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Click here to subscribeBarbara Montagu-Pollock (20th/21st century) - Continental landscape with a series of field systems, signed, oil on canvas, 20" x 24"; together with six further examples depicting coastal scenes, various landscapes, and one portraying five fishermen sorting out the catch beside a boat, various sizes, (7)
[§] ALAN DAVIE C.B.E., H.R.S.A. (SCOTTISH 1920-2014) CLASSICAL HEAD - SELF-PORTRAIT Signed and indistinctly dated '46 / '49, watercolour 37cm x 27cm (14.5in x 10.25in) Exhibited: Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh Note: Few British artists of the 20th century are quite an intriguing as Alan Davie. Low key and independent, Davie operated out with the art world 'scene' until his death in 2014 which means that, despite his popularity amongst critics and collectors, he isn't the household name he perhaps deserves to be. Born in Grangemouth, Scotland in 1920, Davie studied at the Edinburgh College of Art, developing a fascination with Continental artists including Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. The quintessential polymath, his artistry encompassed jewellery-making, poetry and, most significantly of all, jazz music. He was an extremely talented musician and constantly sought to find ways to break down the boundaries of expression; seeking to literally convey music on canvas. The list of his friends and admirers is quite extraordinary given his lack of ego and choice to plough a furrow out of the limelight. He met and was admired by the great collector Peggy Guggenheim in Venice in the late 1940s and was close to members of the American Abstract Expressionist movement including Jackson Pollock. However, Davie gradually moved away from gestural expression to a more clarified vision, as shown in this fantastic example which is amply demonstrative of the complexity of his ideas. Taking reference points from a vast area of art history - Celtic, Buddhist, African, Hindi and Modernist to name but a few - he created a language of emblems and symbols with the aim of capturing the "mysterious and spiritual forces normally beyond our comprehension". Davie's esotericism and eccentricity earned him the reputation as something of a "shaman", a fitting title for an artist who sought to live his entire life as an exploration of the magic that underpins art, music and philosophy. The artist has had retrospectives at the Barbican, London, Tate St Ives and Tate Britain. He was appointed CBE in 1972 and elected a senior Royal Academician in 2012.
[§] ALAN DAVIE C.B.E., H.R.S.A. (SCOTTISH 1920-2014) OPUS 0.163 - MIRACULOUS FRUIT MAKERS, 1960 Signed and dated upper left, titled verso, oil on paper 42cm x 53.5cm (16.5in x 21in) Exhibited: 'Collector's Choice', Gimpel Fils, London; July 1967 Provenance: The artist's studio; Collection of Caroline Duveen, UK; Gimpel Fils, London; Private Collection, London Note: Few British artists of the 20th century are quite as intriguing as Alan Davie. Low key and independent, Davie operated outwith the art world 'scene' until his death in 2014 which means that, despite his popularity amongst critics and collectors, he isn't the household name he perhaps deserves to be. Born in Grangemouth, Scotland in 1920, Davie studied at the Edinburgh College of Art, developing a fascination with Continental artists including Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. The quintessential polymath, his artistry encompassed jewellery-making, poetry and, most significantly of all, jazz music. He was an extremely talented musician and constantly sought to find ways to break down the boundaries of expression; seeking to literally convey music on canvas. The list of his friends and admirers is quite extraordinary given his lack of ego and choice to plough a furrow out of the limelight. He met and was admired by the great collector Peggy Guggenheim in Venice in the late 1940s and was close to members of the American Abstract Expressionist movement including Jackson Pollock. However, Davie gradually moved away from gestural expression to a more clarified vision, as shown in this fantastic example which is amply demonstrative of the complexity of his ideas. Taking reference points from a vast area of art history - Celtic, Buddhist, African, Hindi and Modernist to name but a few - he created a language of emblems and symbols with the aim of capturing the "mysterious and spiritual forces normally beyond our comprehension". Davie's esotericism and eccentricity earned him the reputation as something of a "shaman", a fitting title for an artist who sought to live his entire life as an exploration of the magic that underpins art, music and philosophy. The artist has had retrospectives at the Barbican, London, Tate St Ives and Tate Britain. He was appointed CBE in 1972 and elected a senior Royal Academician in 2012.
FOOTBALL, signed trade cards laid down to white card (6 x 4), inc. Andy Hinchcliffe, Hamilton Ricard, David Platt, Dion Dublin, Muzzy Izzet, Ron Yeats, David Wetherall, Peter Dobing, Ian Walker, Peter Atherton, Jon Newsome, Mark Kennedy, Jamie Pollock, Chris Coleman, John Hartson, Richard Jobson, Russell Hoult, Allan Clarke, John Charles, Lee Clarke etc., duplication, VG to EX, 75*
FOOTBALL, signed trade cards laid down to white card (6 x 4), inc. Danny Wilson, Peter Beagrie, Peter Atherton, Terry Yorath, Jamie Pollock, Don Hutchison, Lee Mills, Peter Davenport, John Greil Lennon, Tim Flowers, Mark Robins, Darren Anderton, Ron Atkinson, Brian Talbot, Seth Johnson, Dean Sturridge, Dave Mackay etc., duplication, VG to EX, 75*
THE BLACK HAT Signed l.r.: J. Proudfoot '40 oil on canvas 46 x 38cm James Proudfoot was born in Perth where he was educated at Perth Academy before going on to St Andrews University. After a short time working in his father's carpet business he moved to London to study at Heatherley's and Goldsmith's College. A dashing figure and married to the actress Ellen Pollock be became a well know painter of landscape and portraits of well known actors of stage and screen. He received a honourable mention for his portrait of Peter Ustinov in the 1956 Paris Salon. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, New English Art Club and Royal Scottish Academy.
A collection of antique and vintage toy theatre settings/characters, including ships, smugglers, pirates house interiors, landscapes, etc, quite a few by Pollock, some with vibrant early hand colouring, some plain - includes a copy of The Magazine of Art containing The Robert Louis Stevenson essay, 'A Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured' in one box
Toy theatre: large collection of character sheets and scenes, mostly 19th Century, some hand coloured, some plain, including Webb, Pollock, Trentsensky, Redington and others, 'Boys of England', plus other printed ephemera such as theatre playbills, 'vinegar valentines', harlequins, Grimaldi, etc
Shaun Greenhalgh original artwork - Abstract "After Jackson Pollock" Painted by Shaun Greenhalgh & Waldemar Januszczak (British art critic and television documentary producer and presenter & former art critic of The Guardian) Demonstration piece for a BBC TV project and featured item for the show being aired March 2018. Painted on perspex in 2017 - Framed 66cm x 107cm. Signed and dated, description written in pencil on verso
CRICKET AUTOGRAPHS 1980 A list and autograph book of 105 autographs including Australia X 43 including Morris, Tallon, Toshack, Ponsford, Hendry, Harvey, Mackay, Fingleton, O'Reilly, Johnston, Gleeson, Connolly, Hole, Lawry, Stackpole, Lille and Craig, England X 38 including Milburn, Ikin, Barnett, Yardley, Watson, Appleyard, Wyatt, Washbrook, Allen, Voce, Coldwell, Cartwright and Prideaux, West Indies X 12 including Kallicharan, Walcott, Holding, Marshall, Croft and Haynes, South Africa X 2 including G. Pollock and Rice. Plus others. Good
ADJA YUNKERS (AMERICAN 1900-1983)Soprattutto IV, 1974acrylic and collage on canvas177.8 x 118 cm (70 x 46 1/2 in.)signed, titled and dated on verso An influential artist who worked with the Abstract Expressionists, Adja Yunkers was born in Riga, Latvia and lived the first half of his life in Europe. He studied art in St. Petersburg, fought in the Spanish Civil War, and spent time working with Swedish Surrealists in Stockholm, before moving to New York in 1947, where he began to teach at the New School for Social Research. It was while teaching at the New School, that Yunkers met and married Dore Ashton, who would become an extremely influential art critic for the New York Times in 1955. Ashton was a strong proponent of the New York School and the Abstract Expressionists, and through Ashton, Yunkers made friends and colleagues of the artists such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko. His own work and theories both took from, and added to the dominant art aesthetic of the period.
CORGI CLASSICS DIE CAST COMMERCIAL VEHICLES including; 28201 "Gibbs of Fraserburgh" Atkinson refridgerated box trailer, 97162 Atkinson eliptical tanker "Pollock Musselburgh", 27701 Seddon Atkinson horse transporter set, The Brewery collection "Whitbr ead", POV29 1964 Scammell Scarab 3-ton Royal Mail, ovb (4)
CRICKET COLLECTION: A set of EIGHT assorted signed photos, cards, hand written and signed letters 6x4 inch and smaller, signed by Dickey Bird, David Shepherd 2, Aravinda De Silva, Richard Hadlee, Jack Russell, Shaun Pollock and Tom Moody. Good condition. All signed items come with our certificate of authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.95, EU from £4.95, Overseas from £6.95
Selection of London Transport double-royal POSTERS comprising 1969 'London Museums' by Carol Barker (b1938), 1970 'Country Walks - European Conservation Year' by Janet Archer (b1942), 1971 'Grinling Gibbons' by Barbara Pollock, 1972 'Osterley Park' by Richard Beer (b1928) and 1972 'Richmond' by Graham Clarke (b1941). In generally good condition, some edge scuffs, filing holes near top. [5]
NO RESERVE Mathematics & statistics.- Clifford (William Kingdon) Lectures and Essays, edited by Leslie Stephen and Frederick Pollock, 2 vol., first edition, the editor's set, with bookplates, engraved portrait frontispiece and mounted photographic portrait frontispiece, with a loosely inserted A.L.s. from Sir Edwin Ray Lankester pointing out an error in the text, occasional spotting, original cloth, vol.1 rebacked, preserving original backstrip, rubbed, 1879 § Ocagne (Maurice d') Traité de Nomographie, first edition, large folding plate, diagrams, modern cloth, Paris, 1899 § Heath (Sir Thomas) A History of Greek Mathematics, 2 vol., original cloth, Oxford, 1960 § Higgs (Henry) and George Udny Yule, editors. Statistics by the late Sir Robert Giffen...Written about the Years 1898-1900, library stamps, original cloth, rubbed, 1913; and a small quantity of others, Mathematics and Statistics, along with a good selection of works on Cybernetics and scientific management, including some by Clarence Bertrand Thompson, v.s. (3 boxes)
Corgi 1/50th scale Road Haulage Transport Group, 6 examples, to include CC12214 Ken Thomas Ltd Scania 4 Series Tractor Unit, CC12308 Kaye Goodfellow Scammell Contractor, CC12815 John Toulson Scania T Cab Topline, CC11103 Pickfords Scammell Constructor, CC12304 William Booth Scammell Contractor and CC11610 Pollock Albion Reiver (All NMM-BNM) Condition Report / Extra Information All mirrors and certificates present
CRICKET, signed newspaper & magazine cuttings, stickers etc., inc. Tim Curtis, Nassar Hussain, Peter Roebuck, Darren Gough, Tom Moody, Graeme Hick, Richard Illingworth, Dickie Bird, Jack Russell, Eddie Hemmings, Brian Statham, Joey Benjamin, Paul Johnson, Andrew Symonds, Shaun Pollock etc.; Worcs team sheet (home-made), photo stickers laid down to card, 28 signatures etc., duplication, loose in binder, EX, 110*
CRICKET, signed newspaper & magazine cuttings etc., inc. Ian Healy, Alan Donald, Dermot Reeve, Norman Gifford, Robin Smith, Graeme Hick, Paul Adams, Shaun Pollock, Mustaq Ahmed, Andrew Caddick, Graham Thorpe, Mike Atherton, Ray & Ken Palmer (first time this century brothers have umpired a county match) etc.; team sheets (home-made) inc. Somerset (19 Signatures), Warwicks (21), Notts (25) etc., duplication, loose in binder, EX, 153*
Sitwell (Sir George) On the Making of Gardens, one of 100 specially-bound copies signed by the author and artist, colour frontispiece and plates by John Piper, ink stamp of John Stuart Pollock on front pastedown (suppliers of ink and paper to the Dropmore Press), original pictorial green morocco, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, dust-jacket spotted and browned, spine torn, slip-case (a little rubbed and faded), Dropmore Press, 1949 § Hockney (David) Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm..., inscribed by Hockney "For Mario with love from David Nov. 1970 xxx" on half-title, illustrations by Hockney, original rexine, 1970 § Raine (Kathleen) A Place, A State, number 198 of 200 copies, plates by Julian Trevelyan, original hessian-backed marbled boards, dust-jacket, browned, tear to head of rear panel, Enitharmon Press, 1974 § Nashe (Thomas) The Unfortunate Traveller, first edition, plates by Michael Ayrton, signed by the artist on title, original cloth, dust-jacket, a little soiled, 1948 § Gascoyne (David) Poems 1937-1942, first edition, title and plates by Graham Sutherland, title loose, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, dust-jacket, rubbed, spine worn and defective, 1943; and 4 others illustrated by the same, v.s. (9)
Ford (Charles Henri) Spare Parts, number 265 of 950 copies, inscribed by the artist's sister Ruth Ford dated 1974 on front free endpaper, printed in colours on coloured papers, illustrations, original printed boards, a little rubbed and soiled, mostly at edges, lower joint split at head, Athens, Vassily Papachrysanthou, 1966 § Chisholm (Hugh) Several Have Lived, one of 500 copies, tipped-in illustrations by André Masson, original wrappers with paper labels, uncut, spine label chipped and worn, New York, Gemor Press, 1942 § Wilcock (John) The Autobiography & Sex Life of Andy Warhol, illustrations, broken and loose, original pictorial wrappers, rubbed, spine frayed, New York, 1971; and c.35 others, mostly 20th century American art exhibition catalogues including Jim Dine, Jackson Pollock, Claes Oldenburg, Arman and Tom Wesselmann, v.s. (c.40)⁂ The first comprises distinctive collage-style "poem posters" by the artist and poet, Charles Henri Ford, editor of the surrealist magazine View.
Swift (Jonathan). The Works of the Reverend Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, 20 volumes, Dublin: George Faulkner, 1772, engraved plates, volume 1 with portrait frontispiece and bookseller's ticket to title, single advertisement leaf at rear of volume 20, volume 3 with marginal dampstaining to a few leaves, each with bookplate of John Pollock Esqr., fore-edges with early manuscript ownership name(s), contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, a few joints splitting, some wear to spines, 8vo Teerink 48. (20)
WW1 Royal Air Force Pair of Medals, British War & Victory Medals, named to “201274. SGT. J.W. POLLOCK. R.A.F.” Both are complete with ribbons and in generally good condition. John William Pollock served in France as a fitter in the Royal Air Force from the 1st April 1918 to the 22nd February 1919.
Four 1:50 scale Corgi diecast model lorries with various company liveries to include; CC13403 Ken Thomas Ltd MAN TGA Curtainside, 76602 Eddie Stobart Scania Box Trailer, 75205 Pollock ERF EC Series Curtainside & 75405 Knights of Old Leyland DAF Curtainside. All mint with certificates. All within their original boxes.
[§] ALAN DAVIE C.B.E., H.R.S.A. (SCOTTISH 1920-2014) INSIGNIA FOR THE LITTLE WHITE HORSE Signed and inscribed with title and dated 2007 verso, oil on canvas 76cm x 96cm (30in x 37.75in) Note: Alan Davie was born in Grangemouth, Scotland in 1920. His father was a schoolmaster and amateur painter and Alan studied at Edinburgh College of Art in the late 1930s. Jazz had always played an important part in his life and having served with the army in WWII, in 1947 Davie worked as a full time jazz saxophonist and at the same time started to make jewellery, write poetry and design textiles. The following year, now married, he began to travel, visiting Venice, where he was intrigued by the work of Pollock and De Kooning, in the Guggenheim collection. Inspired to start painting again, Davie painted several pictures on rolls of cheap paper in his hotel room. Two were immediately bought by Peggy Guggenheim, who also introduced him to London gallery Gimpel Fils. American abstract expressionism, married with an interest in African art and the influence of Picasso and Klee, formed the roots of Davie's work throughout the 1950s. From the mid fifties an interest in Zen Buddhism and oriental mysticism added further nuances, along with further exposure to the Americans at the time of his first show in New York in 1956. Largely ignored at this time in his homeland, Davie began to sell overseas and finally elevated from poverty, bought a house in Cornwall where he mingled with a number of St Ives artists. From the 1960s Davie maintained that his work, despite its appearance, was not abstract but consisted of emotive common symbols, which spoke directly to the viewer. His role, he insisted was that of a 'shaman', acting as a link between the viewer and the intractable. Taking his cue from the Surrealists, his method was an essentially spontaneous, almost automatic, attempt to unlock the unconscious. Davie's work contains numerous overlapping references to magic, religion and primitive art, in particularly that of the Navajo, Carib, Australian Aborigine, ancient Egyptian, Celt and Pict. This very late painting, Insignias for the Little White Horse, is typical of his mature work. Against a monochrome blue ground, itself suggestive of the spiritual, animals and objects float suspended. Among these, the white horse of the title, the bird and the snake, all resonate with ancient significance in tribal art. While it is tempting to interpret the central motif as an open mouth, as ever with Davie, the moment that one attempts to decipher his hieroglyphs, multiple other meanings become evident. In his later years Davie received many plaudits. His CBE in 1972 was followed by retrospectives in London and New York in 1993, Chicago in 1994 and Edinburgh in 2000 and a major show at Tate Britain in April 2014, the month of his death.
BRITISH HISTORY: Selection of over fifty signed pieces by various British 19th century Prime Ministers, Cabinet members, Politicians etc., including Earl of Liverpool (British Prime Minister 1812-27), Frederick Robinson (British Prime Minister 1827-28), George Hamilton-Gordon (British Prime Minister 1852-55), John Barrow (2), Henry Harding, Lord Hill, Lord Fitzroy Somerset (2), Frederick Pollock, John Hobhouse, Lord Morpeth, Henry Labouchere, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Henry Parnell, Henry Bingham Baring, Alexander Pringle, John Young, Henry Goulburn, James Graham etc. Neatly laid down to three, 4to pages. With slight discolouration of the adhesive and age wear. G, 2
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