Lot 13 · Modern Visionaries - The Roger and Josette Vanthournout Collection - Online Sale
Portrait of the artist's father, three-quarter-length, reading a newspaper with a dog on his lap
William Kennedy · pencil
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- Estimate
- £300–£500 hammer ≈ $521–$868
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Christie's — Modern Visionaries - The Roger and Josette Vanthournout Collection - Online Sale, London · 14 March 2006
- Dimensions
- 13¾ x 8¾ in. (35 x 22 cm.)
- Record ID
- TB-2026-5711207
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 28 Jul 2026 · source ↗
- Cite this record
- TB-2026-5711207 — https://thebasis.art/cite/TB-2026-5711207
William Kennedy, Portrait of the artist's father, three-quarter-length, reading a newspaper with a dog on his lap. Christie's, 14 Mar 2006, lot 13. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-5711207.
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William Kennedy, Portrait of the artist's father, three-quarter-length, reading a newspaper with a dog on his lap. Christie's, 14 Mar 2006, lot 13. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-5711207.
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From the same sale Modern Visionaries - The Roger and Josette Vanthournout Collection - Online Sale · Mar 2006
| Lot | Artist | Estimate | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cylinder 240 | Marta Pan | £2,000–£3,000 | |
| Mercure | Marta Pan | £2,000–£3,000 | |
| Pride | Marc Quinn | £3,000–£5,000 | |
| Drawing of J.D. | John Davies | £1,500–£2,500 | |
| Untitled | Jaume Plensa | £2,000–£3,000 | |
| Drawing for Opposite circle | Tatsuo Miyajima | £1,800–£2,500 |
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| Artist | Lot | vs. estimate | Result USD, incl. premium | Sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William Kennedy | A Rest From Manoeuvres | $521 | Lyon & Turnbull, Feb 2026 | |
| John Duncan Fergusson Rba | Reclining nude | Sotheby's, Nov 2014 | ||
| Samuel John Peploe R.s.a. | Head of a Child | Lyon & Turnbull, Oct 2025 | ||
| William Kennedy | Tea time in the garden | Bonhams, Sep 2024 | ||
| George Leslie Hunter | A Beach and Boats | Sotheby's, Nov 2022 | ||
| William Kennedy | Outside a mosque | Bonhams, Jul 2021 | ||
| John Duncan Fergusson Rba | A Parisian café, c. 1908 | Bonhams, Sep 2024 | ||
| William Kennedy | Reverie | Lyon & Turnbull, Sep 2024 |
The closest sold results by price, artist, and medium — the appraiser's comp set, generated from the corpus. All figures converted to USD at current reference rates.