3rd September 12pm Andrew Burt Sale Highlights
15 - MICHAEL AYRTON, 1921 - 1975, BRONZE, EDITION OF 6
Titled ‘Daedalus Wingmaker, 1960’.
(overall 45.8cm x 55.9cm x 38.1cm)
Provenance; Bloomsbury Auctions, 20th June 2013, Lot 50
Est 10,000 – 15,000
SOLD £11,500
16 - MICHAEL AYRTON, 1921 - 1975, BRONZE, EDITION OF 6
Titled ‘Daedalus at Cumae, 1961’, seated on wooden plinth.
(overall 20cm x 28.5cm x 53cm)
Provenance: Christie’s, 17th March 2016
Est £15,000 – 25,000
SOLD £14,500
19 - ROBERT CLATWORTHY, 1928 - 2015, BRONZE
Titled ‘Cat’, on wooden base.
(23cm x 40cm, 47cm overall)
Est £1,000 – 1,500
SOLD £8,500
38 - RALPH BROWN, R.A., 1928 - 2013, BRONZE
Titled ‘Divers’, on wooden base.
(49cm, 64cm overall)
Est £500 – 800
SOLD £2,400
42 - LESLIE THORNTON PHILLIPS, BRONZE
Titled ‘Seated Figure, 1956’, on wooden base.
(39cm, 42cm overall)
Provenance: Maquette for figure in a Thicket Phillips, 25th September 2001
Est £300 – 500
SOLD £3,200
50 - JEAN GAY DALLAIRE, B. 1943, BRONZE (9/12)
Titled ‘Family Group 1992’, signed, dated, numbered, on marble base.
(11cm, 14cm overall)
Provenance: Bonham’s, 1st October 1997
Est £200 – 400
SOLD £1,800
61-DENNIS MITCHELL, 1912 - 1993, BRONZE (5/7)
Titled ‘Endillion, 1971’, on marble base.
(29cm, 33cm overall)
Provenance: Phillips, 9th June 1998
Est £800 – 1,000
SOLD £7,500
77 - JOHN MILNE, 1931 - 1978, BRONZE (3/3), 1967
Titled ‘Gnathos’, signed, dated and numbered, on slate base.
(67cm x 60cm, 64cm overall height)
Provenance: purchased by Margeret Parr, 8th October 1974, Christie’s, 5th July 1998, Ref: Tate St Ives Book
Est £2,000 – 4,000
SOLD £9,000
93 - JOHN MILNE, 1931 - 1978, BRONZE (1/6)
Titled ‘Aten, 1972’, on marble base.
(63cm x 60cm, 65cm overall)
Provenance: Sotheby’s, 10th September 2003
Est £5,000 – 10,000
SOLD £7,000
123 - MICHAEL AYRTON, 1921 - 1975, OIL ON PANEL
Titled ‘Columbines, 1944’, signed, dated and framed.
(33cm x 40.5cm, 44cm x 52cm overall)
Provenance: Exhibited Redfern Gallery, 1945
Est £3,000 – 4,000
SOLD £3,400
162 - MICHAEL AYRTON, 1921 - 1975, INK AND WASH
Titled ‘Portrait of John Minton, 1966, The Recollection of St. Remy, August 1939’, signed, dated, mounted, framed and glazed.
(40cm x 50cm, 61cm x 71cm overall)
Provenance: Christopher Hull Gallery
Est £1,000 – 2,000
SOLD £2,900
205 - MICHAEL AYRTON, 1921 - 1975, OIL ON BOARD
Titled ‘Gethsemane, 1944’, signed, inscribed, dated and framed.
(65cm x 51.5cm, 83cm x 69cm overall)
Provenance: purchased at the 1945 Exhibition by John Lehmann with Thomas Agnew & Sons, anonymous sale at Sotheby’, London, 15th May 1985, Lot 185, sale at Christies, 21st Match 2018, Lot 149
Est £8,000 – 12,000
SOLD £14,000
208 - JACOB EPSTEIN, 1880 -1959, PENCIL
Titled ‘Reclining Negress’, signed, mounted, framed and glazed.
(56cm x 44cm, 79cm x 66cm overall)
Provenance: Lady Celia Coates, 1939, The Leicester Galleries, London, Christie’s, 1st July 2004
Est £2,000 – 3,000
SOLD £2,800
220 - GEOFFREY CLARKE, R.A., 1924 - 2014, SUGAR LIFT AQUATINT WITH ETCHING (5/50)
Titled ‘Blue Head, 1951’, signed, dated, mounted, framed and glazed.
(23cm x 46cm, 41.5cm x 66cm overall)
Provenance: Phillips, 24th June 1996
Est £100 - 200
SOLD £530
212 - MARY WYKEHAM, B. 1927, OIL ON BOARD
Titled ’Prism Head, 1949’, signed, bearing a War Economy label and framed.
(48cm x 37cm, 68cm x 56cm overall)
Est £150 – 300
SOLD £2,200
269 - MAGGIE HAMBLING, C.B.E., B. 1945, WATERCOLOUR, GOUACHE AND INK
Titled ‘Oscar Wilde, 1998’, signed and dated.
(57cm x 78cm, 68cm x 86cm overall)
Provenance: Bonham’s, 20th September 2011
Est £200 – 300
SOLD £2,400
273 - ROBIN L. MULLER, B. 1953, ACRYLIC ON BOARD, titled ‘Astrid A Holbein', framed.
(37cm x 42cm, 49.5cm x 54.5cm overall)
Provenance: National Portrait Gallery, BP Portrait Award Winner, 2014, 1344E
Est £1,000 – 2,000
SOLD £1,600
292 - DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH, 1903 - 1975, LITHOGRAPH, ARTIST PROOF
Titled ‘Winter Solace’, signed and inscribed for ‘John, 23rd June 1971’, mounted, framed and glazed.
(23cm x 28.5cm, 42cm x 46 .5cm overall)
Est £2,000 – 3,000
SOLD £2,400
293 - FRANK AVRAY WILSON B.1914
OIL ON BOARD
Titled 'Configuration Blue Red' 1960
provenance Redfern gallery, Christie’s
(40 x 16 cm, 56 x 30 cm overall)
Est £800 – 1,500
SOLD £2,800
