Edward Wolfe

EDWARD WOLFE (1897-1981) SONG OF SONGS The set of twelve off set lithographs derived from drawings from 1930, printed by Adrian Lack at the Senecio Press, Chalbury, 1980, on aluminium paper, each within an Arches paper folder, the folders each signed in pencil and numbered 29/250, the cover of one also with a signed dedication to Darling Antoinette... from Teddy, within a clothbound box Each image 35.5 x 26cm. Provenance: A gift from the artist to Antoinette Pratt-Barlow (1917-1987), artist and poet. Thence by descent. Estimate: 800-1200

Edward Wolfe (British/South African 1897-1982) Road To A Farm. Oil painting on paper 11 by 8 inches. Signed. Edward Wolfe was born in Johannesburg in 1897, moving to England to study at the Slade school of Fine Art in 1917. Exhibited with the London group and with Roger Fry's Omega work shop from 1918. Member of the '7 and 5 Society' from 1926 to 1931. Friend of Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell. Elected Royal Academy in 1973. Painting is on reverse of early Art Deco floral design wallpaper and signed 'E Wolfe' in black lower centre. Faded inscription to margin of paper. Housed in later frame for display

Edward Wolfe (South African, 1897-1982) 'Kenilworth, Cape Town, 1957' signed 'Wolfe' (lower right); bears gallery labels (verso) oil and pencil on canvas 73.6 x 109.2cm (29 x 43in). Footnote: PROVENANCE: With the Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg BIBLIOGRAPHY: J. Russel-Taylor, Edward Wolfe , (London, 1986), illustratedno.35 In 1956 Wolfe returned to South Africa for three years to revisitthe familiar subjects of his past.

Edward Wolfe, R.A. (1897-1982) The Yellow Hat (Mrs Geoffrey Garrat) signed 'Wolfe' (lower right) oil on canvas-board 31½ x 25¼ in. (80 x 64 cm.) Painted in 1933. Norman Hutchinson. with Mayor Gallery, London. Literature J. Russell Taylor, Edward Wolfe, London, 1986, p. 179, pl. 160. Exhibited London, Arts Council, Arts Council Gallery, Edward Wolfe a retrospective exhibition of paintings & drawings, May - June 1967, no. 36: this exhibition travelled to Norwich, Castle Museum, July 1967; Wolverhampton, Art Gallery, August 1967; and Derby, Art Gallery, September 1967. New York, Wildenstein & Co., Contemporary Portrait Society Exhibition, 1974, no. 74. London, Edward Harvane Gallery, A Homage to Duncan Grant, 1975, no. 43. London, Phillips, The Ben Uri Story, 2001, no. 76: this exhibition travelled to Edinburgh. Lot Notes The present work was probably painted at Tangiers.

Lot 1862 Edward Wolfe, R.A. (1897-1982) charcoal Portrait of Elizabeth White signed 15.5 x 12.5in. Estimate £600-800 A little even discolouration of the ground paper and some light foxing, however the majority of small marks are on the inside of the glass rather than on the image, signed lower right, in an unusual silvered wood frame, no labels verso. Provenance: private collection.