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Sir Kyffin Williams 'Capel Rhoscolyn'

Sir Kyffin Williams 'Capel Rhoscolyn'

£50,000 - 70,000

Lot 316

SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA oil on canvas - Rhoscolyn village, Ynys Mon, with chapel in centre of composition, signed with initials, 50 x 60cms Provenance: private collection, consigned via our Colwyn Bay office Presentation & Condition: original frame, scuffing and marks to the frame, no obvious signs of damage or repair

£25,000-35,000

Lot 317

SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA oil on canvas - dramatic and expansive scene featuring Bryn Cader Faner Harlech, being a bronze age prince's burial cairn, over four thousand years old, 60 x 90cms Provenance: private collection north Wales, sold to the present owner's parents by the artist during an exhibition of his work held at Oriel Plas Glyn y Weddw, Llanbedrog in November 2002, the painting featured on the cover of the exhibition catalogue

£25000-35000

Lot 318

SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA oil on canvas - head and shoulders portrait, entitled verso 'Willie', signed with initials, 75 x 74cms Provenance: private collection Powys Auctioneer's Note: Willie is purported to be Willy Lee of Yns Mon (Anglesey) and formed part of a local support group for epileptic sufferers together with Sir Kyffin who was himself also an epileptic. If Kyffin Williams had not developed epilepsy he might never have become a painter. Kyffin recalled that in 1937 after a St David's Day dinner at the Anglesey Arms, Menai Bridge: 'I went to bed at about 12.30 happy and sober. I don't know when I woke, but I remember lying beside the open window. It was unbearably cold and I was covered in snow. There was a taste of blood in my mouth and my tongue was terribly painful…. I must have lost consciousness, for the next thing I remember was waking up in bed…. My tongue was agony, but I got up, dressed and unsteadily made my way downstairs to breakfast. I don't think I ever got there, because once again I found myself in bed, my tongue was worse and everything was unbelievably vague. A few weeks later he was taken to see Dr Henry Cohen in Liverpool 'He told me that I had had an attack of grand mal epilepsy, that the pupil of my left eye was fixed and I had no reaction to light, and that I had no reflexes in my knees. He prescribed luminal and a foul tasting mixture of belladonna and Irish moss. A few days later again in April 1937 Kyffin received his commission in the 6th Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers but six months after the first attack of grand mal he had a second one: 'In the morning I felt reasonably well but was found unconscious on the pavement near Pwllheli station while on my way to lunch. I regained consciousness twenty four hours later. Again there was the taste of blood in my mouth and my tongue was unbelievably sore'. In August 1938, on the return from summer camp as the train left Prestatyn, he had another attack of grand mal, and further attacks followed. The last while still in the army occurred while buckling on his Sam Browne belt prior to a company inspection. He was sent to Moston Hall Hospital, Cheshire, for two weeks; then followed investigations at a military hospital in Oxford, under the supervision of Dr (later Sir) Hugh Cairns. Kyffin describes these as follows, '... first test was the inevitable lumbar puncture. This was followed a few days later by the electro-encephalogram, the first machine of its kind to be assembled in this country. I sat in a wire-netting rabbit hutch and a strange permanent-wave machine hung above my head as terminals were attached to my ether-soaked hair. At the other end of the room a girl pressed a switch, and a large metal hand started to draw a crazy graph on some paper pinned to the wall. The next day in came my doctor. 'What are you going to do when you leave the army? … as in fact you are abnormal,' he announced. 'I think it would be a good idea if you took up art'. Rogers Jones & Co have decided to donate 5% of the price from the commission to Epilepsy Research UK

£15000-25000

Lot 46

A RARE EWENNY POTTERY SLIPWARE WASSAIL BOWL & COVER, DATED 1832-33 glazed in yellow over red with sgraffito decoration, the base with eighteen plain strap handles decorated with circles and zig-zags, repeated interlocking circles below the rim and the inscription 'WIM Clay Pits - 1833' below the handles, the domed cover topped with a figure kneeling before a round table of objects and surrounded by chickens and two foxes, one fox with a mouse in its mouth, inscribed 'William James Tonyrevil Jany 12th 1832', 39cm high Provenance: from the collection of Gwyneth and the late Ieuan Evans, with Bonhams Auctioneer's Note: Wassail bowls were used in an ancient custom in south Wales around New Year, when groups of revellers would travel from house to house wishing happiness, health and well-being to their neighbours. In Glamorgan the wassail tradition was closely associated with The Mari Lwyd ritual, where a horse's skull was fixed to a ribbon-decorated pole and promenaded around the well-wishers. The bowls were usually filled with spiced ale. The communal nature of the wassail custom is highlighted by the multiple handles which may have been decorated with ribbons for the event. The bowls were normally made for the village as a whole and the inscriptions, William James in this case, referred to the donor of the bowl rather than a custodian or owner. In the South Wales News of April 30th 1892 a report refers to William Williams, a potter at Claypits who made wassail bowls in the 1820s for parishes at a cost of one guinea each. Condition Report: restoration including to head of figure, damage to extremities commensurate with age and nature of bowl and its usage, firing cracks, this is a

£3000-5000

Lot 486

KEVIN SINNOTT enormous oil and charcoal on linen - entitled verso on Flowers gallery label 'The Boxing Field, Pontycymmer c.1920', signed with initials, 178 x 220cms Provenance: private collection consigned via our Cardiff office. The painting is from Kevin Sinnott's 'History' series which was exhibited at the launch of the artist's own gallery - Studio 18, in 2016. It was then transported to London and sold through Flowers to the vendor's late husband

£10,000-15,000

Lot 494

Donald McIntyre 'Storm Headland'

£1500-2500

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Lot 495

Donald McIntyre 'Dolan'

£6000-9000

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