*Morton-Sale (John (1901-1990)). Cat and falling leaves, watercolour, signed by artist to lower left, slight staining, some adhesion marks in margins but not affecting image, 330 x 300 mm, together with Morton-Sale (Isobel), Girl and Reindeer, oval watercolour, signed by artist to lower left, some adhesion marks to margin but not affecting image, 425 x 345 mm Isobel Morton-Sale was an artist and illustrator born into a Chelsea family which moved in literary and artistic circles, where the Rossettis and their friends were still remembered. Her love of drawing was apparent from an early age. She went to the Central School of Art, where she met fellow-artist John Morton-Sale, whom she married in 1924. Although their work is quite distinct they were an inspiration to each other. Together they founded the Parnassus Gallery, well-known for outstanding reproductions of great and lesser-known works of art. Isobel's work was exhibited from 1979 to 1983 at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, and a retrospective exhibition of paintings by both John and Isobel was held at the Maas Gallery, in London, in 1984. Her work is characterised by a distinct delicacy of style and sensitivity of colour, and although she had an acuteness of observation, a sense of enchantment in her paintings pervades the realism of the captured moment. (2)
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*Wain (Louis, 1860-1939). The water is beautifully warm, try it, pen and black ink on white paper, signed lower right, inscribed with title in pencil by the artist to lower margin, 22 x 29 cm (8.6 x 11.4 ins) mount aperture, including caption, framed and glazed, with Chris Beetles' printed label to verso Exhibited: Chris Beetles, The Illustrators, The British Art of Illustration 1800-2005, 965. (1)
*Craig (Frank, 1874-1918). French Revolutionaries and a lady, 1907, grisaille watercolour, heightened with bodycolour, depicting an interior scene with a young lady confronted by several men with swords and a rifle, signed and dated lower right, 38 x 33cm (15 x 13ins), framed and glazed, and with label of J.S. Maas & Co Ltd on backboard Provenance: Purchased by the current owner from the Maas Gallery in 1987. Portrait artist and illustrator Frank Craig studied at the Lambeth School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools. His illustrative output for periodicals was profuse; he worked for Scribner's Magazine, The Graphic, Harper's and Nash's Magazine, amongst others. He was also much in demand as a book illustrator, and his work accompanied some of the era's most famous authors: Rudyard Kipling, R.W. Chambers, F. Marion Crawford, Arnold Bennett, and Maurice Hewlett, to name a few. Craig exhibited at the Royal Academy and in Paris, and won a gold medal for portraiture at one of the early 20th century Paris salons. He is particularly known for his use of lighting and his ability to stage a scene. (1)
*Bliss (Joyce, 1914-1990). An archive of original artwork and associated material, approximately 150 drawings and sketches, comprising female nude studies, costume and theatre designs, book illustrations, designs for dustjackets, title-pages and endpapers, advertisements, decorative borders and initials, calendar designs, still life studies, genre scenes, animal studies, portraits, children at play, illuminated verse, etc., including two red chalk female nude studies, approximately forty watercolours, and the remainder pen & ink or pencil, a number unfinished, some signed or initialled 'EJB', some dated, together with a bound volume of Nursery Rhymes by the same artist, 12ff., each with musical notation within pen, ink, and watercolour border, plus some printed material (e.g. Christmas cards) and photographs related, various condition, approximately 41 x 31cm (16 x 12ins) and smaller, together with a small archive of original art by Phyllis Mary Antrobus (born 1905), comprising twelve watercolours (six portraits, and one of children playing on a beach, one of moths and butterflies, and four of a fox terrier 'Foch'), some signed/dated, six pencil drawings of cats and dogs, and a pencil sketch of three young girls, sheet size 40 x 28.5cm (15.75 x 11.25ins) and smaller, plus two pen & ink drawings and one pencil drawing of female theatrical dancers, initialled 'DHYH', one dated 1926 and another dated 1929 An interesting archive of material by artist Eleanor Joyce Bliss, who studied at the Birmingham School of Art between 1930 and 1939. She married silversmith Cyril James Shiner in 1943. (a folder)
[Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge, 'Lewis Carroll', 1832-1898]. Royal Academy Pictures, Illustrating the Hundred and Twenty-Sixth Exhibition of the Royal Academy, Being the Royal Academy Supplement of 'The Magazine of Art' 1894, Cassell, [1894], black & white plates throughout, lacks pp. 9-10 and preceding leaf detached, inscribed presentation inscription from Dodgson to his sister in black ink to front pastedown, 'Mary C. Collingwood, with love, from her brother C.L. Dodgson. June 9, 1894', old sticky label inscribed 'Autograph of "Lewis Carroll"' to front flyleaf, original decorative cloth gilt, rubbed at extremities and spine dulled, 4to (1)
*Donkin (Alice Emily, 1850- ). Portrait of an unidentified young girl, 1920, watercolour on paper, head and shoulders, full face, signed and dated lower left, 23 x 17 cm, framed and glazed, with desk stand, Darnley Fine Art label to verso Alice Emily Donkin was the first cousin of Alice Jane Dodgson (nee Donkin) who had married Wilfred Dodgson. Alice Emily Donkin was inspired to use Lewis Carroll's photograph of Alexandra 'Xie' Kitchin dressed as a dame for her painting 'Waiting to Skate' which Carroll hung in his rooms at Christ Church. (1)
N. NEAL SOLLY - 'MEMOIR OF THE LIFE OF WILLIAM JAMES MULLER A Native of Bristol. Landscape and figure painter...', Chapman & Hall, 1875 A/F together with three other art interest books - to include 'Studies in Ruskin' 1890 (4)Condition Report:Neal Solly - loss to top of spine, boards partially detached
A collection of assorted household items to include bakelite Art Deco door furniture, various Meccano, LP records, Harmsworth Self Educator volumes, various reproduction signs including "Castrol Motor Oil", etc, a small quantity of decorative items, pair of African carved hardwood figures, etc
A Staffordshire flatback figure of dog seated upon a barrel and a further dog to his side, assorted further decorative china wares, a pewter figure of a man in boat with oars, together with a pair of Art Deco bookends in green onyx back and base with chrome ball, a Continental figure of a parrot, a pair of Continental porcelain candlesticks, a pair of Continental porcelain figures
Hardy (Thomas). Tess of the D'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman, 3 volumes, 1st edition, 2nd impression revised, Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1892, half-titles present, volume 1 with bookplate of Richard Adams, endpapers spotted and browned, some splitting to hinges, rough-trimmed, volume 3 with stitching partially broken, original tan cloth, with art nouveau decoration in gilt, cocked, somewhat rubbed and soiled, circulating library labels removed from upper covers, 8vo, together with Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres, 1st edition, Macmillan, 1828, free endpapers partially browned, rough-trimmed, original green cloth gilt, spine lightly sunned, in dustjacket, with rubbed and darkened spine, some water-stains and edge-chipping, 8vo, plus Late Lyrics and Earlier with many other verses, 1st edition, 1922, spotted, free endpapers partially browned, untrimmed, original green cloth gilt, 8vo, plus thirty-one others by Hardy, including twenty-seven Wessex Novels pocket edition Purdy, page 74 (500 copies printed). (36)
Bowness (Alan, editor). Ivon Hitchens, with an introductory essay by T.G. Rosenthal, 1st edition, Lund Humphries, 1973, numerous tipped-in colour plates, original cloth, slightly marked, large 4to, together with Phillips (Hugh), Mid-Georgian London, a topographical and social survey of central and western London about 1750, 1st edition, 1964, numerous monochrome plates, bookplate of Elizabeth Adams to front pastedown, original cloth in dust wrapper, 4to, plus Chilton (Meredith), Harlequin Unmasked, The Commedia dell'Arte and Porcelain Sculpture, Yale University Press, 2001, numerous colour and some monochrome illustrations, original purple cloth in dust wrapper, 4to, VG, and other art and architecture reference, various, 4to/8vo (40)
FEILD MAURICE: (1905-1988) English Painter, an influential teacher at the Downs School, Colwall, and the Slade School of Art. A friend and colleague of W.H. Auden in the early 1930s. Two charming small 8vo notebooks previously belonging to Feild and containing around 250 original black pen and ink sketches by the painter, the majority of the subjects being young females, although also including some landscapes featuring fields, trees, rivers & bridges, horses and birds etc., some of the preparatory sketches identified (subjects including Sarah, Alice, Harriet, Arabella, Polly, Juliet, Miranda etc. ) or with annotations relating to the proposed colours etc. for the final painting, some of the images depicting the young girls involved in various activities including bread making, completing homework, writing birthday party invitations and cleaning a gold fish bowl. One of the notebooks contains a number of pages of holograph notes by Feild providing his thoughts on conscious and unconscious influences (including Turner and Constable), figurative painting, and other notes which feature references to W. H. Auden, Augustus John and others. One of the notebooks bears the ownership signature and address of Feild and is dated November 1980 - January 1981. Some light overall age wear, otherwise about VG, 2
PORTLAND DUKE OF: (1738-1809) British Prime Minister 1783, 1807-09. A.L.S., Duke of Portland, in the third person, one page, 8vo, n.p., 15th September 1796, to William Beckford. Portland writes, in part, 'The Duke of Portland presents his compliments to Mr. Beckford, he is very sorry that he is under the necessity of declining the hours Mr. Beckford intends him tomorrow in consequence of an engagement to leave town at too early an hour… next Tuesday evening or very early on Wednesday morning & after that time he will be ready to attend to Mr. Beckford's command whenever they may be intimated to him.' With blank integral leaf. With very minor age wear, otherwise about VG William Beckford (1760-1844) English Novelist, Art Collector and Politician, reputed at one stage in his life to be the richest commoner in England.
[PINK FLOYD]: SCARFE GERALD (1936- ) English Cartoonist and Illustrator. Three signed colour postcards each depicting art by Scarfe for the musical drama film Pink Floyd - The Wall (1982). Each signed ('Gerald Scarfe') in bold blue inks with his name alone, to the base of the images. About EX, 3
GILBERT & GEORGE: GILBERT PROESCH (1943- ) & GEORGE PASSMORE (1942- ) Italian & English Artists, a collaborative duo known as Gilbert & George. Book signed, a paperback edition of Gilbert & George New Testamental Pictures, Edizioni Charta, Milan, 1998. Signed by both Proesch ('Gilbert') and Passmore ('George') individually in bold black ink to the half title page. Together with four signed colour postcards, each depicting a work of art by Gilbert & George, comprising Forgiveness, Coloured Enemies, Berryboy and England. Each signed by Gilbert and George individually in black inks with their names alone, to the lower white border. VG to about EX, 5

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