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THE VILLIERS DAVID FOUNDATION
The Villiers David Foundation was established in 1986 in memory of Villiers David, the connoisseur, painter and collector, who lived in London, and died aged seventy-eight in 1985. Never faced with the necessity of earning a living, he was free to pursue his varied artistic talents and interest which included extensive travel. Largely self-taught as a painter, he developed a lively, spontaneous and often witty style. Ten exhibitions of his paintings were held in London from 1957, for the catalogues of which he wrote amusingly provocative introductions. His work was frequently the result of his travels to the Near and Far East. Visitors to Villiers David's flat, with its long drawing-room overlooking Green Park, could not fail to be aware of his discerning and eclectic taste as a collector. There he had assembled sculpture from Europe and India, Picasso prints and Japanese woodcuts, drawings by Rembrandt, Ingres, Claude and Tiepolo, and paintings by Guardi, Vuillard, Sickert and Matthew Smith. One of a circle of civilised friends, he was extremely hospitable and enjoyed sharing with others the pleasure he derived from his collection.
When first established, the Foundation made a number of small grants annually to artists and students. Prompted by the wishes of its founder, the late Gerard Schlup, who had inherited Villiers David's collection, the Trustees decided to make one larger award, to be called the Villiers David Prize, to an artist not older than thirty-five, for travel abroad. The prize was first awarded in 1993.
THE FOLLOWING LOTS ARE SOLD TO BENEFIT THE VILLIERS DAVID FOUNDATION
Villiers David
The Hilton Hotel across Green Park
signed with initials and inscribed
watercolour
6½ x 8in. (16.5 x 20cm.);
and four other watercolours;
'Football Match' and 'Dusk' (two in one frame); 'A Negro at the Turner Exhibition 1974' (Exhibited: London, Hazlitt Gooden & Fox, Villiers David, Dec. 1975, no. 52), and 'Gallery Viewing' (5)
The Villiers David Foundation was established in 1986 in memory of Villiers David, the connoisseur, painter and collector, who lived in London, and died aged seventy-eight in 1985. Never faced with the necessity of earning a living, he was free to pursue his varied artistic talents and interest which included extensive travel. Largely self-taught as a painter, he developed a lively, spontaneous and often witty style. Ten exhibitions of his paintings were held in London from 1957, for the catalogues of which he wrote amusingly provocative introductions. His work was frequently the result of his travels to the Near and Far East. Visitors to Villiers David's flat, with its long drawing-room overlooking Green Park, could not fail to be aware of his discerning and eclectic taste as a collector. There he had assembled sculpture from Europe and India, Picasso prints and Japanese woodcuts, drawings by Rembrandt, Ingres, Claude and Tiepolo, and paintings by Guardi, Vuillard, Sickert and Matthew Smith. One of a circle of civilised friends, he was extremely hospitable and enjoyed sharing with others the pleasure he derived from his collection.
When first established, the Foundation made a number of small grants annually to artists and students. Prompted by the wishes of its founder, the late Gerard Schlup, who had inherited Villiers David's collection, the Trustees decided to make one larger award, to be called the Villiers David Prize, to an artist not older than thirty-five, for travel abroad. The prize was first awarded in 1993.
THE FOLLOWING LOTS ARE SOLD TO BENEFIT THE VILLIERS DAVID FOUNDATION
Villiers David
The Hilton Hotel across Green Park
signed with initials and inscribed
watercolour
6½ x 8in. (16.5 x 20cm.);
and four other watercolours;
'Football Match' and 'Dusk' (two in one frame); 'A Negro at the Turner Exhibition 1974' (Exhibited: London, Hazlitt Gooden & Fox, Villiers David, Dec. 1975, no. 52), and 'Gallery Viewing' (5)
Exhibited
London, The Hazlitt Gallery, Villiers David, Nov.-Dec., 1972
No. 42
No. 42