Property Sold to Benefit Clifton College, Bristol
Edward Wolfe, R.A.
Portrait of Cecil Taylor
No reserve
Auction Closed
November 26, 03:10 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Edward Wolfe
1897 - 1981
Portrait of Cecil Taylor
signed Wolfe and dated 1919 (lower right)
oil on canvas
unframed: 50.5 by 40.5cm.; 20 by 16in.
framed: 64.5 by 54.5cm.; 25½ by 21½in.
Executed in 1919.
We are grateful to Richard Shone for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
Cecil Taylor, by whom bequeathed to Clifton College, Bristol
London, Royal Academy, Arts Council of Great Britain, Edward Wolfe ARA: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings & Drawings, 1967, no. 3, p. 11
Painted in Maynard Keynes’s rooms at 46 Gordon Square, a commission from Keynes for the young South African painter.
Richard Shone
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