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SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA oil on canvas - head and shoulders portrait, entitled verso 'Willie', signed with initials, 75 x 74cms Provenance: private collection Powys Auctioneer's Note: Willie is purported to be Willy Lee of Ynys Mon (Anglesey) and formed part of a local support group for epileptic sufferers together with Sir Kyffin who was himself also an epileptic. If Kyffin Williams had not developed epilepsy he might never have become a painter. Kyffin recalled that in 1937 after a St David's Day dinner at the Anglesey Arms, Menai Bridge: 'I went to bed at about 12.30 happy and sober. I don't know when I woke, but I remember lying beside the open window. It was unbearably cold and I was covered in snow. There was a taste of blood in my mouth and my tongue was terribly painful…. I must have lost consciousness, for the next thing I remember was waking up in bed…. My tongue was agony, but I got up, dressed and unsteadily made my way downstairs to breakfast. I don't think I ever got there, because once again I found myself in bed, my tongue was worse and everything was unbelievably vague. A few weeks later he was taken to see Dr Henry Cohen in Liverpool 'He told me that I had had an attack of grand mal epilepsy, that the pupil of my left eye was fixed and I had no reaction to light, and that I had no reflexes in my knees. He prescribed luminal and a foul tasting mixture of belladonna and Irish moss. A few days later again in April 1937 Kyffin received his commission in the 6th Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers but six months after the first attack of grand mal he had a second one: 'In the morning I felt reasonably well but was found unconscious on the pavement near Pwllheli station while on my way to lunch. I regained consciousness twenty four hours later. Again there was the taste of blood in my mouth and my tongue was unbelievably sore'. In August 1938, on the return from summer camp as the train left Prestatyn, he had another attack of grand mal, and further attacks followed. The last while still in the army occurred while buckling on his Sam Browne belt prior to a company inspection. He was sent to Moston Hall Hospital, Cheshire, for two weeks; then followed investigations at a military hospital in Oxford, under the supervision of Dr (later Sir) Hugh Cairns. Kyffin describes these as follows, '... first test was the inevitable lumbar puncture. This was followed a few days later by the electro-encephalogram, the first machine of its kind to be assembled in this country. I sat in a wire-netting rabbit hutch and a strange permanent-wave machine hung above my head as terminals were attached to my ether-soaked hair. At the other end of the room a girl pressed a switch, and a large metal hand started to draw a crazy graph on some paper pinned to the wall. The next day in came my doctor. 'What are you going to do when you leave the army? … as in fact you are abnormal,' he announced. 'I think it would be a good idea if you took up art'. Rogers Jones & Co have decided to donate 5% of the price from the commission to Epilepsy Research UK Presentation & Condition: no problems, framedPlease note that this lot may be subject to Droite de Suite at 4% of the hammer price (Please see terms / enquire)BUYER'S PREMIUM:24% + VAT (28.8%) on all lots up to a hammer price of £19,99916% + VAT (20%) on all lots of a hammer price £20,000 and over10% + VAT (12%) on all lots of a hammer price £60,000 and over***PLEASE CLICK ON THE IMAGE MULTIPLE TIMES TO SEE A CLEAR HIGH RES IMAGE'
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The Welsh Sale, Cardiff

VIEWING STRICTLY BY PRE-ARRANGED APPOINTMENT from June 28th to Friday 23rd. Closed on auction day.

Auction dates
24 Jul 2021 09:30 BST
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3.     THE AUCTION

 

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If the work of a living artist has a hammer price of 1,000 euros or more (British Sterling equivalent), an additional 4% will be levied on the hammer price.  This is known as Droit de Suite and is an obligatory levy which is passed on to the living artist.

 

 

 

 

EXPLANATION OF CATALOGUING TERMS

 

1. The forename(s) (or asterisks where not known) and surname of the artist indicate in our opinion the work of the artist.

 

2. The initial(s) of the forename(s) and the surname of the artist indicate in our opinion a work of the period of the artist which may be wholly or, in part, his work.

 

3. A picture catalogued as “ATTRIBUTED TO” is in our opinion probably a work by that artist.

 

4. A picture catalogued as “FOLLOWER OF” is in our opinion a work by a painter working in that artist’s style.

 

5. A picture catalogues as “SCHOOL” accompanied by the name of a place or country and a date means that in our opinion the picture was executed at that time and in that location.

 

6. A picture bearing the word “AFTER” is in our opinion a copy of any date after a work by that artist.

 

7. The term “BEARS A SIGNATURE” means that in our opinion the artist’s name has been added by another hand.

 

8. Dimensions are given height before width, are at approximate and to the nearest half an inch.

 

9. “ANTIQUE” – The word antique is intended to define a TYPE of auction and NOT NECESSARILY the age of the items in it.  Our Antique Auctions may contain items up to present-day age.

24% Buyer's Premium + VAT on all lots up to a hammer price of £19,999

16% Buyer's Premium + VAT on all lots of a hammer price of £20,000 to £59,999

10% Buyers's Premium + VAT on all lots of £60,000 and over

 

Artist’s Resale Right / Droit De Suite
EU & UK law states that the arts of artist’s estate are entitled to a royalty known as ‘artist’s resale right’ when any lot created by the artist is sold. We identify these lots with the green symbol next to the lot number in our illustrated catalogue. If these laws apply to a lot, you must pay us an extra amount equal to the royalty. We will then pay the royal to the appropriate authority on the seller’s behalf. The royalty applies if the hammer price of the lot is 1,000 euros (British Sterling equivalent) or more. The total royalty for any lot can be more than 12,500 euros. The percentages are as follows:
4%          up to €50,000
3%          between €50,000.01 and 200,000
 

1%          between €200,000.01 and 350,000 

0.5%      between €350,000.01 and 500,000 

0.25%    in excess of €500,000

 

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