Lot 475
CHARLES S. HIGGINS (PIC) (1893-1980) §
'AU PETIT GALOP'
Auction: 3 April 2019 at 12:00 BST
Description
watercolour and bodycolour on paper, signed, inscribed and dated verso PIC/ DEC. 1934. /"AU PETIT GALOP" and with galley; label THE MODERN ART GALLERY/ 12, BAKER STREET/ LONDON W.I.
Dimensions
12cm x 18cm
Footnote
Note: Charles Higgins or 'Pic' was a regular exhibitor at The Modern Gallery in Baker Street. The gallery had been set up by the artist, author and legendary Bohemian Jack Bilbo. Bilbo had been born in Berlin in 1907 but was forced to leave Germany having campaigned against the Nazis and eventually settled in London in 1936. After internment on the Isle of Man in 1939 he returned to London and founded the Modern Art Gallery in 1941 where he showed works by Picasso and Schwitters alongside lesser-known artist such as Higgins.