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Siegfried Loraine Sassoon CBE MC (British, 1886-1967) Sir ‘Wartface’ Sitwell speaks sharply to his wife Watercolour and pencil on paper Inscribed with title (lower edge) 10 x 5.1/8 in. (25.3 x 13 cm.) Provenance: from the Estate of the artist and thence by descent Long regarded as one of Britain’s best loved...

Vladimir Pavlovich Nechoumoff (Russian, c. 1900 – 1977) Turkish bath scene in Istanbul Watercolour/ gouache and pencil on paper 5.1/2 x 8.1/2 in. (14 x 21.4...

Camille Paul Josso (French, 1902 – 1986) Figures on an orientalist rooftop Signed, inscribed and dated ‘CP JOSSO CHARDON / SALE.10-7-27. (lower right) Pencil, black crayon and waterc...

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon CBE MC (British, 1886-1967) The Face of Things to Come, A.D. 3000 Pencil, watercolour and gouache on paper Inscribed with title (lower edge) 11.1/2 x 8.3/8 in. (29.3 x 21.3 cm.) Provenance: from the Estate of the artist and thence by descent Long regarded as one of Britain’s best loved war poets, this caricature gives a private insight into Sassoon's mind and his relationship to Edith Sitwell. Siegfried Loraine Sassoon CBE MC was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war. Sassoon became a focal point for dissent within the armed forces when he made a lone protest against the continuation of the war in his "Soldier's Declaration" of 1917, culminating in his admission to a military psychiatric hospital; this resulted in his forming a friendship with Wilfred Owen...

Vladimir Pavlovich Nechoumoff (Russian, c. 1900 – 1977) Turkish fruit sellers, Istanbul Pencil and watercolour on paper 9 x 13.5/8 in. (22.8 x 34.5 cm.) Figurative painter, illustra...

Albert Wainwright (British, 1898 - 1943) Rose pencil and watercolour on paper signed 'Albert Wainwright' (upper right) 14 x 10 in. (35.5 x 25.5cm.) ...

Mixed media drawing on paper Dated and signed on the back In the plastic work of Geneviève Seillé, the word, like a sign, reigns supreme. An object of fascination, only its visual a...

Mixed media drawing on paper Dated and signed on the back In the plastic work of Geneviève Seillé, the word, like a sign, reigns supreme. An object of fascination, only its visual a...

Mixed media drawing on paper Dated and signed on the back In the plastic work of Geneviève Seillé, the word, like a sign, reigns supreme. An object of fascination, only its visual a...

Mixed media drawing on paper Dated and signed on the back In the plastic work of Geneviève Seillé, the word, like a sign, reigns supreme. An object o...

Mixed media drawing on paper Dated and signed on the back In the plastic work of Geneviève Seillé, the word, like a sign, reigns supreme. An object o...

Mixed media drawing on paper Dated and signed on the back In the plastic work of Geneviève Seillé, the word, like a sign, reigns supreme. An object o...