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Lot 117
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Elizabeth Violet Blackadder, R.S.A., R.A.

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Description

  • Elizabeth Violet Blackadder, R.S.A., R.A.
  • Cats and Orchids
  • signed and dated l.l.: Elizabeth Blackadder 1984
  • watercolour over pencil
  • 80 by 122cm., 31½ by 48in.

Provenance

Mercury Gallery, London where bought by the present owner 17 May 1984

Exhibited

Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, Elizabeth Blackadder 80th, 2011-2012

Literature

Judith Bumpus, Elizabeth Blackadder, 1988, p.67 illus. pl.60 and dust-jacket

Condition

STRUCTURE The sheet is sound. There are two faint diaganol creases near the centre of the upper edge; otherwise the work appears in very good overall condition. FRAME Held under glass in a silver wood frame; unexamined out of frame.
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