Dominic Winter Auctions
Lot 86
* Bauwens (Felice Lieven, died 1940). Design for a lunette, pencil and watercolour on paper laid down on card, depicting a number of female figures (2 with halos) and children, all singing or playing lyres, beneath a stone arcade through which is seen a landscape and further figures issuing forth from a building, pencil inscription on verso with artist's name and 'For Landseer [Prize] 1930', sheet size 52 x 79cm (21.25 x 31ins), some light dust-soiling and fraying to edges, together with another design by Bauwens, for a 3-light stained glass window, titled "Decoration for Concert Hall 'Music'", and a number of figure studies also by the same artist, consisting of 14 leaves of paper or card with pencil drawings to 18 sides, i.e. a few with drawings to rectos and versos, some sides with more than one study, comprising 4 with female nude studies, 8 with male nude studies, 2 with studies of classical nude sculptures (a female torso and a male nude carrying a lamb), 2 with full-length studies of a seated woman, 1 with studies of a female face, and 1 with sketches of a young female ballerina, some spotting, creasing, and edge-fraying, each approximately 56 x 39cm, plus other unrelated drawings and prints, including: an early-mid 19th century landscape, watercolour on paper, depicting red-tiled houses with green shutters nestling at the foot of a rocky escarpment, overlooking sailing ships on the sea, lightly toned, sheet size 19.5 x 41.5cm (7.5 x 16.25ins), mounted; 2 mounted watercolours of street scenes entitled 'Cloth Fair' by Evacustes A. Phipson; Nuit Douce by Henri Jules Guinier, lithograph on blue paper, image size 29 x 24.5cm (11.5 x 9.5ins), sheet size 31 x 26.5cm (12.5 x 10.5ins); several hand-coloured lithographic costume plates from Musée Cosmopolite published by Aubert, 1850; and some printed progammes and advertising material relating to Hilda Spencer Watson's Studio Theatre, various sizes and conditionQty: (a folder)NOTESFelice Lievin Bauwens, whose mother was also a painter, trained at the Royal Academy Schools in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and she exhibited at the New English Art Club, the Royal Society of British Artists, and the Royal Academy.
