Antiques Trade Gazette 33
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FINE ART AND ANTIQUES SALE Saturday 16th June at 10am
Approx. 550 lots to include: antiquarian books, English, Continental and Oriental ceramics, glassware, silver and plated wares, jewellery and watches, objets d’art, Asian works of art, pictures and prints, clocks and barometers, furniture and furnishings
VIEWING Thursday 14th June 10am-5pm & Friday 15th June 10am-7pm
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on the faces that made this such an appealing work. The scene depicted the end of a chess
game as the losing player gasps while his opponent delivers a knowing look before delivering the coup de grace. The artist was described by his son
John Roberts as “a dogged player” of chess who used to play “into the small hours” with his friend Paul de Zoysa. It is thought that the characters depicted here may well have been members of the overseas student community of which Sri Lankan de Zoysa was a member. Also performing
period in the late 1940s. A large and ambitious picture with
contrasting planes of colour, it had comparable features to Shepherds near Knossos, which made £80,000 at Sotheby’s in December 2007. Four years on, demand for these
strongly, Roberts’ pencil, pen, ink and collage, Boxers, which took £190,000 against a £100,000-150,000 estimate, sold to an anonymous buyer. An earlier work from 1914 (the vendor’s family had owned it since 1915), it was less colourful but more obviously Vorticist in style, and the price was the highest auction sum for a work on paper by the artist. Also setting an auction record was
“The Jerwood Foundation …will use the funds raised from these sales towards future paintings acquisitions”
pictures of Greek subjects is even stronger and, estimated at £100,000-150,000, Sleeping Fisherman was knocked down to a dealer at £230,000, which was well above the previous £150,000 record for Craxton paid for Greek Jug, sold at Sotheby’s Evill- Frost sale in June 2011. Also at
Sotheby’s evening sale were five lots of Modern British
John Craxton’s (1922-2009) Sleeping Fisherman from 1948. While prices for the artist have not kept pace with some of his contemporaries (most notably Lucian Freud with whom Craxton was travelling in Greece when he painted this picture), they have nevertheless kept on rising and this 2ft 10in x 6ft 8in (85cm x 2.04m) oil on canvas was from his seminal early
sculpture from the Jerwood collection (arts patron John Jerwood ran one of the world’s leading pearl dealerships after setting up business in Japan after the War). The Jerwood Foundation, which runs the Jerwood gallery and sculpture park in Hastings and is open to the public, will use the funds raised from these sales towards future paintings acquisitions. The biggest taker at Sotheby’s was
Dame Elisabeth Frink‘s (1930-93) Walking Man from 1986, which took £320,000. From an edition of four, it was estimated at £150,000-250,000. Of the other four, however, only two
of the lots got away, both under estimate, which again showed the degree of selectivity in the market.
62. A KPM Berlin porcelain plaque, 23.5 x 16cm £2,500-4,000
412. Bernard Dunstan (b.1920), oil on board, 28 x 22cm. £600-800
437. A French Napoleon III bronze and ormolu encrier timepiece £800-1,200
67. A mid-18th century Nottingham salt glazed bear-baiting figure £400-600
124. A James I silver seal-top spoon (from a collection of five in the sale) £1,000-1,500
274. Eric Gill (1882-1940), a carved Portland foundation stone, 61 x 57cm £10,000-15,000
33. Emmanuel Bowen, Atlas, circa 1750 £3,000-4,000
577. A French kingwood and marquetry guéridon, circa 1840 £2,500-4,000
500. A pair of French Empire mahogany and gilt bronze fauteuils £2,000-3,000
430. A Victorian mahogany longcase regulator, probably Thwaites & Reed, dial signed W.H. Collis of Bury St Edmunds. £6,000-9,000
Above: Sleeping Fisherman by John Craxton – a record £230,000 at Sotheby’s.
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