Made in Britain Day Auction
Made in Britain Day Auction
The Street Acrobat
Live auction begins on:
June 7, 01:00 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
Bid
22,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson
1889 – 1946
The Street Acrobat
signed C.R.W. Nevinson and dated 1919 (lower left)
pastel on paper
unframed (sheet): 62.5 by 48.5cm.; 24½ by 19in.
framed: 85.5 by 71cm.; 33½ by 28in.
Executed in 1919.
We are grateful to Christopher Martin for his kind assistance with the cataloguing for the present work.
Private Collection, 1925
Sale, Sotheby's London, 18 July 1990, lot 107
José and Muriel Campus
Fine Art Society, London, where acquired by the present owner
Albert Rutherston (ed.), Contemporary British Artists: C.R.W. Nevinson, Ernest Benn Ltd., London, 1925, p. 5, illustrated pl. 9
Osbert Sitwell (O.S.), CR.W. Nevinson, Ernst Benn Ltd., London, 1925, no. 9
London, Leicester Galleries, Exhibition of New Works by C.R.W. Nevinson, October - November 1919, no. 41 (as The Pit-door)
London, Leicester Galleries, Memorial Exhibition of Pictures by C.R.W. Nevinson, May - June 1947
London, Imperial War Museum, C.R.W. Nevinson: The Twentieth Century, 28 October 1999 - 30 January 2000, no. 114, with tour to Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
London, Fine Art Society, Lasting Impressions, 30 October - 21 November 2017, no. 28
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