the French capital and took part in the Salon des Indépendants, although he also sent works to exhibitions in Barcelona. In Paris he was the first artist to be contracted by the prominent Catalan art dealer Joan Merli. On his return he was appointed president of the new Montjuic Salon (1932) and a member of the Sant Jordi Academy (1934), took part in various exhibitions in Madrid and Barcelona and, in 1938, won the Campeny Prize at the Salon d'Automne in Barcelona. After the war, he went into exile in Paris, where he took an active part in artistic life, taking part in the exhibition "Le Jeune Sculpture Française" and the Salons d'Automne. He returned to Barcelona in 1948, and three years later won a great prize at the I Bienal Hispano-American Art Biennial in Madrid. In 1962 he was appointed professor at the Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts, and shortly before his death he was awarded the gold medal of the Generalitat de Catalunya. A child of noucentista perfectionism and a great draughtsman, Rebull worked with great technical mastery and confidence in the path to follow. His sculpture is direct and anti-rhetorical, based on a serene and essential vision of reality. His style can be defined as a reencounter with the source of classicism, from which he never copies the consequences. He is represented in the National Art Museum of Catalonia, the Reina Sofia National Centre, Barcelona City Hall, the Monastery of Montserrat and the Palau de la Música Catalana, among other centres.
Lot 102
GINNER (CHARLES)Drawing entitled 'Los Indios En El Gran Chaco', signed and dated 'Charles Ginner/ 28.VII.1912', on a page taken from an autograph book, pencil and coloured crayon, 98 x 145mm., 28 July 1912Footnotes:This unusual drawing by Charles Ginner (1878-1952) is quite unlike much of the artist's traditional output and was removed from an autograph book belonging to Norah Duval, a member of a militant suffragette family, who was incarcerated in Holloway, and was a recipient of the Hunger Strike Medal. The album bears the address in North Allerton of the art critic Frank Rutter (1876-1937), a long-time friend of the Duval family, and with whom Duval stayed whilst he was curator of the Leeds Art Gallery. In 1908 Rutter founded the Allied Artist's Association, in order to help artists such as Charles Ginner, with whom he worked closely on the hanging committee of the third Allied Artist's Exhibition in 1910. In July 1917, with Harold Gilman, he co-published the journal Arts and Letters.Provenance: Norah Duval; Hankinson-Goode Collection (see Bonhams, Women Through History sale, 23 March 2022).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 133
SENDAK (MAURICE)An extensive collection, assembled over the past 30 years, of the works of Maurice Sendak, comprising some 340 volumes covering virtually all of Sendak's works in first edition, later editions, and foreign translations, together with several hundred printed ephemera such as proofs, posters, pamphlets, brochures, programmes, cards, leaflets, greetings cards, point of sale displays and exhibitions catalogues, and objects such as Wild Thing dolls, t-shirts, tote bags, badges, etc., a sample of the highlights including:(i)7 books inscribed with original drawings, comprising (all in publisher's bindings):- Where the Wild Things Are, first edition, inscribed on half-title 'For Vera, Indeed – a first! Maurice Sendak May '92' with drawing of the head of Moishe the Wild Thing, first issue dust-jacket, price-clipped, lightly toned, 8mm. tear to front panel, slightly longer tear at foot of spine [Hanrahan A58], oblong 4to, [New York], Harper & Row, 1963; - ibid., later edition, inscribed on half-title 'For Dan for Christmas 1983, from Robert and Frank and Maurice, Dec. 25, '83' with large drawing of Moishe in Christmas hat saying 'Boo!', dust-jacket (price-clipped, tears and repairs), oblong 4to, Bodley Head, 1983; - ibid., 25th anniversary edition, number 150 of 250 copies signed by Sendak on half-title and with drawing of Moishe signed and dated 'Oct. '88' loosely inserted, oblong 4to, [New York], Harper & Row, 1988; - AYME (MARCEL) The Wonderful Farm, early edition, illustrations by Sendak, drawing of a seated pig signed 'Maurice Sendak' on front free endpaper, dust-jacket (price-clipped, spine toned) [Hanrahan A2], 8vo, New York, Harper, 1951; - The Magic Pictures: More about the Wonderful Farm, early edition, drawing of a leaping pig (with 'Oink!') signed 'Maurice Sendak' on front free endpaper, first issue dust-jacket, spine toned, tear at foot of rear panel [Hanrahan A10], 8vo, New York, Harper, 1951;- Higglety Pigglety Pop!, first edition, inscribed on front free endpaper 'Aug. '68 For Bevan, All best wishes! Maurice Sendak' with drawing of the cat-milkman, dust-jacket (price-clipped, spine toned) [Hanrahan A68], square 12mo, [New York], Harper & Row, 1967; - OPIE (IONA AND PETER) I Saw Esau, number 285 of 300 copies signed by Iona Opie and Sendak, with drawing of baby in romper suit dated 'May '92' below, slipcase [Hanrahan A136], 8vo, Walker Books, 1992(ii)Over 90 books signed and frequently inscribed by Sendak, including: - EIDINOFF (M.L.) and H. RUCHLIS. Atomics for the Millions, first edition of the first book illustrated by Sendak, signed on front free endpaper and dated 'Oct. '84', library mark on rear pastedown, endpapers toned, rubbed [Hanrahan A1], 8vo, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1947; - ibid., first UK edition, signed on half-title and inscribed 'For Vera', endpapers spotted, lightly rubbed, shelfmark on spine, 12mo, George G. Harrap, 1950;- Where the Wild Things Are, first edition, inscribed on half-title 'to Mary B. Stancisto, Maurice Sendak, Jan. '71', early issue dust-jacket with Caldecott Medal label and blurb and price $3.95, spine panel very lightly toned, oblong 4to, [New York], Harper & Row, 1963; - ibid., first UK edition, signed on half-title and inscribed 'to Vera', dust-jacket lightly toned, oblong 4to, Bodley Head, 1967(iii)Miscellanea, including: - American Booksellers Association 1991 poster, colour lithograph, number 172 of 275 copies, numbered lower left and signed and dated '91 lower right, 780 x 620mm.; - Pictures by Maurice Sendak, number 471 of 500 copies with signed reproduction of drawing of a Sealyham terrier, portfolio containing 20 prints [Hanrahan A78], the box 650 x 430mm., New York, Harper & Row, 1971; - ibid., UK version, number 4 of 1,000 copies, no signature called for, Bodley Head, 1972; - another copy, number 421; ibid., German version, number 799 of 1,000 copies, no signature called for, Zurich, Diogenes Verlag, 1972; - Fly By Night, galley proofs, stamped 'First Proof 61229 Jun 25 1976', green paper wrappers [cf. Hanrahan A95], 4to, [New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976]; - ibid., proof sheet with 16 illustrations, folded, 640 x 950mm.; - fax sent by Ursula Nordstrom of Harper & Row, to 'Dear Colleague', enclosing statement of Sendak on the censorship of the naked baby of In the Night Kitchen by librarians, 3pp., stapled, 4to, 24 April 1972; - Higglety Pigglety Pop!, proof sheet with 14 full-page illustrations and 8 vignettes, printed on thick paper, numbered '20' in felt-tip and 'light' in pencil', folded [cf. Hanrahan A68], 910 x 600mm., [?New York, Harper & Row, 1967]; - I Saw Esau, complete set of unbound, unfolded colour proofs [cf. Hanrahan A136], 4to, Walker Books, 1992; - several Wild Thing dolls, unopened in original packagingFootnotes:'In a lifetime of making and illustrating books, Maurice Sendak has contributed to American literature an astonishing body of creative work... from the early, brash illustrations for Atomics for the Millions to... the richness of imagery and imagination in picture books such as Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen' (Stephen K. Urice, Sendak at the Rosenbach, 1995). The present collection is surely one of the most extensive and thorough in private hands; a full list is available on request.Provenance: Property from a London private collection.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 295
A collection of vintage costume jewellery, green and coral scarab bead necklace, 40cm; ceramic and pewter brooches; paste buttons; hatpins; pair of cufflinks; clear diamante paste brooches, buckles, bracelet, necklace; marcasite brooches and two rings all in two wooden boxes; a twin compartment domed jewel box named N Sternberg 15 Market street Manchester containing badges - silver General Nursing Council, 1951 Festival of Britain enamel badge; modern cased Women's Voluntary Service Medal.
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