Antiques Trade Gazette 33


a decade on


Highlights from Master Drawings London, which runs in London’s West End from July 3 to 9. Clockwise from far left:


Katrin Bellinger at Colnaghi will offer this view,A Man in a long Garment and Cap, pointing with his upraised Arm to the Right, by Salvator Rosa (1615-1673), 4ft 10in x 3ft 1in (1.46m x 94cm) black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, at £25,000.


Stern Pissarro will offer Lucien Pissarro’s Le Plateau de Vexin from Chaumont, 61


/2 x 91 /2 a watercolour on paper,


monogrammed and dated 1926 – €5400.


“It must say something about the efficacy of this event that many of this year’s 21 participating galleries have taken part in the event each year since its inception in 2001”


Tournament by James Henry Nixon. Their hefty stock includes drawings, as well as paintings and prints, from Old Master to Contemporary, with the emphasis on keeping prices reasonable – those looking to buy their first piece would do well to make the extra journey to Museum Street, conveniently located opposite the British Museum where the major show of Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance Drawingsruns until July 25.


This year, Abbott and Holder will host four concurrent exhibitions during the week, with watercolours from Rebecca John and Anthony Bream, as well as an album of watercolours of Coventry 1819 – the result of a visit by William Henry Brooke (offered as a whole) and a show of Twenty Drawings 1975-2000by the British artist Christopher Le Brun, which have come directly from the artist. These energetic symbolist drawings, providing a synopsis of the British artist’s creative development, are priced from £950 to £4500.


Devotees of traditional British drawings should head toW


• S Fine Art/Andrew


Wyld, who have a group of eight watercolours and drawings of landscapes


Sphinx Fine Art have secured this Stage Design for Firebird, Act II by Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova (1881-1962). It is signed and inscribed 'Oiseau de Feu/décors II tableau/ N. Goncharova', measures 2ft 3in x 111


/2 in (69 x 30cm), and is


worked in watercolour over pencil on paper with gouache and gold paint – £110,000.


Didier Aaron will offer this design for the decoration of a wall panel with classical figures by François- Joseph Bélanger, 111


/2 x 6in (29 x


15cm), in pen and red, blue and black ink, watercolour and gouache over traces of graphite. It is inscribed in pencil lower right 33 – and is one of a group of Bélanger designs ranging from €1000 to €15,000.


S Fine Art have priced The Old College House, Conway by John Sell Cotman (1782-1842), 111


W• /2


(29 x 21cm), in pencil and watercolour, at £45,000.


x 81 /8 in in (17 x 25 cm),


and architectural subjects by the Norwich School artist, John Sell Cotman (1782- 1842), now offered on the market for the first time in several decades, having been purchased about six months ago from a private collection. Prices for the Cotman’s range from £3500 to £65,000, and W


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Fine Art will have a total of 46, 18th and 19th century British drawings and watercolours on show, including works by Gainsborough, Constable and Lear. Didier Aaron participate in both Master Paintings Weekand Master Drawings London, and the emphasis is very much on the decorative for their


drawings show, devoted to 20 watercolour designs for wall decorations by the 18th century French neoclassical architect and designer, François-Joseph Bélanger (1744-1818). These lavish, richly coloured designs date to around 1785-89 and provide an insight into the sumptuous Parisian interiors concealed behind the comparatively sober Louis XVI and early Empire façades.


Markedly less decorative but no less


interesting is Theobald Jennings’ penchant for 20th century German


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