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Lot 287: George Du Maurier (France,UK,1834-1896) watercolor painting antique

Est: $475 USD - $525 USDSold:
Broward Auction GalleryDania Beach, FL, USApril 04, 2021

Item Overview

Description

ARTIST: George Du Maurier (French, United Kingdom, 1834 - 1896)
NAME: Illustration
MEDIUM: watercolor on paper
CONDITION: Very good. Wear to frame.
SIGHT SIZE: 7 x 10 inches / 17 x 25 cm
FRAME SIZE: 12 x 15 inches / 30 x 38 cm
SIGNATURE: lower left
PROVENANCE: Hollywood Road Gallery, Chelsea UK (has gallery label on verso)
NAME VARIANTS: Georges du Maurier
SIMILAR ARTISTS: Walter Crane, Charles Samuel Keene, John Tenniel, McClelland Barclay, Charles Knight, Honor Appleton, Mabel Lucie Attwell, Lionel Percy Smythe, John Leech, John Byam Shaw, Ernest Howard Shepard, Ernest Albert Waterlow, Henry Mayo Bateman, Joseph Christian Leyendecker, Dean Cornwell, William Holman Hunt, Adrian Daintrey
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US
SKU#: 117862
US Shipping $49 + insurance.

BIOGRAPHY:
A novelist and illustrator, he became best known for his work for the British magazine Punch, of which he was a staff member for over 30 years. He is the creator of such figures as Mrs. Cimabue Brown (a Philistine), Jellaby Postwaite (a poet), Maudle (based on Oscar Wilde), Prigsby (a sycophant), Grigsby (an ordinary man trying to emulate the aesthetic movement's fashions), and of parodies of the nouveaux riches and patrons of the arts, Mrs. Ponsonby de Tomkyns and Sir Gorgius Midas. His first major work for Punch, submitted in 1866, was a series entitled A Legend of Camelot, satirizing the aethetic movement's leading figures Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Charles Baudelaire, Gabriel Pater, and others, and their "Cult of Beauty."Born George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier in Paris, France, he was the grandson of a Frenchman who had fled to England , and the son of Louis and Ellen, daughter of Mary-Anne Clarke, an Englishwoman who had been exiled by British society to France. He was also the grandfather of writer and novelist Daphne Du Maurier.Soon after his birth the family moved to Brussels, where his father Louis assumed the position of scientific advisor to the Portuguese embassy. The family was back in France between 1842 and 1846, but when George failed Latin, he went to study chemistry at the University College in London at age 17, accompanied by the whole family. His father died in 1856, and shortly after his funeral the family left for Paris, where George wanted to study art. He attended the atelier of painter Charles Gleyre, where he became friends with James Whistler, Thomas Armstrong, and Edward Poynter. He continued his studies in Antwerp, Malines, and DГјsseldorf, returning to London in 1860, where he subsequently looked for employment as a magazine illustrator. In the fall, Once A Week agreed to publish his illustrations for the story "Faristan and Fatima," and then Mark Lemon agreed to publish his first cartoon for Punch. He received more and more commissions and was beginning to make a name for himself as a cartoonist.In 1863, Du Maurier married the heiress Emma Wightwick and was appointed to the staff of Punch two years later. Their neighbors and friends included such notables as fairy tale artist Kate Greenaway, the novelist Sir Walter Besant, novelist George Eliot, and others. Du Maurier was a member of the Rabelais Club with other notables such as novelists Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Bret Harte, Oliver Wendell Holmes, artists Lawrence Alma Tadema and John Millais.Du Maurier illustrated Thomas Hardy's serialised "The Hand of Ethelberta" for the Cornhill Magazine (July, 1875, through May, 1876), as well as W. M. Thackeray's Henry Esmond (1869), Foxe's Book of Martyrs and eight works by Elizabeth Gaskell: Sylvia's Lovers(1863); Cranford (1864); Lizzie Leigh, The Grey Woman, and Cousin Phillis (one volume, 1865); Wives and Daughters (1866); North and South (1867); and A Dark Night's Work(1867). Other notable works that Du Maurier illustrated include M. E. Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret (1866: one picture for the "yellow back" edition's cover), Wilkie Collins's Poor Miss Finch, The Moonstone, The New Magdalen, and The Frozen Deep (1875: one plate each), His illustrations appeared in a number of other London literary magazines from 1860 until his death: The Illustrated London News in 1860, Once a Week (1860-1867), Good Words (1861 and 1872), the Illustrated Times in 1862, London Society (1862-1868), The Sunday Magazine (1864), The Leisure Hour (1864-1865), Harper's Magazine (1880-1897), and the English Illustrated Magazine (1884 and 1887).He wrote and illustrated three novels: Peter Ibbetson (1892: 86 illustrations), the best-seller Trilby (1894: 120 illustrations; selected plates), and The Martian (1898: 48 illustrations). In 1894 Trilby had become the number one bestseller in England and America. Trilby boots, shoes, silver scarf pins, and parodies flooded the market, and several movie versions were created.Du Maurier died in London in 1897 at the age of sixty two, while working on The Martian. He is buried in Hampstead Cemetery.

Payment & Shipping

Payment

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Shipping

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For items that are too large for in-house shipment, a gallery approved vendor will be provided for crate and freight services. Broward Auction Gallery WILL NOT CANCEL SALE DUE TO SHIPPING.

Auction Details

Fine & Decorative Art (April 2021)

by
Broward Auction Gallery
April 04, 2021, 11:45 AM EST

#185 398 E Dania Beach blvd, Dania Beach, FL, 33004, US

Terms

Buyer's Premium

25.0%

Bidding Increments

From:To:Increment:
$0$199$10
$200$399$20
$400$699$25
$700$1,499$50
$1,500$3,999$100
$4,000$7,999$250
$8,000$14,999$500
$15,000$29,999$1,000
$30,000$299,999$2,000
$300,000+$5,000

Terms and Conditions

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Any invoice not paid in full within fourteen (14) days after the auction may be cancelled and the sale rescinded without further notice to the purchaser.
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11) Shipping: Shipping fees listed with each lot pertain to domestic shipping only. International bidders are subject to higher shipping fees. Please inquire about shipping to a particular country before the start of the auction. Purchased items will be shipped on a first paid, first shipped basis and may take up to five (5) business days for said shipment to leave our (Broward Auction Gallery) auction house. All domestic mainland items are shipped via USPS Parcel Select unless otherwise specified or requested by the customer.
Invoices must be paid in full to Broward Auction Gallery before purchased property can be released or collected. We will store merchandise free of charge for a period of up to (10) business days. After that period a daily storage charge of $5 per lot/day will commence regardless of lot size or value.
For items that are too large for in-house shipment, a gallery approved vendor will be provided for crate and freight services. Broward Auction Gallery WILL NOT CANCEL SALE DUE TO SHIPPING.

12) If any applicable conditions contained herein are not complied with by the purchaser, Broward Auction Gallery may, in addition to other remedies available by law; (a) hold the purchaser liable for the total purchase price; (b) retain any payment made by the purchaser, and/or (c) cancel the sale and resell the property without reserve and the original purchaser will be liable for any deficiency and added cost.

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Shipping Terms

Shipping: Shipping fees listed with each lot pertain to domestic shipping only. International bidders are subject to higher shipping fees. Please inquire about shipping to a particular country before the start of the auction. Purchased items will be shipped on a first paid, first shipped basis and may take up to five (5) business days for said shipment to leave our (Broward Auction Gallery) auction house. All domestic mainland items are shipped via USPS Parcel Select unless otherwise specified or requested by the customer.
Invoices must be paid in full to Broward Auction Gallery before purchased property can be released or collected. We will store merchandise free of charge for a period of up to (10) business days. After that period a daily storage charge of $5 per lot/day will commence regardless of lot size or value.
For items that are too large for in-house shipment, a gallery approved vendor will be provided for crate and freight services. Broward Auction Gallery WILL NOT CANCEL SALE DUE TO SHIPPING.

Payment Terms

All invoices must be paid no later than the 5th business day following the conclusion of the auction. A dispute will be entered for any invoice not paid within 5 business day.
We accept credit cards, personal or company checks, bank wire transfers. Property purchased during the auction may not be removed until the full purchase price, including buyer's premium and all applicable taxes, have been paid. Broward Auction Gallery reserves the right to hold merchandise purchased by personal check until the check has cleared the bank.
Any invoice not paid in full within fourteen (14) days after the auction may be cancelled and the sale rescinded without further notice to the purchaser.
Credit Cards PAYMENT LIMITS: As a measure of fraud protection, we do not accept credit card payments in excess of $3,000. Total invoice purchases over $3,000 REQUIRES a wire transfer or check payment.

Buyer Premium & Taxes

A 25% buyer's premium will be added to the sale of each lot, plus applicable taxes, unless exempt by law. Applicable Sales or use taxes will be added to the purchase price of all taxable purchases. To be sales tax exempt, a current sales tax exemption certificate, including sales tax exemption number, must be presented to Broward Auction Gallery to avoid paying sales tax. Out of state Internet buyers are sales tax exempt unless you elect to pick up your item(s). In that case, to be exempt, you must present a valid Resale Certificate from you state and complete and sign an affidavit stating all items purchased are for resale out of state.