16th Mar, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST

British, European & Sporting Art

 
  Lot 1015
 

1015

Raymond Booth (1929-2015)
“Iris Spuria” (2002)
Signed and dated 2002, pencil and oil on paper, 71.5cm by 47.5cm

Sold for £600
Estimated at £400 - £600


 

The paper is flat generally, but there is one approx 2.5inch curved crease at the middle of the right edge, and there are two patches of indented marks, one to left and upper left of lefthand flowering iris, and one in the middle left of the picture (see images in raking and normal light).

There are scattered artist's pencil marks and artist's corrections in white.

Two tiny brown accretions mid left edge, and a few very feint smudges of original paint.

The frame is in good condition with just two very small damages at the back edge (see images). The white slip appears grubby and marked.

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Auction: British, European & Sporting Art, 16th Mar, 2024

Coming up for auction this Spring are three notable works by Adolphe Valette (1876-1942), a French Impressionist artist who spent the majority of his career in the North of England. Whilst he is best remembered today as being the highly influential tutor to L.S. Lowry, Valette created a significant body of work in oils, watercolours and drawing media. All three works are sold with provenance from The Perera Collection, the largest collection of works by Valette to have been assembled in private hands.

Further notable works in the sale include an exquisitely detailed still life of a peach, black grapes and cobnuts on a marble shelf by Emilie Preyer (1849-1930), and a work by historical genre painter Edward Matthew Ward (1816-1879) that depicts the hero of a popular comic ballad, John Gilpin.

The sale will also see the final part of the Raymond Booth Studio, comprising 19 works. Raymond Booth (1929-2015) was perhaps the greatest botanical artist and illustrator of his generation, and his passion for the natural world shines through in his highly detailed oil studies of flora and fauna.

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