Sold: £1300
Frances Richards (1903-85), the wife of painter Ceri Richards, experimented with abstract-style embroidery among other mediums, culminating in a one-woman show at the Redfern Gallery in London. This signed work of a mother and child, on 12½ x 9in (32 x 22cm) embroidered material, sold against a £100-200 guide at Cheffins of Cambridge on May 23.
Sold: £1600