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Lot 352
An early 20th century mahogany framed three seat sofa, with shaped back, sweep back and scroll arms, sprung upholstery, raised on gilded feet, 182 x 100 x 90cm. The frame including the arms & back are not secure and have movement/play, the webbing has been replaced (possibly when it was recovered) and is secure/tight as with the springs.The green fabric showing, looks to be a lining fabric? As there is further padding under it (there is no other such fabric evident elsewhere)Please see additional pictures on the main listing.
Lot 643
ENGLAND V SCOTLAND Programme and ticket for the 1947 and 1949 matches at Wembley. 1947 includes a pirate programme issued by Abbott, official programme has a horizontal fold and staples removed and seat ticket is creased. 1949 programme is very slightly creased and seat ticket is good. Generally good
Lot 8093
Maggy Clarysse. Flowering Garden with a Seat. Oil on canvas, signed lower right and verso. 46 x 55cm.PROVENANCE; The residual studio collection of the artist. Maggy Clarysse (1931-2011), hidden away for the past decade, will come to auction in this sale.Consigned by her family, the art displays an extraordinary range, from pointillist studies of ponds, via Cézanne-inspired landscapes to Impressionist and post-Impressionist still lifes. In all, the auction will offer over 450 works by a woman who was obsessed with art and would rise early each day to get to her easel, completing 12 hours of painting, sketching, sculpting and drawing before turning her hand to crafts in the evening.BIOGRAPHY; The art came before and after a successful career as a model from the 1940s to 60s with the glamour that it brought with it.Born in Belgium, Maggy studied at art college in Brussels with the aim of becoming a Paris fashion designer. To that end, she eventually approached a leading couture house to show them her designs.To her delight, they agreed to take her on immediately. However, they did not want her as a designer, but as a model!This led to work in Paris, London and around Europe, with Maggy basing herself first in Germany and then in Paris as a couture house model and then a model for Vogue.She was photographed by Terence Donovan and David Bailey, with one shoot ending up with her pushing the then leading film star, Norman Wisdom, into a swimming pool her reasons for doing so remain shrouded in mystery!It was while on holiday in the south of France in the late 1950s that she met her future husband, an English businessman, and they then married and moved to Barnes in south-west London.She gave up modelling when her son was born, and the glamour days of chic long dresses were over, and she then turned her exceptional work ethic towards art.Maggy painted from dusk to dawn for many decades up until her death in 2011 and enjoyed considerable success commercially.She would divide her time between London and their apartment in the South of France, and she hosted several exhibitions a year between the early 1970s and the late 2000s in both London and Antibes. Works sold for up to £6,000-8,000 but are much more reasonably estimated here. Few of her works come on to the market and this sale provides a unique opportunity for collectors. In all, the auction will offer over 450 works by the artist.
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Lot 85
Law (John, finance minister in France, bap. 1671, d. 1729) Autograph Letter signed to [Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon], in French, 1½pp. with conjugate blank, 289 x 205mm., Venice, 24th January 1721, in the wake of his banishment from France after the failure of his financial system for the second time, expressing his deep gratitude for a letter written by the duke to the French diplomat Théodore Chevignard, Chevalier de Chavigny (a friend of Law's but also an ally of his powerful opponent Cardinal Dubois), "les absens principalement ceux de mon espece n'ont que peu d'amis, en revenge je ne suis ennemi de personne. Je souhaitte a tous ceux qui servent le regent succes dans leur ministere..." ("Exiles, especially those of my sort, have few friends, and yet I am nobody's enemy. I wish success in their ministry to all those who serve the regent"), folds.⁂ Very scarce; autograph letters signed by John Law rarely appear at auction. "On 5 January 1720... [Law] was appointed controller-general of finance and in April received the more prestigious title of superintendent. In the course of April and May 1720 he was effectively chief minister and minister of finance, a sort of latter-day Cardinal Mazarin and Nicolas Fouquet combined; but on 27 May, the first crisis of his 'financial system', he was temporarily dismissed from office and threatened with imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris. Yet the eclipse was only brief: he returned to office on 2 June with the additional responsibilities of the superintendence of French commerce, the director-generalship of the Banque Royale, and a councillorship of state with a seat in the council of regency. With the collapse of his system Law was forced to offer his resignation on 9 December 1720, and he went into exile abroad... ." - Oxford DNB.
Lot 48
GEORGE CUIT SENIOR (BRITISH 1743 - 1818) A SET OF FOUR VIEWS OF THE HYDE, NEAR INGATESTONE, ESSEXOil on canvasInscribed and dated `Ingatestone church and the cottage/near the Hyde. Taken from the Hall door./Painted by Geo. Cuit/1806'; `South East view of the Hyde near Ingatestone, Essex/late the seat of Thomas Brand Holles Esq. now of/John Disney DD/Taken from the London Road/painted by George Cuit 1806'; `The Hermitage at the Hyde near Ingatestone/Painted by George Cuit/1806': and `View of the water and grounds at the Hyde/near Ingatestone. Taken from the end of the shrubbery walk/Painted by George Cuit/1806' respectively (on the reverse) 43 x 54cm (16¾ x 21¼ in.) (4)Provenance: Sale, Phillips, London, 20 June 1995, lot 42 (sold for £14,500)The collection of Lady Victoria GettyAccording to David W J Gill's The World of Disney From Antiquarianism to Archaeology the Revd. John Disney inherited the Hyde Estate from Thomas Brand Hollis in 1805 and commissioned the paintings of it from his friend, George Cuit Senior in 1806. Please note: The cataloguing has been amended to GEORGE CUIT SENIOR (BRITISH 1743-1818) rather than George Cuit Junior
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