Sale 1255
Spink London
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12 - 14 July 2000
Price realised
GBP 207
Estimate
Charles II, Crown, 1663, first laureate and draped bust facing right, legend differently spaced, no rose below, rev. similar to preceding coin, top and bottom shields not quartered, edge, inscribed and dated XV (ESC 22; S.3354), tiny rim nick at top, spot on laurel wreath, nearly very fine very fine
Provenance
Bought Spink, 1956
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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