* Talbot Kelly (Richard Barrett, 1896-1971). 20 watercolours of birds, and others

Talbot Kelly (Richard Barrett, 1896-1971). A portfolio of 27 watercolour studies, including 20 ornithological studies, on white or coloured papers, including 15 watercolours of birds signed with the artist's monogram device: A wader flying over a marsh; An Avocet (cut out and mounted on coloured paper); A Juvenile Nut Cracker; A Swooping Lapwing; A Standing Lapwing; A Lapwing in Flight; A Crested Tit; A Diver; Two Saw-Toothed Ducks and a Passerine; A Gull; A Male Kestrel; three unidentified bird watercolours; a Maribou Stalk, further inscribed 'after FB', black chalk drawing heightened with white; and the following 4 works, not featuring birds and signed by the artist: Two Medieval Courtiers, watercolour; Figure and fishing boat by the Nile, watercolour; Native boy with still life, a collaged watercolour; a Native American in a landscape, collaged watercolour; A Cricket, watercolour; 'Ground-Pattern, India', watercolour; The Barn, watercolour (by J.G.L. Roberts according to an inscription verso); and the following unsigned works: Swooping Barn Owl; Swimming Lapwing; one unidentified watercolour of a bird; and A wounded lion, paper collage, all loose in portfolio, green boards and green leather corners, with artist's initials 'R.B.T.K.' embossed in gold to upper cover (measuring 58 x 82.5 cm) Qty: (27)