Live Auction 17294British Art: Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art
Edmund Blair Leighton (1852-1922)
Lot 151

Edmund Blair Leighton (1852-1922)

A Favour

Closed12 December 2019

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GBP 17,500

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Edmund Blair Leighton (1852-1922)
A Favour
signed and dated 'E.BLAIR LEIGHTON. 1898.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
36 x 20 in. (91.5 x 50.9 cm.)

with Haynes Fine Art, Worcestershire.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Billingshurst, 28 July 1992, lot 343.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 4 November 1994, lot 238.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 28 October 2013, lot 40, where purchased by the present owner.

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We are grateful to Kara Lysandra Ross for her assistance in preparing the catalogue entry for this picture, which will be included in her forthcoming catalogue raisonné on Edmund Blair Leighton.