Nov 08, 2012 - Sale 2293

Sale 2293 - Lot 10

Price Realized: $ 1,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
M. EYRE PROUDMAN (1906 - ?) SEE INDIA / JODHPUR. 1934.
39 1/4x25 inches, 99 1/2x63 1/2 cm. G. Claridge & Co., Bombay.
Condition A- / B+: repaired tears and minor restoration in corners and margins.
A view of the 17th century Mehrangarh Fort in the hills above Jodhpur. Proudman was a "painter, illustrator, print maker and designer of many objects . . . whose correct name was Maureen Patey Proudman (Eyre was her maiden name). She graduated art in Rome, also studying at Royal College of Art under Ernest Tristram and William Rothenstein. Exhibited in Italy, India, Leicester Galleries, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and elsewhere in the provinces" (Artists in Britain since 1945 p. 135).