Offered at Sotheby’s (26/20/13.9% buyer’s premium) in an online sale that ran until December 1 under the title of The Fantasy World of Arthur Rackham was a collection of 31 original ink and watercolour artworks by the artist from the collection of American photographer Shirley Carter Burden (1908-89).
Four of the more expensive lots are reproduced here, but in reporting the fact that around a third of those lots failed to sell, I should note that these were largely to be found among the illustrations that Rackham made for a 1929 edition of Oliver Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield.
