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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 3, 2024 | Sotheby's | London | Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries | 59 | $****** - ****** | May: Chickens |
Works on Paper
62.1 x 46.6 cm (24.45 x 18.35 in)
Watercolour over traces of pencil, heightened with bodycolour, scratching out and stopping out
signed lower right: JMW Turner RA
Walker Fawkes (1769-1825),
by descent to Major Le Gendre George William Horton-Fawkes (1892-1982),
with Agnew"s, London;
H.C. Green,
with Leger Galleries, London,
Private collection, Japan, by 1979,
by direct descent to the present owner
London, Turner"s Gallery, 1809, no. 3;
London, Royal Academy, 1811, no. 503 (as ‘May: Chickens");
London, 45 Grosvenor Place, Walter Fawkes" London home, 1819, no. 5 (as "The Cottage Door");
Leeds, Albion Street Music Hall, 1839, no. 50;
London, Lawrie & Co., 1902, no. 13 (as ‘English Cottage Scene")
W. Thornbury, The Life of J.M.W. Turner, R.A. , vol. II, London 1862, p. 393;
C.F. Bell, The Exhibited Work of J.M.W. Turner, R.A. , London 1901, p. 48, no. 71;
Sir W. Armstrong, Turner , London 1902, p. 248;
A.J. Finberg, Turner"s Water-Colours at Farnley Hall , London 1912, p. 25, no. 78;
A.J. Finberg, The Life of J.M.W. Turner, R.A., Oxford 1961, pp. 479 & 503, no. 130;
A. Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Art of Life, Fribourg 1979, p. 356, no. 490;
A. Lyles, Turner and Natural History: The Farnley Project , London 1988, p. 35;
J. Gage, J.M.W. Turner: A Wonderful Range of Mind , New Haven 1987, p. 146, no. 219;
E. Shanes, ‘Sacrificing Symmetry: Turner and the Inner Room display at the Royal Academy in 1811", British Art Journal , vol. XVI, London 2015, p. 70-75, no. 2;
L. Bailey, ‘Turner"s Purposeful Patron: Walter Fawkes: 1819 Watercolour Exhibition", Turner Society News, no. 131, London 2019, p. 18
Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A.
(London 1775 - 1851)
May: Chickens
Watercolour over traces of pencil, heightened with bodycolour, scratching out and stopping out;
signed lower right: JMW Turner RA
621 by 466 mm
