Stephen Tennant (1906-1986)
Stephen Tennant (1906-1986)

Three designs for Lascar, A Story of the Maritime Boulevard: Open all Night, Jack's Place; Ban of Heart's Desire; and Chase me Charlie

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Stephen Tennant (1906-1986)
Three designs for Lascar, A Story of the Maritime Boulevard: Open all Night, Jack's Place; Ban of Heart's Desire; and Chase me Charlie
inscribed 'OPEN ALL NIGHT/JACK'S PLACE' (upper left)
ink, watercolour and collage
13 x 10 in. (33 x 25.3 cm.) (3)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 20 June 1995, lot 23, where purchased by the present owner.
Exhibited
London, Maclean Gallery, Stephen Tennant: A story of the Maritime, September 1983, nos. 6, 21 & 28.

Lot Essay

The novel Lascar was an obsessive project for Tennant over the course of the last fifty years of his life, but one which remained incomplete at his death in 1987. The name Lascar, though now rarely used, was a term used to describe a sailor from India or other countries East of the Cape of Good Hope.

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