Lot Essay
Original illustrations for the book page of the Sunday Telegraph.
A quantity of portraits of various sitters, including: Aubrey Beardsley; Georges Simenon; Sigmund Freud; Honore de Balzac; Matthew Arnold; Dr F.R. Leavis; Thomas Mann; George du Maurier; Arthur Koestler; and Arnold Wesker
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Nicolas Clerihew Bentley (1907-1978)
A quantity of portraits of various sitters, including: Aubrey Beardsley; Georges Simenon; Sigmund Freud; Honore de Balzac; Matthew Arnold; Dr F.R. Leavis; Thomas Mann; George du Maurier; Arthur Koestler; and Arnold Wesker
all signed by the artist
pen and black ink, six unframed
5¼ x 6in. (13.4 x 15.3cm.); and smaller (10)
A quantity of portraits of various sitters, including: Aubrey Beardsley; Georges Simenon; Sigmund Freud; Honore de Balzac; Matthew Arnold; Dr F.R. Leavis; Thomas Mann; George du Maurier; Arthur Koestler; and Arnold Wesker
all signed by the artist
pen and black ink, six unframed
5¼ x 6in. (13.4 x 15.3cm.); and smaller (10)
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