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Lot Essay
See part lot 71, p.59
Details
Various drawings and paintings
including a pencil sketch of Margot Fonteyn as a girl, signed lower right A. Figge, the reverse of the frame inscribed in blue ballpoint pen Portrait of Margot Fonteyn, aged 8, drawn on board ship by a German artist; a painting in black gouache of a dancer, inscribed top right Lee-Elliott, largest -- 30¾x22¾in. (78.1x57.8cm.); a pencil portrait of Astafieva; and Liturgurgic, watercolour and gouache, signed N.Gontcharova 915 -- 24¾x15¼in. (62.8x38.7cm.) all framed; the latter photographed on the wall of Fonteyn's West London home, 149 Talgarth Road in circa late 1960s (5)
including a pencil sketch of Margot Fonteyn as a girl, signed lower right A. Figge, the reverse of the frame inscribed in blue ballpoint pen Portrait of Margot Fonteyn, aged 8, drawn on board ship by a German artist; a painting in black gouache of a dancer, inscribed top right Lee-Elliott, largest -- 30¾x22¾in. (78.1x57.8cm.); a pencil portrait of Astafieva; and Liturgurgic, watercolour and gouache, signed N.Gontcharova 915 -- 24¾x15¼in. (62.8x38.7cm.) all framed; the latter photographed on the wall of Fonteyn's West London home, 149 Talgarth Road in circa late 1960s (5)
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