Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions Announces Highlights for the 2017 Auction Season
The first Interiors auction of 2017 kicks off with an important collection of London Underground posters designed by Clifford (1907-1985) and Rosemary (1910-1998) Ellis. Alongside a selection of the Ellises’ own drawings, prints and paintings will be works by Walter Sickert, Howard Hodgkin, Adrian Heath and Wojciech Fangor. Interiors takes place on 10th and 11th January at Donnington Priory and will also feature Furniture, Carpets, Clocks and Works of Art.
A fabulous range of Jewellery, Silver, Watches and Pens will be offered on 18th January, with the special online Australia Day Wine auction on 26th January.
Books and Works on Paper will take place on 23rd February, and features a superb selection of landscape aquatints. Fine Wine, Port and Champagne follows on 24th February and both auctions will be held at Bloomsbury House, London.
March will see both the sale of Works from the Collection of Jan Krugier, the highly renowned art dealer (8th March) and Autographs & Memorabilia at Bloomsbury House, London on 23rd March. Concluding the March auctions will be Fine Clocks, Barometers and Scientific Instruments (28th March) and Fine Furniture and Works of Art (29th March) with many more to come as the year continues.
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ Interiors sale at Donnington Priory, Newbury, on 10th & 11th January 2017 will include property from the collection of the late Clifford and Rosemary Ellis. Part of the legacy left by the Ellises includes paintings, drawings and posters by both Clifford and Rosemary either separately or working together. Lots range in estimate from £100 - £2,000.
In 1933, they were commissioned to design a series of posters for the London Underground. They also designed posters together for the Empire Marketing Board, a government Department established in 1926 with the aim of encouraging people to buy Empire products. The poster campaigns were an integral part of the advertising program and Clifford and Rosemary produced a number of designs during the 1930s. They also designed posters for Shell and the General Post Office.
Save the date…in 2017
Jewellery, Silver, Watches & Pens (Donnington Priory, Newbury) |18th January
Books and Works on Paper (Bloomsbury House, London) | 23rd February
Australia Day Wine (online auction) | 26th January
Jewellery, Silver & Watches (Donnington Priory, Newbury) | 15th February
Wine: Timed Online auction | 20th February & 23rd March
Interiors (Donnington Priory, Newbury) | 21st & 22nd February
Books and Works on Paper (Bloomsbury House, London) | 23rd February
Fine Wine, Port, Champagne (Bloomsbury House, London) | 24th February
Works from the Collection of Jan Krugier (Donnington Priory, Newbury) | 8th March
Fine Jewellery, Watches & Silver (Donnington Priory, Newbury) | 15th March
20thc. Books and Works on Paper & Early Prints (Bloomsbury House, London) | 16th March
Autographs & Memorabilia (Bloomsbury House, London) | 23rd March
Fine Clocks, Barometers & Scientific Insts (Donnington Priory, Newbury) | 28th March
Fine Furniture & Works of Art (Donnington Priory, Newbury) | 29th March
Image: Jean Baptiste Balthazar Sauvan, Picturesque Tour of the Seine, from Paris to the Sea, 25 hand- coloured aquatint plates with hand-coloured vignette at the end, 1821. Est. £1,800 - £2,200.
