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EDWARD LEAR | Courmayeur, Italy
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description
- Lear
- Courmayeur, Italy
- Pen and brown ink and watercolour;inscribed, dated and numbered, lower right: Cormayeur [sic] / 29, 30 July 1861 / (68), and further inscribed with artist's notes
- 364 by 544 mm
Provenance
Sir Arthur John Evans (1851-1941),
thence by inheritance to his half-sister Dame Dr. Joan Evans (1893-1977),
by whom given to the family of the present owners
thence by inheritance to his half-sister Dame Dr. Joan Evans (1893-1977),
by whom given to the family of the present owners
Exhibited
London, The Arts Council of Great Britain, unknown year, no. 37
Catalogue Note
This drawing has an interesting provenance. Sir Arthur John Evans was a pioneering archaeologist who discovered the Minoan civilisation and later became Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. He gave the work to his half-sister Dame Dr. Joan Evans, a distinguished and much published art historian.