Modern Works on Paper

A miscellaneous collection of works on paper, including in order, 11 drawings by Manhattan (Avro) (mostly from the ‘Rumbling of the Apocalypse’ & the ‘Rebellion of the Gods’, series, 1934-1937), pencil and charcoal, some spotting, 320 x 230 mm; Read (Harold Hope) 13 watercolours, ink and wash, first half od the 20^th century; with Galle (Theodor) Portrait of Willem Key , [Nagler G.K., Neues Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon, 36, V 0021 p 00406, 1835-52], 1551-1553, & Pieter Coecke van Aelst the Elder, from ‘Pictorum Aliquot Celebrium Germaniae Inferioris Effigies’, c. 1550, 210 x 130 mm; Silvestre (Israel) a view d’optique of the Tuileries, hand-coloured engraving, 220 x 400 mm, c. 1673; a landscape study by Machell (Christopher), 360 x 270 mm, c. 1770s?, and other miscellaneous prints by different author, v.s. (c.53)

*** Avro Manhattan was a Picasso’s friend and knight of Malta.