£1,625
MODERN MADE: Modern & Post-War Art, Design & Studio Ceramics | 618
Auction: 23 October 2020 at 10:00 BST
signed in the silk 'P. HERON 47', together with Graham Sutherland (1903-1980) for Ascher Ltd., 'Black Trellis' scarf, designed 1946, rayon crepe, signed in the scarf 'Sutherland / Ascher'
Heron began designing silks for his father's company, Cresta Silks Ltd, at fourteen years of age and continued through to the post-war period. He is known to have designed at least six silk squares for Cresta, as well as the fashion furnishing fabric 'Aztec', which was exhibited to some acclaim at 'Britain Can Make It' Exhibition in 1946.
Sutherland designed 'Black Trellis' for Ascher in 1946 and another version with the colours inversed. A version of this scarf was also exhibited at Britain Can Make It Exhibition in 1946, alongside a 'Standing Figures' scarf by Henry Moore.