![LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888-1935)--Augustus JOHN (1878-1961). Profile sketch of Lawrence in pencil on paper, upper edge perforated, dated 23 March 1919 and further inscribed 'P.C.' [i.e. Peace Conference] (116 x 100mm). (Lightly marked, creased and torn with small loss.) Framed and glazed. C. Grosvenor. An Iconography: The Portraits of T.E. Lawrence. Pasadena, CA: 1988, no. 9.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/CKS/2006_CKS_07275_0218_000(010416).jpg?w=1)
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LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888-1935)--Augustus JOHN (1878-1961). Profile sketch of Lawrence in pencil on paper, upper edge perforated, dated 23 March 1919 and further inscribed 'P.C.' [i.e. Peace Conference] (116 x 100mm). (Lightly marked, creased and torn with small loss.) Framed and glazed. C. Grosvenor. An Iconography: The Portraits of T.E. Lawrence. Pasadena, CA: 1988, no. 9.
Hugh Seymour WALPOLE (1884-1941). Seven Pillars of Wisdom. T.E. Lawrence in Life and Death. With an Introduction by Rupert Hart-Davis. London: I.M. Imprimit for Bertram Rota, 1985. 8° (260 x 176mm). Original wrappers with mounted print of Lawrence after Augustus John. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, NO. 1 OF 100 COPIES. O'Brien E401.
A PENCIL SKETCH OF LAWRENCE BY JOHN, DRAWN AT THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE. Following the end of World War I, Lawrence travelled to the Versailles Peace Conference in January 1919, to act as adviser and translator to the Emir Feisal, who was representing Sherif Hussein; however, Lawrence's efforts to secure a just settlement for the Arabs were frustrated, and he became increasingly cynical about the possibility of a satisfactory resolution to the question. Augustus John had been sent to the Peace Conference by Lloyd George in an official capacity and travelled to Paris in January 1919, meeting Lawrence shortly afterwards. A series of remarkable images of Lawrence, both oils and drawings, stemmed from this encounter, with perhaps the most famous being the first -- the pencil drawing used to illustrate Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Lawrence later commented in a letter to Mrs Lionel Curtis of 1 August 1933, 'Do you realise that posterity will call me beautiful, on the strength of those two John pencil sketches so artfully published by me in my books?' (Letters, London: 1938, pp. 771-772). This drawing appears to have been sketched in the same notepad as John's drawing of Lawrence executed on 21 March 1919, which is in a similar style, perforated at the upper edge, and inscribed '21-3-19 P.C.' (cf. Grosvenor, op. cit., no. 8). Of this drawing, Grosvenor comments, 'this quick, note-pad sketch depicts Lawrence at the end of two hard months of Peace conference maneuvering. Harold Nicholson saw Lawrence during this period, "the lines of resentment hardening around his boyish lips: an undergraduate with a chin"'. Also included in the lot is copy no. 1 of Seven Pillars of Wisdom. T.E. Lawrence in Life and Death, on the cover of which this drawing was first published and a copy of Grosvenor's An Iconography, no. 292 of 1,000 signed copies, inscribed to Lionel Dakers, and with loosely-inserted correspondence discussing this drawing. (3)
Hugh Seymour WALPOLE (1884-1941). Seven Pillars of Wisdom. T.E. Lawrence in Life and Death. With an Introduction by Rupert Hart-Davis. London: I.M. Imprimit for Bertram Rota, 1985. 8° (260 x 176mm). Original wrappers with mounted print of Lawrence after Augustus John. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, NO. 1 OF 100 COPIES. O'Brien E401.
A PENCIL SKETCH OF LAWRENCE BY JOHN, DRAWN AT THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE. Following the end of World War I, Lawrence travelled to the Versailles Peace Conference in January 1919, to act as adviser and translator to the Emir Feisal, who was representing Sherif Hussein; however, Lawrence's efforts to secure a just settlement for the Arabs were frustrated, and he became increasingly cynical about the possibility of a satisfactory resolution to the question. Augustus John had been sent to the Peace Conference by Lloyd George in an official capacity and travelled to Paris in January 1919, meeting Lawrence shortly afterwards. A series of remarkable images of Lawrence, both oils and drawings, stemmed from this encounter, with perhaps the most famous being the first -- the pencil drawing used to illustrate Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Lawrence later commented in a letter to Mrs Lionel Curtis of 1 August 1933, 'Do you realise that posterity will call me beautiful, on the strength of those two John pencil sketches so artfully published by me in my books?' (Letters, London: 1938, pp. 771-772). This drawing appears to have been sketched in the same notepad as John's drawing of Lawrence executed on 21 March 1919, which is in a similar style, perforated at the upper edge, and inscribed '21-3-19 P.C.' (cf. Grosvenor, op. cit., no. 8). Of this drawing, Grosvenor comments, 'this quick, note-pad sketch depicts Lawrence at the end of two hard months of Peace conference maneuvering. Harold Nicholson saw Lawrence during this period, "the lines of resentment hardening around his boyish lips: an undergraduate with a chin"'. Also included in the lot is copy no. 1 of Seven Pillars of Wisdom. T.E. Lawrence in Life and Death, on the cover of which this drawing was first published and a copy of Grosvenor's An Iconography, no. 292 of 1,000 signed copies, inscribed to Lionel Dakers, and with loosely-inserted correspondence discussing this drawing. (3)
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