Elderberries

細節

Edward Burra (1905-1976)
Elderberries
stamped with signature 'E.J. Burra' (lower right)
pencil, watercolour and gouache on paper
40 ½ x 28 ½ in. (102.8 x 72.4 cm.)
Executed circa 1952-59.

來源

with Lefevre Gallery, London.
Neil ('Bunny') Roger, London.
with Lefevre Gallery, London, where purchased by the present owners in February 2000.

注意事項

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.

榮譽呈獻

Angus Granlund

agranlund@christies.com +44 (0)20 7752 3240

拍品專文

'I seem to be having quite a little success with flower paintings and my little success has not gone to my head as they say in the song. I suppose they don't frighten people.’
- Edward Burra

Elderberries was painted between 1952 and 1959, when Burra executed many astonishingly lively paintings of flowers. The painting has always been referred to as Elderberries, even though the subject more closely resembles Ivy. Elderberries was bought by a notable British collector, the aesthete and dandy Neil (‘Bunny’) Roger, who was part of Burra’s ‘set’ in the 1930s. Bunny and his brothers, Alan and Sandy, lived and collected together: Sandy bought an early Burra, The Pointing Finger (1933), and Bunny, both Elderberries and another flower piece, Dahlias and Daisies.

We are very grateful to Professor Jane Stevenson for her assistance in preparing this catalogue entry.

Elderberries

榮譽呈獻

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