Modern British Art

Mervyn Peake

Portrait of Margot Fonteyn

Lot Closed

November 24, 04:57 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Mervyn Peake

1911 - 1968

Portrait of Margot Fonteyn

signed Mervyn Peake and dated '37 (lower left)

pastel and pencil on paper

window size: 27 by 21.5cm.; 10½ by 8½in.

framed: 40.5 by 35cm.; 16 by 13¾in.

Executed in 1937.

Sale, Sotheby's, circa 1950s, probably, where acquired by the present owners

London, Mercury, December 1939, illustrated