Humphrey Ocean

Back to catalogue Place Bid or Track Lot Lot No: 424 AR Humphrey Ocean (British, 1951) Black Love Chair Aquatint, 2004, on wove, signed, dated and numbered 8/15, 762 x 609mm (30 x 24in)(PL) Estimate: �300 - 500, � 350 - 580 Request Condition Report Contact the Specialist to discuss this lot or selling in a future sale Email: Tanya Grigoroglou Tel: +44 20 7393 3941 To subscribe to or order a Printed Catalogue quote ref: 18930 Tel: +44 (0) 1666 502 200

Humphrey Ocean, R.A. (b. 1951) Biashara Street, Nairobi signed with initials and dated 'HO 2010' (lower right) and andsigned, inscribed and dated 'Biashara Street Nairobi/200510/HO' (onthe reverse) gouache on paper, unframed 15¼ x 22 in. (38.7 x 55.9 cm.) Executed in 2010. Artist's Resale Right ("droit de Suite"). If the Artist's ResaleRight Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer also agrees topay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in thoseRegulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount tothe artist's collection agent.

reference: the national portrait gallery collection , 1988, by foister, gibson, rogers and simon. the final version of the portrait (for which this is a preliminary sketch), now in the national portrait gallery, was painted at larkin's home in hull and completed on 10 august 1984, the day after his sixty-second birthday. larkin said 'that is my birthday present' and added that 'it could not have been more flattering without being less of a likeness, nor more of a likeness without being less flattering, which i take to be the definition of a successful portrait...i can certainly recommend mr ocean as a portrait painter, in the sense that he was punctual, industrious, entirely untemperamental and full of consideration for the comfort of his sitter.' ocean reported that at their first meeting 'halfway through lunch, he produced the postcard...of my mccartney picture, took my sleeve like a fifteen year old girl and whispered: "tell me all about him"...from then on nothing was too much trouble.' place bid or track lot

Humphrey Ocean (British, 1951) Fat Check Chair Aquatint, 2004, on wove, signed with initials, dated and numbered 29/30 in pencil, editioned by Maurice Payne, with full margins, 762 x 609mm (30 x 24in)(PL)