Live Auction 21955British and European Art
EDMUND BLAIR LEIGHTON (BRITISH, 1853-1922)
Lot 9

EDMUND BLAIR LEIGHTON (BRITISH, 1853-1922)

Tristram and Isolde

Closed14 December 2023

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GBP 10,710

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EDMUND BLAIR LEIGHTON (BRITISH, 1853-1922)
Tristram and Isolde
signed with initials 'E.B.L.' (lower left) and further signed and inscribed ''Tristram and Isolde.'/E. Blair Leighton.' (on a label attached to the reverse)
oil on panel
6 x 10 ¾ in. (15.5 x 27.3 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 25 September 1988, lot 186.

Specialist note

This is a working study for Leighton's much larger painting Tristram and Isolde, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1907 (no. 207).

We are grateful to Kara Lysandra Ross for her help in preparing this catalogue entry. The picture will be included in her forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the work of Edmund Blair Leighton.