Charles Ricketts Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Charles Ricketts Art Value Price Guide

Oct. 16, 2024
Ricketts (Charles, 1866-1931). The Epithalamium, for Daphnis and Chloe, circa 1892-93
Est: £300 - £500
Ricketts (Charles, 1866-1931). The Epithalamium, for Daphnis and Chloe, circa 1892-93 * Ricketts (Charles, 1866-1931). The Epithalamium, for Daphnis and Chloe, circa 1892-93, proof wood engraving on thin wove paper, printed in gold-brown, sheet size 189 x 131 mm (7 3/8 x 5 1/8 ins), laid down on mount card with gold outer border, inscribed in pencil by David Gould to verso, 'The Epithalamium by Charles Ricketts, Proof wood engraving 1892-1893, For Daphnis & Chloe, page 103', mount size 40 x 31.5 cm, together with Four Initial Letters, for the Vale Press edition of Blake's Poetical Sketches, 1899, wood engraving on thin japan tissue, signed and inscribed by the artist 'Trial Proof 1st State', laid down on wove paper 234 x 159 mm (9 1/4 x 6 1/4 ins), hinge-mounted in later windown mount, with annotation in pencil by David Gould 'Touched in places with bodycolour white. From Craddock & Barnard August 1962 "possibly unique" they say, For Blake's Poetical Sketches, Vale Press, 1899', plus a lithograph by Charles Ricketts titled Finis, 45 x 30 cm (17 3/4 x 11 3/4 ins), window mounted (56 x 40.5 cm) QTY: (3) NOTE: Provenance: David Gould (1922 -2004), art dealer, connoisseur, and founder of the Taranman Gallery with Christopher Hewett.
Dominic Winter Auctions
Oct. 16, 2024
Ricketts (Charles, 1866-1931). Compositional Studies, a group of 5, pen and black ink
Est: £300 - £400
Ricketts (Charles, 1866-1931). Compositional Studies, a group of 5, pen and black ink * Attributed to Charles Ricketts (1866-1931). Compositional Studies, a group of 5 small scale compositional studies of figures and scenes, pen and black and dark blue ink on pale brown paper, two with a small area of slight surface loss, sheet sizes 87 x 61 mm (3 3/8 x 2 3/8 ins) and smaller, the group laid down onto a single sheet of thin card (33 x 21.5 cm) QTY: (1) NOTE: Provenance: David Gould (1922 -2004), art dealer, connoisseur, and founder of the Taranman Gallery with Christopher Hewett.
Dominic Winter Auctions
Oct. 18, 2023
CHARLES DE SOUSY RICKETTS (SWISS 1866-1931), DESCENT FROM THE CROSS
Est: £5,000 - £7,000
CHARLES DE SOUSY RICKETTS (SWISS 1866-1931)DESCENT FROM THE CROSSOil on canvasSigned (verso), further signed (to stretcher verso)92 x 71cm (36 x 27¾ in.)Provenance:Sale, Stockloms Auktionverk, Fine Art and Antiques, 11 June 2014, lot 3388
Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales
Oct. 18, 2023
Ricketts (Charles, 1866-1931). Psyche in the House, 1901..., and one other
Est: £200 - £300
Ricketts (Charles, 1866-1931). Psyche in the House, 1901..., and one other * Ricketts (Charles, 1866-1931). Psyche in the House, 1901, proof wood engraving, showing work on the block subsequent to the printed state of the illustration published by the Vale Press in 1901 for De Cupidinis et Psyches Amoribus, some light spotting, 95 x 88 mm (3 3/4 x 3 1/2 ins) mount aperture, framed and glazed with old handwritten note pasted to verso indicating that this work is an altered proof wood engraving by Ricketts, from the collection of R. A. Walker, together with Firth (Margorie, circa 1900-). The Shepherd, 1927, wood engraving on fine simile japon, one of only twenty impressions, signed, dated, and numbered 4/20 in pencil, image size 10.2 x 18.7 cm (4 x 7 3/8 ins), framed and glazed QTY: (2)
Dominic Winter Auctions
Jul. 05, 2023
Charles de Sousy Ricketts (British, 1866-1931) Costume designs each 31.1 x 21.9cm (12 1/4 x 8 5/8in). (2)
Est: £2,000 - £3,000
Charles de Sousy Ricketts (British, 1866-1931) Costume designs one signed with initials 'CR' (lower right) watercolour and pencil each 31.1 x 21.9cm (12 1/4 x 8 5/8in). (2)
Bonhams
Jul. 05, 2023
Charles de Sousy Ricketts (British, 1866-1931) a pair of costume designs each 31.1 x 21.9cm (12 1/4 x 8 5/8in). (2)
Est: £2,000 - £3,000
Charles de Sousy Ricketts (British, 1866-1931) a pair of costume designs one signed with initials 'CR' (centre right) watercolour and pencil each 31.1 x 21.9cm (12 1/4 x 8 5/8in). (2)
Bonhams
Jul. 02, 2022
1910 BOOK TITIAN BY CHARLES RICKETTS 181 PLATES
Est: $100 - $150
An antique 1910 hardcover book, Titian by Charles Ricketts. The book has 181 illustration plates. Charles de Sousy Ricketts, 1866-1931, was a British artist and writer. Published by Methuen And Co. LTD in London, 1910, First Edition. A bookplate on the flyleaf: Vale Press Collection Albert Sperisen. Handwritten inscription: Oxford, August, 1980. Collectible Antique Art Books.
Antique Arena Inc
May. 07, 2022
1910 BOOK TITIAN BY CHARLES RICKETTS 181 PLATES
Est: $100 - $150
An antique 1910 hardcover book, Titian by Charles Ricketts. The book has 181 illustration plates. Charles de Sousy Ricketts, 1866-1931, was a British artist and writer. Published by Methuen And Co. LTD in London, 1910, First Edition. A bookplate on the flyleaf: Vale Press Collection Albert Sperisen. Handwritten inscription: Oxford, August, 1980. Collectible Antique Art Books.
Antique Arena Inc
Jan. 20, 2022
Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) A Defence of the Revival of Printing, one of 250 copies, printed at the Ballantyne Press for Hacon and Ricketts, 1899.
Est: £100 - £150
Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) A Defence of the Revival of Printing, one of 250 copies, light offsetting, browning to endpapers, book-label of Roddy Brinckman to pastedown, original boards with paper label to upper cover, spine toned, cracking to joints, restoration to head of spine, 8vo, printed at the Ballantyne Press for Hacon and Ricketts, 1899.
Forum Auctions - UK
Dec. 16, 2021
Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) A Bibliography of the Books issued by Hacon & Ricketts, one of 250 copies, Charles Home McCall's copy with 2 A.Pcs.s. of notes, 1904 & others (3)
Est: £250 - £350
Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) A Bibliography of the Books issued by Hacon & Ricketts, one of 250 copies on paper, printed in red and black, wood-engraved frontispiece by Charles Ricketts after C.H.Shannon and decorative border, light foxing, Charles Home McCall's copy with 2 A.Pcs. (one signed) concerning a catalogue of Whistler's Nocturnes printed by the Ballantyne press loosely inserted, original cloth-backed boards, paper labels to upper cover and spine, spine label chipped, 1904 § Wordsworth (William) Poems..., one of 310 copies, wood-engraved illustrations by T.Sturge Moore, a few pencil markings, original white buckram, soiled, 1902 § Suckling (Sir John) The Poems, edited by John Gray, one of 310 copies, wood-engraved border and initials by Charles Ricketts, original patterned-paper boards, 1896, uncut, all a little rubbed, [Watry B46, B37 & B3], 8vo, printed at the Ballantyne Press [for the Vale Press] (3) ⁂ Charles Home McCall was the son of Charles McCall, the manager and printer of the Ballantyne Press and an important influence and guide to Charles Ricketts. Charles Home McCall joined his father at the press in 1893. At the end of the introduction to the bibliography Ricketts pays tribute to the McCalls: "My books would not have achieved that measure of technical success in 'build' and presswork had I not benefitted by the untiring energy and the intelligent sympathy of Mr. Charles McCall and of his son, C.Home McCall...". pp.xvii-xviii. Charles Home McCall's notes on the Whistler catalogue in the first mentioned list the various editions printed. Obviously the notes were originally placed inside a copy of the book: "This is the very rare first edition of the Catalogue..." which consisted of 250 copies but was destroyed "because Whistler was dissatisfied". An additional note in red ink by McCall's son Robin states that, "The Catalogue to which this refers was never found in C.H.Mc's papers...".
Forum Auctions - UK
Nov. 23, 2021
Charles Ricketts, R.A. Introd. T. Sturge Moore.
Est: €40 - €60
Charles Ricketts, R.A. Introd. T. Sturge Moore. London etc., Cassell & Comp., 1933, no pagination, col. frontisp., 65 ills. on 60 plates, endpapers and orig. cl. w. (sl. chafed) dustwr. by C. RICKETTS. Blake, W. Songs of Innocence. Pref. W.B. Yeats. London/ Boston, The Medici Society, 1927, 42,(2)p., 12 col. plates and num. ills. by J. PARSONS, orig. gilt cl. - Lower joint and spine-ends sl. worn. AND 3 others, i.a. a fine copy of J.M. BARRIE, Peter Pan and Wendy. Retold by M. Byron (London, 1953, 7th impression, plates, col. ills. and orig. pict. cl. by M.L. ATTWELL. Spine-ends and corners trifle worn/ bumped).
Bubb > Kuyper: Auctioneers of Books, Fine Arts & Manuscripts
Jul. 15, 2021
CHARLES DE SOUSY RICKETTS, R.A. (BRITISH, 1866-1931) - Chimeras (Chacun porte sa Chimère)
Est: £30,000 - £50,000
CHARLES DE SOUSY RICKETTS, R.A. (BRITISH, 1866-1931) Chimeras (Chacun porte sa Chimère) oil on canvas 44 ¼ x 28 3/8 in. (113 x 72 cm.)
Christie's
Jul. 29, 2020
CHARLES DE SOUSY RICKETTS, R.A. (BRITISH, 1866-1931) - Cover design for 'Saint Joan'
Est: £4,000 - £6,000
CHARLES DE SOUSY RICKETTS, R.A. (BRITISH, 1866-1931) Cover design for 'Saint Joan'inscribed 'SAINT JOAN/ BY/ BERNARD SHAW' (in a cartouche, upper centre) , inscribed 'WITH STAGE/ SETTINGS &/ SKETCHES. BY/ C. RICKETTS.' (centre left) , 'CONSTABLE &/ CO. LTD.' (centre right) and 'To A. .... from C. Ricketts' (lower right, in the margin) pencil, pen and brown ink, heightened with white on paper175⁄8 x 121⁄4 in. (44.8 x 31.1 cm.)
Christie's
Oct. 10, 2019
Charles de Sousy Ricketts, RA (Swiss, 1866-1931) The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy signed in pencil 'Charles Ricketts' (lower left) and 'T
Est: £800 - £1,200
Charles de Sousy Ricketts, RA (Swiss, 1866-1931) The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy signed in pencil 'Charles Ricketts' (lower left) and 'Thomas Hardy' (lower right) lithograph, printed by Vincent Brook & Day Ltd, London h:64 w:48 cm Charles Ricketts was an artist, illustrator, author and printer, best known as a designer of books, theatre sets and costumes. In 1914, he was commissioned to design a poster for Thomas Hardy's play, The Dynasts, an epic-drama based on the Napoleonic Wars. It was to be performed at the Kingsway Theatre, London and the poster was printed by Vincent Brooks Day & Son Ltd. Ricketts' design depicts a large figure which is emblematic of war, wearing a headdress of thorns and holding Napoleon in his hand. One of the editions printed also mentioned the title, author and the theatre (a copy is the Victoria & Albert Museum, museum no. E.82-1915). The rare present work is one of fifty proofs also printed by Vincent Brooks Day & Son Ltd, but the text has been deleted and in addition, is signed by both Thomas Hardy and Charles Ricketts.
Cheffins
Mar. 02, 2017
* Ricketts (Charles, 1866-1931). Those Servants Again!,
Est: £300 - £500
pen & black ink on thin card, heightened with white bodycolour, signed C. Ricketts lower right, some marks and minor soiling, small portion missing to extreme top left corner, sheet size 137 x 202 mm (5.4 x 7.9 ins) - Quantity (1)
Dominic Winter Auctions
Oct. 13, 2016
Charles de Sousy Ricketts (Swiss, 1866-1931) The Horses of Achilles
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
Charles de Sousy Ricketts (Swiss, 1866-1931) The Horses of Achilles oil on canvas 36 x 31 ½ in. (91.4 x 80 cm.)
Christie's
Oct. 13, 2016
Charles de Sousy Ricketts (Swiss, 1866-1931) The Prodigal Son
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Charles de Sousy Ricketts (Swiss, 1866-1931) The Prodigal Son oil on canvas 17 ½ x 22 ½ in. (44.5 x 57.2 cm.)
Christie's
Jul. 08, 2015
Charles de Sousy Ricketts (1866-1931) - Medea and her children
Est: £1,200 - £1,800
Oil on board Painted 1903 29 x 26 cm. (11 3/8 x 10 1/4 in) Provenance: Judge Evans Collection Exhibited: The Goupil Gallery, The Judge Evans Collection, May-July, 1918 Painted while Ricketts was still working as a typographer and book designer with the Vale Press, but at the turning point in his career when his output became much more focused on painting and sculpture. The present oil sketch captures the immediacy of the artist's creative process and and draws inspiration from the wokring methods of Rubens and other old masters of the 17th century.
Dreweatts 1759
Nov. 28, 2013
Ricketts (Charles, artist and art collector,
Est: £150 - £200
Ricketts (Charles, artist and art collector, 1866-1931) Autograph Letter signed to Sigismund Goetze, 1p., 4to, Townshend House, Albert Road, Regents Park, n.d. [c. 1930], replying to offer by Goetze for Shannon to use his garden after his accident, "But, so far, the small sunny little back garden of our house is handy", fold, slightly browned.
Dreweatts 1759
Nov. 28, 2013
Ricketts (Charles, artist and art collector,
Est: £3,000 - £4,000
Ricketts (Charles, artist and art collector, 1866-1931) 6 Autograph Letters signed "C Ricketts" and "CR" and 17 Postcards & an Autograph note signed to Francis Ernest Jackson, 4to & smaller, 6pp. & 22 sides, Regents Park & St John's Wood & Berlin and Munich, 1924-31 & n.d., on artistic matters, "Do tell your pupil how greatly I grieve that he did not get the prize which he deserved, his show was the best sent up since that of Lawrence some years ago. I thought he would have been second in the first voting, & an easy first in the last. I thought Cameron, Mannington, to some extent Russell & Rothenstein were for him, Cameron said the design got a good place in the RA show. I imagine that fool Olivier & Coward & perhaps Lawrence - I hate him - queered the pitch by running no. 5. The whole affair has added to my sense of vicious & exagerated indignation against all RAs Philpot included", giving news of Charles Shannon's medical condition (in January 1929 Shannon had a fall at his home and suffered brain damage), "I should like to consult you some time, the two local Doctors think they have discovered a bone pressure which could be removed. The big guns Buzzard & Gordon Holmes found nothing & pooh poohed my desire to have Shannon X rayed. I am without hope & dread the prospect of a gall operation...", folds, some creasing, browned (24). ***Francis Ernest Jackson (1872-1945), painter, draughtsman, poster designer and lithographer..
Dreweatts 1759
Sep. 10, 2013
RICKETTS (CHARLES)
Est: £300 - £500
GRAY (JOHN) Silverpoints, NUMBER 25 OF 250 COPIES, first edition, bookplate of Nazeby Carrington, uncut in publisher's decorative green cloth gilt after a design by Charles Ricketts, tall 12mo, Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head, 1893
Bonhams
Jul. 11, 2013
Charles de Sousy Ricketts, R.A. (1866-1931)
Est: -
Charles de Sousy Ricketts, R.A. (1866-1931) The Wise and Foolish Virgins signed with monogram (lower left) oil on canvas 34½ x 46½ in. (87.7 x 118 cm.) In the original frame
Christie's
Sep. 19, 2012
Charles de Sousy Ricketts R.A. (Swiss 1866-1931)
Est: £800 - £1,200
Charles de Sousy Ricketts R.A. (Swiss 1866-1931) Laocoon Signed Patinated bronze 24cm; 9.5in high Literature:...
Woolley & Wallis
May. 10, 2012
CHARLES DE SOUSY RICKETTS
Est: £5,000 - £7,000
1866-1931 TWO ILLUSTRATIONS FOR THE KINGIS QUAIR Quantity: 2 both pen and ink with bodycolour 20 by 15cm., 8 by 6in.
Sotheby's
Dec. 06, 2011
CHARLES DE SOUSY RICKETTS
Est: £3,000 - £5,000
SWISS 1866-1931 ACTOR WITH MASK AND MOTHER AND CHILD both signed: CR bronze, black patina with warm brown highlights actor with mask: 20.1cm., 7 7/8 in. mother and child: 23.1cm., 9 1/8 in.
Sotheby's
Dec. 06, 2011
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION CHARLES DE SOUSY RICKETTS
Est: £2,000 - £3,000
SWISS 1866-1931 IO SUPPORTED BY NYMPHS bronze, black patina with warm brown highlights 26.1cm., 10¼in.
Sotheby's
Dec. 06, 2011
CHARLES DE SOUSY RICKETTS
Est: £2,000 - £3,000
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION SWISS 1866-1931 ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE signed: C R bronze, dark and golden brown patina 34cm., 13 3/8 in.
Sotheby's
Jun. 23, 2011
Attributed To Charles Ricketts (1866-1931) Charles
Est: £50 - £60
Attributed To Charles Ricketts (1866-1931) Charles Haslewood Shannon bust portrait facing right, embossed copper roundel, inscribed, 7cm (2.75") diameter and another Fontis Ad Originem (for the origin of the fountain) embossed copper roundel of a crouching figure drinking from a spring Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon were life long artistic and personal partners, together they founded the Dial Magazine (1889-1897) and the Vale Press. Shannon's portrait of Ricketts 'The Man in an Inverness Cloak' shows the sitter's head in profile 'turning away from the 20th Century to think only of the 15th'; Ricketts admired this portrait and the roundel of Shannon could be seen to be doing the same. Provenance: B G Burrough Colyton Devon q.v. William Morris archive at Cheltenham Museum see illustration
Chorley's
Oct. 22, 2009
Charles de Sousy Ricketts, R.A. (1866-1931) 'The Wrath of God the Father' 12 x 16in.
Est: £1,500 - £2,500
Charles de Sousy Ricketts, R.A. (1866-1931) oil on canvas 'The Wrath of God the Father' 12 x 16in.
Gorringes
Jul. 14, 2009
Charles Ricketts, Swiss 1866-1931- Children asleep
Est: £200 - £300
Charles Ricketts, Swiss 1866-1931- Children asleep by a whale's skull on the seashore; pen and black ink, signed with a monogram, 4.2x7.6cm: together with a collection of watercolour and pencil studies by various hands to include A A McEvoy and others, (a lot) (unframed)
Roseberys
Mar. 02, 2009
Charles Ricketts RA (1866-1931) COSTUME DESIGN,
Est: €300 - €500
Charles Ricketts RA (1866-1931) COSTUME DESIGN, FRANCISCAN MONK, FOR FERDINAND BUCHNER'S ELIZABETH OF ENGLAND, 1931 variously inscribed with wardrobe instructions watercolour and pencil on paper (unframed) 36 by 25cm., 14 by 10in> Charles Ricketts was a prominent member of the Irish Theatre scene in Dublin and one of the many influential figures involved in the establishment of the city's Abbey Theatre. A friend of the Yeats' Ricketts attended the many performances of William Butler Yeats,' including the debut of Where There is Nothing, in London 1904, as noted in lot 81. The design for this costume recalls the character of Paul Ruttledge in Yeats' Where There is Nothing. The protagonist, Ruttledge, is a landlord who joins a band of tinkers until illness forces him to enter a Franciscan monastery, where he disturbs the community with his high spirits and his apparitions. It is possible that costumes for this earlier play proved inspiring to the designer for this adaptation of Elizabeth's England. Although from the same owner, this lot was not part of Lady Gregory's collection>
Whyte's
Dec. 11, 2008
Charles De Sousy Ricketts, R.A. (1866-1931)
Est: £15,000 - £25,000
Charles De Sousy Ricketts, R.A. (1866-1931) Orpheus and Eurydice signed with monogram (lower left) and again signed with monogram (on the reverse) oil on canvas 53 x 42 in. (135 x 107 cm.)
Christie's
May. 08, 2008
(Vale Press) Ricketts, Charles [de Sousy]
Est: $300 - $500
(Vale Press) Ricketts, Charles [de Sousy] (1866-1931). A Defence of the Revival of Printing. Woodcut illustration and border, initial, and press-device, including full pictorial first page, by Ricketts. 7½x5, original light blue boards, paper spine and cover labels. [1 of 250 copies]. First Edition. London: The Ballantyne Press for Hacon & Ricketts [The Vale Press], 1899 Printed with Vale Fount of type designed by Ricketts. An important and controversial book of an on fine printing. In this work, Ricketts contrasts the work of the Kelmscott Press with the early Italian books of the Jenson influence, favoring the Italian school. Lovers of fine printing would do well to study the subtle differences in the Morris and rickets interpretations of the Jenson Roman, differences that might indicate the variations between mere painstaking craftsmanship and artistic good taste. Top inch of spine chipped (affecting label), spine panel loose with front joint split and tear across bottom inch, slight shelf wear and darkening; offsetting to endpapers, else good and worthy of repair.
PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers
Nov. 14, 2007
Charles de Sousy Ricketts Swiss, 1866-1931 , Orpheus and Eurydice oil on canvas
Est: £15,000 - £20,000
signed with monogram l.l. and on the reverse oil on canvas
Sotheby's
Nov. 23, 2005
Charles de Sousy Ricketts, R.A. (1866-1931)
Est: £30,000 - £50,000
Chimeras (Chacun porte sa Chimère) signed with monogram (lower centre) and further signed with monogram (on the reverse) oil on canvas 43 7/8 x 28 1/4 in. (111.5 x 71.7 cm.)
Christie's
Jun. 27, 2005
VALE PRESS -- Charles RICKETTS (1866-1931). A bibliography of the books issued by Hacon &
Est: $3,000 - $4,000
VALE PRESS -- Charles RICKETTS (1866-1931). A bibliography of the books issued by Hacon & Ricketts. London: Ballantyne Press for C. Ricketts, sold by John Lane (New York), 1904. 4 o (210 x 140 mm). PRINTED ON VELLUM, one of ten copies. Printed in red and black in the Vale, Avon and King's founts. Wood-engraved frontispiece by Ricketts after the sign-board painted by C.H. Shannon of the old Vale premises, vine borders. Original flexible vellum binding, gilt bands and lettering on spine. Cloth folding box. Provenance: Albert Sperison (1908-99, San Francisco printer), Vale Press Collection bookplate. This final publication from the Vale Press was limited to 250 paper copies and 10 COPIES ON VELLUM. In order to prevent the three founts from drifting "into other hands than their designers' and become stale by unthinking use", it was decided to throw the punches and matrices in the Thames and melt the type into metal again. Charles Ricketts was one of the most versatile English designers of books in all their aspects (type, illustration, binding, etc.), as well as an influential writer and publisher.
Christie's