Live Auction 12304Modern British and Irish Art

Lot 79 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF GEOFFREY ASHTON JOHNSON TO BENEFIT A SCHOLARSHIP FOR ACTING STUDENTS AT YALE SCHOOL OF DRAMA

Oliver Messel (1904-1978)

Blue Harbour Garden Boy

Closed14 July 2016

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Oliver Messel (1904-1978)
Blue Harbour Garden Boy
signed 'Oliver Messel' (lower right), signed again, inscribed and dated 'Oliver Messel Jamaica/1951' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm.)

Bequeathed by the Noël Coward Estate to Geoffrey Ashton Johnson, 1973.

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Blue Harbour was Noël Coward's home in Jamaica.

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