Live Auction 12224Modern British & Irish Art Day Sale
David Jones, C.H. (1895-1974)
Lot 177

David Jones, C.H. (1895-1974)

The Necklace and the Calix

Closed21 June 2016

Price Realised

GBP 32,500

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David Jones, C.H. (1895-1974)
The Necklace and the Calix
signed and dated 'David J./54' (lower right), signed again, inscribed and dated again 'David Jones, 1954/Title: The Necklace & the Calix' (on the reverse), signed again, inscribed again and dated again 'The Necklace and the Calix/David Jones/1954.' (on the artist's label attached to the backboard)
pencil, crayon, watercolour and gouache
30 x 22 ¾ in. (76.2 x 58 cm.)

The Rt. Hon. Sir Hugh Fraser, M.P., and by descent.

Specialist note

'Between 1949 and the mid 1950s Jones made a number of drawings of flowers in a glass chalice on a table in front of the window of his room in Northwick Lodge ... He liked to use 'Calix', Latin for chalice, in his titles because of its association with the botanical calix or calyx' (see exhibition catalogue, op. cit., 1981, p. 119).