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All auctions / Miscellaneous / ARTHUR TREVOR HADDON (BRITISH 1864-1941), PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM
ARTHUR TREVOR HADDON (BRITISH 1864-1941) PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM, HALF-LENGTH, A COASTAL LANDSCAPE BEYOND Oil on canvas Signed (lower left) 60 x 49cm (23½ x 19¼ in.) Provenance: Sale, Sotheby's, London, 8 December 1983, lot 240. Sale, Bloomsbury Auctions, London, The Zentner Collection, 25 November 2010, lot 288 Purchased from the above by Camilla Chandon Literature: Eastern Daily Press, 20 January 1981. Times, 22 January 1981. Cambridge Evening News, 23 January 1981. Art and Antiques Weekly, 30-January-6 February 1981. Chelsea News, 6 February 1981. This portrait was featured in the press in 1981 as a rediscovered portrait of Somerset Maugham prior to its sale at auction two years later. It subsequently appeared at auction as part of the Zentner Collection of W. Somerset Maugham material which included books, artwork, photographs amongst other items. William Somerset Maugham was a writer and playwright. He was born at the British embassy, Paris, on 25 January 1874, youngest of the four sons of Robert Ormond Maugham (1823-1884), and Edith Mary Snell (1840-1882). Maugham qualified as a doctor in 1897 but never practised medicine because he was encouraged to continue writing by the success of a novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in the same year. After several unsuccessful attempts at engaging producers in his theatrical works, in 1907 the Court Theatre in Sloane Square, London, put on Lady Frederick and it became a surprise success and within a year four of Maugham's plays were running in the West End. His major successes included Home and Beauty (1919), The Circle (1921), and The Letter (1927). Maugham's novel Of Human Bondage (1915, lot 66) became a best-seller after an effusive review by the influential American critic and distinguished novelist Theodore Dreiser in the New Republic, 25 December 1915, in which he described the book as of 'the utmost importance' and its author as a 'great artist'. After this the public eagerly bought his novels such as The Moon and Sixpence (1919), and The Painted Veil (1925, lot 68), together with volumes of his carefully crafted short stories. These included many that had appeared in magazines such as The Cosmopolitan. His novel Cakes and Ale (1930, lot 4), a satire on the literary world and a cynical dissection of the nature of lust. In his favourable review for The Graphic on 15 October 1930 Evelyn Waugh referred to Maugham's 'supreme adroitness and ease' as well as his 'brilliant technical dexterity'. Maugham's stories with their vivid characters proved eminently suitable for innumerable cinema and later television adaptations. These brought him even greater fame and added substantially to his wealth and there have been some forty films of Maugham's work. Maugham's short stories were also used as source material: Hitchcock's underrated The Secret Agent (1936) from Ashenden (Lot 64), and Quartet (1948), Trio (1950), and Encore (1951). These last three films were introduced by Maugham himself. In America CBS produced nearly forty versions of the short stories for television and British television followed with its own adaptation of some of them. Somerset Maugham married the divorced, Syrie Wellcome, née Barnardo (1879- 1955) in America in 1917, to give his name to their daughter Liza, born in Rome in 1915. The marriage was unhappy and they divorced in France in 1929. He settled at the Villa Mauresque, Cap-Ferrat on the French Riveria where he entertained and where Liza would spend her summers with her children. Somerset Maugham was appointed CH in 1954 and CLitt in 1961. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a commander of the Légion d'honneur, and an honorary DLitt of the universities of Oxford and Toulouse. On his eightieth birthday the Garrick Club gave a dinner in his honour; only Dickens, Thackeray, and Trollope had received similar recognition. He founded the Somerset Maugham award in 1947 to give young writers a opportunities and left royalties in all his work to the Royal Literary Fund. Maugham died in the Anglo-American Hospital in Nice on 15 December 1965 and his ashes were interred in the grounds of King's School, Canterbury. He was one of the most commercially successful and gifted writers of the twentieth century. ARTHUR TREVOR HADDON (BRITISH 1864-1941), PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM, HALF-LENGTH, A COASTAL LANDSCAPE BEYOND, ARTHUR TREVOR HADDON (BRITISH 1864-1941) PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM, HALF-LENGTH, A COASTAL LANDSCAPE BEYOND Oil on canvas Signed (lower left) 60 x 49cm (23½ x 19¼ in.), Provenance:, Provenance: Sale, Sotheby's, London, 8 December 1983, lot 240. Sale, Bloomsbury Auctions, London, The Zentner Collection, 25 November 2010, lot 288 Purchased from the above by Camilla Chandon, The Zentner Collection, Literature:, Eastern Daily Press, Literature: Eastern Daily Press, 20 January 1981. Times, 22 January 1981. Cambridge Evening News, 23 January 1981. Art and Antiques Weekly, 30-January-6 February 1981. Chelsea News, 6 February 1981. Times, Cambridge Evening News, Art and Antiques Weekly, Chelsea News, This portrait was featured in the press in 1981 as a rediscovered portrait of Somerset Maugham prior to its sale at auction two years later. It subsequently appeared at auction as part of the Zentner Collection of W. Somerset Maugham material which included books, artwork, photographs amongst other items. William Somerset Maugham was a writer and playwright. He was born at the British embassy, Paris, on 25 January 1874, youngest of the four sons of Robert Ormond Maugham (1823-1884), and Edith Mary Snell (1840-1882). Maugham qualified as a doctor in 1897 but never practised medicine because he was encouraged to continue writing by the success of a novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in the same year. After several unsuccessful attempts at engaging producers in his theatrical works, in 1907 the Court Theatre in Sloane Square, London, put on Lady Frederick and it became a surprise success and within a year four of Maugham's plays were running in the West End. His major successes included Home and Beauty (1919), The Circle (1921), and The Letter (1927). Lady Frederick, Home and Beauty, The Circle, The Letter, Maugham's novel Of Human Bondage (1915, lot 66) became a best-seller after an effusive review by the influential American critic and distinguished novelist Theodore Dreiser in the New Republic, 25 December 1915, in which he described the book as of 'the utmost importance' and its author as a 'great artist'. After this the public eagerly bought his novels such as The Moon and Sixpence (1919), and The Painted Veil (1925, lot 68), together with volumes of his carefully crafted short stories. These included many that had appeared in magazines such as The Cosmopolitan. His novel Cakes and Ale (1930, lot 4), a satire on the literary world and a cynical dissection of the nature of lust. In his favourable review for The Graphic on 15 October 1930 Evelyn Waugh referred to Maugham's 'supreme adroitness and ease' as well as his 'brilliant technical dexterity'. Of Human Bondage, New Republic, The Moon and Sixpence, The Painted Veil, The Cosmopolitan, Cakes and Ale, The Graphic, Maugham's stories with their vivid characters proved eminently suitable for innumerable cinema and later television adaptations. These brought him even greater fame and added substantially to his wealth and there have been some forty films of Maugham's work. Maugham's short stories were also used as source material: Hitchcock's underrated The Secret Agent (1936) from Ashenden (Lot 64), and Quartet (1948), Trio (1950), and Encore (1951). These last three films were introduced by Maugham himself. In America CBS produced nearly forty versions of the short stories for television and British television followed with its own adaptation of some of them. The Secret Agent, Ashenden, Quartet, Trio, Encore, Somerset Maugham married the divorced, Syrie Wellcome, née Barnardo (1879- 1955) in America in 1917, to give his name to their daughter Liza, born in Rome in 1915. The marriage was unhappy and they divorced in France in 1929. He settled at the Villa Mauresque, Cap-Ferrat on the French Riveria where he entertained and where Liza would spend her summers with her children. Somerset Maugham was appointed CH in 1954 and CLitt in 1961. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a commander of the Légion d'honneur, and an honorary DLitt of the universities of Oxford and Toulouse. On his eightieth birthday the Garrick Club gave a dinner in his honour; only Dickens, Thackeray, and Trollope had received similar recognition. He founded the Somerset Maugham award in 1947 to give young writers a opportunities and left royalties in all his work to the Royal Literary Fund. Maugham died in the Anglo-American Hospital in Nice on 15 December 1965 and his ashes were interred in the grounds of King's School, Canterbury. He was one of the most commercially successful and gifted writers of the twentieth century
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