John Luke RUA (1906-1975) Shaw's Bridge Belfast Oil and tempera on linen laid on board, 31.8 x 44.5cm (12½ x 17½") Signed and dated '39, signed again and inscribed "Shaw's Bridge, Belfast" verso Provenance. The Bell family by descent and sold by them at Christies May 1999 Lot 218 where purchased by current owner. Exhibited: "United Artists Exhibition", Royal Academy London, 1940, Cat. No. 352; "Ulster Artists Exhibition: The Work of John Luke", Belfast Museum and Art Gallery, 4-28 September 1946, Cat. No. 30; "Exhibition of Paintings by John Luke", CEMA Gallery, Belfast, November 1948, Cat. No. 19; "John Luke Exhibition", Queen's University Common Room, Belfast, 1960, Cat. No. 15; "John Luke (1906-1975"), Ulster Museum, Belfast, 27 January - 4 March 1978, Cat. No. 39; "Ulster Artists Exhibition The Ava Gallery" April 2010 Cat. No. 20; "Ireland her People and Landscape Exhibition" The Ava Gallery June - September 2012 Cat. No. 28; and "Northern Rhythm: The Art of John Luke (1906-1975)", Ulster Museum, Belfast, 2 November 2012 - 28 April 2013, Cat. No 23 Literature: "The Landscapes of John Luke" by John Hewitt, The Studio, August 1949 (Illustrated); "John Luke (1906 - 1978)" By John Hewitt Belfast 1978 p38. Front cover illustration; "Ulster Artists" 2010, Ava Gallery, illustrated p.21; "Ireland: Her People and Landscape" 2012.by Dr. Rosin Kennedy, p.4, illustrated p.5 and again p.35 "Northern Rhythm: The Art of John Luke" 2012 by Joseph Mc Brinn illustrated p.39 John Luke was born in north Belfast and his first job was working in Belfast's thriving shipbuilding industry. He was a student at the Belfast School of Art but left in 1927 to enrol at the Slade School in London, where he studied under Henry Tonks and shared a studio with his fellow countryman F.E. McWilliam. He returned to Belfast in 1931. "Shaw's Bridge" is probably Luke's last major work before the start of the Second World War and a significant point in the artist's development. This work recalls the earlier composition "The Bridge" from 1936 with its more simplified form and colours. Luke painted at least two versions of the bridge, the earliest in 1936, and he made at least one linocut print (c.1933), an example of which was sold in these rooms in 2008. "Shaw's Bridge" represents a synthesis in the artist's style, culminating in the more recognisable decorative and rhythmical compositions, and it is the work in which he settled on the technique of applying oil glazes over a tempera base. Luke continued to use this unusual technique for the remainder of his meticulously planned and executed easel paintings. "Shaw's Bridge" is probably the last painting that Luke completed with an identifiable topographical subject matter. After 1940 he turned increasingly to mural painting and public commissions.
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Flint (Sir William Russell) Drawings, 1950, numbered limited edition of 500, signed by the author, folio, t.e.g., quarter cloth, slipcase (slipcase very worn, additional signed print not present); Shakespeare (William), A Midsummer-Night's Dream, 1914, Constable, 12 tipped-in colour plates after W. Heath Robinson, original quarter-style cloth (front free endpaper torn, some wear to spine edges); Andersen (Hans Christian), Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, 1930, Harrap, 40 colour and b/w plates, after Harry Clarke (some frayed edges), original cloth; with two others (5)
After B. Pentin - `"Let `Em Have It", 4th War Loan, Buy Extra Bonds` (Poster depicting an American G.I. throwing a hand grenade), colour print, approx 100cm x 70cm, within a pine frame, and after Ronay - `"They Can Take Only Our Bodies", Holland Will Rise Again, Give For Dutch War Relief, Give Through Your War Chest` (Poster depicting a blindfolded Dutchman against a wall), colour print, approx 109cm x 66cm, within a glazed pine frame.
Cigarette cards - Godfrey Phillips 1940 set of 'Beauties of Today', rare original coloured artwork for complete set of forty-eight cards, featuring stars of the period in glamorous poses including Betty Grable, Dorothy Lamour, Carole Lombard, etc, individual vibrant watercolours with print copy of each design
Framed and glazed signed limited edition print, entitled - Quay Departure, showing the Scandinavian leaving Parkeston Quay, by Malcolm Root G.R.A., numbered 62 of 200, together with two other framed and glazed prints of railway trains, by Jack Hill, a signed limited edition print - 'A Wing and a Prayer', 15th September 1940, from the original painting by Michael Turner, signed in the margin by Michael Turner, Group Captain A. R. Wright DFC AFC and Flight Lieutenant Ray Holmes, numbered 510 of 3450 and one other signed print of Concorde over New York (5)
A signed limited edition print after Norman Thelwell entitled `The Return Home` 8/250, 29cm x 36.5cm framed and glazed with Tryton Gallery label verso, and a group of lithographs to include four `Cries of London`, two racing prints after Henry Alken, a landscape of Windsor castle, a botanical print of a rose (9).
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