Paintings & Furniture Sale on Thursday 1st October 2009

Lots: 244-420 of 651

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244

ENGLISH SCHOOL, late 17th century A portrait of a gentleman wearing a powdered wig, a red coat and a white cravat, bust-length, oil on canvas, 29.5" x 24.5"
Estimate: 300-600

Nil

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700

245

MANNER OF ALBERT CUYP A gentleman seated full length in a landscape with hounds and a young attendant, a distant landscape beyond, oil on canvas, 25.5" x 21.25", in a carved and silvered-wood frame. See illustration

Provenance: According to the vendor acquired from the late Sir Philip Shelborne, Myles Place, Salisbury, Wiltshire.
Private Collection, Sherborne, Dorset.
Estimate: 1500-2500

Nil

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1700

246

MANNER OF JEAN BAPTISTE MONNOYER A still life of summer flowers on a stone ledge, oil on canvas, 29" x 24", in a carved giltwood frame. See illustration

Provenance: Private Collection, Sherborne, Dorset.

Estimate: 800-1500

Nil

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247

MANNER OF GASPAR VAN WITTEL, called Vanvitelli A view on a river, probably the Tiber at the Ponte Rotto, Rome, oil on canvas, 27" x 35". See illustration

Provenance: Private Collection, Devon.
Estimate: 1000-2000

Nil

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15500

248

ASCRIBED TO PIERRE AUGUST RENOIR "Paysage avec Personnages", bears signature "Renoir" and the reverse with various labels, 10.5" x 8.25". See illustration (FP)

Provenance: Acquired from the Lefevre Gallery in 1957 by Sir Antony Hornby and thence by descent to his grand-daughter, Annabel Barley.
Private Collection, Dorset.

Exhibited: The Tate Gallery - "Private Views" no. 85 from the collection of Sir Anthony Hornby, 12 Radnor Place, W2. The exhibition "Private Views" was works from the collections of twenty friends of the Tate Gallery and included a number of works from the collection of Sir Antony and Lady Hornby. In addition to this work (no. 85) the Hornby's lent others by Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Henry Matisse and Edouard Bruillard.

At the time this work was sold and lateR exhibited at The Tate, it was accepted as an autograph work by the artist. The Wildenstein Institute in Paris, however, do not accept this work as autograph.

Nil

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12000

249

IAN DAVENPORT "Rain", signed and dated on the reverse 1988, oil on panel, 25" x 27.5". See illustration

Provenance: The Collection of Julie Balmforth, a contemporary of Ian Davenport and Damien Hirst at Goldsmiths from 1986-1989. In 1988 both artists became tenants of Jacob Street Film Studios, Mill Street, London SE1; a company connected to the vendor.

This painting was a gift to the vendor from the artist.

Estimate: 2000-4000

Nil

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4000

250

DAMIEN HIRST "Red Rubber Ball", the reverse with a typed label with the title, mixed media collage, 39.5" x 31.5". See illustration

Provenance: From the collection of Julie Balmforth, a contemporary of Damien Hirst at Goldsmiths. Later, the artist rented space from Jacob Street Film Studios, London SE1; a company connected to the vendor. Hirst's studio was in the attic above the studio canteen.
This collage was a gift from the artist to the vendor when he left the Studios in 1990.
Literature: Hirst's early collages are amply described in Stuart Morgan's essay for the catalogue of "In and Out of Love", Hirst's 1991 Exhibition. For a full discussion of this period and the artist's works see Damien Hirst: "I want to spend the rest of my life everywhere, with everyone, one to one, always forever, now", London 1997, pp. 68-73.

Red Rubber Ball is an early work produced Damien Hirst in the late 1980's. Unlike his later work, "Red Rubber Ball" exudes a sense of individual craftsmanship not seen in many other works from his oeuvre. The inclusion of ready-made objects and the fragmentation of a corpse, however, prefigure what is to come in "Twelve Disciples", "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" and, more recently "The Golden Calf".

Hirst's collage is composed of various found objects and covered with spattered paint on a found wood assemblage. A doll's severed head, media images and a dried rose figure amongst the items have been playfully juxtaposed onto the picture plane. The uneven paint creates a sense of disorder, whilst the randomly placed and colliding items enhance a sense of anarchic jumble. His fascination with death and the fragility of human existence can already be found in this work.

This distinctive work is reminiscent of the destructive, often fragmented, aesthetic of post-war European art, and, more specifically, the Nouveaux-Realists. Like Tinguely, Hirst's work seems to be created out of all kinds of disparate found objects, but somehow an intrinsic beauty transcends the fragmentation and disorder.

Estimate: 30000-50000

Nil

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26000

251

LUDOVICO MAZZOLINO The Virgin and Child with St. Joseph in a landscape, dated in gold 15XXII, oil on panel, with an arched top, 18.5" x 13.5". See illustration (the right hand page of a double page spread)

Provenance: The collection of Edmund Burke sold Christie's London 5th June 1812 for £21.0.
Purchased by Winstanley.
Presumably the painting entered the collection of William Blundell Spence at the Villa Medici, Fiesole some time in the mid-19th century. In 1862 he was visited there by Eliza Charlotte Moss, his first cousin. The visit is recorded in her diary, a typed copy of which is retained by the family.

It is probable that this painting, along with a number of others, was bequeathed to Eliza Charlotte Moss, the great-grandmother of the vendor.

We are grateful to the National Gallery, London, for their assistance with this catalogue entry.

Estimate: 40000-60000

Nil

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90000

252

SOUTHERN NETHERLANDISH SCHOOL, circa 1580 The Holy Family, oil on panel, 24.25" x 20". See illustration (including the frame if possible FP)

We are grateful to the Rijks Museum, Amsterdam for their assistance in cataloguing this lot.


Estimate: 7000-10000

Nil

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400

T.E. LAWRENCE: A LETTER dated 19/3/35 with a post-script "Romsey on Sunday night and London by 4pm Monday: seventy five miles that second day! Improving!", signed "TES". See illustration

Provenance: The Knowles Collection
Estimate: 500-1000

Nil

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950

401

T.E. LAWRENCE: A LETTER dated 17/4/31 "Dear Mrs Knowles, My plans have been upset by being ordered here for a fortnight or so to test some new motor boat engines for the RAF", signed T.E. Shaw. See illustration

Provenance: The Knowles Collection.
Estimate: 800-1500

Nil

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1300

402

T.E. LAWRENCE: A LETTER dated 1/12/29 "Dear Knowles, A Christmas letter".... signed "T.E. Shaw". See illustration

Provenance: The Knowles Collection.
Estimate: 800-1500

Nil

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1100

403

T.E. LAWRENCE: A LETTER dated 30/11/26 "Dear Pat ... I am rushing madly about (with a cracked knee due to contact with Islington High Street - the bike is a ruin)", signed "TES". See illustration

Provenance: The Knowles Collection
Estimate: 800-1500

Nil

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1100

404

T.E. LAWRENCE: A LETTER to HW (Henry Williamson) dated 28/2/29 from 14 Barton Street, Westminster, London SW1 ... "Executor: Yes. I will do it, if it can be completed by April 1935 when my present life (RAF) ends...... and I should ask you to be mine!, signed TES., with addressed envelope. See illustration

Reference: TE Lawrence correspondence with Henry Williamson, Russell Hill Press 2000.
Estimate: 800-1500

Nil

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1400

405

T.E. LAWRENCE: A LETTER dated 22/7/29 "Dear HW, I am off to London, crack of dawn, tomorrow, Schneider Race Committee Meeting.", signed TES., with addressed envelope. See illustration

Reference: T.E. Lawrence correspondence with Henry Williamson, Russell Hill Press, 2000.
Estimate: 800-1500

Nil

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1400

406

T.E. LAWRENCE: A LETTER dated 28/8/28 from 338171 A/C Shaw RAF Miranshah, Waziristan "Dear Williamson .... The risk is that you may grow too rich! because then you will have, like poor Belloc, always to do all sorts of dirty things to earn a little more.", signed T.E. Shaw, with addressed envelope. See illustration

Reference: TE Lawrence correspondence with Henry Williamson, Russell Hill Press, 2000.
Estimate: 800-1500

Nil

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1700

407

T.E. LAWRENCE: A LETTER dated 21/12/33 from 13 Birmingham Street, Southampton "Dear HW .... Lately I have re-read Tarka - and find the old mastery that shocked and startled me in India. It is a fine book. You could make Bradshaw interesting if you edited it...." signed "TES", with envelope. See illustration

Reference: TE Lawrence correspondence with Henry Williamson, Russell Hill Press, 2000
Estimate: 800-1500

Nil

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1400

408

T.E. LAWRENCE: A PHOTOGRAPH probably inscribed by Lawrence to the reverse "TE & LH (Liddell Hart) at Hythe, dated 2/6/34. See illustration
Estimate: 100-200

Nil

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260

409

T.E. LAWRENCE: A LETTER dated 16/3/25 "Dear Robin, Bike wants £100 more. How do I draw it? .... Cape is nibbling at the abridgment idea. I propose to offer him less than a half of the Seven Pillars ..." signed "TES". See illustration
Estimate: 1000-2000

Nil

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1800

410

T.E. LAWRENCE: A LETTER dated 6.4.25 "Dear Robin .... On Saturday I drew a cheque for £198 odd on the special account. This was for my new bike, and other things.... Till Cape's £1500 comes in. This will not be yet: he has made out a contract, and I have to look at it, re-write it from my point of view, send it to GBS for his approval, ....", signed "TES". See illustration
Estimate: 1000-2000

Nil

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2200

411

T.E. LAWRENCE: A LETTER from Cloud's Hill dated 28/12/23 "Dear Robin .... The overdraft is hideous large. I'll do my best at it now. You are exceedingly good to let me have so much on no security and discussing the printing and the first batch of four plates of the Seven Pillars", signed "TES". See illustration
Estimate: 1000-2000

Nil

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3400

412

T.E. LAWRENCE: A LETTER dated 4/12/23 "Dear Robin .... Meanwhile my incomparable bike has been borrowed (in my absence) and returned a hopeless wreck ...", signed "TE". See illustration
Estimate: 1000-2000

Nil

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2000

413

T.E. LAWRENCE: A LETTER dated 19/3/29 from 338171 A/C Shaw RAF Cattewater Plymouth "Dear Robin .... Oh yes: and a bill to Brough, for things done to my bike in Nottingham a fortnight ago. It's a heavenly bike, goes like smoke and is as smooth as milk to ride.....", signed T.E. Shaw (?). See illustration
Estimate: 1000-2000

Nil

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3000

414

FLORENCE HARDY: A LETTER dated 22/10/35 addressed "Dear Mr and Mrs Pat Knowles" on Maxgate paper, signed "Florence Hardy" and seven other Florence Hardy letters on Maxgate paper (8)
Estimate: 300-500

Nil

    

1000

415

FLORENCE HARDY: A LETTER dated July 25th from Max Gate, Dorchester: "Mrs G.B. Shaw says that if TEL has not paid up for his cottage at Clouds Hill, she would like to give what is owing to secure it for him", another Florence Hardy letter, and two letters from AW Lawrence
Estimate: 300-500

Nil

    

450

416

THOMAS HARDY: A studio photograph of Hardy seated aged about 60 by Bernhard Griffen of Dorchester, signed by the author on the mount, 5.5" x 3.5", and Florence Hardy studio photograph aged 36 (taken in 1915), signed by Mrs Hardy on mount, 5.5" x 3.75", framed as a matching pair (2). See illustration
Estimate: 500-800

Nil

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450

417

THOMAS HARDY: "The Return of the Native", first edition, published Smith Elder & Co, 15 Waterloo Place, London, volume I, signed "To Clement Shorter, yours sincerely Thomas Hardy, July 2 1903" (3) calf bound, gilt spines, the frontispiece with a Clement K Shorter book plate. See illustration

Provenance: Ex Libris W A Foyle Beeleigh Abbey
Estimate: 6000-8000

Nil

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418

THOMAS HARDY: "Tess of the d'Urbervilles", first edition, published Osgood Mcilvaine & Co, London 1891, III vols. cloth bound, in case. See illustration
Estimate: 5000-8000

Nil

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4600

419

THOMAS HARDY: "The Mayor of Casterbridge" first edition, published Smith Elder & Co London, 1886, cloth bound, II vols. See illustration
Estimate: 600-1000

Nil

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420

THOMAS HARDY: "The Woodlanders", first edition, published Macmillan & Co, London and New York, 1887, cloth bound, III vols. See illustration
Estimate: 300-500

Nil

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