Two fine small drawings by Stephen Tennant, on one sheet

Tennant, Stephen James Napier [21 April 1906 – 28 February 1987]

Pen and ink and water-colour on paper, two naked Rubenesque women picking grapes from a vine, signed ‘Stephen Tennant’ lower left, WITH, on the reverse, a group of Marseilles sailors and women, variously inscribed ‘Thrills Marseilles Ville’, ‘a book doesn’t need a precedent’

240 by 200mm (9½ by 7¾ inches).

Provenance gift from Stephen Tennant to the architectural historian Gavin Stamp

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