Lot Essay
Blue Harbour was Noël Coward's home in Jamaica.
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Blue Harbour Garden Boy
Details
Oliver Messel (1904-1978)
Blue Harbour Garden Boy
signed 'Oliver Messel' (lower right), signed again, inscribed and dated 'Oliver Messel Jamaica/1951' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm.)
Blue Harbour Garden Boy
signed 'Oliver Messel' (lower right), signed again, inscribed and dated 'Oliver Messel Jamaica/1951' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm.)
Provenance
Bequeathed by the Noël Coward Estate to Geoffrey Ashton Johnson, 1973.
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