Modern British & 20th Century Art - 31st May 2022
Lot 22
‡Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £280
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Description
‡Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
Time for Us All Boys, to Hit on a Tune Boys
Inscribed "Time for us all boys, to hit on a tune boys,/Take to the roads & go marching along" (lower centre)
Pencil and watercolour
27.8 x 21.8cm
Unframed
Provenance:
Siegfried Sassoon;
And by family descent
This work depicts W. B. Yeats, and the inscription is taken from his 'Three Songs to the Same Tune' of 1934.