Lot 732 · Christie's Interiors
'What's everybody so nice and quiet about today?'
Carl Ronald Giles · pen and black ink and watercolour, on artist's board, unframed
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- Estimate
- £800–£1,200 hammer ≈ $1,129–$1,694
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Christie's — Christie's Interiors, London (South Kensington) · 3 July 2001
- Dimensions
- 5 7/8 x 8¼ in. (15 x 21 cm.); and Three letters from Carl Giles to Miss Janet Coleman and Mr and Mrs Coleman; and A programme for 'A Night in Suffolk' Dinner and Dance, 26
- Record ID
- TB-2026-4542404
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 28 Jul 2026 · source ↗
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Carl Ronald Giles, 'What's everybody so nice and quiet about today?'. Christie's, 3 Jul 2001, lot 732. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4542404.
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Carl Ronald Giles, 'What's everybody so nice and quiet about today?'. Christie's, 3 Jul 2001, lot 732. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4542404.
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