Kinghams Auctioneers in Moreton-in-Marsh (Gloucestershire) has announced a sale of British Art Pottery, comprising more than 350 vases, dishes, candlesticks and the like. However, A small portion of the objects included are paintings, prints, glass, sculpture and books. One watercolour of a saint is ascribed to Charles Shannon, but it is unsigned and undated ('Standing Martyr' watercolour on paper, framed (44 x 19 cm: image). The provenance is: The William Waters Collection.
One work that can be attributed with certainty to Shannon is a study, signed and dated ‘CHS 96’. (See lot 354 in Kinghams Auction).
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| Charles Shannon, Female Nude with Drape (1896), Signed 'CHS 96' |
It depicts a female nude with drape, executed in pencil and white heightener on paper. The image is 29.5 x 20 cm (framed). In the lower right hand corner is a rudimentary sketch of a a female figure with her left arm outstretched.
The study may be related to another one Shannon published in The Pageant for 1897 (issued in 1896) and both may have been studies for one of his earliest prize-winning paintings, The Wounded Amazon - The Pageant also included a black-and-white reproduction of that painting.