16th Mar, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST
British, European & Sporting Art
1057
Vincent Balfour Browne (1880-1963)
"Only that wretched 6 pointer"
Initialled, watercolour, 9.5cm by 15cm
Provenance: Rowland Ward's, London
Sold for £280
Estimated at £250 - £400
A very slight convex distortion bottom right corner, only visible in raking light otherwise the picture plane is even. One tiny white/brown surface accrestion or nick top left (see images) to the sky one inche above the deer on the horizon. There is a feint line going from the horizon at the left edge towards the top right corner, with feint dark spots below and a feint dark spot in the sky towards the top right corner.
Likely some fading/muting of colours.
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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