Lot Essay
George Gale was a political cartoonist with the Daily Telegraph.
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Tour Eiffel, Henry Melville with Augustus John
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WILLIAM GAUNT (1900-1980)
Tour Eiffel, Henry Melville with Augustus John
signed and dated 'W Gaunt/1928' (lower right) and inscribed 'Tour Eiffel' (lower left)
pencil and watercolour
12¼ x 14¼ in. (31.1 x 36.2 cm.)
and 5 other watercolours by the same hand; together with: TAKE IT UP INTO THE FOURTH GEAR GEOFFREY..., signed 'Gale' (LOWER RIGHT), George Gale (1929-2003), in black ink, 10 X 15 in. (25.4 X 38.1 cm.); and a cartoon: WELL IT'S UP TO YOU SIR, BUT THE INVITATION DID STIPULATE WHITE TIE, by Donegon. (6)
Tour Eiffel, Henry Melville with Augustus John
signed and dated 'W Gaunt/1928' (lower right) and inscribed 'Tour Eiffel' (lower left)
pencil and watercolour
12¼ x 14¼ in. (31.1 x 36.2 cm.)
and 5 other watercolours by the same hand; together with: TAKE IT UP INTO THE FOURTH GEAR GEOFFREY..., signed 'Gale' (LOWER RIGHT), George Gale (1929-2003), in black ink, 10 X 15 in. (25.4 X 38.1 cm.); and a cartoon: WELL IT'S UP TO YOU SIR, BUT THE INVITATION DID STIPULATE WHITE TIE, by Donegon. (6)
Provenance
With Michael Parkin Gallery, London.
Literature
London Promenada, p. 101.
Studio Magazine, 1930.
Studio Magazine, 1930.
Exhibited
London, Michael Parkin Fine Art, Fitzrovia and the Road to the Yorkminster, no. 26.
London, Michael Parkin Gallery, Nina Hamnett and her circle, no. 70.
London, Michael Parkin Gallery, Nina Hamnett and her circle, no. 70.
Special notice
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