Lot 278: John Napper (1916-2001)

John Napper (1916-2001)
Autobus
signed 'NAPPER' (lower right), signed again, inscribed and dated 'JOHN NAPPER/AUTOBUS/1956' (on the artist's label attached to the stretcher)
oil on canvas
16½ x 24 in. (41.9 x 61 cm.)

Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, John Napper: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, June - July 1959, no. 25.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Olympia, 12 September 2002, lot 101, where purchased by the present owner.

Artist's Resale Right ("droit de Suite").If the Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer also agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.