 Treasures
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53 Claude Marquet "Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing!", 1914. Watercolour and pen & ink, signed and dated lower right, titled below, 38.5 x 24.5cm. Tipped onto backing sheet which inscribed with title in the artist's hand. Inscription continues: Shakepeare: Sonnet LXXXVII. |
$1,250 |
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54 After George Morland The Delightful Story, c.1910. Mezzotint, titled with letters below, 30.2 x 34.5cm. Lettered below title: Two blooming Nymphs all in a downy bed / In virgin raptures fell the tender flame / Entranced young Nancy lay while Lucy read / Both dwell with pleasure on the charming theme. W.C. George Morland was one of the first artists to avoid patronage and paint purely for his own pleasure. |
$890 |
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55 After George Morland The Contented Waterman, 1919. Coloured mezzotint, engraved by Arthur Cox, signed by the engraver in the margin below, edition of 375 impressions, 35x45.5cm. Published by George Klackner, London and New York, 1919. |
$1,250 |
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56 Pierre Auguste Renoir Le Chapeau Epinglé (Hat secured with a pin), c.1894/posthumous printing. Etching, 11.5 x 8cm. Later printing, probably in the last 10-15 years, from the original plate. Leymarie #R8. |
$1,100 |
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57 After Tom Roberts Christmas Flowers & Christmas Belles. Flower Sellers in Sydney, 1899. Colour lithograph, 52.2 x 37.5cm. Issued as a Supplement to the Christmas Number of the Sydney Mail. |
$1,400 |
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58 Eric Thake "In the Nude! Oh Mr Thake", 1963. Linocut, titled, numbered 16/40, signed and dated in the margin below, 20 x 14.2cm. Framed. |
$1,100 |
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59 Hilda Wiseman Maori Chief, c.1940s. Linocut, monogrammed in the plate, titled, numbered 33/60 and signed in margin below, 11.8 x 10.2cm. |
$590 |
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