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Lot 16
* SEROV, VLADIMIR 1910-1968 Not One Step Back! Poster Design c. 1941-42 Pastel on paper, 89 by 64 cm. "When during the Second World War the Soviet Union was invaded by Nazi Germany, Vladimir Serov remained in Leningrad. He headed the Leningrad Union of Artists, which had become the headquarters for the city’s production of visual propaganda material for military and political use. In the extremely difficult conditions of the blockade, the famine, the cold, hostile fire and bombing the Leningrad Union of Artists undertook major defensive operations. The artists camouflaged important military targets, published newspapers for the army and navy, and produced leaflets to be dropped over the location of enemy troops as well as political posters. Among the most talented of this team was the painter and graphic designer Vladimir Serov. His first poster, We Have Fought, We Are Fighting, We’ll Go on Fighting! appeared on the streets of Leningrad on 26 June 1941. In the Fighting Pencil series Serov designed such propaganda masterpieces as Only Forward, Till Our Enemy Is Crushed! and Our Cause Is Right. The Serov sketch now on offer, Not One Step Back!, was also part of this series. Serov’s best poster designs are heroic in character: expressive psychological types of powerful, fierce, steadfast Soviet patriots, unhesitating in their actions, full of hate for the enemy. Political propaganda posters by such skilled artists as Vladimir Serov are extremely rare in private collections. Most original posters are preserved in major Russian museums. It is therefore with especial pleasure that we now offer this splendid example."
Lot 79
* ALTMAN, NATHAN 1889-1970 Winter Scene signed, c. 1907-1908 Pencil and pastel on brown paper, laid on cardboard, 45 by 50 cm. Provenance: Collection of I. Angenitski, Kiev, inscription on the reverse. Nathan Altman painted the present work around 1907–1908, a period from which hardly any work has survived. His oil painting of 1908, Spring, done in his birth-place, Vinnitsa, is widely known, as is the analogous 1909 pastel from the former Ezrakh collection (now in the State Peterhof Museum Reserve). The support, materials and technique of the Peterhof pastel are absolutely comparable to the work now on offer. Like Boris Grigoriev, Altman, before the period of his “sharp-edged” compositions, used Impressionist techniques for a short while, as did many Western and Russian masters. Altman’s somewhat unusual Impressionism, with an admixture of Divisionism, was an intermediate stage, developing in the artist the poetry of colour and an inclination towards uncomplicated compositions, which did not encounter its fully-fledged version among the artist’s mature works. Thus, in the early 1910s, Altman, experimenting with colour and form, arrived at his energetic, even somewhat Expressionist style, which is in certain respects similar to the work of the well-known German artist Franz Marc. The immediacy of Altman’s early work has an undoubted appeal, allowing us to trace the sources of his art and its basis in the context of Russian and European painting of the first quarter of the 20th century.
Lot 85
* BENOIS, ALEXANDER 1870-1960 Peterhof signed and dated "20 VII 1918" Pencil, gouache and pastel on paper, 32.5 by 44 cm. Provenance: Collection of I. Angenitski, Kiev.Authenticity has been confirmed by the experts Yu. Solonovich and M. Cherkasova.Exhibited: Vystavka proizvedenii russkikh khudozhnikov vtoroi poloviny XIX - nachala XX vv., The Kiev State Museum of Russian Art, 1958, label on the reverse of the mount.
Lot 693
FRANK EASTMAN. Portrait study of a young Boy, signed, inscribed `Roger` and dated 1913, pastel, 21 1/2 x 14 1/2 in; an unframed oil on canvas by another hand depicting a bearded Man, an unframed watercolour depicting a lake landscape circa 1840, and a painted print laid under glass depicting St. Like (4)
Lot 43
Bernard Dunstan (b.1920) Girl in Bed charcoal drawing signed with initials, inscribed, numbered 9/15 and dated 1972 25 x 38cm, unframed together with a small group of other pictures including an aquatint by R A le Bas, pastel drawing by Gabrielle Belly, etching by Diana M Armfield (b.1920), watercolour of Bawdsley Ferry by Sybil Mullen Glover (fl.1940), oil still life by Rita Greig (b.1920) and two watercolours of South Devon by Donald Greig (1916-2009).
Lot 687
19th CENTURY ENGLISH SCHOOL "Caister Castle, Norfolk", pastel, ROY LAPIDGE "Rodborough Hill, Stroud" and "Westonbirt Park", watercolour, signed, another similar "The open gate", 20th CENTURY SCHOOL "A river landscape with figures and boats", oil on canvas, indistinctly signed, various prints and two boxes of miscellaneous books to include children`s titles
Lot 789
Mackenzie Thorpe (b.1956) "Middlesbrough Folks"; "A Woman and a Man" Both signed with the artist`s monogram, bearing the copyright symbol, pastel drawing, each 68.5cm by 39.5cm (a pair) The works are sold with a book entitled Mackenzie Thorpe: The Game of Life, published by Washington Green Fine Art, a Christmas card bearing a facsimile greeting and signature, a facsimile letter and an insurance valuation for the two pictures See illustration
Lot 808
Frederick (Fred) Stead ARCA (1863-1940) "Girl in White Dress" Said to be signed, possibly under the rebate of the frame, inscribed on a plaque attached to the frame, pastel drawing, 31.5cm by 37.5cm Provenance: Walker Galleries, 118 New Bond Street, London and 6 Montpellier Gardens, Harrogate
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