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Lot 443
Sally Scott (British, b. 1939), red charcoal on paper sketch of the female form at four angles. Signed in pencil to lower left, framed and glazed. Sally exhibits paintings and lithographs regularly in solo and mixed shows including: 2019 Retrospective Exhibition – exhibiting a lifetime of work, Glass, Painting and Print at The Menier Gallery, London. She also taught at the Birmingham School of Art. 40cm x 53cm, frame measures 55cm x 68xm.
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Lot 346
1851 Royal Exhibition literature to include; The Illustrated Exhibiter [John Cassell, London, 1851], The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue The Industry of All Nations 1851 [Bradbury and Evans, London, 1851] & The Expositor an Illustrated Recorder of Inventions, Designs and Art-Manufacturers Vol. 2 [Joseph Clayton, London]. (3)
Lot 486A
Folder Of Pokemon Cards Including Base Set Cards & Skyridge. 233 cards in the folder. Including cards from multiple series, spanning from 1999 to 2024. Some of the featured series are as follows: Base Set, Neo Genesis, Gym Trainers, Team Rocket, Fossil, Jungle, Celebrations, Crimson Haze, Legendary Treasures, and Skyridge, many holos, reserve holos, commons, v, vstar, and alt art cards included. Majority of cards in great condition. A few cards in used condition. Held in zip up protective folder. QTY 233.
Lot 295
Sir Lawrence Gowing CBE RA, British 1918-1991 - Wood: Blue and Yellow Analysis, 1962; oil on board, 50.9 x 76.3 cm (ARR) Provenance: with Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London, no.LOL4972 (according to the label attached to the reverse of the frame); private collection Note: Gowing was a pupil of William Coldstream and protégé of Bloomsbury art critic Clive Bell. As a portrait artist his sitters include Lord Attlee and Lord Halifax. As with Victor Pasmore, another artist involved with the Euston Road School, Gowing developed an abstract language in the late 1950s and 60s, as seen in the present work. A painting of a similar theme is now in the Tate Collection, 'Wood: Parabolic Perspective, 1963'. 1963He went on to become an acclaimed art historian and curator, writing books and exhibition catalogues on Vermeer, Hogarth, Cezanne, Turner, Matisse and Lucien Freud. In 1985 he was appointed honourary curator of the Royal Academy of Arts collection.
Lot 205
Feliciano Béjar, Mexican 1920-2007 - Blue city, 1966; oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right 'Feliciano Bejar 66', 65 x 80 cm Note: the artist exhibited his 'Magiscopes' with Grosvenor Gallery in London in 1970. The artist created a number of surrealist inspired paintings with dreamy, child-like faces floating over urban spaces in the 1960s, seemingly inspired by the visionary work of Marc Chagall. 1966 was an important year for the artist with an exhibition at Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico as well as 'The world of Feliciano Bejar' at Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield.
Lot 27
Harold Knight RA, British 1874-1961 - Portrait of a Girl; oil on canvas, signed lower left 'Harold Knight', 60.5 x 55.8 cm (ARR)Provenance:Christie's, London, 20th Century British Art, 4th March 1998, lot 7; private collection, purchased from the above Note: Knight is perhaps best known for his portraits of women in interiors and here he creates a highly modern composition by setting his subject against the plain ruby-red background. While the subject's presence is greatly felt, by depicting her in three-quarter profile, Knight retains a sense of enigma about her, her inner thoughts kept to herself. Knight's portraits are now in all major UK public collections, including similar works such as 'Laura Johnson, 1891' (Royal Academy of Arts), 'A Student' (Tate Gallery) and 'The Mantilla' (Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth). In the early 20th century, Knight formed part of an important group of British artists who lived and worked in Newlyn, Cornwall, that included his wife Dame Laura Knight, Dod Proctor and Stanhope Forbes, influenced by their experience of studying in Paris and in particular the Barbizon school. Knight had joint exhibitions at the illustrious Leicester Galleries in 1906, 1907 and 1912, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh in 1914, Laing Art Gallery in 1933, Nottingham Castle Museum in 1934 and Upper Grosvenor Galleries in 1967, all alongside Dame Laura Knight.
Lot 125
George Lambourn, British 1900-1977 - 4 Mac. Section A Corbridge, 1941; watercolour and pencil on paper, signed and dated lower left and titled lower right, 29 x 38 cm: together with 5 other World War II works on paper by the same artist (mounted/unframed) (6) (ARR) Note: the artist studied at the Royal Academy Schools in London and became friendly with both Augustus and Gwen John in the early 1920s, painting a portrait of the former in 1932. He exhibited with the New Arts Centre and at Newlyn Art Gallery, and had a solo show in 1950 at the City Art Gallery museum in Plymouth. Works by the artist are in public collections, including the Tate and the Imperial War Museum.
Lot 183
René Magritte, Belgian 1898-1967 - Deux Feuilles & Poission, c.1945; two drawings, both pencil on paper, Deux Feuilles, 14.5 x 10cm; Poission, 8 x 12.5 cm (2) (ARR) Provenance: The remaining contents of the studio of René Magritte - The property of the late Georgette Berger, the widow of René Magritte, Sothebys Sale, London 2 July 1987, lot 854 (part lot); Sotheby's, London, 25th October 1989, lot 217; Private Collection, Japan; Bloomsbury Auctions, 25th June 2009, lot 365 (part of a lot); private collection; Roseberys, London, Impressionist, Modern, Post War & Contemporary Art, 26th May 2021, lot 43; private collection, purchased from the above Note: In 1945-1946 Magritte produced a series of drawings for Eluard's book Les necessities de la vie et les consequences des reves precede dexemples. The present drawings are sketched designs for proposed vinettes for the publication.
Lot 126
Anthony Gross CBE RA, British 1905-1984 - Yellow Gate, Le Zone, Paris, 1930; oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left 'A Gross 30', 53.5 x 64.7 cm (ARR) Provenance: with The Redfern Gallery, London (according to the label attached to the reverse of the stretcher); Lord Eccles, purchased from the above on the 18th April 2000 (according to the label attached to the reverse of the stretcher); private collection Note: The 1930s were an important period for the artist, having returned to Paris in 1928. Here he began working from life and in a freer style, perhaps influenced by his working relationship with Stanley William Hayter. During this period in Paris he designed costumes and settings for ballet, worked with composer Tibor Harsányi and co-directed the short film 'La Joie de vivre' with Hector Hoppin in 1934. He would later have solo exhibitions in Paris at Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and Sagot le Garrec in 1952. A similar work to the present piece is now in the Tate collection, 'Place du Théâtre, Brive-la-Gaillarde, 1929'.
Lot 252
Karl Weschke, German 1925-2005 - Pillar, 1994 (from the 'Egyptian' series); pencil on paper, signed and dated lower right 'Weschke 94', 34 x 23.5 cm (ARR) Provenance: Frank P Whitford (1941-2014), purchased directly from the artist; Sworders, Stansted, 20th Century Decorative Art and Design, 27th January 2015, lot 320; private collection, purchased from the above Note: Whitford was an art historian and critic. He was a leading expert on 20th century German and Austrian Art and also curated Eduardo Paolozzi's first major retrospective at the Tate Gallery in 1971. The artist met and worked with members of the Borough Group, such as Miles Richmond and in Spain during the early 1950s, and it is clear to see the influence of their teacher, David Bomberg, in this work. The artist would later settle in Cornwall, where he would become associated with the artists of St Ives and in particular, Bryan Wynter. Works by the artist are in the collections of Ferens Art Gallery, Saffron Walden and the Tate.
Lot 51
Helen Lessore, British 1907-1994 - Seen through a Rose-Bush, c.1992;oil on canvas, 122 x 91.5 cm (ARR)Provenance:with Theo Waddington Fine Art Ltd., London, #3294 (according to the labels attached to the reverse), and thence by descentExhibited:Royal Academy, London, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 1992 (according to the label attached to the reverse)
Lot 279
Stanley Clifford-Smith, British 1906-1968 - Harbour, Co. Cork; oil on board, signed, titled and annotated on the reverse 'Clifford-Smith Harbour Co. Cork Gr. Bardfield', 70 x 115 cm (ARR) Exhibited: Art Exhibitions Bureau, London, 'Great Bardfield Artists' (according to the label attached to the reverse) Note: Clifford-Smith was associated with the community of artists around Great Bardfield, that included Edward Bawden, George Chapman and Kenneth Rowntree. His works are now in collections including the University of Cambridge and the Beecroft Art Gallery.
Lot 77
Katharine Leigh-Pemberton (Kaff Gerrard), British 1894-1970 - Landscape, c.1920-30; oil on board, 30.5 x 40.7 cm (ARR) Provenance: the Estate of Katharine Leigh-Pemberton and A. H. Gerrard Note: this lot is accompanied by a copy of 'A. H. Gerrard: His Life and Work' by K. L. Gerrard, 2019 A similar work by the artist is now in the collection of Middlesbrough Institute of Art.
Lot 28
Edward Seago RWS, British 1910-1974 - Spritsail Barges Racing in the Harwich Estuary; oil on board, signed lower left 'Edward Seago', 50.8 x 76 cm (ARR) Provenance: with Frost & Reed, London, no.0/35343 (according to the label attached to the reverse); W. Russell Button Gallery, Chicago, no.10 (according to the label attached to the reverse of the frame); Christie's, London, 20th Century British Art, 21st November 2003, lot 134; private collection, purchased from the above Note: Seago is perhaps the most celebrated British landscape painter of the 20th century and this is a brilliant example of his mature style, depicting the East Anglian landscape he made his home. W. Russell Button Gallery held exhibitions of the artist’s work in 1964 and 1966.
Lot 95
Gertrude Hermes, British 1901-1983 - Adam and Eve II, 1956-58; bronze, H30.5 x W10 x D10 cm (including base) (ARR) Provenance: a private collector of Bloomsbury related art Exhibited: New Metropole Art Centre, Folkestone, 'Gertrude Hermes ARA', July 1964 (another cast); Whitechapel Gallery, London, 'Gertrude Hermes: Bronzes and Carvings, Drawings, Wood engravings, Wood and Lino Block Cuts, 1924 – 1967', October–November 1967 (another cast); Minories, Colchester, 'Gertude Hermes ARA: Sculptures and Drawings', 1968 (plaster exhibited); Forum Gallery, Brighton, 1972; Southwell Brown Gallery, Richmond, Works by Gertude Hermes RA, 1974; Oban Arts Society, 1975; Royal Academy, London, 'Gertrude Hermes RA', September–October 1981 (another cast) Literature: Jane Hill, 'The Sculpture of Gertrude Hermes', Lund Humphries, 2011, no.115 another cast illus. p.132 Note: Hermes returned to the theme of Adam & Eve throughout her career, from an early woodcut made in 1924 to a larger sculpture made in 1954-55 carved from elm.
Lot 196
Claude Venard, French 1913-1999 - Still life with tuba and piano, c.1960; oil on canvas, signed lower left 'C. Venard', 100.4 x 100.2 cm (ARR) Provenance: Gilbert Fisher, Paris; private collection, purchased from the above in 1998 Note: this is a characteristic work by the artist from the 1960s, demonstrating his fluid, expressive style and bold use of colour. Venard would work largely with a palette knife, to make these iconic images, highly indicative of the era. Claude Venard was a highly celebrated artist having featured in exhibitions around the world since 1935. He held numerous successful one man shows around the word including at Galerie Romanet-Vercel and Bernheim-Jeune, Romanet Gallery in Paris, Vercel Gallery in New York and Lefevre Gallery and Arthur Tooth & Sons in London. Examples of Venard's work are held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Musee d'Art Moderne in Paris and the Tokyo Museum.
Lot 71
Dame Ethel Walker DBE ARA, British 1861-1951 - Study for 'The Four Seasons, Decor n.4'; watercolour and ink on collaged paper, 49.5 x 44 cm Provenance: possibly with Lefevre Gallery, London (blank gallery label attached to the reverse of the frame); Fairlie Harmer (1876–1945); Phillips, Tuesday 22nd November 1969, Lot 186; R. Knight, purchased from the above (according to the invoice and inscription on the reverse of the frame); private collection Exhibited: Empire Art Loan Collections Society, London, no.190 (according to the label attached to the reverse)Note: Fairlie Harmer was a friend and neighbour of Ethel Walker in Chelsea. There are a number of works by the artist in UK public collections including Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Manchester Art Gallery and the Ashmolean, Oxford. The present work is a study for a mural, or 'decoration' as the artist titled them, 'The Four Seasons' now in the collection of Abbot Hall, Kendal. Many of these Walker's decorations feature mythological or allegorical figures, such as the and evoke a female utopia, similar to the imagery of her French contemporary, Marie Laurencin. There are letters in the Tate Archive to Grace English regarding the loan of what is possibly this work for a touring exhibition to Australia and New Zealand, 'British Watercolours 1914-1953'. Tate Britain recently had several of these decorations on display until March 2024, including one of her largest paintings, 'Decoration: The Excursion of Nausicaa, 1920', and 'The Zone of Hate, 1914-15'.
Lot 178
Sir Robin Darwin CBE RA, British 1910-1974 - Ham Spray, Wiltshire; oil on canvas, signed lower left 'Darwin', 63.5 x 76.5 cm (ARR)Provenance:Lady Darwin; with Fosse Gallery, John Lindsay Fine Art td., Gloucestershire; private collection, purchased 14th January 1984 and thence by descent (according to a copy of the original invoice)
Lot 280
Peter Oliver, British 1927–2006 - Abstract landscape, c.1957-65; oil on canvas, signed lower left 'Peter Oliver', 61.2 x 92 cm (ARR) Note: a similar landscape scene 'Blue Beach, 1957-65' is now in the collection of Manchester Art Gallery. The artist exhibited at important UK galleries including Mercury Gallery and the Redfern Gallery.
Lot 72
Dame Ethel Walker DBE ARA, British 1861-1951 - Portrait of a man with a blue tie; oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm Note:with partial label attached to the reverse 'Dame Ethel Walker'Note:the artist exhibited widely in the UK during her lifetime and was the subject of a major retrospective at the Tate in 1951, alongside her contemporaries Gwen John and Frances Hodgkins and organised by John Rothenstein. More recently, her work was central to Tate Britain's 'Queer British Art 1861-1967' in 2017. She is currently the subject of a Spotlight exhibition at Tate Britain.
Lot 239
Keith Vaughan, British 1912-1977 - Female figure at a table, 1949; pencil on paper, dated lower right '27.V.49', with studio stamp on the reverse, 20.8 x 17.3 cm (ARR) Provenance:Sotheby's, London, 20th Century British and Irish Art, 23rd November 2005, lot 259 (part lot); private collection, USA
Lot 263
Beatrice Rozenberg, British 1913-1995 - Interior with daisies, c.1975; oil on canvas, 71.5 x 92 cm (unframed) (ARR) Provenance: the Estate of the Artist Note: the artist's exhibited at the start of her career using the male pseudonym Benedict Davies, in order to avoid the gendered bias she perceived in the London art world. Her work was exhibited posthumously at the John Denham Gallery in London in 2002, and she exhibited alongside at the Ben Uri Gallery in 1962 and alongside Margaret 'Grete' Marks, Judith Yellin-Ginat and Rivkah Mayer in 1976.
Lot 190
Charles Higgins ('PIC'), Scottish 1893-1980 - Thought Crystals, 1967; ink and decalcomania on paper laid down on card, signed lower right 'Pic' and signed, titled and dated on the reverse, 21.5 x 14 cm: together with 2 other unframed works on paper by the same artist, 'Assembling a Magical Fragment, 1953', and 'Lavinia and the Seal, 1979' (unframed) (3) (ARR) Provenance: the Estate of the Artist Note: writer and painter Charles Higgins painted under the pseudonym of PIC and created some of the most extraordinary and enigmatic British paintings of the 20th century. Setting mythological and fantastical imagery within imagined landscapes, PIC's work transports the viewing through time and the imagination, demonstrating the same visionary zeal as figures such as Marc Chagall, Cecil Collins and Leonora Carrington. His work was exhibited in some of the most important British galleries of the 20th century, including the Wertheim Gallery during the 1930s, Gimpel Fils during the 1940s and 50s and Jack Bilbo's celebrated The Modern Art Gallery in the 1940s.
Lot 81
Alfred Horace Gerrard, British 1899-1998 - Dandelions; crayon on paper, signed lower left 'A H Gerrard 1937', 48.5 x 36 cm (ARR) Provenance: the Estate of Katharine Leigh-Pemberton and A. H. Gerrard Note: this lot is accompanied by a copy of 'A. H. Gerrard: His Life and Work' by K. L. Gerrard, 2019. Gerrard was a highly influential artist and teacher, mainly at the Slade where he became Head of Sculpture from 1948-68, and his pupils included Karin Jonzen, Eduardo Paolozzi and F. E. McWilliam who would later write on his work. Gerrard had an exhibition at Colnaghi's alongside his wife Katharine Leigh-Pemberton in 1931 as well as a retrospective at the South London Gallery in 1978. His works are found in public spaces including 'Development of Man' at Bridge Street, Hemel Hempstead, 'The North Wind' at St. James's Park Underground (alongside works by Eric Gill, Henry Moore and Jacob Epstein) and at St. Anselm's Church in Kennington. Works are also in public collections including the Imperial War Museum and Leeds Art Gallery.
Lot 1
Phyllis Pearsall MBE, British 1906-1996 - The Signal; oil on canvas, signed with initial lower right 'P', 30.5 x 40.8 cm (ARR) Provenance: with Goupil Gallery, London (labels attached to the reverse of the frame); the Descendants of Sidney and Stella Churchill (1862-1921 and 1883-1954) and Ruth Plant (1912-1988) Exhibited: Goupil Gallery, London, 'Goupil Gallery Salon', year unknown, no.17 (according to the inscribed label attached to the reverse of the frame) Note: Pearsall is best known as the founder of the hugely successful 'Geographers' A–Z Map Company Ltd.'. She was the sister of fellow artist Anthony Goss and was known for her portraits and landscapes scenes in the 1930s, exhibiting with Goupil in 1938, Upper Grovesnor Galleries in 1967 and Minories Art Gallery, Colchester in 1977.
Lot 270
Georges Csato, Hungarian 1910-1983 - W73; gouache on paper, 30 x 24 cm (ARR)Provenance:Brian Sinfield, Oxfordshire (according to the label attached to the reverse of the frame);private collection, London Note: Csate exhibited widely in the post-war period, including exhibitions in London including at Hanover Gallery in 1953 and Walton Gallery, London 1970. A retrospective exhibition of his work was held at Brian Sinfield Gallery in 2006. His work is now in major public collections including Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Bibliothèque Nationale; Marseille; Museum of Modern Art, Bogota, Columbia; Mendel Art Gallery, Canada.
Lot 200
Denis Williams, Guyanese/British 1923-2008 - Study for construction in metal and glass, 1954; ink on paper, titled and dated lower left 'March 1964' and signed on the reverse 'Denis Williams', 25.6 x 38.4 cm (unframed) (ARR) Note: artist and writer Denis Williams was born in Guyana but studied and worked in London during the 1940s and 50s, attending the Camberwell School of Art and holding numerous exhibitions, including at the Berkeley Gallery and Gimpel Fils. His work was hugely admired by artists including Henry Moore, Salvador Dali and Wyndham Lewis. His work was recently a major feature of the acclaimed exhibition 'Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945-1965' at the Barbican Centre, London in 2022.
Lot 80
Alfred Horace Gerrard, British 1899-1998 - Self-portrait study; oil on board, 24.3 x 17.6 cm (unframed) (ARR) Provenance: the Estate of Katharine Leigh-Pemberton and A. H. Gerrard Note: this lot is accompanied by a copy of 'A. H. Gerrard: His Life and Work' by K. L. Gerrard, 2019. Gerrard was a highly influential artist and teacher, mainly at the Slade where he became Head of Sculpture from 1948-68, and his pupils included Karin Jonzen, Eduardo Paolozzi and F. E. McWilliam who would later write on his work. Gerrard had an exhibition at Colnaghi's alongside his wife Katharine Leigh-Pemberton in 1931 as well as a retrospective at the South London Gallery in 1978. His works are found in public spaces including 'Development of Man' at Bridge Street, Hemel Hempstead, 'The North Wind' at St. James's Park Underground (alongside works by Eric Gill, Henry Moore and Jacob Epstein) and at St. Anselm's Church in Kennington. Works are also in public collections including the Imperial War Museum and Leeds Art Gallery.
Lot 130
Mary Kessell, British 1914-1977 -Standing Nude, 1937;pencil and ink on paper, signed and dated lower left 'Mary M Kessell 1937', 56 x 29 cm (ARR) Provenance:with Cleveland Bridge Gallery, Bath (according to the label attached to the reverse of the frame)Note:Kessell studied at the Clapham School of Art from 1935-37 and then at the Central School of Arts and Crafts from 1937-39. She was commissioned during the Second World War to travel to Germany where she worked as an official war artist, visiting Bergen-Belsen and creating images of refugees. A retrospective exhibition of her work was held at Camden Arts Centre in 1980.
Lot 18
John Balopi, Zimbabwean active c.1947 - Cyrene, 1947; watercolour and ink on paper, signed, titled and dated lower left 'John Balopi Cyrene 1947', 64 x 46 cm Provenance: the Descendants of Sidney and Stella Churchill (1862-1921 and 1883-1954) and Ruth Plant (1912-1988) Note: in 1949, large number of works by Zimbabwean pupils at the Cyrene Mission near Bulawayo school were bought to London for exhibition by the school's founder, Canon Edward Patterson (1895-1974). Shows were held at the Royal Watercolour Society Gallery and London Central School of Arts and Crafts before touring to Paris and America. 200 of these works are now in the collection of Central St. Martin's School of Art and a large number of previously lost works were recently exhibited at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare in 2022. Patterson described the typical Cyrene picture as, 'large imperial sheet crammed to the sky with every imaginable sort of detail: rocks, trees, animals, villages and people. My students at Cyrene have not attempted to paint landscape but rather the detail one gets after a picnic with children in the Matapos; detail added to detail until there remains only room for a thin line of empty sky against which the final details are silhouetted.'
Lot 26
Annie French, Scottish 1872-1965 - The Old Ballard of Edward Edward; pen and ink, watercolour and gouache on paper, signed lower right 'Annie French' and further inscribed on the backing board and with handwritten poem attached, 25 x 35.5 cm (ARR) Provenance: Christie's, London, British and Continental Watercolours and Drawings, 5th March 1998, lot 115; private collection, purchased from the above Note: this work is based on the traditional Ballad 'Edward' dating to the 17th century, in which a mother questions her son about the blood on his blade, the scene depicted here. Annie French was one of a vital group of artist that came to prominence in Scotland in the early 20th century, pioneering an Art Nouveau visual language that related to the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh. Like her friend Jessie M. King, French created highly ornate and florid scenes, often inspired by fairytales. A large number of her works are in public collections The Fleming Collection, Gallery Oldham and National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh.
Lot 8
Caroline Byng Lucas, British 1886-1967 - Castle Cottage, 1943; gouache and monotype on paper, signed and dated with initial lower right 'CL 43', 31.1 x 22.6 cm (ARR) Provenance: with The Redfern Gallery, London (label attached to the reverse of the frame); Mrs Ruth Plant, purchased from the above on the 31st December 1948 (according to the label attached to the reverse of the frame); the Descendants of Sidney and Stella Churchill (1862-1921 and 1883-1954) and Ruth Plant (1912-1988) Note: the artist established the Miller's Gallery in Lewes with her sister Frances Byng-Stamper in 1941. They staged over 40 exhibitions, which included work by Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, Duncan Grant, Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde. The sisters also founded the Millers Press in 1945 and the Society of London Painter-Printers to support artists in producing colour prints with the Redfern Gallery in 1948. Her work is in museum collections including the Towner, Eastbourne, Brighton and Hove Museums and Manchester Art Gallery.
Lot 76
Walter Bayes ARWS, British 1869-1956 - Coastal scene; oil on canvas board, signed lower right 'Walter Bayes', 45.4 x 35.5 cm (ARR) Note: Bayes was associated with the Camden Town Group of artists, that included Walter Sickert, Robert Bevan and Charles Ginner and was later an influential teacher on artists such as David Jones. Works by the artist are in important collections across the UK including the Imperial War Museum, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and the Tate, many of which are gentle coastal scenes like the present lot.
Lot 97
Edward Wolfe, South African/British 1897-1982 - Queen, 1950; felt-pen on paper, 23 x 15 cm (ARR) Provenance: with The Catto Gallery, London (according to the partial label attached to the reverse of the frame); private collection Literature: John Russel-Taylor, 'Edward Wolfe, Trefoil Books for Odette Gilbert Gallery', London, 1986, p.188 pl.169 Note: Edward Wolfe was invited by Nina Hamnett to work with Roger Fry's Omega Workshop during the latter stages of the First World War and worked with Duncan Grant to decorate the dividing doors in the first floor sitting room at 46 Gordon Square when Maynard Keynes had control of the house. These decorated doors are now in the collection of Kings College, Cambridge. Works by the artist are in the collections of the Tate, Manchester Art Gallery and the Ben Uri Gallery & Museum.
Lot 85
Alfred Wolmark, British/Polish 1877-1961 - View of houses, 1921; ink and coloured pencil on paper, signed and dated lower right 'Wolmark 1921', 35 x 24.7 cm: together with an unframed ink on paper by the same artist (2) (ARR) Provenance: Eric Wolmark (according to the inscription on the reverse of the frame) Exhibited: Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, 'Afred Wolmark', 22nd March-13th April 1975, cat. no.115
Lot 191
Charles Higgins ('PIC'), Scottish 1893-1980 - Les Fabriquantes des Hommes, 1951; ink and gouche on card, signed lower right 'Pic' and signed, titled and dated on the reverse, 7.6 x 13 cm: together with 2 other unframed works on paper by the same artist, 'Sacred Fire, 1964', and 'The Last Time I Was In These Parts, 1979' (unframed) (3) (ARR) Provenance: the Estate of the Artist Note: writer and painter Charles Higgins painted under the pseudonym of PIC and created some of the most extraordinary and enigmatic British paintings of the 20th century. Setting mythological and fantastical imagery within imagined landscapes, PIC's work transports the viewing through time and the imagination, demonstrating the same visionary zeal as figures such as Marc Chagall, Cecil Collins and Leonora Carrington. His work was exhibited in some of the most important British galleries of the 20th century, including the Wertheim Gallery during the 1930s, Gimpel Fils during the 1940s and 50s and Jack Bilbo's celebrated The Modern Art Gallery in the 1940s.
Lot 268
Cyril Mann, British 1911-1980 - Still life, 1973; oil on board, signed and dated upper left 'Mann 73', 36.2 x 60.8 cm (ARR) Note: this work is typically of the artist's later work, with its spontaneous brushwork and focus on the effects of light and colour. His works are now in the collections of the William Morris Gallery and the Guildhall Art Gallery.
Lot 25
Sir Robin Philipson RA PRSA RSW RGI, Scottish 1916-1992 - Odalisque and Black Figure, c.1960s; on paper, signed lower right 'R. Philipson' and inscribed with artist's details and title to label attached to the reverse of the frame, 19 x 19 cm (ARR) Provenance: with Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London (label attached to the reverse of the frame); with Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath (label attached to the reverse of the frame); the Descendants of Sidney and Stella Churchill (1862-1921 and 1883-1954) and Ruth Plant (1912-1988)
Lot 264
Beatrice Rozenberg, British 1913-1995 - Poppies; oil on canvas, 49 x 39.5 cm (ARR) Provenance: the Estate of the Artist Exhibited: Ben Uri Gallery, London, 1976, no.10 Note: the artist's exhibited at the start of her career using the male pseudonym Benedict Davies, in order to avoid the gendered bias she perceived in the London art world. Her work was exhibited posthumously at the John Denham Gallery in London in 2002, and she exhibited alongside at the Ben Uri Gallery in 1962 and alongside Margaret 'Grete' Marks, Judith Yellin-Ginat and Rivkah Mayer in 1976.
Lot 281
Peter Oliver, British 1927–2006 - Beach in Guernsey, c.1964; oil on board, 38.5 x 47.8 cm (ARR) Note: titled to label attached to the reverse. The label also states 'Keel Exhibition, 1965', however, the artist's exhibition at the University of Keele was in fact in 1964. the artist has works in the collection of Manchester Art Gallery and the Government Art Collection, and exhibited at important UK galleries including Mercury Gallery and the Redfern Gallery.
Lot 272
Phyllis Bray, British 1911-1991 - Boy with sunflowers; oil on canvas, signed with initials lower left 'PB', 63.5 x 76.2 cm (ARR) Provenance:the Artist's studio; private collection Note: Bray was a member of the East London Group alongside her then-husband John Cooper. She worked on numerous mural schemes with Hans Feibusch for churches and exhibited at prestigious galleries including Drian Gallery, Leicester Galleries and Wildenstein. The subject of children and sunflowers was a favourite theme of the artist in the 1940s and a depiction of a similar landscape is in the collection of the Walker Art Gallery, 'August Evening, c.1940-49'.
Lot 78
Katharine Leigh-Pemberton (Kaff Gerrard), British 1894-1970 - Sussex landscape with figures; oil on canvas, 33.3 x 43.2 cm (unframed) (ARR) Provenance: the Estate of Katharine Leigh-Pemberton and A. H. Gerrard Note: this lot is accompanied by a copy of 'A. H. Gerrard: His Life and Work' by K. L. Gerrard, 2019. This enigmatic scene was a repeated theme for the artist and variations of it can be found in the museum collection such as 'Landscape with Pink Trees' (Southampton City Art Gallery) and 'Sussex Landscape' (Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne). The image allowed the artist to explore simultaneously the physicality of the landscape and her spiritual response to it. The artist would only have one exhibition in her lifetime, which she shared in 1931 with her husband, A.H. Gerrard at Colnaghi Gallery, London. However, Leigh-Pemberton's works are now in a large number of public collection across the UK, including the Imperial War Museum, The Courtauld and the Tate.
Lot 12
Willy Eisenschitz, Austrian 1889–1974 - Lake scene; watercolour on paper, signed lower left 'W. Eisenschitz', 37 x 51.5 cm (ARR) Provenance: the Descendants of Sidney and Stella Churchill (1862-1921 and 1883-1954) and Ruth Plant (1912-1988) Note: the artist is best known for his depictions of the landscape of Provence, his adopted home from the 1930s. This is a beautiful example of his work, with the warms tones of orange, blue and green. The artist exhibited across Europe, including in London at the Adams Brothers Gallery in 1934 and a retrospective at the Musée d´Art de Toulon, with a catalogue essay by the celebrated writer and critic André Salmon in 1958.
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Basil Rákóczi, British/French 1908-1979 - Beach Huts; ink and watercolour on paper, signed lower right 'Rakoczi', 24.5 x 35 cm (ARR) Provenance: the Estate of the Artist Note: Rákóczi founded the Modernist group, The White Stag Group, along with his partner, Kenneth Hall. Influenced by Surrealism and founded in London, they moved to Ireland in 1940. Gaining Irish members including Nano Reid and Norah McGuiness, their work focusing on psychological states and esoteric myth and symbols. Instrumental to Hall's artistic career and his first solo exhibition was the dealer Lucy Wertheim. Wertheim also promoted Barbara Hepworth, Christopher Wood, Frances Hodgkins and Henry Moore. An exhibition of her legacy 'A Life in Art & Reuniting the Twenties Group' has recently been on display at Towner Eastbourne, UK, including works by both Hall and Rákóczi.
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Charles Higgins ('PIC'), Scottish 1893-1980 - Plough & Jockey, Early Morning, 1953; gouache on card, signed, titled and dated on the reverse, 16.6 x 20.5 cm: together with 2 other unframed works on paper by the same artist, 'Scholar in Orbit, 1967', and 'Foil and Chestnut Vendor, Madeira, 1970' (unframed) (3) (ARR) Provenance: the Estate of the Artist Note: writer and painter Charles Higgins painted under the pseudonym of PIC and created some of the most extraordinary and enigmatic British paintings of the 20th century. Setting mythological and fantastical imagery within imagined landscapes, PIC's work transports the viewing through time and the imagination, demonstrating the same visionary zeal as figures such as Marc Chagall, Cecil Collins and Leonora Carrington. His work was exhibited in some of the most important British galleries of the 20th century, including the Wertheim Gallery during the 1930s, Gimpel Fils during the 1940s and 50s and Jack Bilbo's celebrated The Modern Art Gallery in the 1940s.
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