Frederick Etchells Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Frederick Etchells Art Value Price Guide

Jun. 30, 2026
Â§ Frederick Etchells (British, 1886-1973) Untitled (Lady in a Hat)
Est: £1,500 - £2,500
Â§ Frederick Etchells (British, 1886-1973) Untitled (Lady in a Hat) oil on board Painted circa 1924 Unframed: 35 x 26.5 cm. (13 3/4 x 10 3/8 in.) Framed: 47.8 x 39 cm. (18 3/4 x 15 3/8 in.) Please note there is a further work verso Provenance: Private Collection, 2002, from whom acquired by the present owner
Chiswick Auctions
Jun. 02, 2026
λ FREDERICK ETCHELLS (BRITISH 1886-1973) MECHANICAL COMPOSITION
Est: £2,000 - £3,000
λ FREDERICK ETCHELLS (BRITISH 1886-1973)MECHANICAL COMPOSITIONOil on board35 x 26.5cm (13¾ x 10¼in.)Provenance:The ArtistGiven by the above to Geoffrey Alan Baker (1881-1959) in 1920By family descent to Philip H Baker Christie's, London, 7 November 1991, lot 21A
Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales
Jun. 02, 2026
FREDERICK ETCHELLS (BRITISH 1886-1973) CELLULAR COMPOSITION
Est: £2,000 - £3,000
FREDERICK ETCHELLS (BRITISH 1886-1973)CELLULAR COMPOSITIONOil on boardIndistinctly inscribed (verso)26.5 x 35cm (10¼ x 13¾in.)Painted circa 1920.Provenance:The ArtistGiven by the above to Geoffrey Alan Baker (1881-1959) in 1920By family descent to Philip H Baker Christie's, London, 7 November 1991, lot 21Frederick Etchells was a painter and architect who studied at the Royal College of Art from about 1908-1911. He spent time in Paris, where he met many of the artists challenging the established art world, including Picasso, Braque and Modigliani. His own work was included in Roger Fry's Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition in 1912. The following year, he joined the Omega Workshops, however, disillusioned with Fry and realising that his interests lay in other directions he left not long after. He and Percy Wyndham Lewis, who had also left the Workshops, and shared similar interests in Futurism and Cubism, exhibited with other artists who shared their Vorticist ideas in the 'Cubist Room' section of the Camden Town Group and Others exhibition in Brighton in December 1913-January 1914. Later in 1914, Etchells joined Lewis at the Rebel Art Centre and contributed illustrations to the first issue of Blast magazine.After the war, Etchells gave up painting to pursue his ambition to become an architect and in 1930 built one of the first Modern Movement building's, The Crawford Advertising Agency in Holborn. Lots 121 and 122 demonstrate the artist's interest in the pleasing interplay of interlocking abstract forms and refined balanced palette.
Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales
Feb. 11, 2026
⊕ FREDERICK ETCHELLS (BRITISH 1886-1973)
Est: £20,000 - £30,000
⊕ FREDERICK ETCHELLS (BRITISH 1886-1973) VORTICIST COMPOSITION signed Etchells lower centre in pencil; pen and indian ink and grey wash over traces of pencil on paper; 29 x 22cm; 11 1/2 x 8 3/4in (52.5 x 44cm; 20 3/4 x 17 1/4in framed) Executed circa 1915. Following completion of his studies at the Royal College of Art, London, Etchells spent two, formative years in Paris, where he met Picasso, Braque, and Modigliani. He returned permanently to London in 1913 holding considerable influence in the city’s artistic circles for many years. It was around this time that Etchells developed a close friendship with the artists who were becoming crystallised as the Bloomsbury Group: Roger Fry, Duncan Grant, and Vanessa and Clive Bell. He also developed a close friendship with Wyndham Lewis, future leader of the Vorticist Group, whilst working alongside him as part of Omega Workshops. In late 1913 Lewis left Omega, accusing Roger Fry of misappropriating his work, and Etchells departed with him to join the newly founded Rebel Art Centre. Although Etchells did not sign the Vorticist manifesto, he exhibited as a Vorticist in the group's only British exhibition at the Doré Gallery in 1915. The break with Bloomsbury had enabled him to experiment through a range of artistic voices, such as expressionism and cubism, anathema to the group’s principles. During Etchells' time spent in Paris he played an important role as a go-between for artists across the Channel, acting as conduit for the dissemination of Modernist principles and theory amongst London’s avant-garde. His most pervasive and long-lasting influence however stems from his architectural practice. He not only provided the English translation for Le Corbusier’s Towards a New Architecture, but he was in fact responsible for London's first 'modern' building at 233 High Holborn, known as the Crawford Building. More locally to Olympia Auctions he designed the new library at Godolphin and Latymer School, Hammersmith.
Olympia Auctions
Nov. 25, 2025
Vorticist Composition
Est: £40,000 - £60,000
Frederick Etchells 1886 - 1973 Vorticist Composition signed Etchells (lower centre) pen and ink and gouache on paper unframed (sheet): 21.5 by 16.5cm.; 8½ by 6½in. framed: 39.5 by 35cm.; 15½ by 13¾in. Executed circa 1914-15.
Sotheby's
Mar. 26, 2024
§ FREDERICK ETCHELLS (BRITISH, 1886-1973)
Est: £800 - £1,200
FREDERICK ETCHELLS (BRITISH, 1886-1973) Bridge signed 'Etchells' (lower right) watercolour, wash, pen & ink 50 x 40 cm. (18 1/8 x 15 3/4 in.)
Chiswick Auctions
Dec. 07, 2020
Frederick Etchells (1886-1973) Caricature portrait of Evelyn Waugh as a child, wearing a pale blue coat
Est: £1,500 - £2,000
Frederick Etchells (1886-1973) Caricature portrait of Evelyn Waugh as a child, wearing a pale blue coat Watercolour and bodycolour on card over pencil under-drawing, signed by the artist using an anagram 'T. Chesell' in the upper right corner, further inscribed 'Not to be shown/ Unfinished Rendering of/ Evelyn Waugh at a/ youthful age/ T.C' in the upper left corner, fine split into image at lower right edge, some minor rubbing and surface abrasions (framed) Provenance: Estate of Lord Berners, Faringdon House, Oxfordshire; Sale. Christie's, London, Interiors, including property from Faringdon House, Oxfordshire, 12th April 2018 (Lot 19) ⁂ Fredercik Etchells, English artist and architect, was a contributor to the Omega Workshops and a breakaway collaborator with Wyndham Lewis setting up The Rebel Art Movement, which was later to transform into the Vorticists. Several of Etchells' illustrations appeared in the issues of the literary magazine BLAST, but the artist later distanced himself from the group. This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.
Forum Auctions - UK
May. 23, 2018
Frederick Etchells (1886-1973) British. 'The Bridge', Watercolour and Ink, Signed, 15.5" x 10.5". Provenance: Christies, 11th July 2013 (Lot 372).
Est: £800 - £1,200
Frederick Etchells (1886-1973) British. 'The Bridge', Watercolour and Ink, Signed, 15.5" x 10.5". Provenance: Christies, 11th July 2013 (Lot 372).
John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers
Jul. 11, 2013
Frederick Etchells (1886-1963)
Est: -
Frederick Etchells (1886-1963) Bridge signed 'Etchells' (lower right) ink, wash and watercolour 19¾ x 15¾ in. (50 x 40 cm.)
Christie's
May. 10, 2012
FREDERICK ETCHELLS
Est: £40,000 - £60,000
1886-1973 UNTITLED VORTICIST COMPOSITION signed pencil, pen and ink and wash 29.5 by 22cm.; 11¾ by 8¾in. Executed circa 1914-5.
Sotheby's
Jan. 18, 2011
FREDERICK ? ETCHELLS (twentieth century)
Est: £60 - £100
FREDERICK ? ETCHELLS (twentieth century) WATERCOLOUR, a farmstead, signed and dated (19)56 lower right, 10 1/4" x 14 1/4"
Capes Dunn & Co.
Mar. 01, 2007
FREDERICK ETCHELLS, 1886-1973
Est: £1,000 - £1,500
A STREET SCENE 46x30cm.; 18x11¾in. signed watercolour and pencil
Sotheby's
Nov. 28, 2006
Gino Severini (1833-1966)
Est: €3,000 - €4,000
Maternità firmato G. Severini (in basso a destra) pochoir cm 36x25 Realizzata nel 1930 da Jeanne Saudè per Frederick Etchells & Hugh Mcdonald's, Londra
Christie's
Nov. 24, 2004
FREDERICK ETCHELLS, 1886-1973 GUNWALLOE 44.5 x 30cm.; 17.5 x 11.75in signed pen, ink, watercolour and gouache Provenance: Miss Agnew Bedford; A.H.Hodding, Esq.; William Darby, London; Anthony d'Offay, London; Purchased from the above by the present
Est: £5,000 - £7,000
FREDERICK ETCHELLS, 1886-1973 GUNWALLOE 44.5 x 30cm.; 17.5 x 11.75in signed pen, ink, watercolour and gouache Provenance: Miss Agnew Bedford; A.H.Hodding, Esq.; William Darby, London; Anthony d'Offay, London; Purchased from the above by the present owner in 1983 Exhibited: London, Tate Gallery, Wyndham Lewis and Vorticism, 1956, no.167 Literature & References: The Tyro, no.2, 1922, illustrated, pl XII; Richard Cork, Vorticism and Abstract Art in the First Machine Age, Vol.2, London 1976, p.545, illustrated Note: The present work is amongst the artist's final paintings executed before he changed career to become an architect. Etchells recalled that Gunwalloe was 'done about 1922 when I spent some 2 or 3 weeks at Gunwalloe with Charlie Ganner... and other minor high-brows of the period' (Etchells in letter to R.Cork, 21st March 1971, in R.Cork (1976) p.545).
Sotheby's
Jul. 26, 2001
Frederick Etchells (1886-1973)
Est: $852 - $1,136
Elegant Lady oil on board 131/4 x 10in. (33.5 x 25.5cm.).
Christie's