Arts Council England has received notifications of sale for the following items which have previously been exempted from capital taxation. Please note that the price given is intended as a rough guide only, and does not constitute an offer to sell at this price. The practice of the auction houses is usually to pitch this at their high auction estimate or, sometimes, even higher.
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973)
Child with a Dove
1901
oil on canvas
73cm by 54cm
Provenance
Mrs. R. A. Workman, 1924
Purchased from her in 1928 by Samuel Courtauld
Bequeathed by him to Christabel McLaren, Lady Aberconway on his death in 1947 and thence by descent
Guide price: £50,000,000
Circle of William Scrots (Guillim Stretes)
Portrait of Edward VI
Half length, standing, wearing a richly embroidered tunic
Oil on canvas, in a magnificent carved wood frame
37in by 28in
Literature
The Rev. J. Nightingale, Beauties of England and Wales, vol. XIII part I, London 1813, p.456;1848 Inventory, p. 2; O. Millar, The Tudor, Stuart and Early Georgian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, London, 1963, text. vol. p. 66 under no.49
Guide price: £600,000
For further details please contact:
Acquisitions, Exports, Loans and Collections Unit
Arts Council England
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London SW1P 3NQ
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Anastasia Tennant
Direct Line: 020 7973 5223
