Secret Portrait of Artist’s Confiscated Children to Sell at Bonhams
June 30, 2010 by All Art News
Filed under Art Market, Featured
LONDON.- A portrait by British artist Sir Herbert James Gunn (1893-1964) of his three children, entitled Design for a Portrait Group, is to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its 20th Century British Art sale on 30 June 2010. It has been estimated at £40,000 – 60,000. The picture was painted in 1929, two years after Sir Herbert’s acrimonious divorce from his first wife Gwen, who had run off with Sir Arthur Whinney, one of her [...]
