• Sporting & Wildlife Art Includ auction at Christies

    Sale 5626

    Sporting & Wildlife Art Including an Important Private Collection of Works by Archibald Thorburn and Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe

    London, South Kensington

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    3 November 2010

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    • Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe,
    Lot 103

    Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe, R.A. (1901-1979)

    Prowling tiger; Dr Brazza's guenon; Lioness; and Two spider monkey studies

    Price realised

    GBP 938

    Estimate

    GBP 500 - GBP 800

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    Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe, R.A. (1901-1979)
    Prowling tiger; Dr Brazza's guenon; Lioness; and Two spider monkey studies
    pencil, watercolour and bodycolour
    7 x 10¼ in. (17.8 x 26 cm.); and smaller
    five framed as three (5)

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    Lot Essay

    De Brazza's Guenon is a study for De Brazza's Guenon, exhibited Royal Academy, 1967, no. 733.

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