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Robert Hills
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
bidding is closed
Description
- Robert Hills
- Beech Trees, Knole Park, Kent
signed and inscribed R. Hills/ Beech Knole lower right
- watercolor over pencil on wove paper. Together with Robert Hills, An Oak Tree, pencil on wove paper, inscribed with artist's notes center right and Samuel Jackson, A Woodland Pool, brown wash heightened with scratching out on wove paper and Henry Moses, The Artist's Wife Looking Out to Sea, brown wash and pen and brown ink over pencil on wove paper, dated Aug.st 10th. 1844 lower left and further inscribed Mrs M sitting on the Rocks lower centre. 4 works.
Provenance
The first: Lowell Libson, London
Acquired from the above, 2008
The second: Sir John and Lady Witt
Lowell Libson, London
Acquired from the above, 2004
Exhibited
The first: London, Lowell Libson, Robert Hills, Plein Air Studies, July, 2008, no, 9
Yale 2010, no. 73
The second: London, Lowell Libson, Watercolours and Drawings, November-December, 2004, no. 30
Yale 2010, no. 85
Condition
The first: Beech Trees, Knole Park, Kent: This sheet has been carefully preserved and presented. The work has not been laid down but is hinged to the present mount at two places along the upper sheet edge. There is some minor surface dirt and slight staining overall. The medium remains clear. The second: An Oak Tree: The sheet has been carefully preserved and presented. The sheet is not laid down but carefully hinged to the present mount at the sheet edges. There is very minor surface dirt and minor scattered foxing overall, some of which is visible from the catalogue illustration. The pencil has remained clear, clean and strong. The third: A Woodland Pool: The sheet has been carefully preserved and presented. The work has not been laid down but hinged to the present mount along the sheet edges. The medium has remained strong and clear with very minor fading overall. The Fourth: The Artist's wife Looking Out to Sea: The sheet has been carefully preserved and presented. The work has not been laid down but hinged along the upper sheet edge. There is some minor surface dirt to the sheet edges and a small area of discolouration in the upper centre of the composition. The medium has remained strong and clear.
For further information on this lot please contact either Mark Griffith-Jones (mark.griffithjones@sothebys.com - 0044207 293 5083), Emmeline Hallmark (emmeline.hallmark@sothebys.com - 0044207 293 5407) or Nancy Bialler (nancy.bialler@sothebys.com - 001 212 606 7222).
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.