ID 728649
Lot 101 | ROBERT COLQUHOUN (1914-1962)
Estimate value
£ 1 500 – 2 500
Two Sisters
signed 'Colquhoun' (lower left)
coloured chalk and watercolour over monotype on paper
18 1⁄2 x 13 1⁄8 in. (47 x 33.3 cm.)
Executed in 1946-47.
Provenance
with Lefevre Gallery, London, where purchased by the present owner's father in the late 1940s, and by descent.
Literature
B. Denvir, 'Young British Painters', Graphis, Vol 2, No. 16, 1946, p. 501, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Redfern Gallery, Abstract, Cubist, Formalist, Sur-realist, April - May 1954, no. 341.
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Robert Colquhoun: An exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints from 1942-1958, March - May 1958, no. 115.
Liverpool, Arts Council of Great Britain, Walker Art Gallery, Robert Colquhoun: Paintings and Drawings, June - July 1958, no. 27: this exhibition travelled to Leicester, City Art Gallery, July - August; and Leeds, University Art Gallery, October - November.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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