Lay's Auctioneers: Cornish Art, Fine Art & Studio Pottery, 51426, Cornwall

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 14, 2026 - May 15, 2026
Page Size: 59 items in 3 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
20 Wilhelmina BARNS-GRAHAM (1912-2004)

Orange and Lemons Playing Games

1999 GBP 500.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 2,316.20
27 Peter LANYON (1918-1964)

Levant Mine Ruins

2010 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 475.76
48 Duncan GRANT (1885-1978)

Interior

St Ives 1973 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 500.80
55 Breon O'CASEY (1928-2011)

Dove On Yellow With Grey Triangles

1999 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 2,003.20
61 Peter LANYON (1918-1964)

The Returned Seaman

St Ives 1973 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
76 Kurt JACKSON (1961)

Pale Day on Scilly

2018 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 187.80
78 John Erskine MILNE (1931-1978)

Zagora

1974 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 43.82
127 Breon O'CASEY (1928-2011)

Untitled

N/A GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 313.00
137 Breon O'CASEY (1928-2011)

Bird over Blues & Grey

1999 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,881.20
144 Robert ADAMS (1917-1984)

Screen Form

St Ives 1973 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 250.40
203 Frank BRANGWYN (1867-1956)

Tree Study

N/A GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 125.20
224 Wilhelmina BARNS-GRAHAM (1912-2004)

White Circle Series III

2006 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 3,380.40
228 John WELLS (1907-2000)

Dancer

1950 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 212.84
234 Terry FROST (1915-2003)

Madron Blue IV

1997 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 688.60
235 Rose HILTON (1931-2019)

Sleeping Figure

1990 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 200.32
246 Bryan ILLSLEY (1937-2024)

Two Jugs

N/A GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 75.12
275 Sandra BLOW (1925-2006)

Canvas on Chrome

N/A GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,815.40
285 Merlyn EVANS (1910-1973)

St Ives Beach

St Ives 1973 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 150.24
288 Bryan PEARCE (1929-2006)

A Glimpse of the Harbour

N/A GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
294 Frederick Edward MCWILLIAM (1909-1992)

Women of Belfast

St Ives 1973 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
306 Alan DAVIE (1920-2014)

Bird through Wall

St Ives 1973 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
324 Kurt JACKSON (1961)

Last Surf of the Day

2016 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 200.32
325 Graham DEAN (1951)

Trust

N/A GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 62.60
332 Gill WATKISS (1938-2024)

Tregarthan Farm (1979)

1979 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 563.40
366 Michael ROTHENSTEIN (1908-1993)

Sunrise at 36,000 Feet (1973)

St Ives 1973 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 250.40
  • Freeman’s
    How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
    June 30
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Queen Anne's War] Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York Accomplished to Queen Anne. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Mormonism] A Unique Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words Offered to His Congregation, the Day Before his Violent Death, 1844. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] [Mantle, Mickey] Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Declaration of Independence] One of the First Printed Announcements of American Independence, Subscriber Ebenezer Hazard's Copy, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000/15,000
    Freeman’s
    How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
    June 30
    Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776! $15,000/25,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [War of 1812] "We Have Met the Enemy and They are Ours": The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry is Appointed Master Commandant in the United States Navy, 1812. $40,000/60,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Star-Spangled Banner] Eyewitness Account of the Shelling of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812, in a Manuscript Logbook from the HMS Trave, Present at the Battles of Baltimore and New Orleans, 1814-16. $60,000/80,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Thomas Jefferson at the Birth of a New Nation: An Important Letter Carried by a Jewish Patriot Communicating the Definitive Treaty of Paris, January 16, 1784. $100,000/200,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Colonial America] [Plymouth Colony] Plymouth Colony Seeks a Royal Charter: A Rare and Important Plymouth Colony Document, 1690/91. $6,000/9,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Selections from The Jay T. Snider Collection of Benjamin Franklin
    Live Sale 24 June
    Sotheby’s, June 24: (Benjamin Franklin). The founding—and funding—of the Pennsylvania Hospital. $150,000 to $200,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, "the Day of the Declaration of Independence is everywhere annually celebrated”. $80,000 to $120,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, “probably the most fundamental thing ever done in the field of electricity”. $75,000 to $125,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin. One of Franklin's very earliest surviving letters. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Roger More and Benjamin Franklin. The only complete copy known of Poor Roger. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: John Jerman. The American Almanack ... for 1731 — the only known copy in private hands. $25,000 to $35,000.