Modern British & 20th Century Art - 31st May 2022
Lot 28
‡Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £250
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Description
‡Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
Succès Magnifique de Madame Edythe Olivier de L'Opera Comique
Inscribed "Succès Magnifique de Madame Edythe Olivier de L'Opera Comique" (to mount)
Pencil
22.9 x 14.3cm
Unframed
Provenance:
Siegfried Sassoon;
And by family descent
Edith Olivier (1872-1948) was a writer and a hostess to a circle of well-known writers, artists and composers in Wiltshire. Her social set included Siegfried Sassoon, Cecil Beaton, Osbert Sitwell and Rex Whistler. She said of Sassoon that he was 'such fun to tell things to. Laughs so utterly'.