Live Auction 21921The Robin and Rupert Hambro Collection
JOAN WARBURTON (1920-1996)
Lot 133

JOAN WARBURTON (1920-1996)

Quills in Blue Striped Vase

Closed8 June 2023

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GBP 1,890

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JOAN WARBURTON (1920-1996)
Quills in Blue Striped Vase
signed and dated 'WARBURTON/1949' (lower left)
ink, watercolour and gouache on paper
15 3/4 x 18 3/4 in. (40 x 47.6 cm.)
Executed in 1949.

The Artist's Estate.
with Sally Hunter Fine Art, London.

Specialist note


Warburton was born in Edinburgh, but grew up near Colchester. In 1937, she enrolled as one of the first students of Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines at their now legendary East Anglian School of Painting at Dedham. After the war, Warburton married Peter O’ Malley, a ceramics lecturer at the Royal College of Art, and they settled in London. Her work featured in numerous group and solo shows including at the Leicester Galleries, London.