Modern British & 20th Century Art - 31st May 2022

Lot 49

‡Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)

Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £650

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Description

‡Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)

George Sassoon in his pram outside Heytesbury House

Pencil and watercolour

17.6 x 22.6cm

Unframed

Provenance:

Siegfried Sassoon;

And by family descent

George Sassoon was Siegfried and Hester's only child. Siegfried wrote to Max Beerbohm in 1936, asking 'Will he, I wonder, become Prime Minister, Poet Laureate, Archbishop of Canterbury, or merely Editor of The Times Literary Supplement? Or Master of The Quorn? Or merely Squire of Heytesbury?'