WHISTLER Rex (1905-1944) ‘Fascisti’, Rome (Not W&F). Ink and watercolour. Signed. Signed, inscribed and dated, 1925 on the original mount. Whistler went to Rome while on his first trip to Italy, with Stephen Tennant, in 1925. Ex. Collection: Ronald Fuller. 10x6 inches. Framed: 19x14.5 inches.
WHISTLER Rex (1905-1944) Page of figure and bust studies (Not W&F). Pencil"https://www.abbottandholder.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Whistler-verso-91937.jpg">click here). Ex. Collection: Ronald Fuller. 5.5x8 inches.
WHISTLER Rex (1905-1944) Death The Victor (Not W&F). Pencil, pen and ink. Inscribed under the mount (click here) by Laurence Whistler: ‘Very similar to Rex’s tail-piece to “Children of Hertha” / Also (very similar to Rex’s) trophy on title page of “In Time of Suspense” / & yet it isn’t either’. Ex. Collection: Ronald Fuller. 2.25x4.5 inches.
WHISTLER Rex (1905-1944) ‘Desert Islands & Robinson Crusoe’ (Not W&F). Pencil study preliminary to the copper engraving for the frontispiece of Walter de la Mere, Desert Islands, and all about them, 1930. Inscribed by the artist. Verso (click here and here): similar sketchings. Ex. Collection: Ronald Fuller. 8x5 inches.
WHISTLER Rex (1905-1944) ‘Desert Islands’ (Not W&F). Pencil study"https://www.abbottandholder.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Whistler-Verso-1-91936.jpg">click here) preliminary to the copper engraving for the frontispiece Walter de la Mere, Desert Islands, and all about them, 1930. Inscribed by the artist. Inscribed by the artist. Verso (click here): Sketch suggestion for the hard cover of the book. Ex. Collection: Ronald Fuller. 10x6 inches.
WHISTLER Rex (1905-1944) ‘A Man of Pedigree’ (W&F.520.6). Ink and watercolour. Inscribed by the artist. Inscribed verso by Laurence Whistler ‘Rex Whistler / c.1926 / Drawn for Ronald Hall’. Intended for A Book of Pensees, Ronald Hall (unpublished). Provenance: Gift from Ronald Hall to Laurence Whistler, 1959. Ex. Collection: Ronald Fuller. 8.25x6.25 inches. Framed: 17.5x14.25 inches.
WHISTLER Rex (1905-1944) ‘A Breach of Promise’ (with W&F.414). Pen and ink. Inscribed top by Laurence Whistler: ‘Sketch for illustration opp.p.116 for Arabella in Africa by / Sir Frank Swettenham. 1925. “A Breach of Promise”. Rex Whistler’. Signed or inscribed bottom ‘R. J. Whistler 1924.’ Lit: Sir Frank Swettenham, Arabella in Africa, John Lane, 1925 (Whistler’s first book illustration commission). Verso: ‘Pinner Wood House’, the Whistler home 1923-1924. Pen and ink. Pencil inscribed and dated, 1924. Ex Collection: Ronald Fuller. 10.25x5.75 inches. Framed: 18.25x12.75 inches.
WHISTLER Rex (1905-1944) ‘The Dwarf’. Watercolour. Exhibited: An Offering of Ballet, Twenty Brook Street, No.59 - ‘Ballet design by Mr Whistler for The Birthday of the Infanta for the Camargo Society, 1932.’ Ex. Coll: Leon Dessau. 7x 4.25. Framed: 13.5x10.25.
WHISTLER Rex (1905-1944) ‘Backing for Drawing room windows’. Pencil, watercolour and gouache, probably for a stage set. Inscribed by the artist beneath the mount. 6.75x10.5 inches. Framed: 15x17.75 inches.
WHISTLER Rex (1905 - 1944) ‘Reunion in Vienna’. Ink and watercolour. Inscribed verso ‘Return to Laurence Whistler’. Exhibited: Michael Parkin Gallery. Lit: L. Whistler and R. Fuller, The Work of Rex Whistler, Batsford, 1960, p.57. Ill: ‘The Masque’, No.4 9.5x7 inches. Framed: 17x13 inches.
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WHISTLER Rex (1905-1944) ‘Victoria Regina’. Pencil, ink and watercolour. Stage set for Victoria Regina by Laurence Housman, Lyric Theatre, June 1937. Provenance: Paul Anstee. 7.5 inches. Framed: 16x17.5 inches.
WHISTLER Rex (1905-1944) New Zealand, Auckland: ‘It was there, in a tin Chapel, that I first imagined what Heaven was to be like’. Ink and watercolour. Drawn to illustrate the second of twelve articles by Hector Bolitho, Nash’s-Pall Mall Magazine, Feb. 1935. Ex. Coll: Laurence Whistler; Hector Bolitho. 7x5 inches.
WHISTLER Rex (1905-1944) Arabella in Africa. A collection of 19 pen and ink vignettes, on 13 pages, for chapters 1-19 of the novel by Sir Frank Swettenham (Publ.1925). Including a copy of the book, the proof copies of all the illustrations and Press Reviews annotated by the author. All bound in a crimson morocco box, silk lined and with a key. Ex. Collection Sir Frank Swettenham. Lawrence Whistler. CLICK HERE TO VIEW
WHISTLER Rex (1905-1944) ‘Page’s costume’, design for the ballet ‘Birthday of the Infanta’. Pencil, watercolour and ink. Inscribed by the artist. ‘Birthday of the Infanta’, choreography by Penelope Spencer, music by Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1984) and settings by Rex Whistler, was premiered Adelphi Theatre by the Camargo Society , December 1932. 9.25x6.75 inches. Framed: 12x9 inches.
WHISTLER Rex (1905-1944) ‘Ann’s Bath’. Pen and ink. Signed. Ill: p.7, ‘Green Outside’, Elizabeth Goldley, publ.1931. 2x4 inches. Framed: 12x13 inches.
WHISTLER Rex (1905-1944) ‘Pictures for Katherine’. Pen and ink, Signed. Ill: p.29 ‘Green Outside’, Elizabeth Godley, publ.1931. 2x3.25 inches. Framed: 12x12.75 inches.
WHISTLER Rex (1905-1944) ‘Potiompkin’. Pen and ink. Signed and inscribed. Inscribed by Stephen Tennant beneath the mount ‘This very powerful drawing by Rex Whistler was drawn at Wilsford Manor during a weekend party. Rosamond Lehman, Sacheverell Sitwell, Elinor Wylie, the Great Poetess’ – were all staying with Stephen Tennant’. Authenticated by Laurence Whistler. 4.25x4.5 inches irregular. Framed: 17.25x16.5inches.
WHISTLER Rex (1905-1944) ‘Pictures for Katherine’. Pen and ink. Signed. Ill. p.29. ‘Green Outside’, Elizabeth Godley, published 1931. Framed: 11.75x12.75 inches.
WHISTLER Rex (1905-1944) ‘A Man of Destiny’ (W&F.520.3). Pen and ink. Signed, inscribed and dated, 1926. Inscribed verso (click here) by Laurence Whistler: ‘Rex Whistler / One of six illustrations (not reproduced) / to writings by Ronald Hall. c.1926 / Three of them given to me by RH, 1959. / (This, and two others, were used by RH / in his privately printed booklet Heart / Disease: How I cured Myself 1959, with his own titles added)’. Ex. Collection: Ronald Fuller. 8.25x6.25 inches. Framed: 18.25x15 inches.
WHISTLER Rex (1905-1944) ‘Illustration to “Deaths Precipice” ’ (W&F.520.5). Ink and watercolour. Signed and inscribed. Inscribed verso by Laurence Whistler ‘Rex Whistler / c.1926 / Drawn for Ronald Hall’. Provenance: One of three unpublished illustrations (of a total of six) to writings by Ronald Hall given to Laurence Whistler by Hall in 1957. Ex. Collection: Ronald Fuller. 8.25x6.6 inches. Framed: 18.25x15 inches.
WHISTLER Rex (1905-1944) Illustrated Calender for April 1940-March 1941 (W&F.649). Twelve colour plates after paintings by Rex Whistler mounted to thick paper, perforated at head for months to be torn off. 27x19.5 inches
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