£650
REVISED: DERWENT LEES (AUSTRALIAN, 1884-1931). THE ALHAMBRA, LONDON. Pen and black in and pencil, 17.5 x 12cm.
* This drawing was formerly attributed to James Dickson Innes. We are very grateful to Lynn Davies and to John Hoole for advising the revised attribution to Lees.
The Alhambra was a well-known London music hall on the site now occupied by the Odeon Cinema, Leicester Square. It was built in 1854, destroyed by fire in 1882, rebuilt in 1884 and demolished in 1936.
Provenance: London, The Redfern Gallery Ltd, September 1942, where purchased by Lt. Col. J. Bramwell Jones, as by Innes; (and thence by gift and descent).
Very slight time toning in the paper.
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