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Lot 658
Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979) Orange and Yellow Lilies signed (lower right) oils on canvas 55cm x 83.5cm. Provenance: Sothebys, London, 9 July 1958, lot 126; Private Collection. 'I paint life as I see it, hear it, feel it, smell it, and think it - but above all see it', wrote Hitchens in a letter to Alan Bowness (26 January 1960) (quoted in Peter Khoroche, Ivon Hitchens, Lund Humphries, 2007, p.86.) Orange and Yellow Lillies represents a grand piano - under the radiant umbrella of vibrant flowers - with a chair to the side. This painting evokes a homely image and Hitchens conveys the flowers without shading, strikingly in contrast to the flattened series of rich browns, blues and purples planes that create the background. This allows the picture to be considered aside from its subject-matter, for its formal abstract qualities. It shows the influence of artist's such as Bonnard, Matisse and Roger Fry, in the subject matter, handling of paint, use of colour and construction of forms and out of the tensions between representation and arrangement, producing a formal essence from its perceived reality. Orange and Yellow Lilies is also a demonstration of Hitchens' passion for flower paintings. 'I love flowers…I love flowers for painting…One can read into a good flower picture the same problems that one faces with a landscape, near and far, meanings and movements of shapes and brush strokes. You keep playing with the object' (quoted in T.G. Rosenthal, Ivon Hitchens, pp. 7-19, in A. Bowness, (ed.), Ivon Hitchens, London, 1973, p. 13).represents
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Lot 47
Bible, Peshitta.- [Psalms of David], printed in red and black, wood engraved frontispiece portrait of King David playing at his harp, ink bibliographical and ownership inscriptions to endpapers, contemporary calf, rebacked in later morocco, corners worn, rubbed, 8vo, Constantinople, Ya'Qub Jrijury [Jacob Gregorius], 1846. ⁂ Rare first edition. From the preface we learn that the press was founded by an immigrant Syrian, who had settled in Constantinople in 1843. The type had been cast in 1844 and the first book was produced in 1845.
Lot 84
KRISHNA VENUGOPALA, BIKANER, RAJASTHAN, 18TH CENTURY gouache with gold on paper, Krishna as a young man playing his flute while standing on a lotus in the river, his left hand resting on a cow, framed 20.6cm x 11.5cm (main image) Provenance: Property of a Retired Diplomat, acquired in India during the 1950s
Lot 475
A LUDWIGSBURG FIGURE GROUP, CIRCA 1762 modelled by Johann Christian Wilhelm Beyer (1725-1796) as a shepherd and shepherdess playing a flute and a lute respectively watched by a putto from the top of a ruined arch, a dolphin spouting water to the side and a goat between them, all on a rocky and grassy base, underglaze blue crowned CC mark 27.5cm high, some restoration For a comparable example see Hans Dieter Flach, Ludwigsburger Porzellan, Stuttgart, 1997, p.447, no.15
Lot 401
˜A JAPANESE IVORY MANJU NETSUKE OF A SKELETON PLAYING A BIWA, EARLY MEIJI PERIOD, CIRCA 1870 seated within an enfolding lotus leaf, signed Hakuo 4cm highProvenance:RaymondBushellandArletteKatchencollectionsIllustrated:RaymondBushell,NetsukeFamiliarandUnfamiliar,Tokyo&NewYork,1973,p.186,no.525;GeorgeLazarnick,Netsuke&InroArtistsandHowtoReadTheirSignatures,Honolulu,1981,p.437
Lot 55
A late Victorian silver tea canister with circular detachable lid, the body decorated with a gentleman playing bagpipes, a lady gathering flowers and a lady holding a shepherds crook with hillside castle to the rear and surrounded by rococo scrolls and flower heads. London 1898. Maker W.C Est £40-60
Lot 1342
English ebonised and ormolu mounted triple fusee boardroom clock, the 7.5" brass arched dial with silvered chapter ring enclosing a matted centre, surmounted by subsidiary chime/silent, slow/fast and chime on eight bells/Westminster dials, the movement playing on a nest of eight bells and striking the hours on a gong, with locking pendulum, within a stepped case surmounted by a caddy top and turned finials, 30" high (pendulum and keys)
Lot 1343
English ebonised triple fusee bracket clock, the 8" brass arched dial signed Wales & McCulloch, 22, Ludgate Hill on an arched plate to the matted centre enclosed by a silvered chapter ring and surmounted by subsidiary slow/fast and chime/silent dials, the movement playing on a nest of eight bells and striking the hours on a gong, within a rounded arched stepped case surmounted by an ormolu carrying handle, 21" high (pendulum)
Lot 1526
French gilt metal two train mantel clock garniture, the S. Marti movement with outside countwheel striking on a bell, the 3.5" convex white dial within a rounded arched case and upon a fixed breakfront stand, surmounted by a seated angel playing a flute, 14.5" high; also with a pair of matching four light candelabra, 15.75" high
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