5 Dec 2012
11:00 GMT
Chester
The Chester Sale: Pictures featuring works by Northern Artists
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The Chester Sale: Pictures featuring works by Northern Artists
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John Byam Liston Shaw (British, 1872-1919)
Omphale
signed 'Byam. Shaw 1914' (lower left) watercolour and bodycolour
72.5 x 29cm (28 9/16 x 11 7/16in).
signed 'Byam. Shaw 1914' (lower left) watercolour and bodycolour
72.5 x 29cm (28 9/16 x 11 7/16in).
Estimate:
£1,500 - 2,000
US$ 2,300 - 3,000
€1,800 - 2,300
US$ 2,300 - 3,000
€1,800 - 2,300
Footnotes
- Omphale is depicted wearing Hercules's lion skin and holding his club as told in Greek myth. We understand that the picture has been used to illustrate Robert Graves Greek Myths and was possibly also exhibited at the Royal Watercolour Society, London (1914?).
Category: Fine Art / Pictures
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