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Lot 67

Alfred Wallis
(British, 1855-1942)
Two fishing boats 17.2 x 22.5 cm. (6 3/4 x 8 7/8 in.)

20 November 2013, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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Alfred Wallis (British, 1855-1942)

Two fishing boats
pencil and gouache on card
17.2 x 22.5 cm. (6 3/4 x 8 7/8 in.)

Footnotes

PROVENANCE:
Harold Stanley Ede
Gifted by the above to Oleg Polunin, 1957
Thence by family descent to the present owner

The single-masted vessels rigged fore and aft that Wallis depicts here are known as Sloops or Cutters.

Harold Stanley 'Jim' Ede, was one of the 20th Century's most notable advocates of modern art in Britain whose extensive collection formed what is now the Kettle's Yard Collection, Cambridge. Oleg Polunin was an English Botanist, author of several botanical texts and long-serving teacher at Charterhouse School in Surrey.

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