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Click here to subscribeCameron (Julia Margaret) - Victorian Photographs of Famous Men & Fair Women Victorian Photographs of Famous Men & Fair Women, introductions by Virginia Woolf and Roger Fry, first edition, number 193 of 450 copies, 25 photographic plates with captioned guards, browning to free endpapers, otherwise internally fine, original vellum-backed pink boards, covers marked, [Woolmer 86; Kirkpatrick B5], Hogarth Press, 1926; and 7 others, 4to & 8vo (8).
ROGER FRY: CEZANNE, A STUDY OF HIS DEVELOPMENT, L, The Hogarth Press, 1927, orig cl bkd pict bds, + JOSEPH DELATTRE 1858-1912, Paris, CEPI, 1985, orig cl d/w + ERNEST RATHENAU: KOKOSHKA DRAWINGS, 1962 ltd edn, (500), (450), numbered orig cl gt + FRANZ MEYER: MARC CHAGALL, L, Thames and Hudson 1964 1st edn, orig pict cl d/w (4)
Roger Fry, Animals in Chinese Art, Ben Bros, London 1923, Limited edition No 75 out of 250, and H D' Ardenne de Tizac, Animals in Chinese Art, Brentano's & Co New York, loose plates CONDITION REPORT: Folio Cover faded in parts, material cover tiwn on spike, rather dirty and scraped Title pages browned at edges and slightly nibbled, small tear, 3cm Index of plates Some very small areas of foxing mostly outside image area Plate IX - slight foxing on plate XII slight foxing on plate XIV foxing in plate margin XIX slight fixing right hand lower just into plate XXIII slight foxing edge of plate XXIV slight foxing leaft hand side into plate XXXIX foxing to edge of plate XLV slighting foxing XLV onward in colour XLVI fixing into plates L slightly foxing on plates All plates present Book:- Material covered spines, edges and corners bumped and worn Gilt letter to spine, material torn and some missing Water marks to front cover Gilded horse to cover Edges browned and dirty Foxing to front piece at margins Plate and title pages have minor foxing VIII slight fixing intruding onto plate 24 very slight foxing intruding onto plate 31 very slight foxing intruding onto plate 34 slight foxing intruding onto plate 37 fox mark bottom right hand corner 48 very slight fox mark top right 49 very slight fox mark top centre 50 foxing at right edge and top on plate
BRITISH COMEDY: Selection of signed postcard photographs and a few slightly larger, a few letters etc., by various British television comedy actors and actresses including Keith Barron, Maureen Lipman, Barry Howard, Sue Johnston, Caroline Aherne, Victoria Wood, Vicki Michelle, Melvyn Hayes, Sue Holderness, John Challis, Lucy Davis, Bob Monkhouse, Ruby Wax, Peter Bowles, Barbara Lott, Norman Collier, Bill Gaunt, Brian Murphy, Ruth Madoc, Tessa Peake Jones, Stephen Fry, Ken Dodd, Nigel Planer, Kathy Staff, Linda Robson, Syd Little & Eddie Large, Roger Lloyd Pack, Rory Bremner, Michael Crawford, June Whitfield, Dawn French etc. A little duplication. G to generally VG, 87
AUTOGRAPH ALBUMS: Two autograph albums containing over 200 signatures by various entertainers, pop musicians and singers etc., including Harry Hill, Errol Brown, Martin Fry, Tony Hadley, Midge Ure, Roger Whittaker, Jack Dee, Ralf Little, Joe Brown, Marty Wilde, Ben Elton, David Morrissey, Roy Wood, Hank Wangford, Bill Wyman, Phil Cool, Gareth Hale & Norman Pace, George Melly, Hank Marvin, Joan Regan, John Leyton, Joe Brown, Georgie Fame, some sports stars including Kelly Holmes, George Cohen, Jimmy Greaves, Tony Adams etc. Some duplication. Many pages are multiple signed and most are annotated in ink in the hand of the collector. A few pages loose, otherwise VG, 2
WOOLF, Virginia. Kew Gardens… second edition. Richmond: [printed by Richard Madley for] Hogarth Press, 1919. 8vo (218 x 140mm). 2 woodcut illustrations by Vanessa Bell (one full-page, the other a tail-piece). (Spotted.) Original coloured decorated wrappers in royal blue, chocolate-brown and brick red by Roger Fry`s Omega Workshop, original white label printed in black on upper wrapper (the wrappers torn with loss). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.
Collection of signed postcards and larger, Kimberley Walsh (2), Joanna Lumley, Stephen Fry, Glenda Jackson, Honor Blackman, Pat and Shirley Boone, Peter Davison, Ben Kingsley, June Whitfield, Hayley Mills, John Glenn, Una Stubbs, Terry Wogan, Richard Wilson, Ian Rankin (author), Martin Clunes, David Jason, Ronnie Corbett, Roger Moore.
Duncan James Corrow Grant L.G (1885-1978) 'A Still Life of Tulips in a Cream Vase with Apples and a Plate nearby', signed with the artists initials, oil on canvas, laid down, 51.5cm x 37.5 cm Born in Rothiemurchus, Inverness-shire, he lived in India until the age of eight. He was educated at Westminster School of Art, and also studied in Italy and Paris under J.E.Blanche, he then returned to London and further study took place at the Slade School. He was a member of the Camden Town Group as well as the Bloomsbury circle with Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell and Quentin Bell, who all had an association with the Omega workshops, often working in the South of France, spending the Summers in Cassis. He lived in Firle, Sussex and decorated the Church at nearby Berwick in 1943, with the assistance of both Vanessa and Quentin Bell. May be subject to artist resale rights.
A pair of oak side chairs designed by Roger Fry at the Omega Workshops, for the Cadena Cafe, Bayswater, made by the Dryad Workshops, tapering square legs, rush seat and arched back splat with simple heart-shaped cutout 100cm. high Literature Isabelle Anscombe Omega & After Bloomsbury and the Decorative Arts plate 29 for a comparable chair Jeremy Cooper Victorian and Edwardian Furniture and Interiors page 639 The Chair, Christie`s King Street, 9th November 2000 lot 6 page 17 for another pair of these chairs. Catalogue Notes The Omega Workshops were commissioned to decorate and furnish the Cadena Cafe, 59 Westbourne Grove, Bayswater in 1914.
20th Century: Collection of signed books and other items including John McEnroe, Seán Kelly, O. J. Simpson etc. Collection of books signed by O. J. Simpson, John McEnroe, Roger Bannister, Stephen Fry, Alan Bennett, Salman Rushdie. Also signed framed photograph of cyclist Seán Kelly, framed signed letter by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and framed limited edition certificate signed by Ronnie Biggs. (9 items)
* Duncan James Corrowr Grant [ 1885-1978]- `Mealtime`, Arabs by a roadside, Morocco:- monogrammed and inscribed DG Morocco `68 on reverse of canvas 65 x 91cm. *Provenance Phillips Son & Neale Lot 246, 7th March 1986, sold for £1500. We are grateful to Richard Stone for authenticating this picture. This colourful work was painted in 1968 at Charleston from studies made in Morocco where the artist visited in 1966 and 1968. Other examples are `Figures Marrakesh` signed and dated `69, 66 x 81cm, sold Christies 1997 and `Garden at Farah, Tangier` , signed and dated `66, oil on board, 56 x 40cm, sold Sothebys 1994. *Biography. Duncan grant was a British painter and designer of textiles, pottery, theatre sets and costumes. Educated in India and St Paul`s London, studied art at Westminster School of Art and Paris under Jacques Emile Blanche. He became the Director of Roger Fry`s Omega Workshops and for the rest of his life involved himself with decorative commissions. Around 1916 he became involved with Charleston and the Bloomsbury Group and a lifelong companion of Vanessa Bell. Grant often worked in the South of France spending summers at Cassis between 1927-1938. His early close relationships were with Lytton Strachey and John Maynard Keynes. In 1935, along with other prominent British artists, he was selected to provide paintings and fabrics for the RMS Queen Mary, a not altogether happy commission! In Grant`s later years the poet Paul Roche, whom he had known since 1946 and who frequently modelled for Grant, took care of him and helped him maintain his way of life at Charleston. Duncan Grant`s remains are buried beside Vanessa Bell`s in the churchyard of St. Peter`s Church, West Firle, East Sussex, close to Charleston.
ROGER ELIOT FRY (1866-1934) Self portrait, the artist wearing a dressing gown and holding a paint brush in his left hand, signed lower left and dated `25, the reverse painted with a still life study of flowers in a vase beside a painted box, oil on canvas, 21" x 17" Provenance: The Fry family collection, Bristol. Joe Fry (1915-1950), racing driver. Pat Fry (1920-2012) (nee Grant), and thence by descent. Exhibited: Arts Council Exhibition, London 1952 (no. 29). Published: Virginia Woolf, "Roger Fry: A Biography", London 1940, reproduced as the frontispiece. The present work can be compared to other self-portaits by the artist, now at King`s College, Cambridge and The Courthauld Gallery, London. The fact that Fry is wearing pyjamas and a dressing gown may indicate that he was convalescent at the time it was painted. The still life painting on the reverse probably dates to around 1916-1917, and depicts pottery from the Omega Workshops designed by the artist. The auctioneers are grateful to Richard Shone for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.
Roger Elliott Fry 1866-1934 (attributed): oil on board of a mountain and loch scene with still life of fruit painted to reverse. Both images unsigned. Viewable image 73cm x 49cm The deceased owner's aunt was companion to Roger Fry's mother and was given paintings as a leaving present (by repute)
* Roger Elliot Fry (British, 1866-1934), View of Rake Mill Field and Pond, Witley, Surrey, inscribed to the reverse “Rake Mill Field July 1903”, pen and watercolour, 22 x 31cm (9 x 12in). Provenance: Carfax and Co. Ltd., 17 Ryder Street, St James’s, London, SW1 (old label refers), (The old label appears to show the name “Allerton”, probably Robert Allerton, the Chicago art collector and friend of Roger Fry). Roger Fry was living at Hambledon, Surrey, in 1903 - Rake Mill was destroyed by fire in the same year.
* William Roberts, RA (British, 1895-1980), A Fantastic Ballet, pen and wash with traces of pencil outline, 40 x 29cm (16 x 11in). Provenance: Purchased directly from the artist by the vendor’s grandparents, circa 1920. Private collection, Cambridge. Literature: Reproduced in Drawing and Design 2, 7 (Jan. 1927, p.5) and will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonne by David Cleall. David Cleall, the compiler of the Catalogue Raisonne, writes: “Great to have this wonderful drawing out and about after so long! I have only come across it in ‘Drawing and Design’, January 1927. As far as I know it has never been exhibited or reproduced after that date!”. After studying at the Slade under Henry Tonks, William Roberts joined the Omega Workshops under Roger Fry. Later Roberts was to team up with Percy Wyndham Lewis to produce the two editions of the Vorticist magazine “BLAST”. After his harrowing years at the Front in the First World War, Roberts returned to London where he concentrated on depicting the more Bohemian aspects of the city’s cinema, music hall and night life such as illustrated in the present painting
FAMOUS MEN & WOMEN: Selection of signed cards by a variety of famous men and women, including Leslie Charteris (with a small original sketch of The Saint), Chris Bonington (with a small original sketch of a stick man on a mountain), John Mortimer, Michael Frayn, Harold Pinter, Brian Clough, Christopher Fry, Alan Bleasdale, Jackie Charlton, Bob Champion, Arnold Wesker, Desmond Morris, Colin Dexter, Edward Albee, Terry Waite, Thomas Keneally, Beryl Bainbridge, Ruth Rendell, Julian Lloyd-Webber (with an original sketch of a cello), Fred Trueman, Henry Cooper, Mike Gatting, Johnny Dankworth (with brief A.M.Q.S), Sammy Cahn, Richard Gordon, Roger McGough, Mike Leigh, etc. VG to EX, 46
CLASSICAL MUSIC: An autograph album containing over 100 signatures by various classical musicians and a few other famous individuals including Liliana Evanti, Samuel Dushkin, Leila Megane, Albert Sammons, Ethel Smyth, Thomas Beecham, Constant Lambert, Eric Coates, Tamara Karsavina, Arthur Rubinstein, Fritz Kreisler, John Ireland, Albert Ketelby, Paul Robeson, Haydn Wood, Lionel Tertis, Moura Lympany, Wilhelm Backhaus, Alfred Cortot, Heddle Nash, Isobel Baillie, Mischa Elman, Daniel Melsa, Frederic Lamond, Jan Kubelik, Artur Schnabel, John McCormack, Randolph S. Churchill, Roger Fry, Chief Os-Ke-Non-Ton etc. Some pages are multiple signed. All of the signatures date from the 1920s & 1930s and some pages feature neatly affixed images or printed extracts from programmes. Spine loose, otherwise VG
Keith Stuart Baynes [1887-1977] Figures, boats and palm trees on a beach signed watercolour 25 x 34cm.Keith Stuart Baynes, N.E.A.C. [1887-1977]. Born in Reigate, Surrey and educated at Harrow School and Trinity College Cambridge. Studied at the Slade School 1912-1915, and after WWI became a member of the circle around the art critic Roger Fry and was strongly influenced by French Post-Impressionism.
WOOLF, Virginia, The Land, Heinemann, 1926, 1st edn. cl. bd. (Clifford & Joan Allen sign. to ffepp). Tog.with Orlando, The Hogarth press, 1928. ( Clilfford & Joan Allen sig. Plus The Waves, The Hogarth Press, 1931. 1st edn. w/o. d/w. spine faded. Plus The Years, by same, The Hogarth press, 1937. 1st edn. cl. bd. plus Orlando, Hogarth press, 1928. ( Clilfford & Joan Allen sig.) plus Roger Fry, by same, pres.copy to Joan Allen from R.C. Trevelyan. 5
Day Lewis (Cecil). Noah and the Waters, Hogarth Press, 1936, minor spots to endpapers, original cloth (upper cover with offsetting from d.j.), d.j., light spots, spine a little faded, 8vo, limited edition, one of 100 copies, (this copy unsigned and unumbered), together with A Sampler of Castile, by Roger Fry, Hogarth Press, 1923, 16 b & w illustrations, previous owner inscriptions, original cloth-backed boards, a little rubbed and stained, 4to, limited edition, 194/550, plus The Death of the Moth and Other Essays, by Virginia Woolf, 1st ed., 1942, p.155 with short marginal tear, occasional spotting, bookplate, original cloth, spine faded, d.j., some tears and repairs to verso, 8vo, with other Hogarth Press including John Hampson`s O Providence, 1932, inscribed by the author, Virginia Woolf`s Orlando, 1928 and A Letter to a Yong Poet, 1932 (35)
Sackville-West (V.). Twelve Days. An Account of a Journey Across the Bakhtiari Mountains in the South-western Persia, 1st ed., Hogarth Press, 1928, b&w illusts. and photos, some minor scattered spotting, orig. mottled cloth, a trifle rubbed, 8vo, together with The Edwardians, by V. Sackville-West, 1st ed., Hogarth Press, 1930, lacks f.e.p., orig. orange cloth gilt, a little soiled, orig. d.j., sl. frayed and markd, 8vo, plus Fry (Roger), Cezanne. A Study of His Development, 1st ed., Hogarth Press, 1927, forty b&w plts., orig. linen-backed printed boards, a little soiled and corners bumped, 4to, and others, mostly Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf interest (43)
ENTERTAINMENT: Selection of signed postcard photographs and larger, mainly colour, by various entertainers, mainly television comedy actors, a few film stars etc. including Matt Lucas, David Walliams, Felicity Kendall, Joanna Lumley (2), Ronnie Corbett, Jim Broadbent, Brian Blessed, Stephen Fry, John Challis, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Paul Barber, James Bolam (2), Robin Williams, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Edward Fox, Jackie Chan, Charles Dance, Derek Jacobi (2), Martin Sheen, Dick Van Dyke, Jack Klugman, Jerry Lewis etc. VG, 32
India and the Punjab – Mahatma Gandhi A rare large portrait drawing from life of Mahatma Gandhi by Clare Winsten c1930. Provenance – from the estate of Clare Winsten’s daughter Ruth Harrison. Drawing titled – Gandhi Meditation. A very rare drawing of the great Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) is often referred to as the father of the Indian Nation. Clare Winsten (1894-1989) was an Anglo-Jewish artist illustrator portraitist and sculptor. Clare Winsten came to the Slade as a student in 1910 the year when Roger Fry’s “Manet and the Post-Impressionists” exhibition changed the views of many artists in London and caused others dismay as life-long convictions were brusquely challenged. She showed academic and artistic talent early at school gaining a scholarship to the Female School of Art. The artist`s daughter Theodora recalls my parents life-time active involvement in social humanitarian causes as well as the arts brought them into touch with likeminded people from many spheres. This affinity produced portraits of among others D H Lawrence Montessori Catherine Lonsdale Mahatma Gandhi Bernard Shaw.... My parents first met Mahatma Gandhi in the 1930s when living at Hampstead (and this) led to a remarkable series of paintings and drawings. There was such an empathy between them that Clare was invited to be there whenever she wanted She also sketched Gandhi during his visit to England for the Round Table Conference of 1930-31. Pencil on woven paper 11 x 13 inches image. 12 x 15.25 inches in frame overall. A very rare drawing of Gandhi from life.
India and the Punjab – Mahatma Gandhi A rare portrait drawing from life of Mahatma Gandhi by Clare Winsten c1930. Provenance – from the estate of Clare Winsten`s daughter Ruth Harrison. Drawing Titled – Gandhi Meditation. A very rare drawing of the great Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) is often referred to as the father of the Indian Nation. Clare Winsten (1894-1989) was an Anglo-Jewish artist illustrator portraitist and sculptor. Clare Winsten came to the Slade as a student in 1910 the year when Roger Fry’s “Manet and the Post-Impressionists” exhibition changed the views of many artists in London and caused others dismay as life-long convictions were brusquely challenged. She showed academic and artistic talent early at school gaining a scholarship to the Female School of Art. The artist’s daughter Theodora recalls my parents life-time active involvement in social humanitarian causes as well as the arts brought them into touch with likeminded people from many spheres. This affinity produced portraits of among others D H Lawrence Montessori Catherine Lonsdale Mahatma Gandhi Bernard Shaw.... My parents first met Mahatma Gandhi in the 1930s when living at Hampstead (and this) led to a remarkable series of paintings and drawings. There was such an empathy between them that Clare was invited to be there whenever she wanted She also sketched Gandhi during his visit to England for the Round Table Conference of 1930-31. Pencil on woven paper Signed in ink by Clare Winsten 6 by 9 inches image. 12 by 15.25 inches in frame overall. A very rare drawing of Gandhi from life.
India and the Punjab – Mahatma Gandhi A rare large portrait drawing from life of Mahatma Gandhi by Clare Winsten c1930. Provenance – from the estate of Clare Winsten`s daughter Ruth Harrison. Drawing Titled – Gandhi Meditation. A very rare drawing of the great Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) is often referred to as the father of the Indian Nation. Clare Winsten (1894-1989) was an Anglo-Jewish artist illustrator portraitist and sculptor. Clare Winsten came to the Slade as a student in 1910 the year when Roger Fry`s “Manet and the Post-Impressionists” exhibition changed the views of many artists in London and caused others dismay as life-long convictions were brusquely challenged. She showed academic and artistic talent early at school gaining a scholarship to the Female School of Art. The artist`s daughter Theodora recalls my parents life-time active involvement in social humanitarian causes as well as the arts brought them into touch with likeminded people from many spheres. This affinity produced portraits of among others D H Lawrence Montessori Catherine Lonsdale Mahatma Gandhi Bernard Shaw.... My parents first met Mahatma Gandhi in the 1930s when living at Hampstead (and this) led to a remarkable series of paintings and drawings. There was such an empathy between them that Clare was invited to be there whenever she wanted. She also sketched Gandhi during his visit to England for the Round Table Conference of 1930-31. Pencil on woven paper mounted signed in ink. 15 x 11 in. (38 x 28 cm.). A very rare drawing of Gandhi from life
Harry Phelan Gibb, British 1870-1948- Still life with fruit, flowers and an African carving; oil on panel, signed, 85x54cm Note: Harry Phelan Gibb, often known just as Phelan Gibb, was born Northumberland but for 25 years worked in Paris. Initially he worked in a traditional manner but after a Cezanne exhibition in 1907 he adopted a much more avant guard style and at one time even shared a studio with Matisse and Braque. Gibb had influential supporters during his lifetime including Roger Fry, Gertrude Stein and the dealer Lucy Wertheim who gave him three solo exhibitions in the 1930s. Tate Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London hold his work.
PAUL NASH, STANLEY SPENCER, ROGER FRY AND OTHERS: SERMONS BY ARTISTS, Golden Cockerel Press 1934, (300), numbered, orig cf bkd decor bds + HENRY VAUGHAN: POEMS, The Gregynog Press 1924, (500), numbered, lib stamp partly eradicated from ttl pge, orig cl bkd decor bds + H G WELLS: THE INVISIBLE MAN, ill Charles Mozley, NY, The Limited Editions Club 1967, (1500), numbered and sigd by artist, orig cl, s-c (3)
Fry, Roger. A Sampler of Castile, limited edition 276/550, Leonard & Virginia Woolf, Hogarth Press, Richmond 1923. Cloth-backed pictorial boards, plate illustrations, quarto (ex library); Davies, W.H. The Hour of Magic and Other Poems, first edition, Cape, London 1922. Cream boards with gold title labels, dustjacket (jacket with significant loss at spine), illustrations by William Nicholson, octavo; and five other assorted works (the latter all ex library), (7).
(Gillian editor) Bloomsbury: The Artists Authors (Gillian editor) Bloomsbury: The Artists Authors and Designers by Themselves 1990 § Fry (Roger) Letters... edited by Denys Sutton 2 vol. 1972 § Anscombe (I.) Omega and After: Bloomsbury and the Decorative Arts 1981 § MacDougall (S.) Mark Gertler 2002 § Clements (K.) Henry Lamb: The Artist and his Friends 1985 § Hill (Jane) The Art of Dora Carrington 1994 § Shone (R.) Bloomsbury Portraits 1976 illustrations original cloth or boards dust-jackets; and c.20 others similar 4to & 8vo (c.25)(c.25)
André Dunoyer de Segonzac (French, 1884-1974) The garden signed 'A. Dunoyer de Segonzac' (lower right), further signed and dated 'A.Dunoyer de Segonzac/16 sept. 1959' (lower right) and variously inscribed (lower left) etching 12¼ x 9 1/8 in. (31.2 x 23.2 cm.); and one etching of studies at Scheveningen by Walter Sickert and two lithographs of landscapes by Roger Fry (4) View on Christie's.com
BRITISH COMEDY: Selection of signed postcard photographs and slightly larger, signed 8 x 10 photographs etc., by various British television and film comedians including Brian Blessed, John Inman, Mike Yarwood, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Geoffrey Palmer, Bill Pertwee, Nigel Hawthorne, James Dreyfus, Alan Davies, Ian Carmichael, Richard Briers, James Bolam, Roger Lloyd Pack, Melvyn Hayes, Brian Murphy, Warren Mitchell, Tony Robinson, Peter Sallis, Brian Wilde, Nigel Planer, June Whitfield, Neil Morrissey, Peter Vaughan, Leslie Phillips, George Cole, Norman Wisdom, Mackenzie Crook, Rory Bremner, David Jason, Joanna Lumley, Prunella Scales, John Challis, Sue Holderness, Terry Jones, Richard Wilson, Annette Crosbie, John Cleese, Andrew Sachs, Ronnie Corbett, Terry-Thomas (weak signature), Richard Wattis, Max Miller etc. A few vintage. A little duplication and some slightly grainy reproduction images. Generally VG, 105
ACTORS: Selection of signed cards by various television and film actors including Brian Blessed, John Hurt, Harry Dean Stanton, Jeremy Irons, Terry Jones, Ian Richardson, Donald Sinden, Alain Delon, Ian Holm, Richard Wilson, Ernest Borgnine, Julian Glover, Frank Williams, James Fox, Roger Lloyd Pack, Brian Wilde, James Garner, Terence Stamp, Stephen Fry, Ricky Tomlinson, Herbert Lom, Paul Scofield, Dick Van Dyke, Richard Briers, Ian Carmichael, Ronnie Corbett, Tom Courtenay, Clive Dunn etc. A little duplication. Accompanied by 34 unsigned 8 x 10 photographs of some of the subjects. VG, 89 + 34
A 20th century ceramic pitcher designed and decorated by Duncan Grant, decorated with naked boys enjoying a bacchanalia, one of them forming the handle, probably made by either Roger Fry at the Omega Workshops or by Quentin Bell, 26cm (10in) high. Provenance: given by Duncan Grant to Patrick Trevor-Roper in lieu of rent; thence by gift.
VANESSA BELL (British 1879 - 1961) Tile Design For King`s College Garden Hostel Cambridge" Watercolour 1951 extensive details on label verso 77cm x 61cm Note : Sister of Virginia Woolf. Wife of Clive Bell and lover of Roger Fry and Duncan Grant. A central figure in "The Bloomsbury Set" a prolific and influencial interior designer and considered one of the major contributors to British portrait drawing and landscape art in the 20th century"
Literary Interest. An early 20th Century album of signed letters and signatures, addressed to Sir Charles Hagberg Wright (1862-1940) of the London Library, including letters by Henry James, Winston Churchill, John Masefield, Arthur Balfour, Rudyard Kipling, John Galsworthy, H.G. Wells, Walter de La Mare, Roger Fry, Hillaire Belloc, postcard from George Bernard Shaw, and others Sir Charles was Librarian at the London Library from 1893 until his death in 1940.
* Entertainment. A group of approx. fifty modern autographs of actors and entertainers, late 20th c., including signed photos, letters, etc., autographers include Thora Hird, Bernard Cribbins, Michael Redgrave, Bob Hoskins, Lenny Henry, Christopher Lee, Ben Elton, Kenny Everett, Stephen Fry, Frances de la Tour, James Earl Jones, George Cole, Ronnie Corbett, Gabriel Byrne, Jimmy Nail, Michael Palin, Rik Mayall, Liam Neeson, Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer (Early Learning Centre till roll), Eric Sykes, Richard Todd (lobby card), plus signed publicity photos of entrepreneurs Richard Branson, Robert Maxwell and Bill Gates, plus a group of eleven b&w negatives of Diana Rigg performing for New Avengers, 1960s, plus five colour photo slides including Audrey Hepburn (2), Brigitte Bardot, Roger Moore and Sophia Loren, plus a large vintage b&w photo by Thurston Hopkins titled `Sunday on the Round Pond’ (approx. 60)
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