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Lot 11
Eric Gorton (British 20th Century) folder containing approximately eighty drawings and pastels of birdsSubjects to include Kittiwake, Magpies, pastel drawings of landscapes to include mountain scenes, postal scenes etc., Eric Gorton from Westhoughton was assistant curator of the Bolton Art Gallery and Museum.
Lot 283
§ Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973) "Pour mes chers fiancés" - a signed and inscribed title page of L'Oeuvre Gravé de Picasso, dedicated to the engaged couple, Sylvette David and Tobias Jellinek, who later married in 1956 and with sketches of them dated 20.4.56 upper left and signed in pastel "Picasso" lower centre red and blue pastel on paper 27 x 21½cm (11 x 8in) Provenance: Given by Pablo Picasso to Sylvette David and Tobias Jellinek who later married; thence sold to to Eila Grahame Other Notes: "In 1956 the art periodical, VERVE, had an image of Sylvette on the cover and Sylvette and I were given a copy. We went to see Picasso that day and took the book with us, and asked Picasso if he would sign it for us. He went and found some coloured crayons and wrote the dedication, adding the little sketch of us both. The likeness of Sylvette shows how comfortable he was with producing her image, which he had previously worked with for several months. His drawing of me with my new beard is less of a likeness!" Tobias Jellinek, April 2017. Pablo Picasso had been working on a portrait of Sylvette David, aged 19, as the girl with the pony tail before doing the present cartoon sketch. "Sylvette" is the title of one of Picasso's numerous paintings featuring a young woman with a pony tail. The model for the painting, Lydia Sylvette David, also known later by her married name Lydia Corbett, was a French woman who, during the summer of 1953, worked in a pottery studio near Picasso's studio in Vallauris. Finding her appearance appealing, Picasso created 40 works inspired by her. Sylvette's portrait from 2 May 1954 is one of the last of a long series. Picasso's grandson Olivier Widmaier Picasso told the Chicago Sun-Times in 2004 that Sylvette was also the subject of the monumental "Chicago Picasso" which had been a matter of curiosity since it was unveiled. She was said to have been an inspiration for actress Brigitte Bardot and the Roger Vadim film "And God Created Woman". In 1998 Barron's published "Picasso and the Girl With a Ponytail" by Laurence Anholt - a children's book in which a shy teenager named Sylvette meets Picasso in Vallauris and becomes his model. Lydia Corbett is now an artist in her own right. Galleries exhibiting her work include Fosse Gallery Fine Art, with one exhibition being aptly named 'The Girl With the Ponytail', and the Francis Kyle Gallery. Slight damp staining along the upper right margin. Mounted and framed.
Lot 296
§ Marjory Watherston (later Mrs Geare) (British, 1881-1969) Portrait of The Hon. William Humble Dudley Ward, son of Viscount Ednam signed on the reverse "Marjory Watherston" pastel, in a gilded frame 39 x 29cm (15 x 11in) Exhibited: The Pastel Society, Piccadilly, London, SW1. Condition appears fine. Under glass in a gilded frame. Old exhibition label to the reverse.
Lot 584
A 20th century drawing of female nude figures carrying hoops, with initials J.C.G, 42 by 56cm, together with 'Jean de Gale', a head and shoulder portrait, chalk and pastel, 24 by 16cm, B. Johnson: 'St. Paul's Cathedral, acrylic on paper, signed lower left, 16 by 23cm, and Maurice Moeri: an artist's proof coloured etching of a bird, in tropical coastal scene, titled 'New World', signed Moeri, 20 by 22cm. (4)
Lot 591
Attributed to James Smith Morland (1846-1921): rural landscape with mountain beyond, watercolour, signed JS Morland and dated 1912 lower left, 35 by 24cm, together with E Gage: 'Cley Windmill', with boats on the creek, watercolour, signed and dated 1981, and Roy Archer: a country lane, pastel, local artist, all framed. (3)
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George E. Marston (1882-1940), A View of Mount Erebus, signed in pencil and dated 1.02.(19)08, pastel, framed. 18.5cm by 25cm. Provenance: From the artist to one of Sir Ernest Shackleton's sisters, thence to Reginald Burford and by descent. The vendor is unaware of which of Shackleton's sisters gave the painting to her father whom, we understand, was the son of an employee working at the lady's building in London in 1941. Note: the official artist of Shackleton's Nimrod (1907-09) and Endurance (1914-17) voyages, Marston was also an author, singer and amateur actor. From his days as a student at the Regent Street Polytechnic, he was a friend of Shackleton's sister Kathleen. He is also believed to have been a friend of another of the explorer's sisters, Helen. Kathleen Shackleton wrote to Marston prior to his departure for the Nimrod expedition in 1907 saying "mind you do your own style of work...don't mind Ernest....he knows nothing about Art". The subject work must have been completed by Marston just prior to his ascent of Mount Erebus in March 1908 as one of a party of six making the first ascent and led by Jameson Adams. The Nimrod expedition famously got within ninety-seven miles of the South Pole and Marston used much of his time to produce works such as this some of which became illustrations for "Aurora Australis", the book commemorating the voyage. Having been engaged again by Shackleton for his ill-fated subsequent Endurance expedition, Marston returned to England from the voyage and became an art teacher at Bedales School in Hampshire, later becoming Director of the Rural Industries Bureau, playing a major role in the national initiative to regenerate small rural-based craft industries.
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