20th Century (SOLD)

Signed with initials and dated l.r.: EA/1904, watercolour and bodycolour over traces of pencil on rough brown paperImage size 17.5 x 22.8 cm.; 6 7/8 x 9 inches, sheet size 22.5 x 27.5 cm.; 8 7/8 x 10 ¾ inchesFrame size 37.5 x 43 cm.; 14 ¾ x 16 7/8 inchesProvenancePrivate collection. U.K., until 2020Alexander studied at the Royal Institution, Edinburgh from 1887-8, and in Paris with the sculptor Emmanuel Frémier.In 1887-8 the artist travelled to Tangier with his father and fellow artists Pollock Nisbet and Joseph Crawhall. He returned to Egypt in 1892, after his artistic studies, and lived on a houseboat on the Nile for 4 years, painting in the desert. This drawing appears to be of North Africa, the evocative rooftops an engaging subject on the characteristic oatmeal paper he often used.In 1902 Alexander was elected an associate of the Royal Scottish Academy becoming a full member in 1913. He exhibited widely including at the Royal Scottish Academy, Royal Academy, Fine Art Society, Royal Watercolour Society and the Leicester Galleries.Alexander’s work is held in the Tate Gallery, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Dundee Art Gallery and by Fife Council.

Signed and dated l.r.: Edward Bawden/1948, pen and grey ink and watercolour46 x 59 cm.; 18 x 23 inchesProvenanceMiss N.B. Allen, purchased in 1949 from the Leicester Galleries, London;Spink, K3 10536;Private collection, U.K. until 2022ExhibitedLeicester Galleries, London: ‘Works by Edward Bawden CBE, ARA’, February 1949, no. 1Bawden lived in Great Bardfield in Essex from the 1930s to 1970 and was a central figure of the Great Bardfield Artists.

Signed l.r., watercolour28 x 12 cm

Duncan Grant (1885-1978)The Blue TableclothSigned and dated l.l.: D. Grant/32, oil on canvas boardProvenanceThomas Agnew & Sons, London (7524); sold toIsobel Jeans, 20 July 1932;Wyndham T. Vint, Bradford;Christie’s London, 16 July 2014, lot 102 where bought by the present ownerGrant’s painting style was influenced by the French Post-Impressionist exhibitions organized in London by Roger Fry in 1910. He painted still lifes throughout his life, constantly juxtaposing different objects, fruit and plants on a tabletop. Here the skillfully painted blue tablecloth provides a backdrop to the carefully arranged bowl of fruit with black grapes, bananas and apples juxtaposed with a bottle, seen in many of his still lifes. A couple of red roses balance the composition. This still life was most probably painted at Charleston, Grant’s home in Sussex which he shared with Vanessa Bell. He moved there with his lover David Garnett and Bell’s two children Julian and Quentin. Their father Clive Bell was a frequent visitor, although he kept his permanent home in London. Agnew’s sold many paintings for Duncan Grant over the course of his lifetime.

Watercolour over pencil with a touch of bodycolour on brown paper8 x 11 cmProvenanceHolland & Holland

KT 490SOLDSigned with initials and dated l.r.; A.T./April 3 1918, watercolour with bodycolour over pencil on green paper18.7 x 14 cm.; 7 ½ x 5 ½ inchesPrivate collection U.K. until 2021

SOLDSigned l.r.: A.T./oct.8.1918, watercolour over traces of pencil with touches of bodycolour on green paper28 x 35.3 cm.; 11 x 13 7/8 inchesProvenanceThe Moorland Gallery, Cork Street