SVEN BERLIN (BRITISH 1911-1999) §
CADDICK DRUNK, 1951
Estimate: £500 - £700
Auction: 11 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Signed, titled and dated lower centre, pencil, pen, ink and wash on paper
Dimensions
38.75cm x 33cm (15.25in x 13in)
Provenance
Belgrave Gallery, St Ives, 1999;
Collection of Professor John Chambers.
Footnote
Also included in the lot is A dog-cart to Mousehole by the St Ives poet Arthur Caddick, including a typed MS title page and typed 23 verse poem by Caddick celebrating a gleeful November journey by four close friends terminating in an excessive drinking session in Mousehole.
This is accompanied by a typed letter from Caddick (Nancledra, 10.1.51) proposing that Sven and Juanita Berlin provide several illustrations for the poem, so that it might then be published.