Sworders Modern British & 20th Century Art 20 April 2021

26 Each lot is subject to Buyer’s Premium at 30% inclusive of VAT @ 20% Lots marked * will be subject to an additional fee - please see ARR details on page 136 MODERN BRITISH AND 20TH CENTURY ART 18-86 Lot 43 *Duncan Grant (1884-1978) A study for the cover of ‘Olivia’ by Olivia, the pseudonym of Dorothy Bussy (1865-1960) signed with initials c.r., pencil, pen and ink and blue washes 21 x 14.5cm £600 - 800 Dorothy Bussy was an English novelist and translator, close to the Bloomsbury Group. ‘Olivia’ is the only novel by Dorothy Bussy, it was published in 1949 by Hogarth Press, the publishing house founded by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Bussy wrote it in French and signed her work with the pseudonym ‘Olivia’. Olivia had been the name of one of Dorothy’s sisters who died in infancy. 43 42 Lot 42 Samuel John Peploe (1871-1935) Portrait of a woman in a headscarf signed with initials l.r., pencil 17 x 17cm £1,500 - 2,000 Exhibited: The Scottish Gallery, 5-17 June 2000.