Lot 118: Study for Sailing Brig (Jeanne of Marseille)

Study for Sailing Brig (Jeanne of Marseille) signed and dated 'Edward Wadsworth 1925' (lower right), pencil 30.5 x 36.5cm (12 x 14 3/8in). Together with a copy of Bernard Windeler's Sailing Ships and Barges or the Western Mediterranean and the Adriatic Seas, 1926, with engravings by Edward Wadsworth hand coloured by Windeler. The present lot features on page 5. (2)

30.5x 36.5cm

Jonathan Black, Edward Wadsworth, Form Feeling and Calculation, The Complete Paintings and Drawings, Philip Wilson, London, 2005, p.178, cat.no,220 (ill.b&w)

The Artist, by whom gifted to Bernard Cyril Windeler (1886-1961) Thence by descent

Bernard Windeler was a great patron to the arts and included amongst his friends Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis. Windeler and Wadsworth first met in 1917 when Wadsworth was the intelligence officer on a small island called Ispathio off Mudros, in the Mediterranean.