British Art: The Jubilee Auction

British Art: The Jubilee Auction

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Property from the Collection of Barbara Ker-Seymer

Edward Burra

Minuit Chanson

Auction Closed

June 29, 08:07 PM GMT

Estimate

1,500,000 - 2,500,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Barbara Ker-Seymer

Edward Burra

1905 - 1976

Minuit Chanson


signed E.J. Burra and dated 1931 (lower left)

watercolour and bodycolour on paper

unframed: 54.5 by 73cm.; 21½ by 28¾in.

framed: 69.5 by 88cm.; 27½ by 34½in.

Executed in 1931.


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愛德華・布拉

1905 - 1976年

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款識:藝術家簽名 E.J. Burra 並紀年1931(左下)

水彩及水粉紙本

不連框:54.5 x 73 公分;21½ x 28¾ 英寸

連框:69.5 x 88 公分;27½ x 34½ 英寸

1931年作

Gifted by the Artist to Barbara Ker-Seymer in the 1930s, and thence by family descent to the present owner
Andrew Causey (ed.), Edward Burra: Complete Catalogue, Phaidon, Oxford, 1985, no. 73, illustrated n.p.
Jane Stevenson, Edward Burra: Twentieth Century Eye, Pimlico Random House Group Ltd., London, 2008, p. 119
Phil Cairney (director), Andrew Graham-Dixon (writer/presenter), I Never Tell Anyone Anything: The Life and Art of Edward Burra, BBC Production, 2011, 13:43