Sale 8836
London, South Kensington
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20 July 2000
Price realised
GBP 258
Estimate
A Cantonese punch bowl painted and gilt with panels of ladies and dignitaries on terraces and birds and butterflies amongst fruit and flower sprays -- 13½in. (34.2cms) diam; and a pair of Cantonese pear shaped vases with flaring necks and moulded guei dragons to the shouldes, similarly decorated -- 97/8in. (25cms) high, 19th century. (3)
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Offered to benefit a new scholarship initiative from Bennington College, this work distils the unique form of abstraction for which the artist would become famous
Ahead of the sale of portraits of four different muses, we focus on the women the artist came to depend on so passionately