Cotmania. Vol. XI. 1935-6

POST OFFICE TELEGRAPHS

Time of receipt
5-49 p.m.

S 5.24 London S 12

The information overleaf will interest you.

Kitson Thornbury House Kidlington

Cotman Realized 200 Hundred and thirty Gooden.
Meatyard.

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{From a letter from Oppé}
I rather hoped when I saw [your?] parcel that it contained a photo of the [Edinburgh?] Shady Pool. I've been to Christie's now 3 times to see it, but not once seen it undisturbed. Spite of my suspicion that it is Bradby's & of his having stood by me today and praised it I think that it is right enough J. S. C. But it is faded & discoloured & therefore looks flattish and weak & I can scarcely ask you to buy it unseen, tho' I feel that you would be sorry to miss it at about £65.

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Lot 114 at Christie's on June 12.36. was 'A Lake Scene with trees' - an early version of the Edinburgh 'Shady Pool.' I went to Town to see it on June 11, & instructed Meatyard to make a bid for it. Unsuccessful.

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Exhibition, 1924.
From an anonymous source came a water-colour drawing of a lake scene with trees, by J. S. Cotman, 15in. by 13in., which realised £241 10s. (Gooden and Fox). The day's total was £3,227.
Morning Post 13.VI.'36.