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Deceptive Flight', Red Kites
John Cyril Harrison (British, 1898–1985)
£1,200 hammer
≈ $1,609≈ €1,385
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- Medium
- Watercolor · Works on paper all watercolor results →As published: “watercolour over pencil heightened with white”
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed
- Category
- Watercolors
- Dimensions
- 75 x 55cm; framed 86 x 66.5cm
- Auction house
- Sworders
- Sale
- Old Master, British and European Art (1294)
- Date
- May 19, 2026
- Location
- Stansted Mountfitchet, United Kingdom
- Lot
- 236
- Estimate
- £600 – £800 (≈ $804 – $1,073) (≈ €692 – €923)
- Source
- Auction house sworder.co.uk ↗Retrieved Sep 26, 2026
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