A London street view by the northern English artist Harry Rutherford (1903-85) led the sale at Chiswick Auctions (22% buyer’s premium) on June 13.
Camden Town, 1933
(below) had been in the same private home since 1977, and belonged to a group of works the artist painted while in the capital under the tutelage of his mentor and friend Walter Sickert (1860-1942). Today, few works from this period appear at auction, mainly due to a bomb hitting Rutherford’s studio in the Second World War and obliterating a considerable amount of his work.