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• Auction House:
  Raffan Kelaher & Thomas
• Sale Name:
  Fine & Decorative Arts
• Sale Date:
  06 Dec 2022 ~ 11am (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  72
• Lot Description:
  Rupert Pease (British 1906-45) - Rupert Pease - Affordable Art
  pastel chalk on paper
  34 x 26.5 cm; framed 50.5 x 40.5 cm.
  signed and dated '40 lower right
• Notes:
  Rupert Pease was a rubber planter in Malaya during the 1920-40s and a well known painter of local Malay scenes. He died at Changi Internment Camp in 1945. His sister was Madame Dorothy Fera (Feenie) Tajasque, wife of Georges Tajasque, Chef du Cabinet to Marie Antoine Pasquier, Governor General of French Indo China during the period 1928-1934. A portrait by Pease of the Late Dr John Herbert Bowyer, is in the Singapore General Hospital Collection, of which he was administrator from 1941-44; the Adam Park Project Museum, Singapore, and several other portraits and sketches by Pease are in private and public collections. A portrait by Edward Charles Chitty, of Rupert Pease (1943), whilst he was in Changi, is in the Imperial War Museums, United Kingdom.
• Estimate:
  A$100 - 200
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Affordable Art

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