SHEPARD | Six preliminary pencil drawings

SHEPARD, E.H., E.H. SHEPARD

Six preliminary pencil drawings, comprising:

i) "Christopher Robin with Railings", 125 by 70mm.; ii) "Dressing for Ascot" [for Susan Colling’s Frogmorton, 1955], 95 by 100mm., some browning and creases; iii) "Septimus" [for E.H. Shepard’s Drawn from Memory, 1957], 130 by 80mm., some browning, minor crease; iv) "Boy and Racoon" [for Punch], 80 by 85mm.; v) "Dogs, Ow! – Stick, O My!" [for Kenneth Grahame’s Bertie’s Escapade, 1949], 85 by 105mm.; vi) "Asleep", 75 by 120mm.; all preliminary pencil drawings, unsigned, mounted, framed and glazed

PROVENANCE:

Estate of E.H. Shepard; Sally Hunter Fine Art, December 1988, No 12, 66, 70, 107, 51 and 164; Sotheby's, London, 15 July 2014, lots 674 and 675 (part); whence acquired by the current owner

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