Reclining female nude in bronze by Oswald Herzog – £13,000 at Cheffins.
A portrait by Henry Lamb (1883-1960) making its first appearance at auction fetched a sale-topping £18,000 at Cambridge auction house Cheffins (22.5% buyer’s premium) on May 9.
The 2ft 7in x 2ft 11in (80 x 90cm) oil painting, pictured below, captured transport manager David McKenna (1911-2003) playing a clavichord. A close friend of the artist, McKenna combined a successful career in transport – the Victoria line on the London Underground is largely credited to him – with a lifelong devotion to music. It was painted in 1935, a year after McKenna’s marriage to Lady Cecilla Keppel, daughter of the 9th Earl of Albemarle.