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Click here to subscribe*Joan Warburton (1920-1996)House at Arratidainscribed, signed and dated 'House at Arratida/1965/Joan Warburton' l.l., pastel34.5 x 50.5cm*Artist's Resale Right may apply to this lot.Condition report: Some cockling to the paper, otherwise generally good condition, unexamined out of the frame.
*Elsie Marian Henderson (1880-1967)Summer Landscapewatercolour, pastel and ink26 x 34cmProvenance: From the artist's estate.*Artist's Resale Right may apply to this lot.Condition report: Some time staining and cockling to the paper, otherwise generally good condition, unexamined out of the frame.
An antique 19th Century pastel portrait painting depicting Lady Katherine Blicke Archer. Set to a red ground with hair up, wearing a black and white lace ground holding a single red rose. Set to a glazed ornate gesso gilt painted frame with moulded details. Family tree and history notated to verso. Measures approx; 75cm x 56cm.
Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864-1933)Skipping signed and dated 'E A Hornel/96' (lower right)oil on canvas61 x 40.7 cm. (24 x 16 in.)Footnotes:ProvenanceJ.B. Bennett & Sons, GlasgowPrivate collection, UKThis painting is an important discovery and illustrates the four key influences on Hornel's work from this period; George Henry (1858-1943), Les XX, the art of Japan and photography.Hornel and Henry moved away from the Glasgow Boys' realism of the 1880's to a more decorative form of painting. Often working side by side, or together in projects such as their 1890 The Druids Bringing in the Mistletoe (Glasgow Museums), they developed a new colourful and distinctive style. Their ten-year long association produced a series of pictures that are regarded as the essence of the Glasgow School. In this picture, dating to 1896, Hornel uses a high key of colour, with punchy reds, greens and oranges predominating. This creates a strong sense of pattern. The figures of the children, their limbs caught in motion, both break up the landscape and become part of it, pinafores and hair adding their own colour to the scene.This painting also has a distinctive Pont Aven air to it. In 1893, Hornel exhibited with Les XX, a progressive Belgium art group, which he had been aware of since his time studying in Antwerp. Each year Les XX invited a few international artists to exhibit with them, such as Pissarro, Monet, Seurat, Gaugin, Cezanne, and van Gogh. Hornel's training in Belgium, under Charles Verlat, was part of a wider movement in European art, where several artists were changing the way they painted in direct response to their exposure to Japanese art. The Glasgow art dealer Alexander Reid recognised how Hornel had embraced the most dynamic, Japanese-inspired aspects of Post-Impressionism and became his supporter and dealer. Reid, along with the wealthy shipping merchant William Burrell, agreed to fund Hornel and Henry's trip to Japan. In 1893–94 the two artists spent a year and a half expedition in the country, where they learned much about decorative design and spacing. This picture was painted just a few years after his return. Typically for Hornel, it demonstrates a tightly restricted view, very close to the picture plane. It has a steep and flattened perspective, often seen in Japanese prints. It is a painting full of energy, colour and twisting movement, giving a real sense of the gaiety and exuberance of youth. It is similar in subject matter to that of his early works from 1981, Dance of Spring (Glasgow Museums) and Summer (National Museums Liverpool), but here Hornel uses his latest techniques in composition, perfected during his time in Japan. Kite Flying of 1894 (National Galleries of Scotland) uses a similar S shape placement of figures on the canvas. Where Hornel uses the string of the kite to break up the canvas in the Japanese scene, the skipping rope creates the same affect in this Galloway example.The impact of photography on Hornel's work is also evident here. The focus of the camera lens was the most modern way of viewing a subject at that time. Imitating the eye of the camera, Hornel focusses on the girls' faces, whilst the surrounding areas appear slightly out of focus. It encapsulates Hornel's approach to painting from the late 1890's onwards. Photographic sharpness dissolves into the blurriness of his thick impasto backgrounds, sometimes verging on abstraction.Skipping represents Hornel at his best. It is joyful, daring and, above all, modern. These stylish and sophisticated works of the late 1890's are very rare and important. After 1900 Hornel seemed to give up on experimentation and settled into a more formulaic style of painting landscapes of pastel tones with figures, one that brought him widespread popularity and commercial success.This painting has hung on the same walls of a private home for the past 50 years, and was owned by the previous generation of the same family for a similarly long period of time.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Joan Eardley RSA (British, 1921-1963)Beehives watercolour and pastel15.8 x 23.3 cm. (6 1/4 x 9 1/4 in.)Footnotes:ExhibitedEdinburgh, Aitken Dott, Joan Eardley Exhibition, 1964, cat.no.120This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Joan Eardley RSA (British, 1921-1963)Woman with Basket pastel17.5 x 10.8 cm. (6 7/8 x 4 1/4 in.)Estate No. ED632Footnotes:ProvenanceWith Compass Gallery, circa 1970This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Joan Eardley RSA (British, 1921-1963)Dummy sucking pastel22.5 x 14.5 cm. (8 7/8 x 5 11/16 in.)Footnotes:ProvenanceWith Roland, Browse & DelbancoWith Aitken Dott & Son, Edinburgh (stock no.4282)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Anne Redpath OBE RSA ARA LLD ARWS ROI RBA (British, 1895-1965)Houses and caravans pastel35 x 40 cm. (13 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.)Footnotes:ExhibitedEdinburgh, The Scottish Gallery, Aspects of Scottish Drawing, 7-11 November 2001This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Bryan PEARCE (1929-2006)Patterned Tablecloth and a Vase of Flowers Pastel and ink Signed31 x 25cmCondition report: This work has not been examined out of the frame but it has slipped by a little, thus enabling us to see that it has suffered virtually no fading, there are no other condition issues
Walt Disney Spice Jar Collection, Lenox brand, depicting Disney characters, with pastel lids with crown and star gilt tops. Everything from Dumbo and Minnie Mouse to Cinderella and the Lion King, and everything between. 24 in total, all housed in a decorative wooden holder, measures approx 20" x 23".
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