Lot 35: Ivor Roberts-Jones, R.A. (1913-1996)

Study of Somerset Maugham
with studio stamp (on the backboard)
black chalk and pencil
12 1/2 x 8 3/4 in. (31.8 x 22.3 cm.)
Executed in 1963.

Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, Welsh Drawings 1963, Welsh Committee of the Arts Council, p. 13, no. c, illustrated.
Ipswich, Wolsey Gallery, Christchurch Mansion, December 1999 - January 2000, no. B/H M2.
Essex, Chappel Galleries, July - August 2000, no. 40.

P. Cannon-Brookes, Ivor Roberts-Jones, London, 1983, p. 33, no. 28, illustrated.

The present work is a study for the portrait head commissioned by Lord Beaverbrook (see lot 36).

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