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Head of Sale:

Garry Batt & William Batt

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Total lots: 81

TE LAWRENCE LETTERS TO HENRY WILLIAMSON
Lot 25 Unsold
TE LAWRENCE LETTERS TO HENRY WILLIAMSON
LAWRENCE, T.E.
Als, 1 large sheet signed TE Shaw, addressed from 338171 A/C Shaw, R.A.F Miranshah, Waziristan, dated 28.8.28
“Dear Williamson, Various things have held me back from writing to you. My move: I am a creature of…
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,500
8 December 2023
8 December 2023
TE LAWRENCE LETTERS TO HENRY WILLIAMSON
Lot 26 Unsold
TE LAWRENCE LETTERS TO HENRY WILLIAMSON
LAWRENCE, T.E.
Als to Henry Williamson, 1pp, signed TE Shaw, on headed notepaper from 14 Barton Street, Westminster London, dated 22/2/29
Lawrence declares he is to be posted to Plymouth…”so if ever the frost breaks (Brrr…Ughhhh) a motor…
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,500
8 December 2023
8 December 2023
TE LAWRENCE LETTERS TO HENRY WILLIAMSON
Lot 27 Unsold
TE LAWRENCE LETTERS TO HENRY WILLIAMSON
LAWRENCE, T.E.
Als to Henry Williamson, 1pp, signed TES, on headed notepaper from 14 Barton Street, Westminster London, dated 28/2/29
“Tonight I faced a pile of 47 letters to answer…yours is fifth…Executor: yes I will do it, if it…
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,500
8 December 2023
8 December 2023
TE LAWRENCE LETTERS TO HENRY WILLIAMSON
Lot 28 Unsold
TE LAWRENCE LETTERS TO HENRY WILLIAMSON
LAWRENCE, T.E.
Als to Henry Williamson, 1pp. signed TES, dated 10.vii.29.
Lawrence apologises for not coming to see him because of lack of time off from the R.A.F. He has…
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,500
8 December 2023
8 December 2023
TE LAWRENCE LETTERS TO HENRY WILLIAMSON
Lot 29 Sold
TE LAWRENCE LETTERS TO HENRY WILLIAMSON
LAWRENCE, T.E.
Als to Henry Williamson: 1 pp., signed TES, dated 22.vii.29
“I’m off to London, crack of dawn tomorrow. Schneider Race Committee Meeting…Will wire, if I can…
Hammer price: £1,000
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
8 December 2023
8 December 2023
TE LAWRENCE LETTERS TO HENRY WILLIAMSON
Lot 30 Unsold
TE LAWRENCE LETTERS TO HENRY WILLIAMSON
LAWRENCE, T.E.
Als to Henry Williamson. 1pp. written in ink, signed TE Shaw, from ‘Still Plymouth!’
With the original envelope postmarked 11/4/33
“Valedictory note in your last letter premature, I hope: the R.A.F. still keep me on stretch,…
Estimate: £5,000 - £8,000
8 December 2023
8 December 2023
TE LAWRENCE LETTERS TO HENRY WILLIAMSON
Lot 31 Sold
TE LAWRENCE LETTERS TO HENRY WILLIAMSON
LAWRENCE, T.E.
Als to Henry Williamson. 1pp. written in ink, signed TES, from 13 Birmingham St, Southampton and dated 21.xii.33
Apologising for a long delay in replying to a letter from April. He writes he will be leaving the R…
Hammer price: £1,500
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,500
8 December 2023
8 December 2023
TE LAWRENCE LETTERS TO HENRY WILLIAMSON
Lot 32 Unsold
TE LAWRENCE LETTERS TO HENRY WILLIAMSON
LAWRENCE, T.E.
Als to Henry Williamson. 3pp. folding densely written in ink, signed TES, from 13 Birmingham Street, Southampton and dated 14.v.34.
Lawrence expresses his joy that Williamson is back from America earlier than he thought: “the…
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
8 December 2023
8 December 2023
TE LAWRENCE LETTERS TO HENRY WILLIAMSON
Lot 33 Unsold
TE LAWRENCE LETTERS TO HENRY WILLIAMSON
Als to Henry Williamson. 2pp. written in ink, signed TES, from Bridlington and dated 20.xii.34
“…the death of Yeates strikes me as a direct loss to myself: queer, for I’d never met him. Thank…
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,500
8 December 2023
8 December 2023
ELIOT, T.S., 'THE WASTE LAND'
Lot 34 Sold
ELIOT, T.S., 'THE WASTE LAND'
first edition, printed and published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, Richmond, 1923, blue marbled paper covered boards, contained in custom green leather covered box with gilt tooled half titles, sold together with Eliot, Valerie (editor), ‘The Waste Land. facsimile and transcript of the original drafts’, published by Faber and Faber, 1972 reprint, gilt tooled green leather binding (2)

Provenance: Le Brocq Collection, Jersey.
Note: The Waste Land is widely regarded as one of the one important poems in the English Language,…
Hammer price: £7,000
Estimate: £5,000 - £7,000
8 December 2023
8 December 2023
ELIOT, T.S., 'POEMS'
Lot 35 Sold
ELIOT, T.S., 'POEMS'
first edition, first state, one of less than 250 copies, printed and published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press,
Richmond, 1919, marbled paper wrappers with cream title label, contained in red cloth solander box and slip case with gilt tooled half titles

Provenance: Le Brocq Collection, Jersey.
Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965)T.S. Eliot was an American-British poet…
Hammer price: £16,000
Estimate: £5,000 - £10,000
8 December 2023
8 December 2023
PLATH, SYLVIA, 'THE BELL JAR'
Lot 36 Unsold
PLATH, SYLVIA, 'THE BELL JAR'
first edition under pseudonym of Victoria Lucas, published by Heinemann, London 1963, black cloth binding titled in gilt to spine

Provenance: Le Brocq Collection, Jersey.
Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist,…
Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000
8 December 2023
8 December 2023
RICHARD COSWAY (1742-1821) A portrait of a lady, traditionally called Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
Lot 37 Unsold
RICHARD COSWAY (1742-1821) A portrait of a lady, traditionally called Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
A portrait of a lady, traditionally called Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire watercolour on ivory,
the reverse with tied and plaited hairwork, 4.2cm x 3.6cm

Provenance: Judy & Brian Harden Antiques, Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire
Private collection, Somerset.

Ivory submission reference: F2GRRYRW
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806)Georgiana was the eldest daughter of John Spencer,…
Estimate: £4,000 - £8,000
8 December 2023
8 December 2023
BARTHOLOMEUS BREENBERGH (1599-1657) An Italianate river landscape with Mercury and Argus
Lot 38 Unsold
BARTHOLOMEUS BREENBERGH (1599-1657) An Italianate river landscape with Mercury and Argus
oil on copper panel, 16.5cm x 18cm with label verso attributing the work to Bartholomeus Breenbergh,
but known in the family as being by Agostino Tassi (c.1580-1644)

Provenance: Leonard Koetser Ltd, 13 Duke Street, St. James’s, London SW1, Spring Exhibition 1963 as Breenburgh.
Bartolomeus BreenberghBartolomeus Breenbergh was a Dutch Golden Age painter of Italian and…
Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000
8 December 2023
8 December 2023
AFTER FRANCIS BARLOW (1626-1702) A hare coursing scene
Lot 39 Unsold
AFTER FRANCIS BARLOW (1626-1702) A hare coursing scene
huntsman gesturing to their hounds to follow their quarry up an inclined bank, oil on canvas, 145cm x 216cm

Provenance: Barker Mills family, sale of Mottisfont Abbey circa 1870
thence by descent to the Dalgety family of Lockerley Hall, Hampshire.
Note: A drawing of similar composition by Frances Barlow is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, which…
Estimate: £10,000 - £20,000
8 December 2023
8 December 2023
GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO (1696-1770) A left hand study
Lot 40 Sold
GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO (1696-1770) A left hand study
red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on paper, 25cm x 12cm

Provenance: The Collection of Hugo Perlo Esq.
Messrs Thos. Agnew and Sons Ltd., 1935
An Artistic Family Collection, Wiltshire.
Giovanni Battista TiepoloBorn in Venice in 1696 to a prosperous merchant, Giovanni Battista …
Hammer price: £11,000
Estimate: £10,000 - £20,000
8 December 2023
8 December 2023
GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO (1696-1770) Study of a head
Lot 41 Sold
GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO (1696-1770) Study of a head
red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on blue paper, collector’s mark ‘WB’ for William Bateson lower left, 20cm x 13.25cm

Provenance: The Collection of William Bateson (1861-1926), English biologist and evolutionary theorist,
His sale, London, Sotheby’s, Important Drawings by Old Masters of the Italian, Dutch, Flemish, French and English Schools, 24 April 1929
An Artistic Family Collection, Wiltshire.
Giovanni Battista TiepoloBorn in Venice in 1696 to a prosperous merchant, Giovanni Battista …
Hammer price: £8,000
Estimate: £10,000 - £20,000
8 December 2023
8 December 2023
CARL HAAG (1820-1915) ‘The Interior of the Golden Gateway in the Temple Area of Jerusalem’
Lot 42 Sold
CARL HAAG (1820-1915) ‘The Interior of the Golden Gateway in the Temple Area of Jerusalem’
signed, titled and dated 1896 lower right, also signed and inscribed to label verso, watercolour and bodycolour, 113cm x 68.5cm

Provenance: Purchased from Sotheby’s Stokesay Court, Shropshire Auction, 28th September 1994, lot 586
the collection of the late Mervyn Stewkesbury.
Carl HaagCarl Haag was a Bavarian-born painter who became a naturalised British subject and was…
Hammer price: £15,000
Estimate: £15,000 - £25,000
8 December 2023
8 December 2023
JOHAN DANIËL KOELMAN (1831-1857) ‘Summer landscape with cattle grazing’
Lot 43 Unsold
JOHAN DANIËL KOELMAN (1831-1857) ‘Summer landscape with cattle grazing’
signed and dated 1853 lower left, oil on canvas, 97cm x 147cm

Provenance: 19th Century European Art, Christie’s, London, 20th March 2003, lot 160
the collection of the late Mervyn Stewkesbury.
Johan Daniël KoelmanJohan Daniël Koelman was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, watercolourist and…
Estimate: £2,000 - £4,000
8 December 2023
8 December 2023
JOHN WRIGHT BARKER (1864-1941) ‘Puppy Days’
Lot 44 Sold
JOHN WRIGHT BARKER (1864-1941) ‘Puppy Days’
signed lower right, titled verso with artist’s name and address, oil on canvas, 91cm x 120cm

Provenance: The Collection of Miss Ellen Cooper-Dean, Bournemouth
The Estate of the late Miss Sylvia Bowditch and thence by descent
Purchased by the present vendor’s father from Duke’s 4th October 2007, lot 253
the collection of the late Mervyn Stewkesbury.
John Wright BarkerWright Barker specialised in animal painting but also produced human portraits…
Hammer price: £17,000
Estimate: £6,000 - £8,000
8 December 2023
8 December 2023
*HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954) 'Jeunes Filles et Fleurs'
Lot 45 Unsold
*HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954) 'Jeunes Filles et Fleurs'
two girls sitting at a table with a vase of flowers and an open menu bearing the title ‘Thé’ (tea), signed and dated “Mai 47” lower left, ink on paper, 36.2cm x 54.6cm

Provenance: Schoneman Galleries, Inc. 63 East 57th Street, New York 22, NY., #9196 H. Matisse ‘Jeune Filles et Fleurs’ ink drwg. (old #6806)
This work, number M119 in the Matisse archive has been authenticated by Marguerite Duthuit-Matisse,…
Estimate: £100,000 - £150,000
8 December 2023
8 December 2023
JENNY MONTIGNY (1875-1937) 'Hyde Park, Londres 1918'
Lot 46 Sold
JENNY MONTIGNY (1875-1937) 'Hyde Park, Londres 1918'
Woman and children enjoying a bright day, signed lower right, further signed, dated and titled verso,
oil on canvas, 50cm x 60cm

Provenance: The Collection of the Artist
The Collection of Louis Montigny, the brother of the Artist and his wife Lilian Attneave
and thence by descent.

Note: The area of Hyde Park depicted in this work is known as ‘Rotten Row’, a fashionable place for upper-class Londoners to be seen from the 17th century onwards.
Jenny MontignyA pioneering female impressionist, Jenny Montigny was a founding member of the…
Hammer price: £34,000
Estimate: £10,000 - £20,000
8 December 2023
8 December 2023
*MONTAGUE DAWSON (1895-1973) ‘The Port Jackson’
Lot 47 Unsold
*MONTAGUE DAWSON (1895-1973) ‘The Port Jackson’
signed lower left, oil on canvas, 101.5cm x 76cm

Provenance: Messrs Frost & Reed, Albany Court Yard, Piccadilly, London W1
Purchased from Lawrence’s, 13th October 1994, lot 50
the collection of the late Mervyn Stewkesbury.
Port JacksonThe Port Jackson was built in 1882 by Messrs Hall of Aberdeen for Duthie Bros and was…
Estimate: £12,000 - £15,000
8 December 2023
8 December 2023
*ALAN DAVIE (1920-2014) 'Opus O. 984, Homage to Homo Australis no.12, 1981'
Lot 48 Unsold
*ALAN DAVIE (1920-2014) 'Opus O. 984, Homage to Homo Australis no.12, 1981'
signed, titled and dated verso, oil on canvas, 122cm x 101.6cm

Provenance: With Gimpel Fils, 30 Davies Street, Mayfair, London W1K.
Alan DavieIn the 1950’s Alan Davie was recognised internationally as a new radical force in modern…
Estimate: £6,000 - £10,000
8 December 2023
8 December 2023

Total lots: 81

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