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Property from a Private London Collection

Edward Burra

The Thief

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private London Collection

Edward John Burra

1905 - 1976

The Thief


pen and ink, pencil and wash on paper

unframed: 27.5 by 38cm.; 10¾ by 15in.

framed: 43 by 51.5cm.; 17 by 20¼in.

Executed in 1922.

Anthony d'Offay, London, where purchased by the previous owner

Their sale, Bonhams London, 16 November 2011, lot 7, where acquired by the present owner

Andrew Causey, Edward Burra, Complete Catalogue, Phaidon, Oxford, 1985, no. 11, illustrated n.p.

London, Anthony d'Offay, Edward Burra, Drawings and Watercolours, 1 April - 3 May 1980, no. 3 (as Nursery Tale)