16th Mar, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST
British, European & Sporting Art
1053
John Atkinson (1863-1924)
The Artist’s Daughter
Signed, watercolour, 45cm by 59cm
Sold for £650
Estimated at £250 - £400
There are two small horizontal convex distortions to the paper, an approx 3-inch one above left of the hat, and a smaller 1.5inch above the horse's hind quarters (see images in raking light). There is some tiny microflaking to one brushstroke of thicker paint in the lead rein over the pink dress, and some very minor cracking of thicker bodied paint strokes in the sky. There is one small loss, retouched, to the highlight at the top of the horse's hind quarters (see image). Possibly some light time staining and light surface debris. Colours appear fairly vivid.
Auction: British, European & Sporting Art, 16th Mar, 2024
Coming up for auction this Spring are three notable works by Adolphe Valette (1876-1942), a French Impressionist artist who spent the majority of his career in the North of England. Whilst he is best remembered today as being the highly influential tutor to L.S. Lowry, Valette created a significant body of work in oils, watercolours and drawing media. All three works are sold with provenance from The Perera Collection, the largest collection of works by Valette to have been assembled in private hands.
Further notable works in the sale include an exquisitely detailed still life of a peach, black grapes and cobnuts on a marble shelf by Emilie Preyer (1849-1930), and a work by historical genre painter Edward Matthew Ward (1816-1879) that depicts the hero of a popular comic ballad, John Gilpin.
The sale will also see the final part of the Raymond Booth Studio, comprising 19 works. Raymond Booth (1929-2015) was perhaps the greatest botanical artist and illustrator of his generation, and his passion for the natural world shines through in his highly detailed oil studies of flora and fauna.
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Sunday 10 March - Friday 15 March 11am-4pm, and morning of sale from 8am
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