Lot 12
  • 12

Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys
  • Iris
  • signed and dated u.r.: F Sandys. 1903.
  • coloured chalk
  • 48 by 33cm., 19 by 13in.

Provenance

K.C. Barrington-Ward, by whom sold Christie's, 16 July 1926, lot 38 bought by Dr James Nicoll, his sale Sotheby's, 14 November 1962, lot 82, bought by Anthony Crane and thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, Exhibition of Drawings by Frederick Sandys and other Eminent Artists, 1904, no.24;
Brighton Museum and Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, Frederick Sandys 1832-1904, 1974, lot 132

Literature

Betty Elzea, Frederick Sandys - A Catalogue Raisonne, 2001, illustrated p.295, cat.no.5.61

Condition

The sheet has been laid down on card. There is surface dirt and faint foxing marks scattered lightly throughout. There are also what appears to be some treated foxing marks two to the left of the figure's head and another above her right shoulder. Otherwise the work appears to be in fair condition. Held in a gilt reeded frame and under glass. Please note that this work has been examined out of its frame.
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Catalogue Note

The model for Iris was the artist's youngest daughter Gertrude 'Girlie' (1886-1920), aged about sixteen or seventeen. She was a great beauty and the subject of several drawings by her father, including The Red Cap, Wondertime and St Dorothy. In 1913 she married the architect Lionel Francis Crane, a son of the artist and designer Walter Crane.