$15,000
Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000
Auction: May 8, 2019 1:00:00 PM EDT
Signed twice, dated 1948 and inscribed 'Meadow Studio / Trewarveneth / Newlyn, Cornwall' verso, oil and pencil on canvasboard.
9 7/8 x 13 7/8 in. (25.1 x 35.2cm)
Provenance: The Artist.
George Dix, New York, New York (acquired directly from the above in the late 1940s).
By family descent.
Private Collection, Charlottesville, Virginia.
Freeman’s is pleased to offer the following six lots by Modern British masters John Wells, John Piper and Keith Vaughan, all of which descend from the Collection of George Dix. Dix was stationed in London during the Second World War and remained there for a time afterwards. During this period in England, he befriended many of the luminaries of mid-century British culture, among them Wells, Vaughan and Piper, along with famed sculptor Henry Moore. He maintained these relationships even after his return to America, where he worked as an art dealer in the New York office of the bi-continental gallery Durlacher Brothers. In Manhattan, Dix remained part of the intelligentsia, enjoying the company and friendship of Gore Vidal and Leonard Bernstein, among others. A Virginian originally, Dix would visit family in the South regularly. They fondly recall his trips to their home, where he was sometimes accompanied by the artists whose work he collected, and whose pieces graced their walls as well. We are pleased to offer these works of distinguished provenance for sale, including a John Wells collage dedicated to Dix personally.