Important Works of Art

This sale will include works by Modern masters and our leading Contemporary practitioners, together with historical and topographical paintings and fine foreign works. Already consigned for the sale is the most important work by Bill Hammond to have come on the open market in recent years. The large format loose canvas from the artist’s iconic ‘Buller Bird’ series is monumental in scale and is of museum quality. more ...

Of enormous historical significance is a works by the WWI artists who painted on the battle-fields of Gallipoli, Horace Moore-Jones. Certainly Moore-Jones’ most famous subject, painted some six times, is Simpson and His Donkey. This subject depicts a soldier who saved wounded comrades by carrying them on his donkey to safety. It is with the greatest honor that Webb’s offers the only known night version of this subject and one of only two works outside of institutional collections, to the market. Drawing from a wealth of knowledge and experience, our specialists can provide both buyer and seller with confidential and professional advice on all aspects of the auction and valuation process.