Jun 24, 2021 - Sale 2574
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Sale 2574 - Lot 126

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
HERBERT MOESBURY SMYRK (1862-1947)
"In Leipzig, loveliest of towns..." * "Spray-swathed harbingers wing to the lee, and turbulent billows sweep." Together, two illustrations for the poems "Autumn in Leipzig" and "The Storm" published in A Book of Verse by Charles de Monchaux (Sydney: Slatyer, 1941). Pen, ink, and gouache over graphite on thick paper. Each 295x195 mm; 11 1/2x7 1/2 inches, on 14 3/4x10 1/2-inch sheet. Both signed "Herbert Moesbury" in lower left image, with the signature collaged and pasted on the second illustration. "Spray-swathed..." is captioned in graphite in the lower margin.

The lot is accompanied by a preliminary study for "The Storm" illustration, as well as an unpublished illustration of a noble couple that was likely intended for the book. A copy of the book also accompanies the lot.
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