Important Paintings, Furniture, Silver, Ceramics and Jewellery
Live Auction, 15 March 2010
Part I - Paintings, Sculpture and Prints
Lot Estimate
ZAR 80 000 - 120 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 122 540
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About this Item
South African 1892-1943
The Building of a Fairy City - The Iron Workers
signed, dated 1925 and inscribed with the title in the margin
watercolour over ink
34,5 by 56cm
Notes
William Timlin started a series of fantasy paintings for a book entitled The Building of a Fairy City. He also wrote the text but never completed the project.
Provenance
Alpheus Fuller Williams, Vergenoeg, Muizenberg and thence by descent
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