Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts, Jewellery and Fine Wine

Live Virtual Auction, 8 - 11 November 2020

Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art Part I

Sold for

ZAR 68 280
Lot 721
  • Maud Sumner; A House in the Snow (Eathorpe Park, Warwickshire)
  • Maud Sumner; A House in the Snow (Eathorpe Park, Warwickshire)
  • Maud Sumner; A House in the Snow (Eathorpe Park, Warwickshire)
  • Maud Sumner; A House in the Snow (Eathorpe Park, Warwickshire)
  • Maud Sumner; A House in the Snow (Eathorpe Park, Warwickshire)


Lot Estimate
ZAR 60 000 - 80 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 68 280

About this Item

South African 1902-1985
A House in the Snow (Eathorpe Park, Warwickshire)

signed

ink and watercolour on paper
45 by 60cm excluding frame; 78 by 93 by 4cm including frame

Notes

Although the details are sketchy, the house depicted in this scene is Eathorpe Park, the Warwickshire home of Sumner’s father’s family. When Sumner was a student at Oxford in the 1920s, her grandmother and aunts still lived in the house, and Sumner visited and spent vacations there regularly, then and later. The house was eventually sold in the 1950s after the death of the last-surviving aunt.1
1. Frieda Harmsen (1992) Maud Sumner: Painter and Poet, Pretoria: Van Schaik, page 15.

Provenance

Strauss & Co, 7 November 2011, lot 49.

Private Collection.

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