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Alfred Palmer (1877-1951)
A Century of Sea Trading by L. Cope Cornford, 1924, all 1st editions, together with others published by A. &, C. Black, including Stained Glass by Lawrence B. Saint, 1913, Royal Palaces &, Gardens by Mima Nixon, 1916, The Heart of Scotland, painted by Sutton Palmer, 1909, British Water-colour Art by Marcus B. Huish, 1904, John Pettie by Martin Hardy, 1908, George Morland by Walter Gilbey &, E.D. Cuming, 1907, World's Children, by Mortimer Menpes, 1903, War Impressions by Mortimer Menpes, reprinted 1903, Birket Foster by H.M.Cundall, 1906, Kate Greenaway by M.H. Spielmann and G.S. Layard, 1905, Haunts of Ancient Peace by Alfred Austin, 1908, etc., colour plates and illustrations to each volume, mostly top edge gilt, all original pictorial or decorated cloth gilt, generally in good condition, 8vo, also including Thomas J. Barratt, The Annals of Hampstead, 3 volumes, Adam and Charles Black, 1912, maps, plates and illustrations, all edges gilt, original decorated dark blue cloth gilt in bright condition, 4to, limited edition of 550 copies, signed by the author, 4to - Quantity (49)
PALMER, Alfred, (1877 1951), English, resident in South Africa, 1925 1950, ORIGINAL SOFT GROUND ETCHING, Sleeping Child, plate size 17.9cm x 13.2cm, signed in pencil in the margin, light foxing.
PALMER, Alfred, (1877 1951), English, resided in South Africa 1925 1950, PASTEL, Portrait Head of a young African, 46cm x 38cm, signed, dated 1925, on pastel paper, pastel not fixed, verso in pencil MAZWIGA.
PALMER, Alfred, (1877 1951), English, resided in South Africa 1925 1950, PASTEL, A Mountain, probably the back of Table Mountain, with Water in the Foreground, 38cm x 46cm, signed on pastel paper, pastel not fixed.
PALMER, Alfred, (1877 1951), three items, namely TWO ETCHINGS, the first 22cm x 18cm, one in red chalk, 14cm x 12cm, both signed in pencil in the margin, and one CIRCULAR RED CHALK DRAWING, 16cm in diameter, signed, all studies of children and all mounted. (3)
ALFRED PALMER (1877-1951): BARON VON VOSS
Oil on canvas, 1903, signed ''A.F. Palmer'' and dated lower left, lined, with label from East Kent Art Society, Canterbury. 75 x 34 in., 83 x 42 in. (frame).
Provenance: Sold Christie''s, NY, October 22, 1997, Lot 144.
Property from a Private Bedford, NY Collector
ALFRED PALMER Sanguine etching, Young children playing, signed in pencil, 6 x 4, G C A BROWN, colour wood-cut print, Scottish shore scene, 6 x 7.5, L MACDONALD, etching, Low tide Durban Bay, 4.5 x 10, and 4 19th Century miniature lithographs depicting the launch of a Man o War, unframed.
Palmer, Alfred (South African, 1877 - 1951)
Four oil on canvas panels for Manners Mansions Jeppe street
Johannesburg 1937
Signed, unframed and needs restoration
two works 5m62cm x 90cm & two works 4m15cm x 151cm
Alfred Palmer is perhaps best known for his large tempera tondo The Bathers, which was exhibited at
the Royal Academy in 1925. In the same year Palmer relocated from London to Durban, where he taught
art and lived for 15 years. In this time he travelled through the rural areas of South Africa painting both
the landscapes and the people he encountered. In 1937 Palmer was commissioned to paint the murals
for the main entrance foyer of the newly built Art Deco skyscraper 'Manners Mansions' which is situated
on the corner of Jeppe and Joubert Streets in the Johannesburg CBD. The four enormous paintings
depict the city of Johannesburg before World War II; clearly industrial, with its iconic tall skyscrapers
and signature mine dumps. What is striking, however, are the rolling hills and obviously rural space
surrounding the city - space which today is filled with suburban housing and shopping malls. In one
panel, groups of people interact on a grassy hill overlooking the relatively small city, which seems to be
surrounded by a grove of trees. In another, the jagged edges of mine dumps clear in the centre to reveal
a similarly harsh skyline beneath a typical Highveld sky. These important historical records, which are
painted in Palmers typical fluid, painterly style, were fortunately saved by building contractors in 1981
when the Manners Mansions building was refurbished.
ALFRED PALMER (1877-1961) Sanguine litho, Children playing on a beach, 6 x 4, Albany Howarth, Etching, Canterbury Gate, 9 x 6, Colucci, Etching, Calor, 9.5 x 7, and an Eastern woodblock print, (4), framed.