Lot Essay
We are very grateful to Andrew Lambirth and Jonathan Gibbs for their assistance preparing this catalogue entry.
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Group of Figures
Details
JOHN ARMSTRONG, A.R.A. (1893-1973)
Group of Figures
signed with initials and dated 'JA 45' (lower left)
tempera on board
6 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. (17.1 x 22.2 cm.)
Painted in 1945.
Group of Figures
signed with initials and dated 'JA 45' (lower left)
tempera on board
6 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. (17.1 x 22.2 cm.)
Painted in 1945.
Provenance
Purchased at the 1945 exhibition by Thomas Acland Fennemore.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 19 July 1989, lot 462, as 'Figures'.
with Sandra Lummis Fine Art, London, where purchased by the present owner.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 19 July 1989, lot 462, as 'Figures'.
with Sandra Lummis Fine Art, London, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
A. Lambirth, John Armstrong: The Paintings, London, 2009, p. 184, no. 294.
Exhibited
London, Lefevre Gallery, Recent Paintings by John Armstrong and Sine Mackinnon, July 1945, no. 6.
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.
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Alice Murray
Head of Evening Sale