Lot 414
An Angel Playing a Flageolet
pastel over a photographic base
Stamped on reverse of the backing in red ink: copywrite / BY FREDK HOLLYER / 8 PEMBROKE SQUARE / KENSINGTON W 11
72.5 x 60cm
Estimate $25,000 - $35,000
Overall in Good Condition
- marks consistent with foxing over sheet, most evident on the angel's hands
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Private Collection, UK
Nevill Keating Pictures, London
Pre-Raphaelites and the Olympians: selected works of Victorian Art from the John and Julie Schaeffer and the Art Gallery of New South Wales Collections Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 19 April - 9 September 2001
Malcolm Bell, Sir Edward Burne-Jones: A Record and Review, Second Edition, London, 1893, p.103 & ill., entitled "ANGEL".
Richard Beresford, Pre-Raphaelites and the Olympians: selected works of Victorian Art from the John and Julie Schaeffer and the Art Gallery of New South Wales Collections, exhib. cat., Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2001, p.23 (ill.).
A related study for this painting can be found in Sudley House, Liverpool.
The Collection of the Late John Schaeffer AO
AUCTION
Sale: LJ8381
1:00pm - 25 August 2020
36-40 Queen Street, Woollahra
VIEWING
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Thursday 20 - Monday 24 August, 10am - 4pm
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CONTACT
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