Lot Essay
This watercolour was a design for postcard no. 1442 produced by Valentine of Dundee in 1949.
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'Sh-u-sh!'
Details
Mabel Lucie Attwell (1879-1964)
'Sh-u-sh!'
signed 'MABEL/LUCIE/ATTWELL' (lower left)
pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour heightened with white
7¼ x 5 1/8 in. (18.5 x 13.1 cm.)
'Sh-u-sh!'
signed 'MABEL/LUCIE/ATTWELL' (lower left)
pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour heightened with white
7¼ x 5 1/8 in. (18.5 x 13.1 cm.)
Provenance
with Richard Hagen Fine Paintings, Worcestershire, as 'Fast Asleep'.
Literature
J. Henty, The Collectable World of Mabel Lucie Attwell, Somerset, 1999, illus. p. 76, no. 1442.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.