Eric Ravilious

Pilot Boat

Auction Closed

November 23, 02:38 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an American Private Collection

Eric Ravilious

1903 - 1942

Pilot Boat

signed Eric Ravilious and dated 1939 (lower right)

watercolour and pencil on paper

unframed (sheet): 43 by 58.5cm.; 17 by 23in.

framed: 57 by 72.5cm.; 22½ by 28½ in.

Executed in 1939.

We are grateful to James Russell for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.

Acquired by the grandfather of the present owner and thence by descent

James Russell, Ravilious in Pictures, A Travelling Artist, The Mainstone Press, Norfolk, 2012, p.44, illustrated p.5

London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, 1939, no. 26