Modern British & Irish Art
Modern British & Irish Art
Property from a British Private Collection
Edward Burra
Madame Butterfly
Auction Closed
November 23, 02:38 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a British Private Collection
Edward Burra
1905 - 1976
Madame Butterfly
indistinctly signed Burra and dated 1931 (lower left)
pencil, watercolour, ink and gouache on paper
unframed: 56 by 75.5cm.; 22 by 29¾in.
framed: 63.5 by 83.5cm.; 25 by 32¾in
Executed in 1931.
We are grateful to Jane Stevenson, author of Edward Burra: Twentieth-Century Eye (2008), for her kind assistance in the cataloguing of the present work.
Leicester Galleries, London, where acquired by John MacAdam
Acquired by the family of the present owners in the 1960s
Acquired by the family of the present owners in the 1960s
Andrew Causey, Edward Burra, Complete Catalogue, Phaidon, Oxford, 1985, no. 83
London, Leicester Galleries, Edward Burra, June 1947, no. 19
London, Tate Gallery, Edward Burra, 23 May - 8 July 1973, no. 32
London, Tate Gallery, Edward Burra, 23 May - 8 July 1973, no. 32