'Dinner in honor of Sir Ernest Shackleton in Bohemia, Nov. 6, 1916': a watercolour portraying Shackleton with vignettes of the hut at Cape Royds and a ship in Antarctic water, above a sheet of signatures commemorating the dinner at the Bohemian Club in honour of Sir Ernest Shackleton

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Percy Gray (fl. 1916-17) and signatories
'Dinner in honor of Sir Ernest Shackleton in Bohemia, Nov. 6, 1916': a watercolour portraying Shackleton with vignettes of the hut at Cape Royds and a ship in Antarctic water, above a sheet of signatures commemorating the dinner at the Bohemian Club in honour of Sir Ernest Shackleton
the image signed and inscribed 'Percy Gray/Dinner in honor of/SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON/IN BOHEMIA/Nov. 6, 1916.'
watercolour heightened with white on grey paper above the sheet of signatures
26 x 19½in. (66 x 49.5cm.) including the Bohemian Club silver painted frame

Provenance

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922), and by descent to the present to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

The present lot was illustrated in the souvenir programme of the 'Testimonial Benefit to Lieutenant Sir Ernest H. Shackleton...Under the auspices of the Bohemian Club and other organisations at the Expedition Auditorium, Civic Center, San Francisco, Thursday Evening, April 19, 1917', p.6.
Shackleton was in San Francisco breifly in 1916 on his way from South America, via the United States, to Wellington and on to relieve his Ross Sea Party.

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