Lot 35 Basil Blackshaw

Basil Rakoczi 1908-1979 MEDITERRANEAN COMPOSITION Oil on canvas,24'' x 39'' (61 x 99cm), signed; signed, inscribed with title and dated 1953 verso. Provenance: John Watkins, the Canadian ambassador to Moscow in the late 1940s and 1950s, who bought it direct from Rakoczi in Paris in 1958; Sold these rooms November 2006 (lot 78); Private Collection ,Wicklow.