Live Auction 21043The Collection of Sir Nicholas Goodison - British Art: Innovation and Craftsmanship
SIR FRANK BRANGWYN, R.A., R.W.S., P.R.B.A. (1867-1956)
Lot 79

SIR FRANK BRANGWYN, R.A., R.W.S., P.R.B.A. (1867-1956)

An Italian fruit stall

Closed25 May 2022

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SIR FRANK BRANGWYN, R.A., R.W.S., P.R.B.A. (1867-1956)
An Italian fruit stall
signed twice with initials 'FB' (centre left) and with a letter from Brangwyn to F.E. Fitness dated 6 March 1922 (attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas
30 1⁄4 x 40 1⁄8 in. (76.8 x 101.9 cm.)
in the original frame

F.E. Fitness, Spencerhurst, Northamptonshire, by March 1922, by whom given to his daughter for her birthday;
Mrs Sidney Black, Monkhams Lane, Woodford Green, Essex, 24 December 1922.
with The Fine Arts Society, London, April 1985, no. 8086.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 11 November 1987, lot 35, where purchased for the present collection.

Specialist note


F.E. Fitness was Brangwyn's tailor and a part-time antiques dealer who helped find many items for the artist's house, The Jointure, Ditchling. He also gained for Brangwyn the commission for a memorial window at the Congregational Church, Northampton in 1921.
We are grateful to Dr Libby Horner for her assistance in preparing this catalogue entry. The oil is number O-0362 in her catalogue raisonné.