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Click here to subscribeL.E. Jardon, 1883 Nude Portrait of a Young Woman. After Charles (Joshua) Chaplin (French, 1825 - 1891). Pastel. Signed and dated (1883) lower left. Inscribed on canvas verso. Photographed document in envelope, paperwork is deteriorating due to age. Sight Size: 26 x 20 in. Overall Size: 32.5 x 26 in. Framed behind glass.
A freshwater pearl and gem set 'ladder' necklace or back ornament, composed of two lengths of fine trace link chain set at intervals with freshwater pearls and larger pearl terminations, and held together on the upper half with similar chains strung between and set with pearls and various mostly pastel coloured polished gems in different shapes, to include pale amethysts and citrines, peridots, rock crystals and garnets, further pearl set chain to go round the neck, the 'ladder' to hang down the wearer's back; length from neck approximately 69cm
Ken SYMONDS (1927-2010)Alexander Mackenzie Pastel on paperSignedInscribed to the back and dated 198652.5 x 73 cm(See back page illustration)Part of a remarkable collection of artists portraits by Ken SymondsKen Symonds and his wife Jane conceived the idea for his impressive 'Artist Portrait Series' in the early eighties. Remarkably, the series of 40 large pastels were all executed during the year of 1984, using a combination of artist sittings and some photography and each portrait taking about a week to complete. Those who knew Ken, will remember what a productive worker he was - often well into the night. That he completed so many portraits in such a short space of time is a testament to his industrious attitude towards his work and no doubt his enthusiasm for the concept.They were exhibited towards the end of 1984 at the Art Centre Trust in Lemon Street, Truro and at the Penwith Galleries in St Ives.Symonds was an accomplished draughtsman and each work is a an excellent likeness of the sitter. Emulating the likes of Holbein and other great historical portraitists, each subject is surrounded by the tools of their trade and works in progress. Indeed Symonds' own working of, for example Bryan Pearce's boats or a Paul Mount sculpture is what gives these portraits so much warmth and appeal. Being good friends with many of his contemporaries must have made it relatively easy for Symonds to initiate such a project. Some of the most noteable artists, such as Frost and Wells were sold at the time, but what remains is an extraordinary body of work and nearly thirty-five years later, provides us with a wonderful document of the artist's community in West Cornwall at that time.
Harold Gresley (1892 - 1967)Portrait of Arthur Barlowsigned, oil on canvas, 60cm x 49cm; accompanied by an archive of ephemera illustrative of the life and philanthropic work of the sitter, including framed chalk & charcoal caricature of Barlow by G F Hudson 40cm x 28cm; signed photographs of entertainers and musicians: Dames Sybil Thorndike, Anna Neagle, Paul Robeson, Rawicz & Landauer, Eileen Joyce (print of pastel portrait), Gracie Fields, Ben Lyon & Bebe Damiels, etc; framed photographic portrait of of Barlow with Margot, Countess of Oxford & Asquith, with another, on her own, autographed by the countess; celebrity concert programmes as organised by Barlow (some duplicated); bound souvenir booklet, hand scrivened on vellum Feb 1937 signed HRH Princess Helena Victoria; book Greatorex H N, 'Melville's Derby Legacy' Breedon 1985 (No. 46/1000); newspaper cuttings, receipts for donations, file of Christmas cards from celebrated performers, cache of letters from Elsie & Doris Waters (Gert & Daisy); collection of 58 agency promotional photographic portraits of performers including Gracie Fields, Count McCormack, Richard Tauber, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Anne Browne, etc. also photographs of Royal family: George VI, Queen Elizabeth, Princess Elizabeth as a child (2); correspondence, some from Royal households, also from Beverley Nichols, Sybil Thorndike, etc., framed cartoon of Barlow as footballer scoring £6,000 'goal' son John Barlow's autograph book containing signatures of many of the above; group of Great war postcards including a hidden U-Boat example (qty)Arthur Barlow, MBE (1890 - 1973) of Little Chester, later of Spondon was a Derby-born philanthropist who was recognised for having raised many thousands of pounds to the Derby Royal Infirmary, 1911-1948. A manager at the Derby Co-op, he channelled his organising abilities and love of music into persuading some of the biggest names in music to come to Derby at favourable rates (sometimes without charge at all) to perform at concerts, either in the Co-Op Central Hall or the Grand Theatre Babington Lane, which raised over the years more than £6,000. His greatest coup was to persuade Gracie Fields (then the greatest of super-stars) to appear in 1938.
Duncan Grant, small unframed pastel drawing, abstract composition, signed with initials and indistinctly dated, 11.75ins x 8.25ins, together with another small mixed media drawing of a reclining female nude attributed to Grant, 6ins x 7.5ins, unframedProvenance - gifted by the artist to the present vendor
Salitt? (20th century school) - Study of a boat with distant harbour, oil on canvas, signed and dated 65, 50 x 70cm, together with further pictures including an oil painting on canvas of figures in a woodland setting, a charcoal and pastel study of a head, a coloured print after George Morland of rabbits feeding, and a watercolour and bodycolour study of blossom, various sizes all framed
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