British Art Evening Sale: Modern/Contemporary
British Art Evening Sale: Modern/Contemporary
Property from an Important British Private Collection
Edward Burra
War in the Sun
Auction Closed
June 29, 02:19 PM GMT
Estimate
1,800,000 - 2,500,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important British Private Collection
Edward Burra
1905 - 1976
War in the Sun
pencil, ink and watercolour on paper
unframed: 112 by 156cm.; 44 by 61½in.
framed: 133.5 by 179cm.; 52½ by 70½in.
Executed in 1938.
Gerald Corcoran, Esq., London, from whom acquired by The Rt Hon the Lord Walston, C.V.O., circa 1945
His sale, Sotheby's London, 13 May 1992, lot 49, where acquired by a Private Collector
Lefevre Fine Art, London, from whom acquired by the present owner in 2005
His sale, Sotheby's London, 13 May 1992, lot 49, where acquired by a Private Collector
Lefevre Fine Art, London, from whom acquired by the present owner in 2005
John Rothenstein, Edward Burra, Penguin Modern Painters Series, Penguin Books, London, 1945, illustrated, pl. 31
Andrew Causey, Edward Burra - a Complete Catalogue, Phaidon, Oxford, 1985, no. 149
Jane Stevenson, Edward Burra: Twentieth-Century Eye, Random House, London, 2008, p. 208
Andrew Causey, Edward Burra - a Complete Catalogue, Phaidon, Oxford, 1985, no. 149
Jane Stevenson, Edward Burra: Twentieth-Century Eye, Random House, London, 2008, p. 208