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Eitner, Ernst (1867-1955) "Portrait eines Kleinkindes" 1936, Radierung, u.r. sign., o.l. i.d. Platte sign./dat., PM 16,7x11,4cm, BM 36x27cm, leicht fleckig, verso Montagereste

Leissler, Arnold (1939-2014) "Midsommar I Arild" 1990-1992, Offsetdruck (nach einer Federzeichnung), mit Transparentpapier mit Biographie, Portrait und Druckerangaben, 372/600, u. sign./num./dat./gewidmet, in Klappmappe, PM 21x29cm, BM 34x41cm

Spanish School. Francisco de Zurbarán Circle (Fuente de Cantos, Badajoz, 1598 - Madrid, 1664)"Portrait of Gaspar Domenech"Oil on canvas. Relined.199 x 103,5 cm.The portrayed holds in his hand a letter in which we read " A Gaspar domenech, General de Ntro. Señor, Sargento Mayor de su Majestad, de la parte foránea del Reino de Mallorca" (To Gaspar Domenech, General of Our Lord, Sergeant Major of His Majesty, of the foreign part of the Kingdom of Majorca)

Colonial School. Los Lugo Circle . New Granada. 17th century.'Saint Francis Borgia' Monumental and magnificent carved, gilded and polychromed wooden sculpture with 'estofado' decoration. 182 x 81 x 81 cm. A magnificent sculpture, highly comparable in anatomy and forms to the pair of Jesuit saints (Saint Francis Borgia and Saint Ignatius of Loyola) by Juan Martínez Montañés (1568-1649), created between 1624-1625 for the Church of the Annunciation in Seville, originally the Professed House of the Society of Jesus and currently used as a university chapel. It is evident that the model is that of the sculpture of Saint Francis Borgia, which is not surprising, as the influence of the Seville Master was decisive in the training of the sculptors of New Granada. The figures in the church in Seville wear black, Jesuit cassocks, but they are considered to require extra clothing. However, the cassock on this sculpture is richly decorated with golden scrolls, as befits the 17th century. Nevertheless, the faces and hands are very similar to the sculptures in Seville in their position, depth, anatomy, movements, and foreshortening. We base our attribution on the significant coincidence of artistic traits with the large-scale Saint Ignatius, located on the Altar of the Church of San Ignacio in Tunja, and catalogued as being made by the Los Lugo Circle. The position of the saint is identical, as is the habit. They have the same decoration and sculptural quality in faces and hands. Without a doubt, we can attribute its creation to an artist in Pedro de Lugo's workshop, who could well have been the master himself. In the aforementioned altarpiece, Saint Francis Xavier and Saint Aloysius Gonzaga flank Saint Ignatius of Loyola, who presides over them. As stated by Adrián Contreras-Guerrero, 'thanks to Father Mercado, we know that the three central images of said altarpiece [...], were commissioned in Santafé,' which reaffirms our attribution to the Los Lugo Circle. As indicated by Francisco J. Herrera and Lázaro Gila, 'referring to Pedro de Lugo Albarracín, implies delving into the little-known field of the Neogranadine sculptural workshops of the 17th century, which, judging by the remaining artworks, must have been intensely active artisically, supported by the growing demand of private individuals, clergy, religious orders, cathedrals, and parishes, both in the capital and in surrounding localities. Just as names such as Antonio Acero de la Cruz, Baltasar de Figueroa, and Gregorio Vázquez de Arce are mentioned that express the creative maturity of the Santafé workshop in painting, Pedro de Lugo Albarracín and some others with the same surname (Salvador or Lorenzo) are predominantly cited when referring to the progress that occurred in sculpture during that century in colonial Santafé and other cities such as Tunja.' Both scholars analyse Pedro de Lugo's preference for the figure of Christ at different moments of his Passion, but they also point out that he and his workshop created images of saints and some reliquaries, a fact that is closely related to our figure. They mention, for example, 'two sculptures of the Saint of Assisi, located in the church of the convent of the order in Tunja.' One of them 'has similarities to the homonymous Saint of the altarpiece of Saint Francis Borgia, in the Jesuit temple of Bogotá, also already related to Lugo.' Regarding the origin of the sculptor Pedro de Lugo, we read again in Herrera and Lázaro that, 'taking into account his Andalusian ancestry, his possible birth in Jerez, and the close relations that he and his ancestors would have had with Andalusia, the most suitable place to imagine he had his training is Seville. Well before going to Latin America for the first time, or in a youthful stay, Pedro de Lugo could have trained as a sculptor and caster in the Andalusian capital. Ig is worth noting that the city had an important establishment for the production of artillery, where he would have learnt the techniques of alloying iron, copper, and tin, and even lead and other soft metals.' Pedro and his brothers Alonso and Juan maintained an active workshop of sculpture and casting in different materials in Santafé in the central decades of the 17th century, whose influence extends beyond the capital, reaching various locations, especially Tunja. Regarding the depicted character, Javier Baladrón, Doctor in Art History, explains that 'Saint Francis Borgia (1510-1572) was a Valencian saint who became the third General of the Society of Jesus. One of the best-known episodes of his life, which would become vital in his iconography, is that of the death of Queen Isabel of Portugal, wife of Charles V, in 1539. She was considered to be one of the most beautiful women in the world. This death marked him so much that he always commented that it was the day of his conversion: 'For the empress who died on a day like today. For what the Lord did in me because of her death. For the years that mark my conversion today.' Subsequently, he organised the entourage that escorted the queen's body to the Royal Chapel of Granada. Before it was buried, he observed the disfigured face of the queen, which became one of his most recurring attributes, and he was asked if he swore that it was the queen, to which he replied, 'I have brought the body of Our Lady in strict custody from Toledo to Granada, but I dare not swear that it is herself, whose beauty I so admired.'' Baladrón continues to describe this Saint Francis Borgia: 'a still and meditative figure. He stands upright, with his right leg slightly forward, creating a contrapposto that gives the composition dynamism. This is also contributed to by the opening of the arms in different directions and the turning of the face to contemplate the cross. We do not know if originally the skull could have been in one of the two hands since it is currently held to the ground by a rod. He extends his left arm, making a declamatory gesture with his hand while pointing to the royal skull at his feet; at the same time, he flexes his right arm, bringing the crucifix that he holds in that hand closer to his face. The hands are very delicate, elegant, and realistically accentuated, so that the bones, joints, veins, lines, and even the nails are carefully defined. The head is the most impressive part of the whole, with each of the facial features and the locks that make up his sparse beard and hair perfectly and skilfully delineated. The sculptor has accurately captured the facial features of the saint, so he has managed to make a portrait, which was known through the death mask that was taken of him. He wears the typical Jesuit habit consisting of black cassock and cape, decorated with a dense network of delicate golden vegetation motifs that completely cover both garments, as if with horror vacui. Likewise, both garments are traversed by countless moving and dynamic folds, most of them soft and falling vertically, which break up the surfaces creating a succession of concave and convex surfaces. This is especially visible on the back where we find a succession of rigid tubular folds.' We would like to thank Javier Baladrón, Doctor in Art History, for the formal and iconographic description of the sculpture. Reference bibliography: - Contreras-Guerrero, Adrián. (2019) 'Escultura en Colombia. Focos productores y circulación de obras (siglos XVI-XVIII)”. Universidad de Granada. - Herrera, Francisco Javier y Gila Medina, Lázaro. (2018). “Pedro de Lugo Albarracín y el desarrollo del pleno barroco en la escultura neogranadina del siglo XVII”, capítulo IX en “El triunfo del barroco en la escultura andaluza e hispanoamericana”. (p. 305-365). Universidad de Granada. Spanish Americas.

Attributed to Peter Lely (Soest, Germany 1618 - London 1680)"Portrait of the renowned English composer Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695)"Oil on canvas.42.5 x 31 cm.An important portrait executed during the musician's lifetime, which makes it a highly exceptional piece.The National Portrait Gallery in London has a portrait of Henry Purcell in its collection, attributed to John Closterman or his workshop, circa 1695. (https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw05172/Henry-Purcell?LinkID=mp03677&role=sit&rNo=2)In addition to the evident pictorial characteristics typical of the brilliant Lely, the historical context is also interesting to examine: John Blow (1649 - 1708), who was Henry Purcell's teacher, was painted by Peter Lely at the approximate age of 30. It seems logical that Blow turned to the Master Lely to request that he, the best portraitist in England at the time, paint his pupil Purcell, who appears to be about 20 years old in this portrait.Sir Peter Lely was a renowned painter and art collector during the Restoration era in England. He was known for his portraits of court ladies and admirals, specialising in portraying the ladies of high-society as languid and voluptuous women. He began his career as a painter of landscapes and historical compositions but soon realised that portraits were more lucrative and shifted his focus. His skill in this genre earned him recognition and he became the "best painter in England."As well as being a successful painter, he was also a passionate art collector. His collection included works by prominent Venetian painters such as Veronese, Bassano, and Tintoretto, as well as European artists like Van Dyck, Claude Lorrain, Rubens, and other Dutch and Flemish painters. Lely was inspired by the Dutch pictorial style and reflected the spirit and character of its subjects in his works. Throughout his career, Lely emphasized the artificial elegance of his subjects, having them adopt similar poses and eliminating any distinctions between them. His legacy as a painter and collector left a remarkable imprint on the art world.After his death, his collection was sold and it also included artworks by Van Dyck, Claude Lorrain, Rubens, and various Dutch and Flemish landscapists. Lely was the first English painter to have a large studio, and his portraits were imitated by other artists until the mid-18th century.Henry Purcell (Westminster, England, 1659 - 1695) was an important English Baroque composer. He incorporated French and Italian stylistic elements into his music, creating a distinctive English style of Baroque music.He is considered one of the most significant composers of all time. As we read on the LAPhil website by conductor Gustavo Dudamel: "Henry Purcell is, arguably, England’s most famous composer. The son of a court musician, organist of Westminster Abbey at a mere 20 years of age, and the recipient of royal appointments by three different kings, he is considered one of the most original and prodigious composers of his – or any – time.Although he incorporated French and Italian elements into his writing, his compositions would come to define the English Baroque style. Purcell’s relatively short life produced a broad repertoire, including sacred music, theatre music and opera, fantasies and sonatas for keyboard, and vocal and chamber music – much of which endures in popularity and recognition to this day."Provenance: Important Spanish private collection.The painting has always been attributed to the artist Peter Lely (1618 - 1680) through the various generations that inherited it.Reference bibliography: - LA Phil. (n.d.). "Henry Purcell". https://es.laphil.com/musicdb/artists/4339/henry-purcell

"Portrait of the Cornejo Sancho Family"Oil on canvas. Dated 1754.245 x 317 cm.This lot has a valid export permit from the Spanish Ministry of Culture.An extensive and well-documented study by Dr. Clara Zamora Meca is attached. In it, she mentions the possible attribution to the painter Cristóbal de Aguilar. "It is possible to attribute it to Cristóbal de Aguilar, a portraitist who worked in Lima in the second half of the 18th century, a contemporary of Cristóbal de Lozano. His best-known painting is the portrait of Viceroy Amat, painted in 1771 for the Nazarene Monastery. The chronology of his known artworks ranges from 1745 to 1769, some are signed and others attributed."Furthermore, it is relevant that Cristóbal Aguilar was a painter who specialised in portraying members of the Lima nobility and the political elite of the Viceroyalty of Peru. It is logical to assume that the commission of such an important painting by a well-known personality in the period would have been entrusted to one of the best artists of the time. Despite not being signed (as was the case in most instances), its authorship cannot be anonymous.This is an exceptional Lima painting of enormous interest from both a historical, artistic, and iconographic point of view, and because of the extremely interesting information that the painting itself provides, reflecting the different social strata, the Marian invocation that presides over it, the detailed depiction of each character with their personal information, and the union of both continents depicted in the family's transposition to the New World (through two of its members). The information is obtained through the commission of this portrait, as well as the information provided by the study of the painting by Dr. Clara Zamora, which includes data extracted from, the Archivo de Indias or the Archivo Municipal de Arganda, among others.Interesting documents such as Manuel Cornejo's passenger licence to the Indies (1711) and four papal bulls with the signature of José Cornejo are attached to her study, two from Innocent XIII to King Philip V, communicating the provision of the archbishopric of La Plata (Charcas) and the archbishopric of Lima (both from 1723), and the other two from Clement XI to King Philip V, communicating the provision of Nueva Segovia (Ilocos) and Nueva Cáceres (Camarines), both located in the Philippines.In this case, as in other frequent cases, it was customary to make posthumous portraits, as we read in Dr. Zamora's study: "The true boom in portraits occurred in the 18th century. The end of the War of Succession marked a turning point between the predominantly historical and commemorative character of portraiture and that of ostentation, as is the case here, which was introduced, fundamentally, by the French artistic trend. As the elite acquired noble titles, their portraits became richer in decoration, although their expression remained very severe. The portrait was not intended to reproduce the psychology of the sitter, but to manifest their belonging to a social group, a religious community, or a corporation. As in this case, it was common for some portraits to be made posthumously. Some of the subjects were no longer alive when this work was painted in 1754."Regarding the representation of this peculiar portrait, Zamora continues: "It is an atypical composition, a scene with twelve people, who appear between two palatial rooms, in a kind of hallway. The scene is crowned by Our Lady of the Sanctuary of Toledo. There are several artistic relationships between the Cathedral of Toledo and Spanish America during the Modern Age. Our Lady of the Sanctuary was worshipped to an enormous extent in New Spain. The 1672 painting by Francisco Rizi to be sent to Puebla de los Ángeles (Mexico) at the request of Manuel Miranda Palomeque is another example. Our Lady of the Sanctuary was considered "mother and protector," as also stated in the inscription surrounding her in this painting. "Bajo tu protección" (Under your protection) is the oldest hymn currently preserved of the Virgin Mary as Mother of God. The transcription of the text surrounding the virgin in the painting is the same: MONSTRATE ESSE MATREM SUB TUUM PRESIDIUM CONFUGIMUS."The composition is adapted to the style of elite portraits of the time: the subjects stand, with four essential elements: drapery, a heraldic shield (with a marquess crown in this case), cartouches with descriptions of the characters, and elements that allude to the positions of those represented (for example, the mitre belonging to one of them). Colonial painting was almost always executed on canvas, with large-sized canvases. The size of this painting is striking, as is the large family group it depicts, making it an artwork of tremendous interest.Cano Picó and Puig Galindo write about the unmistakable Hispano-American aspect of the work, "The painting has all the characteristics of the portrait painting style that developed in Hispanic America during the Viceroyalty or Colonial period. The background architecture with irregular perspective have all the characteristics of colonial architecture from the Viceroyalty period. Another aspect of the painting related to Hispanic America is in the clothing, such as the use of richly made aprons that complement the attire of important people. In Spain, the attire of aristocratic ladies did not include aprons as accessories, while in Hispanic America, the use of aprons as a complement to the clothing of important ladies was frequent."The painting features a central cartouche with the family crest at the bottom that reads: "DON MANUEL CORNEJO. / I D. JULIANA SANCHO. / I SUS HIJOS." This shield corresponds to the Cornejo Family in Arganda del Rey.At the bottom, there are ten cartouches with the name and titles identifying each of the characters. In this regard, the excellent study carried out by Ramón Cano Picó and Cristina Puig Galindo, which thoroughly delves into each of the characters, is very interesting.Regarding those portrayed, as Zamora notes, "The Sancho Granado family was a very prominent family in Arganda del Rey (Spain). The Sanchos, upon uniting with the Granados, achieved the definitive merger between this place and the Society of Jesus. In 1613, Juan Sancho, mayor of the Holy Brotherhood, led a group of 27 people from Arganda who opposed the sale of the Villa to the powerful Duke of Lerma. This same Sancho led the Villa of Arganda against the power of the Society of Jesus." One of the daughters, Juliana Sancho Granado, married the physician don Manuel Cornejo, forming the Cornejo Sancho family, portrayed in this painting.Two of the sons travelled to New Spain, as Zamora continues, "Lawyer Manuel Cornejo, who appears in the information file and passenger licence to the Indies in the year 1711, with Manuel de la Cruz, a native of Toledo, as a superior commissioner (Archivo General de Indias, Signature: CONTRATACION, 5466, N. 1, R. 19. Date, 1711-07-28). This is the character that serves as a link for us to understand the transposition of this family to the New Spain. Also, the second of them, Juan Hernando, appears as "Dean and Canon of the Holy Metropolitan Church of Santiago" (Santiago de Chile, as it was called, not Santiago de Compostela)."In the conclusion of her study, Dr. Zamora leaves us with a phrase that we would like to highlight: "A very peculiar, ambitious, and rich piece that will spark much discussion in the future if we continue to investigate the path that opens up to all those who are interested in the history of humanity."Attached: - Study by Dr. in Art History, Clara Zamora Meca.Technical report by Ramón Cano Picó and Cristina Puig Galindo.

Attributed to Jan Gossart "Mabuse" (Maubeuge, circa 1478 - Antwerp, 1532)"Virgin and Child (Portrait of Anna van Bergen with her son Hendrik)"Oil on panel. 47.5 x 36 cm.Our hypothesis regarding this painting, of which there are a few copies by Gossart's contemporaries and followers, is that it is the original by Mabuse which belonged to the Marqués de Leganés, registered in the inventory of his collection as number 379 ("Another image of Our Lady with the Child in her arms, holding a handheld rosary by Mabuse, measuring just under half a yard in number three hundred and seventy-nine, valued at twelve hundred Reales"). It was documented for the last time in 1655 and not located since then.  The information that supports our hypothesis can be found in the doctoral thesis "El Marqués de Leganés y las Artes" by José Juan Pérez Preciado: "The motif of the rosary in the hands of the Virgin was frequently repeated among Flemish artists of the 15th century. Gossaert used it in a devotional work of which several copies are known. According to Karel van Mander, it was a painting created during Gossaert's service at the court of Adolf de Bourgogne, Marquess of Vere and Teerveuren. The artist used portraits of the nobleman's wife and son. According to Friedländer, the main painting under this iconography that the author created is that of the Metropolitan Museum in New York (inv. 17.190.17 T. 45 x 34). Although others are also preserved in the Royal Museum of Brussels (T. 43.7 x 31; inv. 3377), or in the Dresden Gallery. The fate of the painting is unknown, as it had already left the collection in 1711, when it was claimed by the Count of Altamira, the legal heir to the entire collection. It has not been possible to link any known copy to the work owned by Leganés, although the presence of a copy in the K. Kocherthaler collection in Madrid at the beginning of the 20th century is significant, as Friedländer himself attests."As indicated by the typewritten label on the back, with data from the former owner, it states that it was acquired precisely from the Kuno Kocherthaler collection in Madrid. Therefore, our painting is the one mentioned earlier in the thesis by José Juan Pérez Preciado, which was in Madrid at the beginning of the 20th century and could well be the one belonging to the Marqués de Leganés that has not been located to date.The MET in New York, as mentioned by Preciado, has a Virgin and Child similar to this one in its collections a, painted by a follower of Gossart, with collection number: 17.190.17.The Metropolitan, in its description of the work dating from after 1522, suggests that it may be "a replica of the lost original portrait by Gossart of the noble Anna van Bergen posing with her son Hendrik as the Virgin and Child." The note continues, stating that "portraits in which secular people adopt the appearance of sacred figures may seem provocative to modern sensibilities, but they capture the aspirations of their subjects to emulate the ideals of virtue and piety."As we read in the Museo del Prado's entry on Jan Gossaert, "The signed works that are preserved by Jan Gossaert, known as Mabuse, allude to his origin in Maubeuge, in Hainaut - currently in northern France. Although there is no news of where he was trained, it is possible that he received his education in Bruges, in the workshop of Gérard David (doc. 1484-1523), before 1503 when he enrolled in the Guild of Antwerp. In October 1508, he accompanied Philip of Burgundy to Rome, and during his stay in this city, Gossaert drew ancient statues and architectural monuments for him, becoming the first Flemish painter to directly experience Italian art. Upon returning to Flanders, he introduced classical models into his works, which abound in themes from Antiquity and nudes, such as those he painted in 1516 for Philip of Burgundy in the decoration of the castle of Suytburg in Zeeland, in collaboration with Jacopo de Barbari (ca. 1445-ca. 1515). Simultaneously, Gossaert became interested in 15th-century Flemish painting and copied some artworks, including those of Jan van Eyck (doc. 1422-1441), as he did in this panel at the Prado. His debt to tradition is also evident in his interest in translating the qualities of things, an interest that he maintained even in paintings and drawings of religious or mythological subjects in which classical forms are embodied in human types originating from Flanders (González Mozo, A .: El trazo oculto. Dibujos subyacentes en pinturas de los siglos XV y XVI, Museo Nacional del Prado, 2006, pp. 102-113)."Provenance:Former Kuno Kocherthaler Collection, Madrid. Early 20th century.Private collection.Reference bibliography: - Pérez Preciado, José Juan. (2008). "El Marqués de Leganés y las Artes”. [Tesis de doctorado. Universidad Complutense de Madrid]. Docta Complutense.- Museo del Prado. (s.f.). "Gossaert, Jan". https://www.museodelprado.es/coleccion/artista/gossaert-jan/c0969eda-6fea-4a7c-a868-2b919aa9a01f- Metropolitan Museum of Art. (s.f.). "Virgin and Child". https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436539

John Russell (Guildford, United Kingdom, 1745 - Kingston Upon Hull, United Kingdom, 1806)"Miss Carolina May and Her Two Aunts"Oil on canvas.118 x 143.5 cm.This painting appears reproduced in "Pintores italianos e ingleses. Franceses, alemanes y suizos. Siglos XVII y XVIII"(Italian and English Painters. French, German, and Swiss. 17th and 18th Centuries), an illustrated catalogue of paintings belonging to Spanish Collections. On page 89 of this catalogue, the painting is described as "one of the most famous of the artist's, depicting Miss Caroline on the right of the painting, accompanied by her two aunts, all dressed in costumes and hats of the period, in light colours and ribbons and with details in blue tones. The central figure is Miss May's aunt, Lady Hollist, the wife of Mr. Hollist, who also posed for one of the painter's most famous paintings."The painting was exhibited at Salón Cano between November 26 and December 6, 1952, in the exhibition "Masterpieces of 18th-Century English and Italian Painting."John Russell was "One of the eighteenth century's leading pastel portraitists," according to the National Portrait Gallery, which houses over 100 portraits by his hand, including his self-portrait (circa 1780, inv. NPG 1788).Francis Cotes, a member of the Royal Academy and a pioneer of pastel painting in England, instructed Russell, who entered the Royal Academy art school in 1770 and was not appointed a Royal Academician until 1788. Two years later, in 1790, he was appointed Pastel Painter to King George III, Queen Charlotte, the Prince of Wales, and the Duke of York, a position that brought him fame and clientele.In addition to the National Portrait Gallery and various British museums, the world's largest public collection of John Russell's pastel portraits can be found at the Guildford House Gallery municipal museum. Provenance:- Dr. Gerard Hollist Collection. It was sold in the auction of his collection on 28th April 1922.- Private collection San Sebastián.- Private collection. Spain. Reference bibliography:- National Portrait Gallery. (s.f.). “John Russell”. https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp03916/john-russell

Miguel Jerónimo de Zendejas (Puebla de los Ángeles, Mexico, 1724 - 1816)"Portrait of José Antonio de Zalvide Goitia"Oil on canvas. Signed: "Migl Zendejas fec."; entitled: "Dn. José Ant.o de Zalvide Goitia". Mid-18th century.188 x 120 cm.Miguel Jerónimo de Zendejas was a prominent and prolific artist from Puebla in the 18th century. Having worked as an apprentice for artists such as Gregorio Lara or José Joaquín Magón, he established his own workshop, which had ecclesiastical sponsorship.He was known for his confident and imaginative way of painting, with skilled and harmonious use of chiaroscuro.The Church of San Juan Evangelista in Iglesias, near Angelopolis, houses four of his canvases from 1775 depicting moments of the Passion, which are considered to be some of his best paintings, which also include "El Almacén" (The Warehouse) which is now in the National Museum of History at Chapultepec Castle, an allegory of the founding of the Puebla Botanical Garden, paying homage to its founder, Antonio de la Cal y Bracho; and his last oil painting, "The Prayer in the Garden," kept in the Calvary Chapel of the Parish of San José, Puebla.José Antonio Zalvide Goytia, the subject of this painting, was an important landowner of the 18th century, owner, along with his brothers, of the Santa Ana Tenango estate, among others.

Flemish School. First half of the 16th century."Portrait of a Lady"Oil on panel.23 x 17,5 cm.On the back, it shows traces of a red wax seal.The painting was part of the Lázaro Galdeano collection, and is reproduced in the catalogue of said collection: "La colección Lázaro de Madrid" (The Lázaro Collection of Madrid,) published in 1927, page 321.

UHRENKONVOLUT, um 1900 - Mitte 20.Jh.,versch. Hersteller, u.a. Junghans, 3 Armbanduhren, 3 Taschenuhren, 3 Savonettes, je defekt, teilweise unvollständig, als Ersatzteillager, dazu Lederzipfel, 800er-Silbermontage, Medaillonschieber, dort Portrait Franz Schubert u bez. 1828-1928

Alison Jackson King Charles + Queen Camilla Giclée hahnemühle pearl Signed on Verso & Recto 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Alison Jackson, a contemporary, BAFTA and multi award-winning artist, photographer and filmmaker explores the cult of celebrity - an extraordinary phenomenon manufactured by the media, publicity industries and the public figures themselves. To raise questions about this, Alison creates celebrity 'news' that appears real and plausible but isn't. She creates convincingly realistic work portraying the imagined private lives of public figures using cleverly styled lookalikes. Resemblance becomes real, and fantasy touches on the plausible. Alison creates scenes that the public have all imagined but never seen. It's an exploration of our insatiable desire to get personal with public personalities, raising questions about the power and seductive nature of imagery which incites voyeurism and our need to believe - Alison challenges our preconceptions. Alison takes portraits of (real!) famous actors, politicians and celebrities, collected by Museum collections, such as at the National Portrait Gallery, The Parliamentary Art Collection in London and SF MOMA, San Francisco amongst many others. In 2019 Alison founded and launched the photography initiative to include photography workshops, programs, competition and exhibition of A Day in Your Life/Young Artists to cultivate, nurture and celebrate the future creatives of tomorrow from under - represented, lower socio-economic, minority backgrounds, and people living with disabilities. Anyone who hasn't had a chance to showcase their talent yet - A Day in Your Life/Young Artists can provide creative lifelines but also life-changing opportunity for all ages: from 7 upwards. Alison mentors young people and is a Member of the Alumni Council for The Royal College of Art, Trustee of Chelsea Art Theatre; Ambassador to the K&C Foundation; Ambassador to the Spinal Injuries Association. Jackson supports a number of charities, including MacMillan Cancer Support, Marie-Curie, Jeans for Genes Day and Cancer Research UK amongst others. She has published numerous books including Private Confidential, by Penguin, Confidential by Taschen, Up the Aisle, Stern Private. Her work has been acquired by many public museum collections including The Parliamentary Art Collection, London; The National Portrait Gallery, London; SF MOMA, San Francisco; London; Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Brussels; The Frances Foundation, Paris and The International Centre of Photography amongst others. Education Royal College of Arts, University of the Arts Select Exhibitions/Awards BAFTA, Creative Circle Award, CLIO Awards, D&DA Gallery Representation National Portrait Gallery, The Parliamentary Art Collection in London and SF MOMA, San Francisco amongst many others. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Alison creates convincingly realistic work portraying the imagined private lives of public figures using cleverly styled lookalikes. Resemblance becomes real, and fantasy touches on the plausible. Alison creates scenes that the public have all imagined but never seen. It's an exploration of our insatiable desire to get personal with public personalities, raising questions about the power and seductive nature of imagery which incites voyeurism and our need to believe - Alison challenges our preconceptions.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Margie Andrew-Reichelt Connect Paint, collage and glitter on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Margie Andrew-Reichelt is a mixed-race English artist, married with two children and based in Nottingham. Since graduating with a Fine Art Degree at Nottingham University 10 years ago, Margie has proved herself to be a fascinating painter and ceramicist. She is a portrait artist whose work focuses on the female form and identity. Margie has been shortlisted for many major exhibitions including the Threadneedle Prize (2013), The Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition (2015) and The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2022, 2023). She has won National Open Art Midland Artist of Year (2017) and ING the Discerning Eye Mentors Award (2022). Education Nottingham University, BA Fine Arts Select Exhibitions/Awards Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2023, 2022. ING the Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall, London 2022, 2021, 2017. Derwent Drawing Exhibition, Mall, London, 2021, 2015. National Open Art Exhibition, OXO Tower Ward, London, 2017. Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition, Mall, London. Awards ING the Discerning Eye Mentors Award 2022. NOA Competition Painting Award 2017. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork My postcards are part of a series of works based on connections. The female form is drawn to represent both sides of my heritage with the theme of love and hope for the future.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Felicity Gill Dreamer Oil paint on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Felicity Gill is a Portrait Painter and Figurative Artist. Education Adelaide Central School of Art Select Exhibitions/Awards Select Exhibitions 2023 Summer Exhibition 'Land Sea Sky' Cameron Contemporary 'Fresh' Cameron Contemporary Chosen as 'One to Watch' by Affordable Art Fair director Hugo Barclay 2022 'Figure' Cameron Contemporary Invited Artist ING Discerning Eye Affordable Art Fair Royal Society of Portrait Painters Chelsea Arts Club Group Painting show 2021 Turner Contemporary Open 2020 The RA Summer Exhibition Solo show Stash Gallery London 2019 Solo show Oxford North Wall Gallery 2013 Modern Baroque, Medici Gallery, Cork Street, London Select Portrait Commissions: Boris Johnson, Prime Minister; Sir Henry Cecil Jockey Club; Dame Joan Bakewell; Dame Barbara Windsor; David Skinner OBE; Sir Mark Rylance. "Already a hugely talented and successful portrait artist, it feels as if Felicity Gill is on the cusp of a major breakthrough in her painting career.'' Steve Pill A&I magazine Gallery Representation Cameron Contemporary, Brighton; Tart Gallery London Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork My figurative work has been evolving into an exploration of how to paint emotions and the connections between people. I have been developing a looser gestural approach and smudging washes of oil to add to the emotional narrative. In these pieces I have been inspired by vintage imagery such as amateur photographs and old films.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Ken Nwadiogbu In the Wave Charcoal and acrylic on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Ken Nwadiogbu (b. 1994, Lagos, Nigeria) is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist, based in Lagos, Nigeria. A trained civil engineer, he soon pivoted to fine art, first embracing hyperrealism and charcoal drawing before expanding his creative horizon to more conceptual works and a wider array of techniques, including acrylic painting, sculpture and installation. His works are inspired by iconic American contemporary art figures such as J.-M. Basquiat, Kehinde Wiley, Toyin Ojih Odutola and Kerry James Marshall. On Ken's large canvases, stories superimpose themselves in multiple layers. Mixing together hyperrealism with contemporary elements, he creates ingenious, politically charged visual illusions that deploy a singular outlook, daring the audience to question their own, for "value lies in the perspective". Defending an art that can be at once smart and fun, he explores grave matters in intense colours and playful cut-outs, addressing altogether black representation and identity, displacement, and socio-political control. Popularly known as KenArt, Ken is credited for introducing the "Contemporealism" movement and was named by Guardian Life as one of the most "Outstanding Personalities" in Nigeria. In 2019, he was awarded the prestigious The Future Awards Africa in recognition of his contributions to the Nigerian arts community. A core focus for him is to inspire and encourage young creatives. He does this through public speaking and mentorship, as well as through his creative companies. He nurtures an art collective called 'Title Deed' and co-found Artists Connect NG, the largest artist gathering in Nigeria, created to foster creativity, collaboration and community. His works have been exhibited in a number of galleries including Omenka Gallery ('Insanity' group show, Lagos, 2016), Retro Africa ('In the making', Abuja, 2018), Bricklane Gallery ('Contemporealism', London, 2019), Bomb Factory Art Foundation ('Journey Mercies', London, 2021) and Thinkspace ('Ubuntu', LA, 2021). His works were showcased at ART X Lagos on several occasions, at 154 London, and Prizm Art Fair, in Miami. He has worked on multiple projects with respected international brands like Martell Cognac, McMillan Publishers, Flight Logistics, and many others. Ken enjoys expanding his perspective -and ours, rarely ever leaving anything to chance, but rather proceeding from a place of joy, and intentional care. He is constantly revitalizing his practice by challenging modes of Black representation. His oeuvres do not just encompass various forms of painting but most recently transcends into photography, sculpture, installation, NFT and video Education MA Painting, Royal College of Art Select Exhibitions/Awards Awards: 2019: The Future Awards Africa Prize for Art Exhibitions: 2022, SCOPE Art Fair Miami, 2020, Prizm International Art Fair Miami, 2020, 1-54 African Art Fair New York, Portrait of a Top boy and Summer exhibition Royal Academy Gallery Representation Retro Africa Gallery and Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork In my artistic endeavours, I explore my personal experiences while also providing a social commentary on the shared experiences of others. For this AOAP project, I have delved into my own encounters in London, using them as a lens to shed light on the collective experiences of African immigrants in the city.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Joy Parker Sweepers Resting Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About I am an eclectic artist using a variety of mediums and methods for personal expression, exhibition and commission. My personal work is often inspired by travel and sometimes created in collaboration with my husband, writer Robert Leach. I also work on community art projects, often using the medium of mosaic. Education MA in Contemporary Fine Art, University of Cumbria:2008 Arts of India, Oxford University Department of Continuing Education:2006 BA Hons. Fine Art, Cumbria Institute of the Arts, Carlisle: 2000 Select Exhibitions/Awards Map of Gala: Mosaic. Commission for Eildon Housing at Wilkie Gardens Sheltered Accommodation. 2022 Creative Scotland Open Fund, 2021 The Cockatrice's Egg. Exhibition and publication based on a residency in Shetland. Collaboration with writer Robert Leach. Portrait of the coalminer William Henry Mills installed at The Ruins Project. Pennsylvania 2020. Mosaic. Our Lady Crowned. Mosaic in smalti, St Catherine Labouré Church, Glasgow. 2018 Gallery Representation I work to commission or for exhibition in public galleries. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork I love to draw. These four pieces here are based on sketches made when travelling in India. I have then built them up in layers of oil colour from my memory and imagination.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Christabel Blackburn Oh, California Gouache on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by Millie Foster About London based artist Christabel Blackburn (born London, 1986) is a painter who conjures atmospheric scenes which focus on the interplay between people and spaces. Using a sensitively reduced visual language, Christabel distils the modern world and our interaction with it into quiet, concentrated scenes. Her figures are largely locked in their own universe, traversing streets formed of intersecting flat planes or drinking in art in colour drenched galleries. Her practice exists in a finely tuned space; we believe this world and yet it is removed from our own in its timelessness and absences. Largely gone is the paraphernalia of the twenty first century and what emerges in the space is a sense of order but more importantly psychological suspension. Perhaps these are what our memories or dreams of a sunny day might look like, no sound, rarely any shadows and none of the encumbrances of existing in the world. Women particularly take up space in an interesting way, confidently walking away or engaging with art alone. Education LARA, London, Figurative Painting and Sculpture, 2009-2011 Charles Cecil Studios, Florence, Figurative Drawing, 2008-2009 University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle, Classical Studies, 2005-2008 Select Exhibitions/Awards Recent Paintings, Alex Eagle, Soho | current Splash, Ode to Hockney, Sophie Breitmeyer, Notting Hill | Current Art Uk Charity Auction, London | Sept, 2021 Faces || places, Group Exhibition, Nordic Art Agency, Malmö, Sweden | 2020 Pavements, Solo exhibition, Partnership Editions | 2020 Winner, Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year | 2020 Shortlisted for The BP Portrait Award | 2020 Recent Paintings, Alex Eagle, Soho | 2019 'Multiples', Bridgeman Editions, Green and Stone, London | 2019 Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year | 2017   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Matthew Small Steely Eyed Scrap metal on wood Signed on Verso 10 x 15 x 0.7cm (3¾ x 5¾ x ¼ in.) This lot has been curated by Frankie Shea About Matthew Small's paintings are an expression of his worldview: by painting young marginalized figures of society, he allows the viewer to spend time with these people in the hope that a shared a sense of humanity unrestricted by class and social boundaries will arise. Matt Small paints directly onto found pieces of metal, bringing physical elements of the city directly into his work, whilst merging them with the human sensibilities of his subjects. Education MA communications royal college of art Westminster university degree illustration Select Exhibitions/Awards Everybody is a masterpiece - JG contemporary- 2023 Seeing is believing - the Brit awards 23 - O2 arena -2023 This is England - Guildhall gallery -London - 2023 Seeing is believing - Acton's cinemas - London -2023 Stop pre - University of Oregon -2022 This is England - Pitzhanger Gallery - London - 2021 Above and beyond - Gunnersbury Museum - London- 2021 The world at their feet - St. George's Park FA training ground- 2021 Precious- nelly duff - London - 2021 Shine - JG contemporary -London-2020 bp portrait nominee 2002 villiers david award 2002 Gallery Representation J.g contemporary Nelly Duff Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork 'Steely eyed' is an art work made from a menagerie of scrap metal and copper pieces assembled on ply board   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Ken Nwadiogbu Red Dots Charcoal and acrylic on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Ken Nwadiogbu (b. 1994, Lagos, Nigeria) is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist, based in Lagos, Nigeria. A trained civil engineer, he soon pivoted to fine art, first embracing hyperrealism and charcoal drawing before expanding his creative horizon to more conceptual works and a wider array of techniques, including acrylic painting, sculpture and installation. His works are inspired by iconic American contemporary art figures such as J.-M. Basquiat, Kehinde Wiley, Toyin Ojih Odutola and Kerry James Marshall. On Ken's large canvases, stories superimpose themselves in multiple layers. Mixing together hyperrealism with contemporary elements, he creates ingenious, politically charged visual illusions that deploy a singular outlook, daring the audience to question their own, for "value lies in the perspective". Defending an art that can be at once smart and fun, he explores grave matters in intense colours and playful cut-outs, addressing altogether black representation and identity, displacement, and socio-political control. Popularly known as KenArt, Ken is credited for introducing the "Contemporealism" movement and was named by Guardian Life as one of the most "Outstanding Personalities" in Nigeria. In 2019, he was awarded the prestigious The Future Awards Africa in recognition of his contributions to the Nigerian arts community. A core focus for him is to inspire and encourage young creatives. He does this through public speaking and mentorship, as well as through his creative companies. He nurtures an art collective called 'Title Deed' and co-found Artists Connect NG, the largest artist gathering in Nigeria, created to foster creativity, collaboration and community. His works have been exhibited in a number of galleries including Omenka Gallery ('Insanity' group show, Lagos, 2016), Retro Africa ('In the making', Abuja, 2018), Bricklane Gallery ('Contemporealism', London, 2019), Bomb Factory Art Foundation ('Journey Mercies', London, 2021) and Thinkspace ('Ubuntu', LA, 2021). His works were showcased at ART X Lagos on several occasions, at 154 London, and Prizm Art Fair, in Miami. He has worked on multiple projects with respected international brands like Martell Cognac, McMillan Publishers, Flight Logistics, and many others. Ken enjoys expanding his perspective -and ours, rarely ever leaving anything to chance, but rather proceeding from a place of joy, and intentional care. He is constantly revitalizing his practice by challenging modes of Black representation. His oeuvres do not just encompass various forms of painting but most recently transcends into photography, sculpture, installation, NFT and video Education MA Painting, Royal College of Art Select Exhibitions/Awards Awards: 2019: The Future Awards Africa Prize for Art Exhibitions: 2022, SCOPE Art Fair Miami, 2020, Prizm International Art Fair Miami, 2020, 1-54 African Art Fair New York, Portrait of a Top boy and Summer exhibition Royal Academy Gallery Representation Retro Africa Gallery and Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork In my artistic endeavours, I explore my personal experiences while also providing a social commentary on the shared experiences of others. For this AOAP project, I have delved into my own encounters in London, using them as a lens to shed light on the collective experiences of African immigrants in the city.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Marie Robinson Measure For Measure Oil on primed card paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About An established fine artist I focus my artistic practice on oil painting, underpinned by close observational drawing. My work is contemporary realism rooted in the tradition of representational painting and I am well known for my still lives which often have a bit of a twist! Education 1996-2002 BA Fine Art (First Class Hons) De Montfort University 1991-93 Part-time Foundation, Oxfordshire School of Art & Design 1980-83 Studied Chemistry BSc. King's College London Select Exhibitions/Awards Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2023 Royal Society of Marine Artists 2023 The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition The Lynn Painter Stainers Prize Exhibition The National Open Art Competition The Society of Women Artists The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition 2011, 2014, 2016/17/18/19 & 2020 Awarded ING Staff Purchase Prize 2014 Artists & Illustrators Artist of the Year Competition 2010(runner-up), 2011 & 2012 (short-listed), 2014 (highly commended) For the last 17 years her work has regularly been shown at Affordable Art Fairs in UK and internationally Publications: Illustrator in 'Teaching Pilates, A Practical Guide' by Jane Paterson. Elsevier Nov 2008 A portrait featured in 'Portraits for NHS Heroes' Bloomsbury Nov 2020 Gallery Representation Marie is represented by Wills Art Warehouse and Wychwood Art Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork In my work I am most known for my still life paintings, in which I am inspired by the history and associations inherent in ordinary objects and materials particularly from the domestic environment. Some I select because they hold a personal significance, others I collect which have an unknown history, and I paint them directly from life. For my three Art on a Postcard submissions, I have painted objects which were found, or around me in the studio, or which I saw on the way to the studio. The three feathers were treasured finds on a recent family holiday in South Wales - I can never leave a beach without filling my pockets with feathers, shells etc etc! The tape measure has been a trusty companion in my studio for a long time and being bright orange is always easily found! And finally, I spotted the Chelsea bun in a shop on my way to studio and couldn't resist it, both to paint, then eat!   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Liqing Tan Winter Oil on fine paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Liqing Tan is a prizewinning artist with international exposure. Her work centres on exploring and experimenting with the manifestations of human experience. Creating imaginary spaces (landscapes, objects or body) or capturing dramatic moments (real or illusory) are important elements of her paintings. They are intended to elicit a degree of ambiguity, inviting the viewer to bring their subjective judgement to each piece. Informed by daily routines, they are storylines about contradictory happenings - documenting intimacy and separation, appearing and disappearing, missing and forgetting, discovering and reflecting, focusing and diverging. She seeks to create strange atmospheres in her compositions, mixing ambiguous elements with dramatic features to ultimately represent the co-existence and complexity of human feelings. Education 2016-2018 Master in Fine Art (M.F.A.), UCL Slade School of Fine Art, UK 2011-2015 Bachelor in Fine Art (B.A.), Indiana University Bloomington, US Select Exhibitions/Awards 2023 The Self-Portrait Prize, Ruth Borchard Collection, UK 2022 The 19th Landscape and Figurative Painting Prize, Shenzhen Federation of Literary and Art Association, China A Tale of Two Cities, LingNan Art Museum, China Into the elegant colour - Public Welfare, Shenzhen Care Action Public Welfare Foundation, China 2021 The 17th China International Cultural Industries Fair, International Convention & Exhibition Center, Shenzhen, China Iridescent Flowers in Full Bloom - Invitational Exhibition of Female Artists, DaFen Art Museum, China 2020 Royal Society of British Artists 303rd Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, The Mall, London, UK Wells Art Contemporary Awards, Wells Cathedral, Wells, Somerset, UK (Winner of the Next Generation Art Prize) Contemporary Young Artist Award, The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle, UK 2019 ASYAAF, Gallery LVS, Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP), Seoul, Korea Bridgeman Studio Award 2019, UK Signature Art Prize 2019, UK 2018 Dentons Art prize, Dentons, London, UK (Winner) The Graduate Art Prize, Exchange House, London, UK 2017 Future Echoes, Museum of Refugees, Thessaloniki, Greece Salón de Gráfica Contemporánea, Nahim Isaias Museum, Guayaquil, Ecuador 2016 Slade Print Fair, Slade School of Fine Art UCL, London, UK 2015 Oversea Program in Florence, Grunwald Gallery, IN Bloomington, US Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork This is a series of works I made for the auction of Art On a Postcard. Three oil paintings are an exploration of the theme "closer". They are divided into "Listen", "Chat", and "Obsess" three parts, through the modulation of space and colour, describing a private scene of intimacy, a sense of reflection, of pleasant, sometimes suspicious, human warmth. The fourth chapter of watercolour is a winter vision, conveying a quiet and looming atmosphere, and the same time, inviting.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Benjamin Portanier Zeal 1 Oil Paint on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by Frankie Shea About I am a London born Painter working on originals in oil. I have deep respect for paintings that speak to me in some sense traditionally and another sense mystically. Yes, I believe a great portrait is a mystery. It stands all tests of time and calls out to the soul. There should be more portraits on our walls. Loved ones, tough moments and the life behind our being are held with dignity through them. I hand paint faces that feature the unexaggerated natural posture that needs no over expressive veil. We wear masks everyday but no matter how thick the mask we wear, we are more so the cracks that appear, than the mask itself. A mystery I work on is how a portrait captures the mask whilst getting behind it simultaneously. More of the time the cracks appear over the eyes. I'd like to see what I can do to bring light to the portrait in our time. Brief moments of stillness hanging on our walls give us hope that all is well and there is more to come. - Benjamin Portanier Education BA/HONS Fine Art Painting - University of Brighton Select Exhibitions/Awards LSM Art Award finalist and exhibition 2021 Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Zeal 1 & Zeal 2. Both paintings act as preliminary portraits of young people who are dear to me in my life. There is more to come from these small portraits working well to move toward another. Just as all our postcards have added up to create, as a whole a huge difference, there is zeal from few at first that then opens the path to make a difference to many. This zeal can be mistaken for self-reliance, but unwavering zeal acknowledges the help we need from others. May we celebrate gifts of zeal in life.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.    

Matthew Eguavoen More Like Family Acrylic on cartridge paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Matthew Imuetiyan Eguavoen (b.1988, Edo State) lives and works in the city of Lagos, Nigeria. Matthew Eguavoen is a contemporary artist with a singular style. Far more expressive than the traditional portrait, the Lagos-based artist uses color and composition to raise questions about gender, race and history, particularly linked to Nigeria and Africa. In his portraits, Matthew uses a combination of oil paint, acrylic paint, charcoal, and graphite pencils to document stories that encompass the emotions and demeanor of his muse to the viewer of his work. He depicts the vulnerability and openness associated with expressing the feelings of love, as well as the apprehension of protecting one's self from heart break and ulterior motives. His work addresses the lack of awareness on mental health, especially depression. Due to the stigma associated with mental health, conversations about depression are not often had, hence information, and resources required to deal with depression are sparse and the effect of societal pressures and timelines seton youths to achieve certain goals by a specific age (marriage, financial goals, family responsibilities). Eguavoen, wants to give voice to the impact of Slavery in Africa and its people. The extinction of African traditional values and the growing sensation of religion in Africa, importation of western moral and cultural values. He attended the University of Port Harcourt, where he obtained a Bachelors in Science for Civil Engineering and Structures. In his final year at the university, Matthew decided to pursue his passion for creating art through self-study, where he continued his artistic development. Matthew didn't start painting till he was 25 years. Matthew ́s works are featured in collections across West Africa, USA, Europe, and North America. Education Bachelor in Civil Engineering, The University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria Select Exhibitions/Awards SOLO SHOWS 2022 23. PM/AM, London. Egbé Okpá. Afikaris, Paris. GROUP SHOWS 2023 Color Coded. BODE Gallery, Berlin 2022 Voyage. Nothing At All art space, Hong Kong. Shout Plenty. Presented by African Artists' Foundation in collaboration with Alliance Française, Ikoyi. Classique! Afikaris, Paris. Smiling & Suffering Together (With Onguene Tassi). Out of Africa Gallery, Barcelona. What Now? PM/AM, London. 2021 It's Not Only a Portrait. Galería Badr El Jundi, Marbella, Málaga. 40 under 40. WHATIFTHEWORLD X Krone. A collaboration with BMW Young Collectors Co., an initiative of FNB Art Joburg, at Twee Jonge Gezellen wine estate Tulbagh. I No Be Gentleman (At All O). ADA, Accra. MUSEUM SHOW 2023 AFRICA SUPERNOVA, KUNSTHAL KADE MUSEUM, Schulting Art Collection, Netherlands 2022 The New African Portraiture, Shariat Collection, Kunsthalle Krems Museum, Austria Gallery Representation I do not have a representation at the moment; however, I do actively collaborate with these three (3) Galleries; PM/AM Gallery, London Afikaris Gallery, Paris Badr El Jundi Gallery, Madrid. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork 1. Womanhood "In a world where gender roles are constantly in flux and in one that increasingly understands gender and biological sex as two distinct realms, I often find myself wondering about the nature of womanhood. What does it mean to be a woman? We no longer make sense of what it means to be a woman through a set of physical characteristics or personality traits, nor through fixed societal roles. But if being a woman is not determined by these dimensions, is there some other element that is shared by all women?" 2. More like family This piece was created to acknowledge people in my life who have supported and nourished me mentally and emotionally, most especially in my career, and have continually my back one without asking for their act of kindness to be repaid. 3. Sadiq Sadiq is a Social Media friend whom I respect because of how he has continually lived his life without being confined to societal standards. He has continued to be expressional, most especially with issue in relation to gender, and i have used this piece to represent that part of him. You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Liqing Tan Obsess Oil on fine paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Liqing Tan is a prizewinning artist with international exposure. Her work centres on exploring and experimenting with the manifestations of human experience. Creating imaginary spaces (landscapes, objects or body) or capturing dramatic moments (real or illusory) are important elements of her paintings. They are intended to elicit a degree of ambiguity, inviting the viewer to bring their subjective judgement to each piece. Informed by daily routines, they are storylines about contradictory happenings - documenting intimacy and separation, appearing and disappearing, missing and forgetting, discovering and reflecting, focusing and diverging. She seeks to create strange atmospheres in her compositions, mixing ambiguous elements with dramatic features to ultimately represent the co-existence and complexity of human feelings. Education 2016-2018 Master in Fine Art (M.F.A.), UCL Slade School of Fine Art, UK 2011-2015 Bachelor in Fine Art (B.A.), Indiana University Bloomington, US Select Exhibitions/Awards 2023 The Self-Portrait Prize, Ruth Borchard Collection, UK 2022 The 19th Landscape and Figurative Painting Prize, Shenzhen Federation of Literary and Art Association, China A Tale of Two Cities, LingNan Art Museum, China Into the elegant colour - Public Welfare, Shenzhen Care Action Public Welfare Foundation, China 2021 The 17th China International Cultural Industries Fair, International Convention & Exhibition Center, Shenzhen, China Iridescent Flowers in Full Bloom - Invitational Exhibition of Female Artists, DaFen Art Museum, China 2020 Royal Society of British Artists 303rd Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, The Mall, London, UK Wells Art Contemporary Awards, Wells Cathedral, Wells, Somerset, UK (Winner of the Next Generation Art Prize) Contemporary Young Artist Award, The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle, UK 2019 ASYAAF, Gallery LVS, Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP), Seoul, Korea Bridgeman Studio Award 2019, UK Signature Art Prize 2019, UK 2018 Dentons Art prize, Dentons, London, UK (Winner) The Graduate Art Prize, Exchange House, London, UK 2017 Future Echoes, Museum of Refugees, Thessaloniki, Greece Salón de Gráfica Contemporánea, Nahim Isaias Museum, Guayaquil, Ecuador 2016 Slade Print Fair, Slade School of Fine Art UCL, London, UK 2015 Oversea Program in Florence, Grunwald Gallery, IN Bloomington, US Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork This is a series of works I made for the auction of Art On a Postcard. Three oil paintings are an exploration of the theme "closer". They are divided into "Listen", "Chat", and "Obsess" three parts, through the modulation of space and colour, describing a private scene of intimacy, a sense of reflection, of pleasant, sometimes suspicious, human warmth. The fourth chapter of watercolour is a winter vision, conveying a quiet and looming atmosphere, and the same time, inviting.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Amber Boardman Wobbly Tubes, 2023 Acrylic on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Amber Boardman is an American-born, Sydney-based artist who explores the influence of the internet on crowds and social norms. Boardman combines her background in painting and animation to create narrative works that draw from the visual language of cartoons, influenced in part by her work as an animator for Cartoon Network's [adult swim]. Amber Boardman's 20-year history of exhibiting her work internationally includes shows in arts institutions in New York, London, Rome, Amsterdam, Miami, Atlanta, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Notable exhibitions include BAM's Next Wave Festival in New York, Postmasters Gallery in Rome, and the Archibald and Geelong Prizes in Australia. Over the last two decades, she has been committed to fostering the creative talent of artists. Boardman holds a PhD in Fine Art and has been an invited speaker at universities, art galleries and museums since 2011. She has lectured in art and animation at leading universities in the US and Australia. Boardman has founded shared studio/exhibition spaces in both Brooklyn NY and Sydney Australia and continues to facilitate the exchange of ideas between artists internationally with her Virtual Studio Visit events. Her works are held in private and public collections including Artbank and The City of Sydney in Australia, and the High Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the University of Kentucky Art Museum in America. Her work has appeared in publications including Artforum, Hyperallergic, Juxtapoz, Artist Profile, Art Collector, and ArtMaze Magazine. Her work is represented by Chalk Horse in Sydney, Sophie Gannon Gallery in Melbourne, and Sandler Hudson Gallery in Atlanta. Education 2018 PhD, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2009 MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York 2003 BFA, Georgia State University, Atlanta Select Exhibitions/Awards SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2023 Dude, Chalk Horse, Sydney 2022 Real Estate Religion, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne 2021 Decision Fatigue, Chalk Horse, Sydney 2020 Amber Boardman, 333 Projects / Clayton Utz, Sydney Bodywork, Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth (with Kaylene Whiskey and Tarryn Gill) 2019 Crowd Scenes, Chalk Horse, Sydney 2018 @jadefad: a social media feed in paint, Kudos Gallery, Sydney We Are, Postmasters Gallery, Rome (with Jenny Morgan and Monica Cook) 2017 Regrowth, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta 2016 Titlist, Chalk Horse, Sydney Sitcom Studies, Ivy Brown Gallery, New York Methods For Making Eye Contact, First Draft, Sydney (with Teelah George) 2015 Expansion, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane Permission, Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney 2011 FAV (Flute and Video), Flux Projects, multiple locations, Atlanta STILL, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta 2010 A Sampling, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS 2004 Painting, Drawing, and Animation, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta   SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2022 Fair Play, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney 2020 Here I Am: Art by Great Women, amBUSH Gallery, Canberra This is America, UK Art Museum, Lexington, KY Out of Touch, Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles 2019 Paddington Art Prize, Sydney McGivern Prize, Melbourne Willoughby Visual Arts Biennial, Sydney Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize, Melbourne 2018 Beyond Reason, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane Personal Best, Verge Gallery, Sydney Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Up In Arms, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery, Geelong Australia 2016 Julie Spoke Softly Under Her Long Skinny Nose, Field Projects, New York 13.04.16, Home@735, Sydney 2015 Porque No, Gaffa, Sydney Art Month Sydney, Creative Live Work Space, Sydney 2014 Ingenious Inhabitants, William Street Windows, Sydney Summer Studio Salon, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta Steal This Bike, Mint, Atlanta 2013 The Wagner Experience, Koblenz, Duisburg, Arnhem, Utrecht, Amsterdam, Rotterdam 2012 FLUX 2012, Public Art Festival, Atlanta 2011 Paint it Black, The Shirey, Brooklyn Everyday Charms, O Cinema, Miami New Media from the Permanent Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta Animation Block Party, BAM, Brooklyn 2010 BAM Next Wave Festival, curated by Dan Cameron, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn Portrait Concert with Masanori Oishi, Tokyo On the Outside, with AURA Contemporary Ensemble, San Jacinto College, Houston Concert with Sonic Generator, Georgia Tech University, Atlanta The Body Machine, High Museum of Art, Atlanta Losing Yourself in the 21st Century, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore 2009 Losing Yourself in the 21st Century, Georgia State University, Atlanta A New Currency, curated by Dan Cameron, 55 Delancey St, New York Cardsharper, curated by Lauren Ross, Visual Arts Gallery, New York About Time, Visual Arts Gallery, New York Summer Guest House, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta My Eyes, Ad Naseam Lyceum, New York 2008 This Just In, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta Click/Shift/Enter, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta Atlanta Biennial, curated by Stuart Horodner, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta 2004 Going Up, Sundial, Curated by Fifth Class, Atlanta 2003 Atlanta Film Festival, Rialto, Atlanta 2002 all small video night: Short Short Shorts, Eyedrum, Atlanta Fresh, Curated by Fifth Class, Atlanta Continue reading   Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Sculptures in paint.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. 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Chloe Le Tissier Winding Lanes Acrylic on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Chloe Le Tissier (b.1984) is a painter from Guernsey in the Channel Islands, living and working in London. Education Chloe has a BA from the Slade School of Fine Art and Postgraduate Certificate from the Royal Drawing School. In 2021-23 Chloe participated in the Turps Offsite Studio programme. Select Exhibitions/Awards Chloe exhibited in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2023 and the Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize online exhibition 2023. A prize-winner in the Sunday Times Watercolour competition and Columbia Threadneedle Prize, Chloe has undertaken residencies at Dumfries House, Scotland and the Royal Drawing School teaching residency in India. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork My work is inspired by life around me, my experiences and memories. With a sense of the bittersweet passing of time, I am drawn to the moment day turns to night under a bright moon. The light changes dramatically and tells us that another day has passed. Working across acrylics, oils, watercolour and gouache, observational drawing forms a large part of my practice and I use carefully composed photographs as further resource material.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Rebecca Holton 32 and Sunny, 2023 Oil paint on card Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About This summer Rebecca was selected by David Remfry RA to exhibit in the Royal Academy's summer exhibition. The drawing (sold during the exhibition) was one of six artworks picked out in The Times article, reviewing by Lead Art Correspondent, Laura Freeman. Rebecca exhibits regularly at the Mall Galleries, London, including both the ROI and the Royal Society of British Artists, and she was selected for the Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize (2021). In 2022 she was awarded The Surgeon's Prize by the Royal Society of British Artists, and in August 2021, she was awarded the Michael Harding First Prize in Oil Painting by the Gallery at Green & Stone, Chelsea, London. She was subsequently invited to have her first solo show with the gallery, 'Returning to London' in December 2022. She has recently had the privilege of painting a selection of notable sitters, including Lady Alison Scott Deeny and Paul Mayhew Archer MBE. Rebecca works as a full-time portrait and figurative artist between Bath and London, and she is fortunate to have a regular stream of commissions through both private clients and collectors. She juggles these around independent projects for exhibition. Her work is in private collections in the UK, Europe, US and Asia. Following her MA Fine Art, Rebecca followed a successful 10-year career in advertising in London at a senior level. She lived in Asia for 6 years before returning to full time Art in London in 2017. Education MA (Hons) Fine Art - Edinburgh University & College of Art (5 year course) - 2001 BTEC Foundation - Distinction - Oxford College of Art and Design Select Exhibitions/Awards Royal Academy of London, Summer Exhibition 2023 The Gallery at Green & Stone, London (Solo exhibition) 2022 Mall Galleries, London. Royal Society of British Artists. Awarded The Surgeon's Prize 2022 Mall Galleries, London. Royal Institute of Oil Painters. 2021 Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize, Highly Commended and online exhibition 2021 The Gallery at Green & Stone, London. Awarded First prize for Oil Painting 2021 Mall Galleries, London. Society of Women Artists 2019 Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Rebecca enjoys capturing everyday moments - not the 'special' moments which are easily noticed or remembered, but rather those that we take for granted and give little or subliminal attention. By immortalizing these through art, she raises their importance and encourages the viewer to relook at them. Her figures are captured in very familiar surroundings and absorbed in their own environment, which makes them easy to relate to and empathize with; as a viewer, we are encouraged to add stories and background to the characters. "My artwork acts as a time-capsule or visual diary of contemporary routines and culture. I am interested in encouraging people to reflect on the way we live today."   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Rebecca Holton Hatching a Plan, 2023 Oil paint on card Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About This summer Rebecca was selected by David Remfry RA to exhibit in the Royal Academy's summer exhibition. The drawing (sold during the exhibition) was one of six artworks picked out in The Times article, reviewing by Lead Art Correspondent, Laura Freeman. Rebecca exhibits regularly at the Mall Galleries, London, including both the ROI and the Royal Society of British Artists, and she was selected for the Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize (2021). In 2022 she was awarded The Surgeon's Prize by the Royal Society of British Artists, and in August 2021, she was awarded the Michael Harding First Prize in Oil Painting by the Gallery at Green & Stone, Chelsea, London. She was subsequently invited to have her first solo show with the gallery, 'Returning to London' in December 2022. She has recently had the privilege of painting a selection of notable sitters, including Lady Alison Scott Deeny and Paul Mayhew Archer MBE. Rebecca works as a full-time portrait and figurative artist between Bath and London, and she is fortunate to have a regular stream of commissions through both private clients and collectors. She juggles these around independent projects for exhibition. Her work is in private collections in the UK, Europe, US and Asia. Following her MA Fine Art, Rebecca followed a successful 10-year career in advertising in London at a senior level. She lived in Asia for 6 years before returning to full time Art in London in 2017. Education MA (Hons) Fine Art - Edinburgh University & College of Art (5 year course) - 2001 BTEC Foundation - Distinction - Oxford College of Art and Design Select Exhibitions/Awards Royal Academy of London, Summer Exhibition 2023 The Gallery at Green & Stone, London (Solo exhibition) 2022 Mall Galleries, London. Royal Society of British Artists. Awarded The Surgeon's Prize 2022 Mall Galleries, London. Royal Institute of Oil Painters. 2021 Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize, Highly Commended and online exhibition 2021 The Gallery at Green & Stone, London. Awarded First prize for Oil Painting 2021 Mall Galleries, London. Society of Women Artists 2019 Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Rebecca enjoys capturing everyday moments - not the 'special' moments which are easily noticed or remembered, but rather those that we take for granted and give little or subliminal attention. By immortalizing these through art, she raises their importance and encourages the viewer to relook at them. Her figures are captured in very familiar surroundings and absorbed in their own environment, which makes them easy to relate to and empathize with; as a viewer, we are encouraged to add stories and background to the characters. "My artwork acts as a time-capsule or visual diary of contemporary routines and culture. I am interested in encouraging people to reflect on the way we live today."   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Benjamin Portanier Zeal 2 Oil paint and acrylic on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by Frankie Shea About I am a London born Painter working on originals in oil. I have deep respect for paintings that speak to me in some sense traditionally and another sense mystically. Yes, I believe a great portrait is a mystery. It stands all tests of time and calls out to the soul. There should be more portraits on our walls. Loved ones, tough moments and the life behind our being are held with dignity through them. I hand paint faces that feature the unexaggerated natural posture that needs no over expressive veil. We wear masks everyday but no matter how thick the mask we wear, we are more so the cracks that appear, than the mask itself. A mystery I work on is how a portrait captures the mask whilst getting behind it simultaneously. More of the time the cracks appear over the eyes. I'd like to see what I can do to bring light to the portrait in our time. Brief moments of stillness hanging on our walls give us hope that all is well and there is more to come. - Benjamin Portanier Education BA/HONS Fine Art Painting - University of Brighton Select Exhibitions/Awards LSM Art Award finalist and exhibition 2021 Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Zeal 1 & Zeal 2. Both paintings act as preliminary portraits of young people who are dear to me in my life. There is more to come from these small portraits working well to move toward another. Just as all our postcards have added up to create, as a whole a huge difference, there is zeal from few at first that then opens the path to make a difference to many. This zeal can be mistaken for self-reliance, but unwavering zeal acknowledges the help we need from others. May we celebrate gifts of zeal in life.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Jason Line Objects Against the Light Oil on Canvas on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by Katherine Kittoe About Jason Line is a British artist and lives in London. Although his subject matter is varied, Jason's main area of interest has been the still life, either concentrating on the subject closely or expanding out to take in the surrounding interior. The arrangements vary in their complexity of composition whether it's a single lemon perched quietly on a plinth, or if it's a mass of objects sprawled out on the studio floor. Education Camberwell School of Art Gloucestershire College of Art Select Exhibitions/Awards SELECT EXHBITIONS SOLO SHOWS 2023 Setting the Scene. 155A Gallery, London 2021 Still Lifes from the Studio. MARCH Fine Art, San Francisco, USA GROUP SHOWS BP Portrait Award, NPG, London The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries The Painter Stainers Prize, Mall Galleries The New English Art Club, Mall Galleries. (Elected member since 2021) Gallery Representation 155A Gallery, London Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Jason Line works directly from observation and the still life has long been the main area of his interest. The object and arrangement are always carefully examined with a particular focus on the relationship and tension between forms so that every component is integral to each other and to the whole.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Marcelle Hanselaar Night Wanderer Etching and colour pencil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, lives and works in London. She left art education and is a mainly self-taught artist both an oil painter and printmaker. Work in Public collections: British Museum Prints & Drawings, London; Victoria & Albert Museum Prints & Drawings, London; V&A National Art Library, London; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Clifford Chance Art Collection, London; University of Aberystwyth Print Collection, Wales; Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Collection, UK; Soho Works, London, The Ned, London; The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, London; The Metropolitan Museum, New York, USA; Museum de Reede, Antwerp, Be; Meermanno Museum of the Book, the Hague, NL; Guandong Fine Art Museum, PR China; University of Arizona, Tucson, USA; Swarthmore College, US www.marcellehanselaar.com Education   1962-64 Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague, NL 2001 B-TEC Printmaking, Chelsea & Kensington College, London Select Exhibitions/Awards Awards: Jury award Novosibirsk Print Triennial Clifford Chance Purchase Award at the International Print Biennial 2014 Statutory Awards of MTG - Krakow International Print Triennial 2012, PL; Guangdong Museum Purchase Prize, Qijiang, CN Shortlisted for the Ruth Borchard Self Portrait prize and acquired by the Ruth Borchard Self Portrait collection Birgit Skjold Prize for Pillowbook of Endless Nights, acquired by V&A National Art Library Guangdong Museum Purchase Prize, Qijiang, CN Aberystwyth, University of Wales Purchase Prize, Originals '06, London Presse Papier Award, Biennale Internationale d'estampe Contemporaine de Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Gallery Representation Julian Page, London; Arundel Contemporary, Arundel; De Queeste Art, Belgium. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork "The Night-Wanderer expresses the longing to return to the place where I grew up, the bitter, salty wind smell of the sea, an imaginary return to the North-Sea of my childhood. This print is set in between the Lighthouse and the Kurhuis in Scheveningen, a make-believe place where I would wander in the night, looking for something, anything away from the restrictions of reality. The Kurhuis and the lighthouse are in fact not that close together, but both buildings are a signifier of place for me, the lighthouse whose light sweeps were visible through the curtains of our childhood bedroom and the Kurhuis, the 'palace' at the boulevard, a place of great magic, opulence, lights and music, a famous landmark."   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Hynek Martinec Dream in color (1) Pencil and watercolour on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Hynek Martinec graduated from the Studio of Classical Painting Techniques at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague. After his studies he left for Paris (2005-2007) and since 2007 has been living in London. He received the prestigious BP Young Artist Award (2007) for his hyper realistic portraits. His paintings are inspired by Old Masters and/or photographs, which link the past with the future, using modern technologies. Education Cooper Union, New York 2004 Middlesex University, London 2002 Academy of Fine Art (MgA.), Prague 1999-2005 Select Exhibitions/Awards 2008 The Changing Faces, London 2007 BP Young Artist Award, National Portrait Gallery, London BP Visitor Choice, National Portrait Gallery, London BP Visitor Choice, National Scottish Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh 2003 Studio Prize, Academy of Fine Art, Prague Selected Solo Exhibitions and Projects 2023 Thank You For Looking at Me, OHSH Projects, London 2021/22 Will and Representation, Parafin, London 2019 The Everyday Archive, Brixton Beneficiary, London 2018 Voyage to Iceland, National Gallery, Prague Kilián Ignác D. Galerie Dům, Broumov 2017 El Greco is Watching, (ongoing), Spain The Birth of Tragedies, Parafin, London 2016 Hybrid, The Factory Gallery, London Thank You For Looking at Me, (ongoing), Iceland 2015 Intellectual Properties, Galerie Václava Špály, Prague 2014 Every Minute You Are Closer To Death, Parafin, London 2013 Every Minute You Are Closer To Death, Flowers Gallery, London Selected Group Exhibitions 2023 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London Gallery Artist, Parafin, London 2022 BFAMI, Art Auction, Phillips, London ABSURD, OHSH Projects, London Men, AJG - Alšova jihočeská galerie, Czech Republic STILL LIFE/LIFE STILL, OHSH Projects, London 2021 Vanitas, Dox Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague Signál II, Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc The Will to Power, ASC Gallery, London 2020 Complex States - Art in the Years of Brexit, AR platform International and virtual exhibition, Worldwide Same For Everyone, Parafin, London Inspiration - Iconic Works, Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki Inspiration - Iconic Works, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm 2019 In Loving Memory, Emo Court, Co Laois, Republic of Ireland Vanité, Brixton Beneficiary, London 2017 Fascination with Reality, Museum of Modern Art, Olomouc Arc of Time, Zahorian and Van Espen, Prague 2015 Blow-up, Parafin, London 2014 John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 2013 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London 2012 Beyond Reality. British Painting Today, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague Ein Weisses Feld, Schlachthaus Aschaffenburg Coal and Steel, Candid Arts Trust Gallery, London Coal and Steel, Czech Centre Gallery, Prague Gallery Representation Parafin Gallery Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Watercolours are reflecting my dream world. A topic consistent to my practice and one I have for years pursued in drawings. You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Marco Bizzarri Still Standing, Studio I Watercolour and acrylic on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Marco Bizzarri (b. 1988, Santiago) is a Chilean artist based in West Sussex, England. Marco deals with memory, commemoration and archive through painting, installation and video. In his work, research processes and materiality are subordinated to context. On the one hand, linked to the experiential encounter, and on the other, to the geographical positioning (rural-industrial territories), so that fieldwork, involvement with the landscape and human testimony are fundamental. Education He graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile with a BA in Fine Arts (2014) Turps art school painting programme (2021) Select Exhibitions/Awards Recent solo exhibitions include Unearthed at Unit 1 Gallery Workshop in London and Incuria at Galería Animal in Chile. He has participated in a number of group exhibitions including Recursion at The Split Gallery (London, 2023) Fauna Presents Auction at Arundel Castle (Arundel, 2023) But dearer still is truth at Plato Gallery (Portugal 2023) Gilbert Bayes Award Exhibition, Royal Society of Sculptors at Cromwell Place (London, 2022), Friends with benefits, Safehouse 2 (London 2022) RSS GBA Exhibition at CASC Gallery, University of Chester (Chester, 2022), Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition at Mall Galleries (London, 2021), "XIV Premio MAVI arte joven" at MAVI Museum (Chile, 2020), Habitantes at Centro Cultural Matta (Argentina,2019), Cohabitar at Cede Galería (Perú, 2016), Outsider at the Gare of Strasbourg (France, 2014), and The Young Collectors Exhibition at the Leila Heller Gallery (USA, 2013). Gallery Representation Galeria Patricia Ready (Chile) Statement About AOAP Submitted Artwork His paintings respond to the exercise of collecting and translating images by delving into the material possibilities of pictorial language. The result combines abstraction and figuration: the images show the multiple resources with which they have been constructed. By rescuing objects, events, people or places - which run the risk of being forgotten - the artist composes situations that link different spaces, times and actors in a single image. An exercise that responds to the need to give visibility to those fleeting things coming from an autobiographical context that shows events of the artist's daily life. His painting reveals as much as it conceals. The gesture of covering the form, through dripping, reveals itself as a means of silencing his images and at the same time charging them with a singular graphic and chromatic expression where light and darkness coexist on the same plane You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Laura Hope Eye Spy III, 2023 Mixed media on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by Verity Babbs About My work is centred around unspoken emotions and quiet inner lives. Created from my own staged photographs of models, it is often a response to memories, relationships and personal crisis. Through composition, cropping and reversing the image, I strive to convey an uneasy narrative that shines a light on subtle feelings that often hide in the shadows. With hints to another era, my figures live in a world that is both nostalgic and present. I sit on the fence between painting and drawing - feeling that 'painting' better describes my process but knowing that 'drawing' is my method of creation. My training as an illustrator as well as my time working as a memorial artist (hand etching onto granite) have cemented the importance of line and mark making in my practice. A combination of thick, harsh scribbles and precise, light touches alongside a unique translation of colour are the voices used to tell my stories. Education BA (hons) Illustration - Cardiff School of Art and Design - First Class Select Exhibitions/Awards   2023 - Awards Winner - NG Art Creative Residency (Wells Contemporary) Shortlisted - Jackson's Painting Prize Longlisted - Women in Art Prize Honourable Mention - Arthouse Z 'Emerging Artist Prize' 2023 - Exhibitions Royal Society Portrait Painters Exhibition - Mall Galleries, London Rising Artists, Jackson's Painting Prize - Bankside Gallery, London Wells Art Contemporary - Wells Cathedral, Wells Summer Exhibition - Green & Stone Gallery, London 2022 - Awards Winner - de Laszlo Foundation Award for Excellence Longlisted - Jackson's Painting Prize 2022 - Exhibitions Royal Society Portrait Painters Exhibition - Mall Galleries, London Summer Exhibition - Green & Stone Gallery, London Tendencies in Painting - London Paint Club (online) Annual Open - Southwark Park Galleries, London Small Works Winter Show - Spring Cheltenham 2017 Winner - Best Memorial in Show - NAMM Craftex Awards 2015 Winner - Illustration Award - Cardiff School of Art and Design CSAD - Summer Show - Cardiff Behind the Door - Dyffryn House (National Trust) 2014 First Impressions - View Art Gallery, Bristol OUTSET Exhibition - Gate Gallery, Cardiff Autumn/Winter Exhibition - Cardiff MADE Artist in Residence - Beyond the Border Story Telling Festival Le Violon D'Ingres - The Gate Gallery Cardiff 2011 Winner & Highly Commended - Rotary Club Young Artist of the Year Award Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Feeling watched and watching... Looking through a crack in a door or spying through a keyhole was something I wanted to explore with these tiny works. The scale is much smaller than I usually work, so I decided to work to a crop rather than reducing the image. Crops fascinate me, especially in portraiture... Without all the features, can you still translate their expression? How are you being watched? Is it a menacing stare or a loving gaze?   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Laura Hope Eye Spy I, 2023 Mixed media on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by Verity Babbs About My work is centred around unspoken emotions and quiet inner lives. Created from my own staged photographs of models, it is often a response to memories, relationships and personal crisis. Through composition, cropping and reversing the image, I strive to convey an uneasy narrative that shines a light on subtle feelings that often hide in the shadows. With hints to another era, my figures live in a world that is both nostalgic and present. I sit on the fence between painting and drawing - feeling that 'painting' better describes my process but knowing that 'drawing' is my method of creation. My training as an illustrator as well as my time working as a memorial artist (hand etching onto granite) have cemented the importance of line and mark making in my practice. A combination of thick, harsh scribbles and precise, light touches alongside a unique translation of colour are the voices used to tell my stories. Education BA (hons) Illustration - Cardiff School of Art and Design - First Class Select Exhibitions/Awards   2023 - Awards Winner - NG Art Creative Residency (Wells Contemporary) Shortlisted - Jackson's Painting Prize Longlisted - Women in Art Prize Honourable Mention - Arthouse Z 'Emerging Artist Prize' 2023 - Exhibitions Royal Society Portrait Painters Exhibition - Mall Galleries, London Rising Artists, Jackson's Painting Prize - Bankside Gallery, London Wells Art Contemporary - Wells Cathedral, Wells Summer Exhibition - Green & Stone Gallery, London 2022 - Awards Winner - de Laszlo Foundation Award for Excellence Longlisted - Jackson's Painting Prize 2022 - Exhibitions Royal Society Portrait Painters Exhibition - Mall Galleries, London Summer Exhibition - Green & Stone Gallery, London Tendencies in Painting - London Paint Club (online) Annual Open - Southwark Park Galleries, London Small Works Winter Show - Spring Cheltenham 2017 Winner - Best Memorial in Show - NAMM Craftex Awards 2015 Winner - Illustration Award - Cardiff School of Art and Design CSAD - Summer Show - Cardiff Behind the Door - Dyffryn House (National Trust) 2014 First Impressions - View Art Gallery, Bristol OUTSET Exhibition - Gate Gallery, Cardiff Autumn/Winter Exhibition - Cardiff MADE Artist in Residence - Beyond the Border Story Telling Festival Le Violon D'Ingres - The Gate Gallery Cardiff 2011 Winner & Highly Commended - Rotary Club Young Artist of the Year Award Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Feeling watched and watching... Looking through a crack in a door or spying through a keyhole was something I wanted to explore with these tiny works. The scale is much smaller than I usually work, so I decided to work to a crop rather than reducing the image. Crops fascinate me, especially in portraiture... Without all the features, can you still translate their expression? How are you being watched? Is it a menacing stare or a loving gaze?   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Nahem Shoa Gbenya Ilumoka Acrylic on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Nahem Shoa is a contemporary artist born in Notting Hill where he still lives and works. Nahem has an international reputation as a painter of contemporary multicultural life. Until 2007 Nahem painted from life giant heads of people from black and ethnic backgrounds. 19 of Nahem's portraits are in major museum collections. Nahem then turned to other subjects that drew on 'unreal' sources, photograph, TV and film as well as memory, creating hugely multi-layered paintings bursting with incident, including floods and nuclear explosions. Education Manchester College of Art Post-grad Royal Drawing School Select Exhibitions/Awards Winner of Royal Society of Portrait painters, Face of Britain at Southampton City Art Gallery, Into The Light at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Black Presence, The Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, Seen and Not Seen at Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, We are Here at The Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, Into The Wild Abyss, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, Youth Culture, The Box, Plymouth, Royal Academy, Summer Show, London BP portrait awards, National Portrait Gallery. Lord Leighton Prize, London, Elizabeth Greenshields Award, What's New, Manchester City Art Gallery, Modern Art, Hatton Gallery Newcastle, V&A, London, Facing Yourself, Bury City Art Gallery, 100 years of Collecting, The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle. Gallery Representation Gallery East Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork All the sitters in these paintings are friends, who have sat for all my major museums exhibitions and collections in England. My aim in to readdress the negative images of black people in museums, with my powerful portraits of Black British Londoners. I am already known as the Lucian Freud of Multiculturalism. The four postcards are my decorative, with a bit of imagination thrown in. The portrait of Queen Tiye, is from a 3000-year-old Egyptian portrait of grandmother of Tutankhamun, it is the first realistic portrait in western art and it of a black woman. I just gave her a modern haircut. Please google my name or check me out on Wikipedia.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Felicity Gill Swimmer Oil paint on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Felicity Gill is a Portrait Painter and Figurative Artist. Education Adelaide Central School of Art Select Exhibitions/Awards Select Exhibitions 2023 Summer Exhibition 'Land Sea Sky' Cameron Contemporary 'Fresh' Cameron Contemporary Chosen as 'One to Watch' by Affordable Art Fair director Hugo Barclay 2022 'Figure' Cameron Contemporary Invited Artist ING Discerning Eye Affordable Art Fair Royal Society of Portrait Painters Chelsea Arts Club Group Painting show 2021 Turner Contemporary Open 2020 The RA Summer Exhibition Solo show Stash Gallery London 2019 Solo show Oxford North Wall Gallery 2013 Modern Baroque, Medici Gallery, Cork Street, London Select Portrait Commissions: Boris Johnson, Prime Minister; Sir Henry Cecil Jockey Club; Dame Joan Bakewell; Dame Barbara Windsor; David Skinner OBE; Sir Mark Rylance. "Already a hugely talented and successful portrait artist, it feels as if Felicity Gill is on the cusp of a major breakthrough in her painting career.'' Steve Pill A&I magazine Gallery Representation Cameron Contemporary, Brighton; Tart Gallery London Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork My figurative work has been evolving into an exploration of how to paint emotions and the connections between people. I have been developing a looser gestural approach and smudging washes of oil to add to the emotional narrative. In these pieces I have been inspired by vintage imagery such as amateur photographs and old films.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Hurvin Anderson The Avenue Watercolour on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by Katherine Kittoe   About Born in 1965, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Hurvin Anderson lives and works between London and Cambridgeshire. Hurvin Anderson's paintings explore spaces occupied by Caribbean immigrants, such as public parks, gardens, barbershops and domestic interiors, which function as sites for both social gathering and economic enterprise. These settings represent the artist's personal and cultural memories of functional spaces and shared experiences of the Caribbean. Born to parents of Jamaican descent, Hurvin studied at the Wimbledon School of Art followed by the Royal College of Art, where he explored the relevance of figuration in a world dominated by abstraction and Conceptual art. Since then, he has pursued both landscape and abstract painting, exploring his own relationships to place by recalling social history and memory. Education Wimbledon School of Art (1991-1994), Royal College of Art (1996-1998) Select Exhibitions/Awards Solo Exhibitions: 2023 Salon Paintings: Hurvin Anderson, Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield 2021 Reverb: Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England
 Hurvin Anderson: Anywhere but Nowhere, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago IL
 2019 Hurvin Anderson, They have a mind of their own, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2016 Hurvin Anderson: Dub Versions, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, England Hurvin Anderson: Backdrop, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada 2015 Hurvin Anderson: Backdrop, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis MO 2013 Hurvin Anderson: reporting back, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England Group Exhibitions: 2024 Forthcoming: The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure, National Portrait Gallery, London, England 2022 Radical Landscapes, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England [travelling to Mead Gallery, Coventry, England; William Morris Gallery, London, England] 2021 Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s - Now, Tate Britain, London, England [travelling to: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada] Mixing It Up: Painting Today, Hayward Gallery, London, England British Art Show 9, Hayward Gallery, London, England [travelling to Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland; Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, England; University of Wolverhampton School of Art, Wolverhampton, England; Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, England; Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA), Manchester, England; HOME, Manchester, England; Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England; The Whitworth, Manchester, England; KARST, Plymouth, England; The Levinsky Gallery, Plymouth, England; The Box, Plymouth, England; Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth, England] Hurvin Anderson was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2019. Gallery Representation Thomas Dane Gallery, London and Michael Werner Gallery, New York   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Chloe Le Tissier Near The Greenhouses Acrylic on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Chloe Le Tissier (b.1984) is a painter from Guernsey in the Channel Islands, living and working in London. Education Chloe has a BA from the Slade School of Fine Art and Postgraduate Certificate from the Royal Drawing School. In 2021-23 Chloe participated in the Turps Offsite Studio programme. Select Exhibitions/Awards Chloe exhibited in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2023 and the Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize online exhibition 2023. A prize-winner in the Sunday Times Watercolour competition and Columbia Threadneedle Prize, Chloe has undertaken residencies at Dumfries House, Scotland and the Royal Drawing School teaching residency in India. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork My work is inspired by life around me, my experiences and memories. With a sense of the bittersweet passing of time, I am drawn to the moment day turns to night under a bright moon. The light changes dramatically and tells us that another day has passed. Working across acrylics, oils, watercolour and gouache, observational drawing forms a large part of my practice and I use carefully composed photographs as further resource material.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Matthew Eguavoen Womanhood Acrylic on cartridge paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Matthew Imuetiyan Eguavoen (b.1988, Edo State) lives and works in the city of Lagos, Nigeria. Matthew Eguavoen is a contemporary artist with a singular style. Far more expressive than the traditional portrait, the Lagos-based artist uses color and composition to raise questions about gender, race and history, particularly linked to Nigeria and Africa. In his portraits, Matthew uses a combination of oil paint, acrylic paint, charcoal, and graphite pencils to document stories that encompass the emotions and demeanor of his muse to the viewer of his work. He depicts the vulnerability and openness associated with expressing the feelings of love, as well as the apprehension of protecting one's self from heart break and ulterior motives. His work addresses the lack of awareness on mental health, especially depression. Due to the stigma associated with mental health, conversations about depression are not often had, hence information, and resources required to deal with depression are sparse and the effect of societal pressures and timelines seton youths to achieve certain goals by a specific age (marriage, financial goals, family responsibilities). Eguavoen, wants to give voice to the impact of Slavery in Africa and its people. The extinction of African traditional values and the growing sensation of religion in Africa, importation of western moral and cultural values. He attended the University of Port Harcourt, where he obtained a Bachelors in Science for Civil Engineering and Structures. In his final year at the university, Matthew decided to pursue his passion for creating art through self-study, where he continued his artistic development. Matthew didn't start painting till he was 25 years. Matthew ́s works are featured in collections across West Africa, USA, Europe, and North America. Education Bachelor in Civil Engineering, The University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria Select Exhibitions/Awards SOLO SHOWS 2022 23. PM/AM, London. Egbé Okpá. Afikaris, Paris. GROUP SHOWS 2023 Color Coded. BODE Gallery, Berlin 2022 Voyage. Nothing At All art space, Hong Kong. Shout Plenty. Presented by African Artists' Foundation in collaboration with Alliance Française, Ikoyi. Classique! Afikaris, Paris. Smiling & Suffering Together (With Onguene Tassi). Out of Africa Gallery, Barcelona. What Now? PM/AM, London. 2021 It's Not Only a Portrait. Galería Badr El Jundi, Marbella, Málaga. 40 under 40. WHATIFTHEWORLD X Krone. A collaboration with BMW Young Collectors Co., an initiative of FNB Art Joburg, at Twee Jonge Gezellen wine estate Tulbagh. I No Be Gentleman (At All O). ADA, Accra. MUSEUM SHOW 2023 AFRICA SUPERNOVA, KUNSTHAL KADE MUSEUM, Schulting Art Collection, Netherlands 2022 The New African Portraiture, Shariat Collection, Kunsthalle Krems Museum, Austria Gallery Representation I do not have a representation at the moment; however, I do actively collaborate with these three (3) Galleries; PM/AM Gallery, London Afikaris Gallery, Paris Badr El Jundi Gallery, Madrid. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork 1. Womanhood "In a world where gender roles are constantly in flux and in one that increasingly understands gender and biological sex as two distinct realms, I often find myself wondering about the nature of womanhood. What does it mean to be a woman? We no longer make sense of what it means to be a woman through a set of physical characteristics or personality traits, nor through fixed societal roles. But if being a woman is not determined by these dimensions, is there some other element that is shared by all women?" 2. More like family This piece was created to acknowledge people in my life who have supported and nourished me mentally and emotionally, most especially in my career, and have continually my back one without asking for their act of kindness to be repaid. 3. Sadiq Sadiq is a Social Media friend whom I respect because of how he has continually lived his life without being confined to societal standards. He has continued to be expressional, most especially with issue in relation to gender, and i have used this piece to represent that part of him. You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

David Woodall Home Grown Apple, 2023 Oil on gesso on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About I worked for over forty years as an advertising art director retiring in 2010 to become a full-time painter. Education Advertising/Graphic Design Wakefield School of Art. Short courses at the Slade. Select Exhibitions/Awards RA Summer Show. The Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Awards. NEAC Exhibition the Mall Galleries. The National Open Arts Competition Somerset House. The Tregony Gallery. Surrey Artists, The Lightbox Gallery runner up best in show. Gallery Representation The Tregony Gallery. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork The Orchid pops up in our garden the same place and time every year this is the first time I've been able to paint it, the apple is from a tree in our garden always a battle to retrieve one before the pigeons and magpies get there.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Marco Bizzarri Still Standing, Studio II Watercolour and acrylic on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.)   This lot has been curated by AOAP About Marco Bizzarri (b. 1988, Santiago) is a Chilean artist based in West Sussex, England. Marco deals with memory, commemoration and archive through painting, installation and video. In his work, research processes and materiality are subordinated to context. On the one hand, linked to the experiential encounter, and on the other, to the geographical positioning (rural-industrial territories), so that fieldwork, involvement with the landscape and human testimony are fundamental. Education He graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile with a BA in Fine Arts (2014) Turps art school painting programme (2021) Select Exhibitions/Awards Recent solo exhibitions include Unearthed at Unit 1 Gallery Workshop in London and Incuria at Galería Animal in Chile. He has participated in a number of group exhibitions including Recursion at The Split Gallery (London, 2023) Fauna Presents Auction at Arundel Castle (Arundel, 2023) But dearer still is truth at Plato Gallery (Portugal 2023) Gilbert Bayes Award Exhibition, Royal Society of Sculptors at Cromwell Place (London, 2022), Friends with benefits, Safehouse 2 (London 2022) RSS GBA Exhibition at CASC Gallery, University of Chester (Chester, 2022), Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition at Mall Galleries (London, 2021), "XIV Premio MAVI arte joven" at MAVI Museum (Chile, 2020), Habitantes at Centro Cultural Matta (Argentina,2019), Cohabitar at Cede Galería (Perú, 2016), Outsider at the Gare of Strasbourg (France, 2014), and The Young Collectors Exhibition at the Leila Heller Gallery (USA, 2013). Gallery Representation Galeria Patricia Ready (Chile) Statement About AOAP Submitted Artwork His paintings respond to the exercise of collecting and translating images by delving into the material possibilities of pictorial language. The result combines abstraction and figuration: the images show the multiple resources with which they have been constructed. By rescuing objects, events, people or places - which run the risk of being forgotten - the artist composes situations that link different spaces, times and actors in a single image. An exercise that responds to the need to give visibility to those fleeting things coming from an autobiographical context that shows events of the artist's daily life. His painting reveals as much as it conceals. The gesture of covering the form, through dripping, reveals itself as a means of silencing his images and at the same time charging them with a singular graphic and chromatic expression where light and darkness coexist on the same plane You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Melissa Scott-Miller Canal Path in Maida Vale Oil paint on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Born in London in 1959, I've always just painted the world around me, so mainly views of London, places I've experienced growing up here and being a student and a mother, a dog owner and now a Granny. My work is very detailed, I use thick paint and small brushes and make lots of little marks, I like to paint outside in parks and street corners trying to hide but also enjoying the life around me, trying hard to capture light and natures effect on the city. Education The Slade 1977-81 Select Exhibitions/Awards Three English artists Acquavella gallery 1982, Albemarle gallery 1987, Grosvenor gallery 1995, Mark Jason gallery 2007, twenty twenty gallery 2021, Chris Beetles gallery 2023 24 times in RA summer show, 5 times BP portrait award exhibition NPG Won Elizabeth Greenshield foundation scholarship 1985, prize for figurative painting at the Slade, first prize Lynn Painter strainers prize 2008 Gallery Representation Chris Beetles gallery Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork The three postcards I have painted are in oil paint, they all London scenes, favourite places that mean something to me and in each one is either a cat or a dog and in one the back of my little grandson, he talks to the cats where he lives!   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Marcelle Hanselaar Black Path II, 2023 Etching and colour pencil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, lives and works in London. She left art education and is a mainly self-taught artist both an oil painter and printmaker. Work in Public collections: British Museum Prints & Drawings, London; Victoria & Albert Museum Prints & Drawings, London; V&A National Art Library, London; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Clifford Chance Art Collection, London; University of Aberystwyth Print Collection, Wales; Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Collection, UK; Soho Works, London, The Ned, London; The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, London; The Metropolitan Museum, New York, USA; Museum de Reede, Antwerp, Be; Meermanno Museum of the Book, the Hague, NL; Guandong Fine Art Museum, PR China; University of Arizona, Tucson, USA; Swarthmore College, US www.marcellehanselaar.com Education   1962-64 Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague, NL 2001 B-TEC Printmaking, Chelsea & Kensington College, London Select Exhibitions/Awards Awards: Jury award Novosibirsk Print Triennial Clifford Chance Purchase Award at the International Print Biennial 2014 Statutory Awards of MTG - Krakow International Print Triennial 2012, PL; Guangdong Museum Purchase Prize, Qijiang, CN Shortlisted for the Ruth Borchard Self Portrait prize and acquired by the Ruth Borchard Self Portrait collection Birgit Skjold Prize for Pillowbook of Endless Nights, acquired by V&A National Art Library Guangdong Museum Purchase Prize, Qijiang, CN Aberystwyth, University of Wales Purchase Prize, Originals '06, London Presse Papier Award, Biennale Internationale d'estampe Contemporaine de Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Gallery Representation Julian Page, London; Arundel Contemporary, Arundel; De Queeste Art, Belgium. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork "The Night-Wanderer expresses the longing to return to the place where I grew up, the bitter, salty wind smell of the sea, an imaginary return to the North-Sea of my childhood. This print is set in between the Lighthouse and the Kurhuis in Scheveningen, a make-believe place where I would wander in the night, looking for something, anything away from the restrictions of reality. The Kurhuis and the lighthouse are in fact not that close together, but both buildings are a signifier of place for me, the lighthouse whose light sweeps were visible through the curtains of our childhood bedroom and the Kurhuis, the 'palace' at the boulevard, a place of great magic, opulence, lights and music, a famous landmark."   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Margie Andrew-Reichelt Us Paint, collage and glitter on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Margie Andrew-Reichelt is a mixed-race English artist, married with two children and based in Nottingham. Since graduating with a Fine Art Degree at Nottingham University 10 years ago, Margie has proved herself to be a fascinating painter and ceramicist. She is a portrait artist whose work focuses on the female form and identity. Margie has been shortlisted for many major exhibitions including the Threadneedle Prize (2013), The Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition (2015) and The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2022, 2023). She has won National Open Art Midland Artist of Year (2017) and ING the Discerning Eye Mentors Award (2022). Education Nottingham University, BA Fine Arts Select Exhibitions/Awards Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2023, 2022. ING the Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall, London 2022, 2021, 2017. Derwent Drawing Exhibition, Mall, London, 2021, 2015. National Open Art Exhibition, OXO Tower Ward, London, 2017. Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition, Mall, London. Awards ING the Discerning Eye Mentors Award 2022. NOA Competition Painting Award 2017. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork My postcards are part of a series of works based on connections. The female form is drawn to represent both sides of my heritage with the theme of love and hope for the future.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Marie Robinson Beach Combing Oil on primed card paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About An established fine artist I focus my artistic practice on oil painting, underpinned by close observational drawing. My work is contemporary realism rooted in the tradition of representational painting and I am well known for my still lives which often have a bit of a twist! Education 1996-2002 BA Fine Art (First Class Hons) De Montfort University 1991-93 Part-time Foundation, Oxfordshire School of Art & Design 1980-83 Studied Chemistry BSc. King's College London Select Exhibitions/Awards Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2023 Royal Society of Marine Artists 2023 The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition The Lynn Painter Stainers Prize Exhibition The National Open Art Competition The Society of Women Artists The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition 2011, 2014, 2016/17/18/19 & 2020 Awarded ING Staff Purchase Prize 2014 Artists & Illustrators Artist of the Year Competition 2010(runner-up), 2011 & 2012 (short-listed), 2014 (highly commended) For the last 17 years her work has regularly been shown at Affordable Art Fairs in UK and internationally Publications: Illustrator in 'Teaching Pilates, A Practical Guide' by Jane Paterson. Elsevier Nov 2008 A portrait featured in 'Portraits for NHS Heroes' Bloomsbury Nov 2020 Gallery Representation Marie is represented by Wills Art Warehouse and Wychwood Art Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork In my work I am most known for my still life paintings, in which I am inspired by the history and associations inherent in ordinary objects and materials particularly from the domestic environment. Some I select because they hold a personal significance, others I collect which have an unknown history, and I paint them directly from life. For my three Art on a Postcard submissions, I have painted objects which were found, or around me in the studio, or which I saw on the way to the studio. The three feathers were treasured finds on a recent family holiday in South Wales - I can never leave a beach without filling my pockets with feathers, shells etc etc! The tape measure has been a trusty companion in my studio for a long time and being bright orange is always easily found! And finally, I spotted the Chelsea bun in a shop on my way to studio and couldn't resist it, both to paint, then eat!   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Marcelle Hanselaar Black Path I, 2023 Etching, collage and pencil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, lives and works in London. She left art education and is a mainly self-taught artist both an oil painter and printmaker. Work in Public collections: British Museum Prints & Drawings, London; Victoria & Albert Museum Prints & Drawings, London; V&A National Art Library, London; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Clifford Chance Art Collection, London; University of Aberystwyth Print Collection, Wales; Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Collection, UK; Soho Works, London, The Ned, London; The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, London; The Metropolitan Museum, New York, USA; Museum de Reede, Antwerp, Be; Meermanno Museum of the Book, the Hague, NL; Guandong Fine Art Museum, PR China; University of Arizona, Tucson, USA; Swarthmore College, US www.marcellehanselaar.com Education   1962-64 Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague, NL 2001 B-TEC Printmaking, Chelsea & Kensington College, London Select Exhibitions/Awards Awards: Jury award Novosibirsk Print Triennial Clifford Chance Purchase Award at the International Print Biennial 2014 Statutory Awards of MTG - Krakow International Print Triennial 2012, PL; Guangdong Museum Purchase Prize, Qijiang, CN Shortlisted for the Ruth Borchard Self Portrait prize and acquired by the Ruth Borchard Self Portrait collection Birgit Skjold Prize for Pillowbook of Endless Nights, acquired by V&A National Art Library Guangdong Museum Purchase Prize, Qijiang, CN Aberystwyth, University of Wales Purchase Prize, Originals '06, London Presse Papier Award, Biennale Internationale d'estampe Contemporaine de Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Gallery Representation Julian Page, London; Arundel Contemporary, Arundel; De Queeste Art, Belgium. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork "The Night-Wanderer expresses the longing to return to the place where I grew up, the bitter, salty wind smell of the sea, an imaginary return to the North-Sea of my childhood. This print is set in between the Lighthouse and the Kurhuis in Scheveningen, a make-believe place where I would wander in the night, looking for something, anything away from the restrictions of reality. The Kurhuis and the lighthouse are in fact not that close together, but both buildings are a signifier of place for me, the lighthouse whose light sweeps were visible through the curtains of our childhood bedroom and the Kurhuis, the 'palace' at the boulevard, a place of great magic, opulence, lights and music, a famous landmark."   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Alison Jackson Diana Gives The Finger Giclée hahnemühle pearl Signed on Verso & Recto 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Alison Jackson, a contemporary, BAFTA and multi award-winning artist, photographer and filmmaker explores the cult of celebrity - an extraordinary phenomenon manufactured by the media, publicity industries and the public figures themselves. To raise questions about this, Alison creates celebrity 'news' that appears real and plausible but isn't. She creates convincingly realistic work portraying the imagined private lives of public figures using cleverly styled lookalikes. Resemblance becomes real, and fantasy touches on the plausible. Alison creates scenes that the public have all imagined but never seen. It's an exploration of our insatiable desire to get personal with public personalities, raising questions about the power and seductive nature of imagery which incites voyeurism and our need to believe - Alison challenges our preconceptions. Alison takes portraits of (real!) famous actors, politicians and celebrities, collected by Museum collections, such as at the National Portrait Gallery, The Parliamentary Art Collection in London and SF MOMA, San Francisco amongst many others. In 2019 Alison founded and launched the photography initiative to include photography workshops, programs, competition and exhibition of A Day in Your Life/Young Artists to cultivate, nurture and celebrate the future creatives of tomorrow from under - represented, lower socio-economic, minority backgrounds, and people living with disabilities. Anyone who hasn't had a chance to showcase their talent yet - A Day in Your Life/Young Artists can provide creative lifelines but also life-changing opportunity for all ages: from 7 upwards. Alison mentors young people and is a Member of the Alumni Council for The Royal College of Art, Trustee of Chelsea Art Theatre; Ambassador to the K&C Foundation; Ambassador to the Spinal Injuries Association. Jackson supports a number of charities, including MacMillan Cancer Support, Marie-Curie, Jeans for Genes Day and Cancer Research UK amongst others. She has published numerous books including Private Confidential, by Penguin, Confidential by Taschen, Up the Aisle, Stern Private. Her work has been acquired by many public museum collections including The Parliamentary Art Collection, London; The National Portrait Gallery, London; SF MOMA, San Francisco; London; Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Brussels; The Frances Foundation, Paris and The International Centre of Photography amongst others. Education Royal College of Arts, University of the Arts Select Exhibitions/Awards BAFTA, Creative Circle Award, CLIO Awards, D&DA Gallery Representation National Portrait Gallery, The Parliamentary Art Collection in London and SF MOMA, San Francisco amongst many others. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Alison creates convincingly realistic work portraying the imagined private lives of public figures using cleverly styled lookalikes. Resemblance becomes real, and fantasy touches on the plausible. Alison creates scenes that the public have all imagined but never seen. It's an exploration of our insatiable desire to get personal with public personalities, raising questions about the power and seductive nature of imagery which incites voyeurism and our need to believe - Alison challenges our preconceptions.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Sophie Coe Coverack (Cornwall) Charcoal on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About I find inspiration almost anywhere but particularly in nature. Whether it's the power of the sea, wind through a grove of bamboo, sunlight through a canopy, the detail and structure of a leaf. There's so much beauty around us, both the big views and the details, I'm in awe of it. I try to capture the mood, the wonder, the feeling of being there, the elements perhaps less visible with a passing glance. I have always loved design and creating things, and sometimes work collaboratively to solve a design brief for artwork specific to a project. Mostly though I work alone inspired by the beauty in nature, often with my own creative enquires: How to express the rain? Or the wind as it blows sand along a sea drenched beach... as it makes botanical shadows dance on a wall. How to express the movement of a wave or the still timeless eternity of a mountain... there's inspiration everywhere. Sophie Coe was born in the UK in 1971. She studied fine art and architecture and worked in the UK, Asia and Australia, before settling in London in 2009. Fine art was always a passion which over the years grew to take over as a full-time occupation. Sophie studied fine art at the Slade in London but is largely self-taught. She works with charcoal, paint and various printmaking techniques to create images mostly inspired by nature. The freedom in her mark making gives immediacy and energy to her work, which itself exudes the simple calmness and beauty of the environment that inspired it. Having a background in architecture gives her an in-depth understanding of buildings, interiors, client/designer relationships and collaborative design. Commissioned pieces have ranged in scale from 60cm to 6.5m wide. Her work sells worldwide for both private collections and commercial interiors. She lives and works in Twickenham. Education 2007 The Slade, Summer Foundation in Fine Art 1995 Oxford Brookes University, Postgraduate Diploma in Architecture 1992 Oxford Brookes University, Bachelor of Arts (Architecture) Select Exhibitions 2023 The Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy. London ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries. London Royal Society of Marine Artists annual exhibition. Mall Galleries London Summer Exhibition, The Gallery at Green and Stone, London Untitled. Gallery on the Green, London The Old Courthouse Gallery, Ambleside. Lake District. 2019 Memories, shadows, reflections... Gallery on the Green, London 2018 Tricks of the Light, Riverside Gallery, London 2017 A Personal Portrait, Riverside Gallery, London 2015 Reflections, The Chapel, London 2015 Untitled, Staffords Gallery, London 2012 Memory, The Chapel, London 2009 Made (2009), Morley Gallery, London 2006-07 Andrew Crawford Gallery, Sydney. Australia 2005-07 Waywood Gallery, Byron Bay. Australia 2007 XO Gallery, Kingscliff. Australia Gallery Representation Old Courthouse Gallery, Ambleside Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork These are pieces about the sea, about light and memories.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Alison Jackson Camilla as Keeler Giclée hahnemühle german etching Signed on Verso & Recto 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Alison Jackson, a contemporary, BAFTA and multi award-winning artist, photographer and filmmaker explores the cult of celebrity - an extraordinary phenomenon manufactured by the media, publicity industries and the public figures themselves. To raise questions about this, Alison creates celebrity 'news' that appears real and plausible but isn't. She creates convincingly realistic work portraying the imagined private lives of public figures using cleverly styled lookalikes. Resemblance becomes real, and fantasy touches on the plausible. Alison creates scenes that the public have all imagined but never seen. It's an exploration of our insatiable desire to get personal with public personalities, raising questions about the power and seductive nature of imagery which incites voyeurism and our need to believe - Alison challenges our preconceptions. Alison takes portraits of (real!) famous actors, politicians and celebrities, collected by Museum collections, such as at the National Portrait Gallery, The Parliamentary Art Collection in London and SF MOMA, San Francisco amongst many others. In 2019 Alison founded and launched the photography initiative to include photography workshops, programs, competition and exhibition of A Day in Your Life/Young Artists to cultivate, nurture and celebrate the future creatives of tomorrow from under - represented, lower socio-economic, minority backgrounds, and people living with disabilities. Anyone who hasn't had a chance to showcase their talent yet - A Day in Your Life/Young Artists can provide creative lifelines but also life-changing opportunity for all ages: from 7 upwards. Alison mentors young people and is a Member of the Alumni Council for The Royal College of Art, Trustee of Chelsea Art Theatre; Ambassador to the K&C Foundation; Ambassador to the Spinal Injuries Association. Jackson supports a number of charities, including MacMillan Cancer Support, Marie-Curie, Jeans for Genes Day and Cancer Research UK amongst others. She has published numerous books including Private Confidential, by Penguin, Confidential by Taschen, Up the Aisle, Stern Private. Her work has been acquired by many public museum collections including The Parliamentary Art Collection, London; The National Portrait Gallery, London; SF MOMA, San Francisco; London; Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Brussels; The Frances Foundation, Paris and The International Centre of Photography amongst others. Education Royal College of Arts, University of the Arts Select Exhibitions/Awards BAFTA, Creative Circle Award, CLIO Awards, D&DA Gallery Representation National Portrait Gallery, The Parliamentary Art Collection in London and SF MOMA, San Francisco amongst many others. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Alison creates convincingly realistic work portraying the imagined private lives of public figures using cleverly styled lookalikes. Resemblance becomes real, and fantasy touches on the plausible. Alison creates scenes that the public have all imagined but never seen. It's an exploration of our insatiable desire to get personal with public personalities, raising questions about the power and seductive nature of imagery which incites voyeurism and our need to believe - Alison challenges our preconceptions.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Christabel Blackburn Dry cleaners, Pacific Palisades Gouache on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by Millie Foster About London based artist Christabel Blackburn (born London, 1986) is a painter who conjures atmospheric scenes which focus on the interplay between people and spaces. Using a sensitively reduced visual language, Christabel distils the modern world and our interaction with it into quiet, concentrated scenes. Her figures are largely locked in their own universe, traversing streets formed of intersecting flat planes or drinking in art in colour drenched galleries. Her practice exists in a finely tuned space; we believe this world and yet it is removed from our own in its timelessness and absences. Largely gone is the paraphernalia of the twenty first century and what emerges in the space is a sense of order but more importantly psychological suspension. Perhaps these are what our memories or dreams of a sunny day might look like, no sound, rarely any shadows and none of the encumbrances of existing in the world. Women particularly take up space in an interesting way, confidently walking away or engaging with art alone. Education LARA, London, Figurative Painting and Sculpture, 2009-2011 Charles Cecil Studios, Florence, Figurative Drawing, 2008-2009 University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle, Classical Studies, 2005-2008 Select Exhibitions/Awards Recent Paintings, Alex Eagle, Soho | current Splash, Ode to Hockney, Sophie Breitmeyer, Notting Hill | Current Art Uk Charity Auction, London | Sept, 2021 Faces || places, Group Exhibition, Nordic Art Agency, Malmö, Sweden | 2020 Pavements, Solo exhibition, Partnership Editions | 2020 Winner, Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year | 2020 Shortlisted for The BP Portrait Award | 2020 Recent Paintings, Alex Eagle, Soho | 2019 'Multiples', Bridgeman Editions, Green and Stone, London | 2019 Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year | 2017   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

David Woodall Home Grown Orchid, 2023 Oil on gesso on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About I worked for over forty years as an advertising art director retiring in 2010 to become a full-time painter. Education Advertising/Graphic Design Wakefield School of Art. Short courses at the Slade. Select Exhibitions/Awards RA Summer Show. The Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Awards. NEAC Exhibition the Mall Galleries. The National Open Arts Competition Somerset House. The Tregony Gallery. Surrey Artists, The Lightbox Gallery runner up best in show. Gallery Representation The Tregony Gallery. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork The Orchid pops up in our garden the same place and time every year this is the first time I've been able to paint it, the apple is from a tree in our garden always a battle to retrieve one before the pigeons and magpies get there.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Hynek Martinec Dream in color (2) Pencil and watercolour on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Hynek Martinec graduated from the Studio of Classical Painting Techniques at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague. After his studies he left for Paris (2005-2007) and since 2007 has been living in London. He received the prestigious BP Young Artist Award (2007) for his hyper realistic portraits. His paintings are inspired by Old Masters and/or photographs, which link the past with the future, using modern technologies. Education Cooper Union, New York 2004 Middlesex University, London 2002 Academy of Fine Art (MgA.), Prague 1999-2005 Select Exhibitions/Awards 2008 The Changing Faces, London 2007 BP Young Artist Award, National Portrait Gallery, London BP Visitor Choice, National Portrait Gallery, London BP Visitor Choice, National Scottish Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh 2003 Studio Prize, Academy of Fine Art, Prague Selected Solo Exhibitions and Projects 2023 Thank You For Looking at Me, OHSH Projects, London 2021/22 Will and Representation, Parafin, London 2019 The Everyday Archive, Brixton Beneficiary, London 2018 Voyage to Iceland, National Gallery, Prague Kilián Ignác D. Galerie Dům, Broumov 2017 El Greco is Watching, (ongoing), Spain The Birth of Tragedies, Parafin, London 2016 Hybrid, The Factory Gallery, London Thank You For Looking at Me, (ongoing), Iceland 2015 Intellectual Properties, Galerie Václava Špály, Prague 2014 Every Minute You Are Closer To Death, Parafin, London 2013 Every Minute You Are Closer To Death, Flowers Gallery, London Selected Group Exhibitions 2023 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London Gallery Artist, Parafin, London 2022 BFAMI, Art Auction, Phillips, London ABSURD, OHSH Projects, London Men, AJG - Alšova jihočeská galerie, Czech Republic STILL LIFE/LIFE STILL, OHSH Projects, London 2021 Vanitas, Dox Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague Signál II, Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc The Will to Power, ASC Gallery, London 2020 Complex States - Art in the Years of Brexit, AR platform International and virtual exhibition, Worldwide Same For Everyone, Parafin, London Inspiration - Iconic Works, Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki Inspiration - Iconic Works, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm 2019 In Loving Memory, Emo Court, Co Laois, Republic of Ireland Vanité, Brixton Beneficiary, London 2017 Fascination with Reality, Museum of Modern Art, Olomouc Arc of Time, Zahorian and Van Espen, Prague 2015 Blow-up, Parafin, London 2014 John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 2013 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London 2012 Beyond Reality. British Painting Today, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague Ein Weisses Feld, Schlachthaus Aschaffenburg Coal and Steel, Candid Arts Trust Gallery, London Coal and Steel, Czech Centre Gallery, Prague Gallery Representation Parafin Gallery Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Watercolours are reflecting my dream world. A topic consistent to my practice and one I have for years pursued in drawings. You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Jennifer McRae RSA Infanta Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Jennifer McRae studied at Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen from 1987 to 93. Since 1988 her work has appeared in group and solo exhibitions in Britain and America, and she has won numerous awards including the BP Travelling Scholarship in 1999. Best known for her distinctive portraits, she has had work commissioned from the National Portrait Gallery, London and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Jennifer is also an enthusiastic printmaker and continues to work with both studio models and commissioned portrait sitters. She currently lives in London. Education 1st Class Honours in Fine Art, Grays School of Art, Robert Gordon's University BA (first class hons) Fine Art Select Exhibitions/Awards SOLO EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE: Fine Art Society Beaux Arts, Bath Bohun Gallery, Henley on Thames Gomez Gallery, Baltimore USA Scottish Gallery Edinburgh Thackeray Gallery London GROUP EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE: Barber Institute Birmingham, Terms of Engagement. Hunting Art Prizes, RCA London Singer & Friedlander, Mall Galleries, London Worshipful Society of Painter stainers, Painters' Hall London Royal Society of portrait painters, Mall Galleries Royal Academy Summer Exhibition New English Arts Club, Mall Galleries Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries Mirror, mirror self-portraits by women artists NPG Being Present, 8 painters, Jerwood Space Things standing still, Browse & Darby, London Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, London Fine Art Society, Edinburgh Fine Art Society, London COLLECTIONS National portrait gallery London, National portrait gallery of Scotland Edinburgh, Royal Collection Windsor, Reading Museum AWARDS Royal Society of Portrait Painters, 1st prize, Gold Medal / Painter Stainers Award 1st prize, Gold Medal/ Royal Soc of Watercolour: Singer and Friedlander Sunday Times Awards 1st Prizewinner Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork I wanted to reflect on both the fragility and the strength in human life (especially in these current times) by conveying the delicate studio light and working with a very young relative of mine as model. Infanta is the title because the young have significant presence, even when wearing a cardboard home-made crown.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Liqing Tan Listen Oil on fine paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Liqing Tan is a prizewinning artist with international exposure. Her work centres on exploring and experimenting with the manifestations of human experience. Creating imaginary spaces (landscapes, objects or body) or capturing dramatic moments (real or illusory) are important elements of her paintings. They are intended to elicit a degree of ambiguity, inviting the viewer to bring their subjective judgement to each piece. Informed by daily routines, they are storylines about contradictory happenings - documenting intimacy and separation, appearing and disappearing, missing and forgetting, discovering and reflecting, focusing and diverging. She seeks to create strange atmospheres in her compositions, mixing ambiguous elements with dramatic features to ultimately represent the co-existence and complexity of human feelings. Education 2016-2018 Master in Fine Art (M.F.A.), UCL Slade School of Fine Art, UK 2011-2015 Bachelor in Fine Art (B.A.), Indiana University Bloomington, US Select Exhibitions/Awards 2023 The Self-Portrait Prize, Ruth Borchard Collection, UK 2022 The 19th Landscape and Figurative Painting Prize, Shenzhen Federation of Literary and Art Association, China A Tale of Two Cities, LingNan Art Museum, China Into the elegant colour - Public Welfare, Shenzhen Care Action Public Welfare Foundation, China 2021 The 17th China International Cultural Industries Fair, International Convention & Exhibition Center, Shenzhen, China Iridescent Flowers in Full Bloom - Invitational Exhibition of Female Artists, DaFen Art Museum, China 2020 Royal Society of British Artists 303rd Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, The Mall, London, UK Wells Art Contemporary Awards, Wells Cathedral, Wells, Somerset, UK (Winner of the Next Generation Art Prize) Contemporary Young Artist Award, The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle, UK 2019 ASYAAF, Gallery LVS, Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP), Seoul, Korea Bridgeman Studio Award 2019, UK Signature Art Prize 2019, UK 2018 Dentons Art prize, Dentons, London, UK (Winner) The Graduate Art Prize, Exchange House, London, UK 2017 Future Echoes, Museum of Refugees, Thessaloniki, Greece Salón de Gráfica Contemporánea, Nahim Isaias Museum, Guayaquil, Ecuador 2016 Slade Print Fair, Slade School of Fine Art UCL, London, UK 2015 Oversea Program in Florence, Grunwald Gallery, IN Bloomington, US Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork This is a series of works I made for the auction of Art On a Postcard. Three oil paintings are an exploration of the theme "closer". They are divided into "Listen", "Chat", and "Obsess" three parts, through the modulation of space and colour, describing a private scene of intimacy, a sense of reflection, of pleasant, sometimes suspicious, human warmth. The fourth chapter of watercolour is a winter vision, conveying a quiet and looming atmosphere, and the same time, inviting.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Laura Hope Eye Spy II, 2023 Mixed media on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by Verity Babbs About My work is centred around unspoken emotions and quiet inner lives. Created from my own staged photographs of models, it is often a response to memories, relationships and personal crisis. Through composition, cropping and reversing the image, I strive to convey an uneasy narrative that shines a light on subtle feelings that often hide in the shadows. With hints to another era, my figures live in a world that is both nostalgic and present. I sit on the fence between painting and drawing - feeling that 'painting' better describes my process but knowing that 'drawing' is my method of creation. My training as an illustrator as well as my time working as a memorial artist (hand etching onto granite) have cemented the importance of line and mark making in my practice. A combination of thick, harsh scribbles and precise, light touches alongside a unique translation of colour are the voices used to tell my stories. Education BA (hons) Illustration - Cardiff School of Art and Design - First Class Select Exhibitions/Awards   2023 - Awards Winner - NG Art Creative Residency (Wells Contemporary) Shortlisted - Jackson's Painting Prize Longlisted - Women in Art Prize Honourable Mention - Arthouse Z 'Emerging Artist Prize' 2023 - Exhibitions Royal Society Portrait Painters Exhibition - Mall Galleries, London Rising Artists, Jackson's Painting Prize - Bankside Gallery, London Wells Art Contemporary - Wells Cathedral, Wells Summer Exhibition - Green & Stone Gallery, London 2022 - Awards Winner - de Laszlo Foundation Award for Excellence Longlisted - Jackson's Painting Prize 2022 - Exhibitions Royal Society Portrait Painters Exhibition - Mall Galleries, London Summer Exhibition - Green & Stone Gallery, London Tendencies in Painting - London Paint Club (online) Annual Open - Southwark Park Galleries, London Small Works Winter Show - Spring Cheltenham 2017 Winner - Best Memorial in Show - NAMM Craftex Awards 2015 Winner - Illustration Award - Cardiff School of Art and Design CSAD - Summer Show - Cardiff Behind the Door - Dyffryn House (National Trust) 2014 First Impressions - View Art Gallery, Bristol OUTSET Exhibition - Gate Gallery, Cardiff Autumn/Winter Exhibition - Cardiff MADE Artist in Residence - Beyond the Border Story Telling Festival Le Violon D'Ingres - The Gate Gallery Cardiff 2011 Winner & Highly Commended - Rotary Club Young Artist of the Year Award Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Feeling watched and watching... Looking through a crack in a door or spying through a keyhole was something I wanted to explore with these tiny works. The scale is much smaller than I usually work, so I decided to work to a crop rather than reducing the image. Crops fascinate me, especially in portraiture... Without all the features, can you still translate their expression? How are you being watched? Is it a menacing stare or a loving gaze?   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Ryan Leigh In light of recent events Graphite pencil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Ryan Leigh is a Derbyshire based artist. He studied Fine Art Painting at Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London. Ryan's drawing practice explores the intersections of romanticism, high strangeness and the esoteric. He constructs images using a combination of personal and found imagery coupled with prompts from literature. Ryan's drawings are highly detailed and considered compositions. He uses a range of media across his drawing practice including graphite, pyrography, liquid charcoal and watercolour. Ryan's has work in various collections in the UK and Internationally, including University of the Arts London Emerging Artists Collection and Pollen Street Social Collection, London. His work was included in The Summer Exhibition 2023 at The Royal Academy of Arts, London. Education 2006-09 Bachelor of Art, Fine Art: Painting, University of the Arts London (Wimbledon College of Art) Select Exhibitions/Awards Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2023 Out of Line, Köttinspektionen, Uppsala, Sweden 2017 Portrait of a Life Half Known, Simon Oldfield Gallery, London, 2013 Seduction, Simon Oldfield Gallery, London, 2012 Courtship of the Peoples, Simon Oldfield Gallery, London, 2012 Base Metal, Simon Oldfield Gallery, London, 2010 Saatchi 4 New Sensations, A Foundation, London, 2009   Collections University of the Arts London Emerging Artists Collection, UK Pollen Street Social Collection, London, UK   Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork 'Conduit' depicts a distant family member with an ectoplasmic substance gushing from his mouth. His haunting eyes stare back as the ethereal liquid emanates forth. The work plays on the mystery of unknown relatives; scraps of knowledge and stories passed down the generations constructing intriguing narratives where fiction and truth collide.   'In light of recent events' shows a UFO hovering ominously above the Temple of Vesta in Rome.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Ryan Leigh Conduit Graphite pencil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Ryan Leigh is a Derbyshire based artist. He studied Fine Art Painting at Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London. Ryan's drawing practice explores the intersections of romanticism, high strangeness and the esoteric. He constructs images using a combination of personal and found imagery coupled with prompts from literature. Ryan's drawings are highly detailed and considered compositions. He uses a range of media across his drawing practice including graphite, pyrography, liquid charcoal and watercolour. Ryan's has work in various collections in the UK and Internationally, including University of the Arts London Emerging Artists Collection and Pollen Street Social Collection, London. His work was included in The Summer Exhibition 2023 at The Royal Academy of Arts, London. Education 2006-09 Bachelor of Art, Fine Art: Painting, University of the Arts London (Wimbledon College of Art) Select Exhibitions/Awards Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2023 Out of Line, Köttinspektionen, Uppsala, Sweden 2017 Portrait of a Life Half Known, Simon Oldfield Gallery, London, 2013 Seduction, Simon Oldfield Gallery, London, 2012 Courtship of the Peoples, Simon Oldfield Gallery, London, 2012 Base Metal, Simon Oldfield Gallery, London, 2010 Saatchi 4 New Sensations, A Foundation, London, 2009   Collections University of the Arts London Emerging Artists Collection, UK Pollen Street Social Collection, London, UK   Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork 'Conduit' depicts a distant family member with an ectoplasmic substance gushing from his mouth. His haunting eyes stare back as the ethereal liquid emanates forth. The work plays on the mystery of unknown relatives; scraps of knowledge and stories passed down the generations constructing intriguing narratives where fiction and truth collide.   'In light of recent events' shows a UFO hovering ominously above the Temple of Vesta in Rome.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Joy Parker Bullock Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About I am an eclectic artist using a variety of mediums and methods for personal expression, exhibition and commission. My personal work is often inspired by travel and sometimes created in collaboration with my husband, writer Robert Leach. I also work on community art projects, often using the medium of mosaic. Education MA in Contemporary Fine Art, University of Cumbria:2008 Arts of India, Oxford University Department of Continuing Education:2006 BA Hons. Fine Art, Cumbria Institute of the Arts, Carlisle: 2000 Select Exhibitions/Awards Map of Gala: Mosaic. Commission for Eildon Housing at Wilkie Gardens Sheltered Accommodation. 2022 Creative Scotland Open Fund, 2021 The Cockatrice's Egg. Exhibition and publication based on a residency in Shetland. Collaboration with writer Robert Leach. Portrait of the coalminer William Henry Mills installed at The Ruins Project. Pennsylvania 2020. Mosaic. Our Lady Crowned. Mosaic in smalti, St Catherine Labouré Church, Glasgow. 2018 Gallery Representation I work to commission or for exhibition in public galleries. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork I love to draw. These four pieces here are based on sketches made when travelling in India. I have then built them up in layers of oil colour from my memory and imagination.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Nahem Shoa London Woman with Pearl Earring, 2023 Acrylic on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Nahem Shoa is a contemporary artist born in Notting Hill where he still lives and works. Nahem has an international reputation as a painter of contemporary multicultural life. Until 2007 Nahem painted from life giant heads of people from black and ethnic backgrounds. 19 of Nahem's portraits are in major museum collections. Nahem then turned to other subjects that drew on 'unreal' sources, photograph, TV and film as well as memory, creating hugely multi-layered paintings bursting with incident, including floods and nuclear explosions. Education Manchester College of Art Post-grad Royal Drawing School Select Exhibitions/Awards Winner of Royal Society of Portrait painters, Face of Britain at Southampton City Art Gallery, Into The Light at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Black Presence, The Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, Seen and Not Seen at Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, We are Here at The Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, Into The Wild Abyss, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, Youth Culture, The Box, Plymouth, Royal Academy, Summer Show, London BP portrait awards, National Portrait Gallery. Lord Leighton Prize, London, Elizabeth Greenshields Award, What's New, Manchester City Art Gallery, Modern Art, Hatton Gallery Newcastle, V&A, London, Facing Yourself, Bury City Art Gallery, 100 years of Collecting, The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle. Gallery Representation Gallery East Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork All the sitters in these paintings are friends, who have sat for all my major museums exhibitions and collections in England. My aim in to readdress the negative images of black people in museums, with my powerful portraits of Black British Londoners. I am already known as the Lucian Freud of Multiculturalism. The four postcards are my decorative, with a bit of imagination thrown in. The portrait of Queen Tiye, is from a 3000-year-old Egyptian portrait of grandmother of Tutankhamun, it is the first realistic portrait in western art and it of a black woman. I just gave her a modern haircut. Please google my name or check me out on Wikipedia.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.