Beryl Cook O.B.E.
Pretty Wood, Sir
Estimate: 8.000 - 12.000 GBP
Price realised: 10.240 GBP
Price realised: 10.240 GBP
Description
Beryl Cook O.B.E. (British, 1926-2008)
Pretty Wood, Sir
signed 'B. Cook' (lower right); titled and dated 'Pretty Wood, Sir./1981' (on panel verso)
oil and pencil on panel
54 x 28.5cm (21 1/4 x 11 1/4in).
With Alexander Gallery, Bristol, where acquired by the present owner, circa 1981 – 1983 | Private Collection, Greece | Literature | B. Cook and J. Whitlock Blundell (ed.), Beryl Cook: The Bumper Edition, Victor Gollancz, London, 2000, p. 229, illustrated | Beryl Cook writes in Beryl Cook: The Bumper Edition, published in 2000, that she 'learned last year that this painting had been stolen from its home in Canada - by a middle-aged lady perhaps', however the painting has been in the present owner's collection since the early 1980s.
Pretty Wood, Sir
signed 'B. Cook' (lower right); titled and dated 'Pretty Wood, Sir./1981' (on panel verso)
oil and pencil on panel
54 x 28.5cm (21 1/4 x 11 1/4in).
With Alexander Gallery, Bristol, where acquired by the present owner, circa 1981 – 1983 | Private Collection, Greece | Literature | B. Cook and J. Whitlock Blundell (ed.), Beryl Cook: The Bumper Edition, Victor Gollancz, London, 2000, p. 229, illustrated | Beryl Cook writes in Beryl Cook: The Bumper Edition, published in 2000, that she 'learned last year that this painting had been stolen from its home in Canada - by a middle-aged lady perhaps', however the painting has been in the present owner's collection since the early 1980s.
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