Drawings and caricatures of the Sitwell family - photo 1

Drawings and caricatures of the Sitwell family

Lot 351
26.05.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 16 380
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 752861
Lot 351 | Drawings and caricatures of the Sitwell family
Estimate value
$ 6 000 – 8 000
Drawings and caricatures of the Sitwell familySiegfried Sassoon, 1920s-30s[SASSOON, Siegfried (1886-1967). A group of drawings, sketches, and caricatures of the Sitwell family, no place, c.1920s-30s.]A fine group of drawings and caricatures of the Sitwell family. Sassoon pokes fun at Edith and her brothers, depicting them generally as out of place and awkward. They are shown as circus performers or rowing whilst smoking cigars (captioned “Really this is too lovely!”) or attempting to convert lions to modernist poetry. Some drawings are captioned and some generally more finished than others. Of the literary Sitwells, Dame Edith (1887-1964) was the eldest, followed by Sir Osbert (1892-1969), and Sir Sacheverell (1897-1988). Edith had written to Sassoon in 1917 to express her support for his protest against the war and they met the following year. Sassoon admired some of her poetry (though he had reservations about the Sitwells's eager embrace of modernism and dislike of the Georgians), and Edith in turn seems to have become infatuated with him, a sentiment which was not reciprocated. Sassoon and the Sitwell siblings (particularly Edith) were close for a time; eventually, however, relations became increasingly strained—generally due to the divergence in outlook between them. Approx. 106 drawings (various sizes, on average 330 x 250mm to 160 x 110mm), pencil and watercolor; comprising 67 loose in folders, 9 with mats, and a 39-page notebook.
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