ID 1308884
Lot 31 | CECIL COLLINS, R.A. (1908-1989)
Estimate value
£ 8 000 – 12 000
The Dreaming Fool
signed and dated 'Cecil Collins/1942.' (upper right); signed and dated again 'Cecil Collins/1942' and inscribed '"A Fool dreaming" (1942)/from the suite "The Holy history of Fools"' (on the reverse)
pencil and watercolour on paper
11 x 9 in. (27.9 x 22.9 cm.)
Executed in 1942.
Provenance
with Alex Reid & Lefevre Ltd, London.
S. Schofield, by 1947.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 18 January 1984, lot 324, where acquired for the present collection.
Literature
C. Collins, The Vision of the Fool, London, 1947, n.p., no. 16, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Pyms Gallery, British and Irish Works on Paper: 1900-2000, June - July 2004, pp. 60-61, no. 28, illustrated.
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