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Art & Design post 1880

Auction date Thursday 25 April 2024 10:30 - 17:30 BST

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Total lots: 360

Lot 25 Sold
*KATHLEEN MURIEL SCALE (MURIEL HARDING-NEWMAN) (1913-2006) 'William Otway McCannell FRSA RBA (1883-1969)
the sitter depicted bust-length before blue and black drapery, signed "Scale" in pencil upper right, oil on linen laid on panel, 61cm x 51cm (unframed)

Note: This work would have been executed whilst K.M. Scale was studying at Farnham School of Art in the 1930s.
William Otway McCannell was a British painter, illustrator, writer and Principal of Farnham School…
Hammer price: £90
Estimate: £80 - £150
25 April 2024
25 April 2024
Lot 26 Sold
*KATHLEEN MURIEL SCALE (MURIEL HARDING-NEWMAN) (1913-2006) Ursula McCannell
signed "M Scale" upper right, pencil on paper, with additional portrait sketch and other drafts verso, the sheet 45.8cm x 29.2cm (unframed)

Note: This work would have been executed whilst K.M. Scale was studying at Farnham School of Art in the 1930s.
Ursula McCannell (1923-2015) was the only child to the painter Otway McCannell, the former head of…
Hammer price: £190
Estimate: £50 - £100
25 April 2024
25 April 2024
Lot 27 Sold
*KATHLEEN MURIEL SCALE (MURIEL HARDING-NEWMAN) (1913-2006) 'Peacock'
1977, signed "K. M. Harding-Newman" lower right, oil on panel, 124cm x 62cm

Exhibited: K M Scale/Harding-Newman - A Retrospective, Dorset Museum, 1995, no. 77.
Hammer price: £300
Estimate: £300 - £500
25 April 2024
25 April 2024
Lot 28 Sold
*KATHLEEN MURIEL SCALE (MURIEL HARDING-NEWMAN) (1913-2006) 'Sketch for Orpheus'
full-length study of a man playing the guitar, pencil on paper, 137cm x 75.5cm
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £150 - £250
25 April 2024
25 April 2024
Lot 29 Sold
*KATHLEEN MURIEL SCALE (MURIEL HARDING-NEWMAN) (1913-2006) Pink camellia and white amaryllis'
still life botanical study, signed "K. M. Scale Harding Newman, 1986" lower left, watercolour on paper, 59cm x 45cm

Exhibited: K M Scale/Harding-Newman - A Restrospective, Dorset Museum, 1995, no. 64.
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £100 - £200
25 April 2024
25 April 2024
Lot 30 Sold
*KATHLEEN MURIEL SCALE (MURIEL HARDING-NEWMAN) (1913-2006) A still life study of flowers
oil on Daler canvas board, 48.5cm x 40.5cm (unframed on stretcher)
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £50 - £100
25 April 2024
25 April 2024
Lot 31 Sold
*KATHLEEN MURIEL SCALE (MURIEL HARDING-NEWMAN) (1913-2006) Two life drawings
charcoal on paper, each approximately 25.5cm x 20.25cm (unframed) (2)
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £50 - £100
25 April 2024
25 April 2024
Lot 32 Sold
*KATHLEEN MURIEL SCALE (MURIEL HARDING-NEWMAN) (1913-2006) 'Mercury (Hermes) and Minerva (Athena) with Paris'
'Mercury (Hermes) and Minerva (Athena) with Paris', watercolour and pencil, 26.5cm x 20cm

Exhibited: K M Scale/Harding-Newman - A Retrospective, Dorset Museum, 1995, no. C82.
Hammer price: £220
Estimate: £200 - £400
25 April 2024
25 April 2024
Lot 33 Sold
HENRY SCOTT TUKE (1858-1929) 'French Barque at Falmouth'
signed and dated 1921 lower left, watercolour, 29.5cm x 43.5cm

Provenance: Deceased estate, Dorset

Exhibited: Liverpool Autumn Exhibition, 1924
Hammer price: £1,900
Estimate: £1,000 - £2,000
25 April 2024
25 April 2024
Lot 34 Sold
JESSICA HAYLLAR (1858-1940) Pink Roses
signed and dated 1904 lower right, oil on board, 25cm x 17.5cm
Note: The eldest daughter of genre, portrait and landscape painter James Hayllar (1829-1920)…
Hammer price: £3,800
Estimate: £3,000 - £4,000
25 April 2024
25 April 2024
Lot 35 Sold
ELIZABETH ADELA STANHOPE-FORBES (1859-1912) Town Scene
probably Holland, circa 1884, oil on panel, 31cm x 23.5cm

Provenance: The Stanhope-Forbes Estate,
Maud Forbes, and thence by descent
The Belgrave Gallery, Duke Street, St. James's, London
Deceased estate, Dorset

Exhibited: Pictures by Stanhope and Elizabeth Forbes, Newlyn Orion Gallery, 1981
Hammer price: £11,000
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,500
25 April 2024
25 April 2024
Lot 36 Sold
ARISTIDE MAILLOL (1861-1944) Nude female study from behind
monogrammed lower left, charcoal on paper, 29cm x 22cm
Hammer price: £260
Estimate: £400 - £800
25 April 2024
25 April 2024
Lot 37 Sold
JULIUS OLSSON (1864-1942) Moonlit coastal landscape
with a ship passing by on the horizon, protected by the glow of a distant lighthouse, signed lower right, oil on canvas, 61cm x 76cm

Provenance: Deceased estate, Dorset
Hammer price: £4,400
Estimate: £2,000 - £4,000
25 April 2024
25 April 2024
Lot 38 Sold
EDOUARD VUILLARD (1868-1940) 'Jardin des Tuileries'
1896, signed and numbered 'n. 56' in pencil upper right, from the edition of 100, lithograph in colours on Chine Volant, published by Ambroise Vollard, Paris, 35.5cm x 47cm
Hammer price: £200
Estimate: £200 - £400
25 April 2024
25 April 2024
Lot 39 Unsold
EDOUARD VUILLARD (1868-1940) 'Head of Madame Vuillard'
pencil on paper, 20cm x 11.4cm

Provenance: An Artistic Family Collection, Wiltshire
Estimate: £400 - £800
25 April 2024
25 April 2024
Lot 40 Sold
EDOUARD VUILLARD (1868-1940) 'Madame Hessel chez elle'
1910, monogrammed lower right, pen and ink on paper, 9.5cm x 12.5cm

Provenance: J.P.L. Fine Arts, London W1
An Artistic Family Collection, Wiltshire

Lucie Hessel, the wife of Vuillard's art dealer Jos Hessel, was a good friend of the painter for almost forty years. Vuillard painted her at different stages of her life, capturing her grace and strong personality.
Hammer price: £850
Estimate: £400 - £800
25 April 2024
25 April 2024
Lot 41 Sold
HURST BALMFORD (1871-1950) 'St Ives - Fishing Boats on the Wharf '
signed and titled verso, oil on board, 36cm x 53cm
Hammer price: £360
Estimate: £300 - £500
25 April 2024
25 April 2024
Lot 42 Sold
*GEORGES ROUAULT (1871-1958) 'To love would be so sweet'
plate thirteen from 'Miserere et Guerre', 1923, published 1948, signed and dated in plate lower left, aquatint, roulette, drypoint over heliogravure on paper, the image 57cm x 40.5cm

Provenance: Private collection, Dorset.
Hammer price: £800
Estimate: £800 - £1,500
25 April 2024
25 April 2024
Lot 43 Sold
*EDGAR ALBERT SLADE (1872-1963) 'Romilly John'
circa 1910, head and shoulders portrait study, signed lower right, pencil, 27.5cm x 22.5cm

Romilly John (1906-1986) was the son of Augustus John and Ida Nettleship. Slade's association with Augustus John came through his wife, Jessie McNeill, the sister of John's muse, and later common-law wife, Dorelia.
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £100 - £200
25 April 2024
25 April 2024
Lot 44 Sold
HAROLD HARVEY (1874-1941) 'The Cowgirl'
signed and dated '04 lower right, oil on canvas, 49cm x 36cm, probably retaining the original leaf and berry moulded gilt frame

Provenance: Deceased estate, Dorset
Hammer price: £38,000
Estimate: £5,000 - £10,000
25 April 2024
25 April 2024
Lot 45 Unsold
HAROLD GILMAN (1876-1919) Still life
roses in a blue and white Delft vase, signed "H. Gilman" lower right, oil on canvas, 50cm x 30cm

Provenance: Purchased from Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd., 22nd April 1969
Estimate: £8,000 - £15,000
25 April 2024
25 April 2024
Lot 46 Sold
*ALEXANDRE LOUIS JACOB (1876-1972) 'Le Vieux Moulin - Bords de la Marine'
French river landscape with cottages and a figure fishing from a boat, signed lower right, oil on board, 32cm x 39.5cm

Provenance: Private collection, Dorset.
Note: Jacob was a pupil of Eugène Claude. He was noted for his effects evoking the light of dawn…
Hammer price: £2,500
Estimate: £2,500 - £4,500
25 April 2024
25 April 2024
Lot 47 Sold
RAOUL DUFY (1877-1953) 'Portrait de Moussorgsky'
circa 1915-20, woodcut on Chine volant, 22.3cm x 16cm
Note: Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881, St. Petersburg) Russian composer noted particularly for his…
Hammer price: £110
Estimate: £100 - £200
25 April 2024
25 April 2024
Lot 48 Unsold
*AUGUSTUS JOHN (1878-1961) 'Study of a Girl'
charcoal and coloured chalks on paper, 34.2cm x 26.6cm

Provenance: Louise Salaman and thence by descent
Private Collection, Dorset

Exhibited: The Maas Gallery, Clifford Street, Mayfair, London

Louise Salaman, later known as Mrs E. W. Bishop, was a contemporary of Augustus John at the Slade School of Fine Art between 1893-8.
Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000
25 April 2024
25 April 2024

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