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Lot 262
An oak desk or hall table with two drawers carved with foliage and green man mask lug handles, the arched back rail with a very narrow shelf and carved with florets, scrolled leaves and stylized wheat sheaf, on turned front legs and stretcher, height of table surface 75cm, overall height 103cm, width 92cm, depth 44cm
Lot 4410
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster commissioned by the C.E.M.A. (Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts - later to become the Arts Council of Northern Ireland), it features a painting by the artist Rodrigo Moynihan (1910-1990) titled 'May - A Picnic' and it was originally intended to be hung "where war workers congregate". In 1940, during the Second World War, the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA), was appointed to help promote and maintain British culture. Chaired by Lord De La Warr, President of the Board of Education, the Council was government-funded and after the war was renamed the Arts Council of Great Britain. The interest in the arts during World War II led to the first government subsidy of the arts in Britain with the founding of the Arts Council in 1946, championed by Jenny Lee. Moynihan was born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, in 1910, to Herbert James Moynihan, a fruit broker, and Maria (née de la Puerta). His Anglo-Spanish family moved to London in 1918 and then to Wisconsin. A winter in Rome 1927–1928 inspired him to devote himself to art, and in 1928 he started studying at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. In the 1930s he gained a reputation as a pioneer of abstract painting in England as a member of the Objective Abstraction movement.[4][5] Moynihan was later attracted to social realism and became associated from 1937 with the Euston Road School. War artist Moynihan served in the British Army from 1940 to 1943, first in the Royal Artillery and then doing camouflage work. Following an injury, he was given a full-time salaried commission by the War Artists' Advisory Committee, WAAC, having previously completed a number of short-term contracts for the Committee. He completed a number of portraits of ATS and senior, male, military figures for this contract and also for subsequent shorter WAAC contracts. Moynihan was appointed an Associate Member of the Royal Academy in 1944. After the war, he was professor of painting at the Royal College of Art 1948–1957, and was elected a full member of the Royal Academy in 1954. At this period, he was in demand for official portraits, and executed commissions of amongst others Princess Elizabeth (1946) and Prime Minister Clement Attlee (1947). He changed direction from 1957, resigning from the Royal College of Art and the Royal Academy and returning to abstraction, working outside England in Europe and North America. From 1971 onwards he was inspired to return to figurative painting in the form of large-scale studio still-lives, unordered, unarranged and apparently random. One of these such paintings was, The shelf, objects and shadows - front view (1982–83). This return to figuration also drew him to move back towards portraiture – with portraits of friends leading to renewed commissions by the end of the 1970s. Notable portraits of this period include Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (1983–85; National Portrait Gallery, London) and Dame Peggy Ashcroft (1984; National Portrait Gallery). Year of printing: 1943, country of printing: UK, designer: Rodrigo Moynihan, dimensions (cm): 76x101.5. Good condition, creases and minor tears in margins.
Lot 704
A Pair of Early 20th Century Japanese Elm and Parquetry Decorated Free-Standing Display Stands, of graduated form with two small drawers flanked by a shelf with sliding doors, the base section with an open shelf flanked by pivoting wings and sliding doors with drawers below, 50cm by 27cm by 128cm . Cabinet 1 - general scuffs and scratches consistent with age. Sliding door fretwork to upper section damaged. Doors on pivoting winged sections also similar. General scuffs and losses around the base. Metal strapwork on base section starting to lift. Cabinet 2 - similar to preceding, with same faults. 041019
Lot 740
A Victorian Gilt and Gesso Overmantel Mirror, 3rd quarter 19th century, of breakfront form with ball surmounted cornice above a floral and shell decorated panel with rectangular bevelled glass plate below flanked by moulded pilasters decorated with acanthus leaves, the base ebonised, 73cm by 139cm. In very good cosmetic condition. Small bruises to corners of breakfront shelf. Some minor natural cracking to gesso, mainly around leaves at the base of pilasters. Mirror plate seems original. 051019
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