Lot 468
Promenade dans la Neige 1880
etching
signed and dated in plate below image: J. J. Tissot/ 1880
56.5 x 26cm
Estimate $2,000 - $4,000
Neville Keating Pictures, London (label verso)
Matyjaszkiewicz, K., (Ed.), 'James Tissot', Phaidon Press and Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1984, p.122 [illus. pl.119]
This etching is the first of three published states, before the addition of a text by Keats in the title margin: 'She will bring in spite of frost / Beauties that the earth hath lost.' This is one of several personifications of Kathleen Newton as one of the months or seasons.
DAY AUCTION: The Decorative Arts Collection of James Fairfax AC
AUCTION
Sale: LJ8202
11:00am - 1 September 2017
The National Art School, Sydney
VIEWING
Leonard Joel, 39 Queen Street, Woollahra NSW 2010
Tuesday 29 & Wednesday 30 August, 11am-6pm
Thursday 31 August, by appointment only
CONTACT
Tim Nicol
timothy.nicol@leonardjoel.com.au
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