22nd Nov, 2023 11:00

European Works of Art

 
Lot 33
 

33

A LAURENCE WHISTLER (1912-2000) STIPPLE ENGRAVED GOBLET, DATED 1988

depicting a summer landscape of a willow tree on a riverbank flanked by a swan and a flight of swallows, initialled and dated 'LW / 88', the glass blown after a design by the artist with almost cylindrical bowl above a knop and teared baluster stem on a circular foot, 19cm high; together with four letters from the artist, 1987/88, to the patron regarding this commission; and a paperback copy of Laurence Whistler's 'Enter. Poems', Frome, 1987

Sold for £1,400


 

depicting a summer landscape of a willow tree on a riverbank flanked by a swan and a flight of swallows, initialled and dated 'LW / 88', the glass blown after a design by the artist with almost cylindrical bowl above a knop and teared baluster stem on a circular foot, 19cm high; together with four letters from the artist, 1987/88, to the patron regarding this commission; and a paperback copy of Laurence Whistler's 'Enter. Poems', Frome, 1987