Strauss & co - 15 March 2010, Cape Town

62 148 WilliamMitcheson Timlin S OUTH A FRICAN 1892-1943 The Galleon signed and signed with the artist’s owl device mark watercolour 60,5 by 49cm R80 000 – 120 000 PROVENANCE A gift from the artist to Mr Arthur Lane of the firm, Lane & Dove, Quantity Surveyors, Kimberley. Sold: Stephan Welz & Co, Cape Town, 27 May 1991, lot 326 Sold: Stephan Welz & Co, Cape Town, 9 February 1999, lot 221 149 WilliamMitcheson Timlin S OUTH A FRICAN 1892-1943 The Arrival signed watercolour 26,5 by 24cm R80 000 – 120 000 and two pages from the book The Ship that Sailed to Mars, Part Three Contents, and The Arrival, hand written by the artist in pen and ink (3) PROVENANCE Alpheus Fuller Williams, Vergenoeg, Muizenberg and thence by descent Property of a Private Collector 147 WilliamMitcheson Timlin S OUTH A FRICAN 1892-1943 The Building of a Fairy City - The Iron Workers signed, dated 1925 and inscribed with the title in the margin watercolour over ink 34,5 by 56cm R80 000 – 120 000 William Timlin started a series of fantasy paintings for a book entitled The Building of a Fairy City , he also wrote the text, but never completed the project. PROVENANCE Alpheus Fuller Williams, Vergenoeg, Muizenberg and thence by descent 150 WilliamMitcheson Timlin S OUTH A FRICAN 1892-1943 The Pirates’ Floating Island: Illustration to Lord Dunsany’s ‘Loot of Bombasharna’ signed, dated 1916 and inscribed with the title watercolour 36 by 26cm R35 000 – 50 000 PROVENANCE Sold: Stephan Welz & Co, Cape Town, 8 & 9 February 1999, lot 220 152 WilliamMitcheson Timlin S OUTH A FRICAN 1892-1943 The Leper Ship signed, dated 1920, inscribed with the title and signed with the artist’s owl device mark mixed media on canvas laid down on board 35 by 50cm R30 000 – 40 000 153 WilliamMitcheson Timlin S OUTH A FRICAN 1892-1943 The Little Faun signed, inscribed with the title and with the artist’s owl device mark pen and ink and watercolour 25 by 34cm R30 000 – 40 000 151 WilliamMitcheson Timlin S OUTH A FRICAN 1892-1943 Fantasy watercolour 27 by 37,5cm R25 000 – 35 000