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Auction date Thursday 25 March 2021
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Total lots: 237

Lot 1 Sold
JOSEPH EDWARD SOUTHALL (1861-1944) 'Pershore Rd, Edgbaston'
monogrammed, titled and dated 13.V.1907 in pencil lower right, pencil and colour, 10cm x 16.75cm

Provenance: The Collection of Maxwell Ashby Armfield
Private Collection, Wiltshire
Hammer price: £180
Estimate: £200 - £400
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 2 Unsold
*MARGARET ARMFIELD (1879-1960) A view of rocky outcrops off the coast
watercolour, 16cm x 22cm
Estimate: £20 - £40
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 3 Sold
*MAXWELL ASHBY ARMFIELD (1882-1972) A portrait of the Artist's wife, Constance Smedley
inscribed "Peter" and dated 14.12.08 lower right, pencil, 16.5cm x 12cm

Provenance: Private Collection, Wiltshire
Hammer price: £600
Estimate: £200 - £400
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 4 Sold
*MAXWELL ASHBY ARMFIELD (1882-1972) 'Miriam'
A costume design for 'Miriam - Sister of Moses' with inscription below, monogrammed lower right, watercolour and pencil, 35.5cm x 22cm

Provenance: Private Collection, Wiltshire
'Miriam - Sister of Moses' was a biblical drama by Maxwell Ashby Armfield  and his wife Constance…
Hammer price: £280
Estimate: £200 - £400
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 5 Unsold
*MAXWELL ASHBY ARMFIELD (1882-1972) Figure study
possibly a costume design or illustration, pencil and chalk, 23.5cm x 18cm

Provenance: Private Collection, Wiltshire
Estimate: £100 - £200
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 6 Unsold
*MAXWELL ASHBY ARMFIELD (1882-1972) A view of a temple atop a rock arch
pencil and chalk on paper, 16cm x 21cm; together with a similar smaller view of the same Temple, pastels, 10cm x 17.5cm (2)

Provenance: A gift from the Artist's executor A.A. Ballard
Private Collection, Wiltshire
Estimate: £60 - £80
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 7 Unsold
*MAXWELL ASHBY ARMFIELD (1882-1972) 'Dubrovnik - On The Walls'
monogrammed, titled and dated in pencil lower right, pencil and pastel, 23.5cm x 21.5cm

Provenance: Private Collection, Wiltshire
Estimate: £60 - £80
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 8 Unsold
*MAXWELL ASHBY ARMFIELD (1882-1972) 'The Harbour - Dubrovnik'
monogrammed, titled and dated '67 in pencil lower right, pencil and pastel, 22cm x 21.5cm

Provenance: Private Collection, Wiltshire
Estimate: £60 - £80
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 9 Unsold
*MAXWELL ASHBY ARMFIELD (1882-1972) 'Sarlat'
buildings on a hillside, titled lower left, pencil and chalk on paper, 23cm x 17.5cm

Provenance: Private Collection, Wiltshire
Estimate: £50 - £80
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 10 Unsold
*MAXWELL ASHBY ARMFIELD (1882-1972) 'Sketch of Corfe Castle'
pastel, 21cm x 21cm

Provenance: Private Collection, Wiltshire
Estimate: £60 - £80
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 11 Sold
*MAXWELL ASHBY ARMFIELD (1882-1972) A study of shells
pencil and colour on paper, 8cm x 20cm

Provenance: Private Collection, Wiltshire
Hammer price: £140
Estimate: £100 - £200
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 12 Sold
*MAXWELL ASHBY ARMFIELD (1882-1972) Autumn leaves and bare branches, with the sun beyond
mixed media on paper, 13.5cm x 16cm

Provenance: Private Collection, Wiltshire
Hammer price: £220
Estimate: £150 - £250
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 13 Sold
*MAXWELL ASHBY ARMFIELD (1882-1972) 'Pomegranates'
with faint inscription centre right, dated 27.10.69 in pencil lower right, pencil and colour on paper, 19.5cm x 21cm

Provenance: A gift from the Artist's executor A.A. Ballard
Private Collection, Wiltshire
Hammer price: £140
Estimate: £150 - £250
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 14 Unsold
*MAXWELL ASHBY ARMFIELD (1882-1972) 'Albertine Shed Rose'
dated Nov. 26 (19)53 in pencil upper right, pencil and colour, 15.5cm x 12.5cm
Estimate: £30 - £50
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 15 Sold
*MAXWELL ASHBY ARMFIELD (1882-1972) 'Porloch Weir'
titled and dated 1968 verso, tempera on panel, 21cm x 31cm

Provenance: Acquired from the Artist's executor A.A. Ballard in 1969
Private Collection, Wiltshire
Hammer price: £500
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 16 Sold
*MAXWELL ASHBY ARMFIELD (1882-1972) 'Leaves in Their Season - Spring'
titled verso, Flemish tempera on copper, 12.5cm x 16.25cm

Exhibited: Finlay Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Provenance: Acquired from the Artist's executor A.A. Ballard in 1989
Private Collection, Wiltshire
Hammer price: £1,200
Estimate: £400 - £600
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 17 Sold
*MAXWELL ASHBY ARMFIELD (1882-1972) 'Ringwood, circa 1905'
initialled lower right, oil on board, 17.5cm x 18.5cm

Exhibited: The Fine Art Society, 148 New Bond Street, London, 1978
Maxwell Armfield, Southampton Art Gallery, 1978
Provenance: Private Collection, Wiltshire
Hammer price: £550
Estimate: £500 - £800
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 18 Sold
*MAXWELL ASHBY ARMFIELD (1882-1972) 'Glaxy from Wales, Variations on a theme XII'
monogrammed lower right, titled verso, Flemish tempera, 23cm x 30cm

Exhibited: 'Homage to Maxwell Armfield' The Fine Art Society, 148 New Bond Street, London, 1970
Provenance: Private Collection, Wiltshire
Hammer price: £750
Estimate: £600 - £800
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 19 Sold
*MAXWELL ASHBY ARMFIELD (1882-1972) 'Offering to Akshobya (The Great Mirror)'
monogrammed lower right, titled verso, Flemish Tempera on board, 30cm x 23cm

Exhibited: 'Homage to Maxwell Armfield' The Fine Art Society, 148 New Bond Street, London, 1970
Provenance: Private Collection, Wiltshire
Hammer price: £1,500
Estimate: £800 - £1,500
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 20 Sold
*MAXWELL ASHBY ARMFIELD (1882-1972) 'Lily and Roze Series, No I, Argha of Sacrifice (to J.M.)'
still life study of lowers and a conch shell, monogrammed and inscribed lower right, tempera on board, 34.5cm x 25.5cm

Provenance: Private Collection, Wiltshire
Hammer price: £2,200
Estimate: £1,000 - £2,000
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 21 Sold
*MAXWELL ASHBY ARMFIELD (1882-1972) Portrait of the Artist's Mother
Margaret Armfield nee Maxwell , depicted bust-length in a faux surround with Maxwell Clan crest depicting a stag couchant before a holly bush below the motto "Reviresco" (I flourish again) lower right, monogrammed lower left, Flemish tempera and gesso on cox paper laid on board, 37cm x 29.5cm
Provenance: Private Collection, Wiltshire
Hammer price: £4,400
Estimate: £1,000 - £2,000
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 22 Sold
*MAXWELL ASHBY ARMFIELD (1882-1972) A NEEDLEWORK STILL LIFE STUDY OF A BASKET OF FRUIT
dated 1914, 13.25cm x 11.75cm, framed and glazed

Provenance: A gift from the Artist's executor A.A. Ballard
Private Collection, Wiltshire
Hammer price: £1,000
Estimate: £100 - £200
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 23 Unsold
AFTER PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919) 'Femme au cep de Vigne'
4th variant, signed 'Renoir' in the print, lithograph, 32cm x 23cm
Estimate: £200 - £400
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 24 Sold
FILADELFO SIMI (1849-1923) 'Popolana'
A portrait of a young lady, depicted half-length seated with her hands resting in her lap, signed twice in pencil to the canvas verso, oil on canvas, 60cm x 40cm
Hammer price: £190
Estimate: £200 - £400
18 March 2021
18 March 2021
Lot 25 Unsold
ALPHONSE STENGELIN (1852-1938) Study of trees
signed lower right, oil on canvas, 82cm x 70cm
Estimate: £100 - £200
18 March 2021
18 March 2021
Lot 26 Sold
EMMIE STEWART WOOD (1859-1937) Boats passing a domed building
signed lower left, oil on panel, 26cm x 21cm
Hammer price: £150
Estimate: £150 - £250
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 27 Unsold
*LOUIS WAIN (1860-1939) A sketch of a winking cat
signed lower right, pencil on paper, 9.5cm x 10cm, mounted in an autograph book
Estimate: £300 - £500
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 28 Sold
* FRANK BRANGWYN (1867-1956) 'Old Houses, Ghent'
signed in pencil to the margin, etching, the image 37cm x 37cm
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £30 - £50
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 29 Sold
*CONSTANT ARTZ (1870-1951) 'The Duckpond'
signed lower left, watercolour, 26cm x 30.5cm

Provenance: Walker Art Galleries Ltd., Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Hammer price: £280
Estimate: £300 - £500
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 30 Sold
FRANCIS DERWENT WOOD (1871-1926) 'Alpes Maritimes'
landscape view, signed, titled and dated 1923 lower left, watercolour, 26cm x 36cm
Provenance: Label verso for The Fine Art Society, 148 New Bond Street, London, dated August…
Hammer price: £110
Estimate: £100 - £200
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 31 Unsold
* NORMAN LUPTON (1876-1953) 'From the Fourteenth Tee, Came'
signed lower left, further signed, titled and dated June 1932 verso, oil on board, 44cm x 56cm

As well as an Artist in his own right, Norman Darnton Lupton and his sister Agnes Lupton (1874-1950) were pre-war collectors of English watercolours who built and lived at Hyde Crook, Dorchester, in Dorset. They bequeathed the collection to Leeds City Art Gallery.
Estimate: £50 - £100
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 32 Sold
THOMAS TODD BLAYLOCK (1876-1929) 'Nasturtiums' and 'California Poppies'
a pair of still life studies of flowers in vases against a black background, each titled lower left and signed lower right, oils stencilled on silk, each 20cm x 17.5cm
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £100 - £200
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 33 Unsold
*AFTER PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) 'Dora Maar'
from Toesca's 'Six Contes Fantasques' numbered 197/225 in pencil lower left, drypoint etching, signed within the plate (number and signature possibly spurious), the image 32.5cm x 25cm

Provenance: Bearing label verso for The Redfern Gallery, dated January 17th 1959, although the work is titled 'Profil de jeune fille'
Estimate: £250 - £450
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 34 Unsold
*AFTER GEORGES BRAQUE (1882-1963) 'L'oiseau et son nid'
signed within the plate, bears facsimile signature, numbered 94/400 in pencil to the margin, limited edition lithograph published by the Redfern Gallery Ltd London, 1959, the image 34cm x 51cm
Estimate: £100 - £200
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 34a Sold
ERIC GILL (1882-1940) A female angel holding scrolls with figures and patterns
inscribed "From E.G." lower right, woodblock print, 16cm x 11cm
Hammer price: £280
Estimate: £50 - £100
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 35 Sold
*ATTRIBUTED TO PERCY WYNDHAM LEWIS (1882-1957) 'Generative'
Vorticist style abstract composition, signed and dated 1942 lower left, watercolour and pencil, 72cm x 49cm

Provenance: Exhibition label verso for the London Group Exhibition, New Burlington Galleries, London
Hammer price: £1,200
Estimate: £300 - £500
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 36 Unsold
*REGINALD HENRY CAMPBELL (1877-1953) 'Still Life'
flowers in a vase on a ledge, signed lower right, oil on panel, 50cm x 40cm
Estimate: £50 - £100
18 March 2021
18 March 2021
Lot 37 Unsold
FREDERICK MAJER (1882-?) 'Tideway at Eling'
monogrammed lower left, oil on canvas, 37cm x 50cm
Estimate: £20 - £40
18 March 2021
18 March 2021
Lot 38 Sold
* NOEL LAURA NISBET (1887-1956) Still life study of poppies
stamped verso, oil on panel, 20cm x 26cm 

Provenance: The Artist's Studio Sale, Christie's, London September 1984
Hammer price: £130
Estimate: £50 - £100
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 39 Sold
*CYRIL VICTOR PARKER (1897-1984) 'Rye, Sussex, from the New Winchelsea Road'
signed and dated 1946 lower right, watercolour, 33cm x 45.5cm (unframed but mounted)
C V Parker was a painter of landscapes and floral still life who lived in Ealing most of his life,…
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £50 - £100
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 40 Sold
*CHARLES LEEK (20TH CENTURY) New Forest landscape with ponies
signed lower right, oil on canvas, 65cm x 77cm
Hammer price: £240
Estimate: £100 - £200
18 March 2021
18 March 2021
Lot 41 Sold
BERNARD THOMSON (20TH CENTURY) 'Assisi - Across the Plain'
with hilltop buildings and cypress trees to the foreground and the Apennines looming beyond, oil on canvas, 38cm x 53cm

Exhibited: The Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Artist recorded at 65 Victoria Road, Kensington, London, W8
Hammer price: £110
Estimate: £100 - £200
18 March 2021
18 March 2021
Lot 42 Unsold
CATHERINE MAY HAMILTON (20TH CENTURY) 'The Thames at Richmond'
oil on board, 29cm x 39cm
Estimate: £20 - £40
18 March 2021
18 March 2021
Lot 43 Sold
PHYLLIS L. MURRAY (20TH CENTURY) 'The Girl with the White Muff'
signed lower right, oil on board, 45cm x 30cm

Exhibited: Label verso stating that this work was exhibited at The Royal Academy in 1946, and a further tag attached verso reading that it was then showcased at the Spring Exhibition of Modern Art at the City of Bradford Art Gallery
Hammer price: £160
Estimate: £150 - £250
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 44 Sold
*M. HILBERT (20th Century) An Art Deco style study of a lady feeding deer
signed lower right, oil on canvas, 65cm x 81cm (unframed on stretcher)
Hammer price: £130
Estimate: £100 - £200
18 March 2021
18 March 2021
Lot 45 Unsold
RUSSIAN SCHOOL, 20TH CENTURY 'Madonna and Child'
in the style of a traditional icon, print on linen, 80cm x 60cm; together with a similar style study of George and the Dragon, 95cm x 70cm (2)
Estimate: £50 - £100
25 March 2021
25 March 2021
Lot 46 Unsold
HANS WEBER-FURER (1882-1941) An illustration of two children and an owl in a woodland landscape
signed lower left, ink on paper, 14.5cm x 22.5cm
Estimate: £100 - £200
18 March 2021
18 March 2021
Lot 47 Unsold
*MAN RAY (Emmanuel Radnitzky 1890-1976) 'Deux Faces'
monogrammed and numbered 40/99 in pencil to the margin, lithograph, the image 66cm x 49.5cm
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
18 March 2021
18 March 2021

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