Caroline Lucas Sold at Auction Prices

Caroline Byng Lucas, 

Caroline Byng Lucas,  British 1886-1967 -  Castle Cottage, 1943;  gouache and monotype on paper, signed and dated with initial lower right 'CL 43', 31.1 x 22.6 cm (ARR)  Provenance:  with The Redfern Gallery, London (label attached to the reverse of the frame);  Mrs Ruth Plant, purchased from the above on the 31st December 1948 (according to the label attached to the reverse of the frame);  the Descendants of Sidney and Stella Churchill (1862-1921 and 1883-1954) and Ruth Plant (1912-1988)  Note: the artist established the Miller's Gallery in Lewes with her sister Frances Byng-Stamper in 1941. They staged over 40 exhibitions, which included work by Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, Duncan Grant, Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde. The sisters also founded the Millers Press in 1945 and the Society of London Painter-Printers to support artists in producing colour prints with the Redfern Gallery in 1948. Her work is in museum collections including the Towner, Eastbourne, Brighton and Hove Museums and Manchester Art Gallery.