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Auction date Thursday, 19 October 2023 10:30 - 17:30 BST

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John Holmes

Lot	Title	Estimate	Hammer price
1	GEORGE SPENCER WATSON (1869-1934) A sketch of the artist's wife, Hilda, on horseback depicted facing away from the artist, holding another horse by its reins, signed lower left, ink on paper, 8.25cm x 11.25cm; framed together with an ink sketch of a dog, presumably by the same hand,…	£150 - £250	£400	View
2	*ELSIE BARLING (1883-1976) 'Irises' still life study, signed lower left, oil on canvas, 65cm x 50cm Provenance: The Estate of the late Roger Peers (1932-2023), Curator of the Dorset County Museum between 1959 and 1992	£100 - £200	£320	View
3	*ELSIE BARLING (1883-1976) 'St Paul de Vence, Place de la Fontaine' oil on canvas, 51cm x 66cm (unframed on stretcher) Provenance: The Estate of the late Roger Peers (1932-2023), Curator of the Dorset County Museum between 1959 and 1992	£100 - £200	£600	View
4	*ELSIE BARLING (1883-1976) 'Pub interior, Corfe Castle, Dorset' watercolour, 34.5cm x 39cm Provenance: The Estate of the late Roger Peers (1932-2023), Curator of the Dorset County Museum between 1959 and 1992	£100 - £200	£480	View
5	NORA SUMMERS (1892-1948) 'Horton Tower, Dorset' signed, titled and dated 1943 lower left, oil on paper, 18.5cm x 27cm Provenance: The Estate of the Artist Private Collection, Dorset Exhibited: 'Nora Summers', Sally Hunter Fine Art, February 1998	£100 - £200	£180	View
6	*MARIE VOROBIEFF 'MAREVNA' (1892-1984) 'Athelhampton Hall' signed and dated 1957 lower left, titled and inscribed "For Mrs Clarice Chinchen from M. Marevna" in ink over pencil to the margin, watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper, 25cm x 35cm	£200 - £400	£320	View
7	*MARIE VOROBIEFF 'MAREVNA' (1892-1984) 'Mrs Gladys Chinchen' half length portrait of a lady seated in an interior, a vase of flowers beside her, signed, dated 1955 and inscribed "Athelhampton Hall" lower left, further inscribed "For Gladis Tchinchin, Lov" (sic…	£400 - £800	£1,500	View
8	*VIOLET MADELEINE JOSETTE 'JO' JONES (1894-1989) 'Long Bredy, Dorset' Landscape view, ink and watercolour over traces of pencil, 23cm x 33cm According to an inscription verso this is one of three views of Long Bredy painted by the artist on her first visit in 1916-17…	£150 - £250	£320	View
9	*VIOLET MADELEINE JOSETTE 'JO' JONES (1894-1989) 'Long Bredy, Dorset' Landscape view, signed and dated 1917 lower right, ink and watercolour, 30.5cm x 41.5cm Provenance: The Estate of the late Roger Peers (1932-2023), Curator of the Dorset County Museum between 1959…	£150 - £250	£400	View
10	*VIOLET MADELEINE JOSETTE 'JO' JONES (1894-1989) 'Heredia, Carmella's Mother, Granada' three quarter length portrait of a Spanish woman, signed lower left, watercolour and ink, 29cm x 21.5cm; together with a smaller work by the same artist, 'Gipsy', signed lower right, watercolour and…	£100 - £200	£400	View
11	*JOHN HAMMOND HARWOOD (1904-1980) 'Corfe Castle, Dorset' signed and dated 1952 lower right, watercolour and gouache, 37cm x 52cm Provenance: Private Collection, Dorset Exhibited: Summer Exhibition, Sally Hunter Fine Art, 1988	£100 - £200	£120	View
12	*CECIL WALLER (1908-1992) 'Stickley's Barn, Minchington, Dorset, 1968' oil on canvas, 24.5cm x 33cm; together with an en grisaille watercolour study by the same artist 'Stickley's Barn, last stages', showing the building in a part-demolished state, 37cm x 55cm (2) …	£100 - £200	£180	View
13	*CECIL WALLER (1908-1992) Farm study with thatched building monogrammed lower right, oil on canvas, 40cm x 50cm Provenance: The Estate of the late Roger Peers (1932-2023), Curator of the Dorset County Museum between 1959 and 1992	£100 - £200	£260	View
14	*CECIL WALLER (1908-1992) 'Sky and Hedge I' Dorset landscape study, monogrammed lower right, oil on canvas, 24.5cm x 33cm Provenance: The Estate of the late Roger Peers (1932-2023), Curator of the Dorset County Museum between 1959 and 1992	£100 - £200	£550	View
15	*REYNOLDS STONE (1909-1979) 'Girl by a Tree' Emma in the garden at the Old Rectory, Litton Cheney, Dorset, signed in pencil to the margin, wood engraving, the image 8.25cm x 7.5cm	£80 - £150	£200	View
16	*HERMIONE HAMMOND (1910-2005) 'A North Dorset Farmhouse, 1943' signed and dated lower right, watercolour, 30cm x 42.5cm; together with a view of Wareham by the same artist, signed and dated 1940 lower right, watercolour, 22.5cm x 30cm (2) Provenance: The…	£100 - £200	£170	View
17	*HERMIONE HAMMOND (1910-2005) 'Wareham, Dorset, 1942' signed and dated lower right, watercolour, 29.5cm x 43.5cm; together with a companion view 'Rooftops, Wareham, Dorset, 1935', signed and dated lower left, watercolour, 30cm x 42cm (2) Provenance:…	£100 - £200	£220	View
18	*JAMES FRY (1911-1985) 'Heathland Pool, Purbeck' Dorset landscape with Corfe Castle visible to the distance, monogrammed lower right, further signed and titled verso, oil on board, 30cm x 40cm	£500 - £1,000	£1,000	View
19	*JAMES FRY (1911-1985) Still life study of flowers in a vase monogrammed lower right, oil on board, 60cm x 50cm	£500 - £1,000	-	View
20	*JAMES FRY (1911-1985) 'Looking towards Creech Barrow from Middle Bere' Dorset landscape view, monogrammed lower right, signed and titled verso, oil on board, 30cm x 50cm Provenance: Private Collection, Cardiff	£400 - £800	£360	View
21	*JAMES FRY (1911-1985) 'River Frome from near Holmebridge' Dorset landscape view, monogrammed lower right, signed and titled verso, oil on board, 45cm x 60cm Provenance: Private Collection, Cardiff	£400 - £800	£360	View
22	*JAMES FRY (1911-1985) 'Corfe Castle from near Blashenwell' Dorset landscape view, monogrammed lower right, signed and titled verso, oil on board, 34cm x 44cm Provenance: Private Collection, Cardiff	£400 - £800	£1,200	View
23	*GEORGE DANNATT (1915-2009) 'From above the pier' abstract Dorset coastal landscape, signed, titled and dated February 1991 verso, oil on board, 17cm x 19cm Provenance: The Estate of the late Roger Peers (1932-2023), Curator of the Dorset County…	£400 - £800	£340	View
24	*GEORGE DANNATT (1915-2009) 'From under the pier' abstract Dorset coastal landscape, signed, titled and dated February 1991 verso, oil on board, 17.5cm x 20.25cm Provenance: The Estate of the late Roger Peers (1932-2023), Curator of the Dorset…	£400 - £800	£320	View

Total lots: 324

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