11th Jan, 2025 9:30 GMT/BST
Edmund George Warren RI (1834-1909)
The woodland picnic
Signed and dated 1872, watercolour and gouache, 44cm by 64.5cm
Sold for £1,000
Estimated at £200 - £300
A discoloured and stained mouth. Paper is flat and even, no tears or creases. A few areas of adhesive at the edges and two small areas where this has lifted and pulled up a little paint. Micro-craking to the shiny brown paint in passages throughout, all stable. A few very tiny pinpoint losses/nicks and one larger one in the tree canopy mid-left (see images). A further minor scratch. Slight darkening/oxidisation of the paper visible in the sky top right. Colours appear fairly bright and vivid.
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Auction: Country House Sale, 11th Jan, 2025
The Country House Sale will include over 130 pictures, from 18th and 19th century oils through to 20th century watercolours as well as a good sporting art selection, portraits and an array of still life studies.
Good furnishing pieces can be found amongst the furniture, rugs and clocks, and the ceramics and works of art sections includes an interesting collection of treen, and a further instalment of English and Continental Delft from the Mobbs Collection.
The sale will also offer part of The Selected Contents of Eden Lacy, Lazonby, from the estate of Victor Gubbins. Further pieces from the collection will be offered in the Spring Fine Week sales on 15th March.
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Wednesday 8 January - Thursday 9 January 10am-4pm, Friday 10 January 10am-5pm and morning of sale from 8am
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