15th Oct, 2022 9:30 GMT/BST
Modern & Contemporary Art
79
John Northcote Nash CBE, RA (1893-1977)
"Rudbeckia Speciosa" (from Poisonous Plants), 1927
Signed, woodcut, 17.5cm by 14cm
Sold for £450
Estimated at £150 - £200
The sheet is carefully slotted into a paper triangle at each corner. Time staining to the paper and a shadow where the mount has oxidised the paper more. Large sized foxing spot centre of the lower edge. The paper has a deckeled left edge. Handling creases upper right corner. The odd feint foxing spot centre of the top edge, one lower left and one above the upper leaf.
Auction: Modern & Contemporary Art, 15th Oct, 2022
The sale includes the residual pictures from the collection of a Lady, of which the tour de force is the highly important impressionistic rendition of “The North Sea” by Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887-1976). Other key works from the estate include two further drawings by L S Lowry “The Pond” and “Man Taken Ill”, each representing diverse periods of the artist’s oeuvre.
Further works of note include a Henry Moore bronze, "Maquette for Warrior with Shield" (1952-53), a collection of works from the family of the artist Paul Maze (1887-1979), a good selection of works by Northern artists such as Norman Cornish, Tom McGuinness, Brian Shields “Braaq”, Joe Scarborough, Peter Brook, and celebrated Modern British artists such as Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe and Montague Dawson.
Viewing
Thursday 13 October 10am-4pm, Friday 14 October 10am-5pm and morning of sale from 8am
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