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* JAMES MCNAUGHT RSW RGI (SCOTTISH b. 1948),SKETCH FOR GIRL WITH SYPHONpencil on paper, monogrammed and dated 1988, titled label versoimage size 27cm x 21cm, overall size 54cm x 46cm Mounted, framed and under glass.Label verso: Barclay Lennie Fine Art Limited, Glasgow.Provenance: Purchased from the estate of Tom Shanks.
Actor, Stephen Fry signature piece featuring a signed white card plus a 6x4 colour photograph. Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, broadcaster, comedian, director and writer. He first came to prominence in the 1980s as one half of the comic double act Fry and Laurie, alongside Hugh Laurie, with the two starring in A Bit of Fry and Laurie (1989-1995) and Jeeves and Wooster (1990-1993). He also starred in the sketch series Alfresco (1983-1984) alongside Laurie, Emma Thompson, and Robbie Coltrane, and in Blackadder (1986-1989) alongside Rowan Atkinson. Since 2011, he has served as president of the mental health charity Mind. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Actor, Dawn French signed 6x4 black and white photograph. French (born 11 October 1957) is a British actress, comedian, presenter and writer. French is known for writing and starring on the BBC comedy sketch show French and Saunders with her best friend and comedy partner, Jennifer Saunders, and played the lead role as Geraldine Granger in the BBC sitcom The Vicar of Dibley. She has been nominated for seven BAFTA TV Awards and won a BAFTA Fellowship with Saunders in 2009. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Tracey Ullman signed 10x8 black and white photo. Ullman is a British American actress, comedian, singer, writer, producer, and director. Her earliest mainstream appearances were on British television sketch comedy shows A Kick Up the Eighties and Three of a Kind. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Attributed to Joseph Farquharson (1846-1935) Scottish"Sketch from a Track" Initialled, inscribed, signed and dated 1859 verso, oil on board, together with an oil on canvas depicting a mill, an oil on board of a building in woodland, oil on canvas of a highland scene and an oil on board study of a man inscribed Tangia?, 14cm by 19cm and various other sizes (5) (three unframed)
RONALD SEARLE (1920-2011) autograph and inscription on letter dated 10-5-62 on letter from an autograph collector, plus Berry Appleby (1909-1996), signed and inscribed, original sketch of 'The Gambols', approx 105 x 140mm (paper size) + ALEX GRAHAM (1913-1991), signed original sketch, approx 140 x 70mm (paper size) + TERENCE 'LARRY' PARKES (1927-2003), signed original sketch, approx 90 x 175mm (paper size) + REGINALD 'REG' WOOTTON (1908-1995), signed pictorial 'Sporting Sam' printed card, approx 120 x 90mm (paper size) (5)
A decorative album compiled by Edward Charles le Grice, FRPS (1888-1970) including autograph of Queen Mary (1867-1953), various photographs of Norwich Mayors and other dignitaries, other photographs including Alfred George Buckham (1879-1956), aerial view of Edinburgh with bi-plane, approx 200 x 160mm, signed and inscribed below image, Alexander Keighley (1861-1947) carbon print, Gondolier, Venice, approx 150 x 180mm, William Farren (1862-1965), study of a fly-catcher, approx 195 x 145mm, signed below image, Oliver Pike (1877-1963), study of a black throated diver, approx 205 x 155mm, signed below image, John Dudley Johnston (1868-1955), view of Christchurch, approx 160 x 180mm, signed below image, Henry J Howard, photomicrograph of the eggs of the large white butterfly, approx 155 x 155mm, original gaze female jay feeding her young, approx 155 x 150mm, signed below image, Eric I C Hosking (1906-1991), study of a nightjar, approx 200 x 150mm, signed and dated below image etc, other items including Gilbert Ledward (1858-1960), signed, inscribed and dated sketch '...the first sketch for the memorial to Dean Spence, erected in Gloucester Cathedral', approx 190 x 160mm, Frederick Tansley Munnings (1875-1953), two items, a pen and ink cartoon 'Getting the Bird', approx 200 x 160mm, and a watercolour of two dogs 'Welcome footsteps', approx 185 x 175mm, etc + some other watercolours, drawings and etchings by various artists, 4to, decorative panelled calf with design of seahorses and seaweed, spine gilt decorated and titled 'In Memoriam pulchritudinis' - 'Liber Recordatonium', inner dentelles gilt, decorative watercolour bookplate '...designed and painted by a member of my [Norwich] prison class in 1939...'
Manuscript. Dunfermline Highland Games, 1890. “Highland Gathering and Games Programme" [printed], Monday 21 July 1890, loosely inserted in a small album of 12 sketches, pen and pencil drawings of participants and events, wrestlers, Pipe Band & Scottish kilted dancers. A small pencil sketch of J. Hine of Carlisle, a runner in the lead by miles. Also putting the shot, etc. Some of the speech bubbles use Scottish dialect, the programme and some of the drawings are loosely inserted in the small square album. Paper boards and worn tartan cloth at spine and corners, amateur hand but holding a charm for all that. 1890.
John Constable R.A. (East Bergholt 1776-1837 London)East Bergholt Church, the south porch pencil and watercolour on laid paper27 x 19.7cm (10 5/8 x 7 3/4in).Footnotes:ProvenanceCollection of H.W. UnderdownProbably Sale, Sotheby's, London, 10 December 1925, lot 95With Leggatt Brothers, LondonWith Gerald M. Norman Gallery, 1971, by whom sold to Alfred Essex for £315Private Collection, UKLiteratureG. Reynolds, The Early Paintings and Drawings of John Constable, New Haven and London, 1996, p.65, cat. no. 05.32, ill. pl. 271The village of East Bergholt where Constable grew up provided material for many of his early works. His family home, East Bergholt House, was almost next door to St Mary's Church and the church was the subject of a number of sketches and paintings done in his early years. An oil sketch of the South porch and cupola taken from the same angle, of around 1810, is in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (138 - 1888) and a related, finished oil painting now at Tate, London (N 01245) was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1810, no. 116 - one of Constable's earliest exhibited canvases.Apart from the attachment Constable will have felt to East Bergholt Church, his representation of a churchyard is linked to a tradition of churchyard imagery that goes back to Thomas Gray's 'Elegy written in a country churchyard' published in 1751, a poem that Constable himself was to illustrate later in his career. In the present study the pencil outlines describe in detail the cupola and the tracery on the gabled South front, while broad watercolour washes fill in the shadows on the masonry, the trees on the left and the sky with its billowing clouds giving it all the immediacy of an on-the-spot sketch.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Hector Caffieri, RI, RBA (British, 1847-1932)A walk in the garden; Reclining figure reading on a couch, a pairboth signed 'H.Caffieri' (the first lower right, the second lower left) watercolour heightened with bodycolour the first 35 x 22.9cm (13 3/4 x 9in), the second 22.3 x 34.9cm (8 3/4 x 13 3/4in). (2)There is further watercolour sketch of a lady with a parasol on the reverse of the former.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Rachel Arif Himalayan Poppies, 2022 Oil on Paper Signed on Verrso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Rachel is a Lancashire-born artist, known for her energetic seascape paintings as well as her landscape and figurative works. She is a member of the The Manchester Academy of Fine Art. Her weather filled seascapes, portray the relationship between the land, sea and the forces of nature, closely mirroring the way in which the land and weather can shape our emotions, hopes and aspirations as human beings. Her work is textured, magnetic and atmospheric. Education Early studies in Manchester, Art History then predominantly self taught. Select Exhibitions/Awards 2022 Summer Exhibition at Thompsons Gallery Aldeburgh 2022 Two works selected for The Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition 2022 Two works selected for The Pastel Society Annual Exhibition 2021 Exhibition at OXO London for Sketch for Survival initiative 2021 Two works donated to Sketch for Survival auction 2021 "All The Best" group exhibition with MAFA at Dean Clough 2021 Two paintings selected for The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition 2021 Selected as associate member of MAFA (Manchester Academy of Fine Arts) 2021 Restless Coast Exhibition at Gallery East Woodbridge 2021 RBA (Royal Society of British Artists) Two Selected Works Mall Galleries 2021 Three artist exhibition "Land, Sea and Sky at John Noott Gallery Cotswolds 2020/2021 Winter Exhibition at M1 Fine Art 2020 Christmas Exhibition at Wykeham Gallery 2020 The Autumn Hampshire Art Fair at Nadia Waterfield Fine Art 2020 Rye Art Gallery Turner Inspired 2020 Rye Art Gallery Seascapes 2020 Wyekham Gallery Summer Exhibition 2020 Thompsons Marylebone Summer Landscapes 2020 M1 Fine Art Landscape Exhibition 2020 M1 Fine Art Virtual Summer Exhibition 2020 Mall Galleries Curators Choice Online Exhibition 2020 M1 Fine Art Women in Art Spring Exhibition 2020 RBA (Royal Society of British Artists) Selected Works Mall Galleries 2019 Cambridge Contemporary Summer Show 2018 RBA (Royal Society of British Artists) Selected Works Mall Galleries 2018 Solo Exhibition at The Gallery Snape Maltings 2018 Talented Art Fair, Old Truman Brewery 2017 Art in Mind Exhibition, Brick Lane, London Gallery Representation The Pastel Society Mall Galleries and The Pastel Society online The RBA Exhibition Mall Galleries and the RBA online ING Discerning Eye Mall Galleries and ING Online Kairos Collective Manchester Academy of Fine Art Website Puckhaber Decorative Antiques (Fulham and Rye) Gallery East Woodbridge Nadia Waterfield Fine Art Mall Galleries Buy Art Online M1 Fine Art Gallery Soho M1 Fine Art Gallery Greenwich Thompsons Gallery Marylebone/Aldeburgh The Gallery Snape Maltings Rye Art Gallery John Nootts Gallery Wykeham Gallery ING Discerning Eye 2020 Exhibition (online) Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork I've decided to include three figurative works this year. Mainly know to be a sea/landscape artist. I'm enjoying going back to my roots of drawing, sketching and playing around with floral and figure. You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardizes the charitable work we do. Anyone found doing will subject to legal action.
Rachel Arif An Olive Branch, 2022 Oil on Paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Rachel is a Lancashire-born artist, known for her energetic seascape paintings as well as her landscape and figurative works. She is a member of the The Manchester Academy of Fine Art. Her weather filled seascapes, portray the relationship between the land, sea and the forces of nature, closely mirroring the way in which the land and weather can shape our emotions, hopes and aspirations as human beings. Her work is textured, magnetic and atmospheric. Education Early studies in Manchester, Art History then predominantly self taught. Select Exhibitions/Awards 2022 Summer Exhibition at Thompsons Gallery Aldeburgh 2022 Two works selected for The Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition 2022 Two works selected for The Pastel Society Annual Exhibition 2021 Exhibition at OXO London for Sketch for Survival initiative 2021 Two works donated to Sketch for Survival auction 2021 "All The Best" group exhibition with MAFA at Dean Clough 2021 Two paintings selected for The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition 2021 Selected as associate member of MAFA (Manchester Academy of Fine Arts) 2021 Restless Coast Exhibition at Gallery East Woodbridge 2021 RBA (Royal Society of British Artists) Two Selected Works Mall Galleries 2021 Three artist exhibition "Land, Sea and Sky at John Noott Gallery Cotswolds 2020/2021 Winter Exhibition at M1 Fine Art 2020 Christmas Exhibition at Wykeham Gallery 2020 The Autumn Hampshire Art Fair at Nadia Waterfield Fine Art 2020 Rye Art Gallery Turner Inspired 2020 Rye Art Gallery Seascapes 2020 Wyekham Gallery Summer Exhibition 2020 Thompsons Marylebone Summer Landscapes 2020 M1 Fine Art Landscape Exhibition 2020 M1 Fine Art Virtual Summer Exhibition 2020 Mall Galleries Curators Choice Online Exhibition 2020 M1 Fine Art Women in Art Spring Exhibition 2020 RBA (Royal Society of British Artists) Selected Works Mall Galleries 2019 Cambridge Contemporary Summer Show 2018 RBA (Royal Society of British Artists) Selected Works Mall Galleries 2018 Solo Exhibition at The Gallery Snape Maltings 2018 Talented Art Fair, Old Truman Brewery 2017 Art in Mind Exhibition, Brick Lane, London Gallery Representation The Pastel Society Mall Galleries and The Pastel Society online The RBA Exhibition Mall Galleries and the RBA online ING Discerning Eye Mall Galleries and ING Online Kairos Collective Manchester Academy of Fine Art Website Puckhaber Decorative Antiques (Fulham and Rye) Gallery East Woodbridge Nadia Waterfield Fine Art Mall Galleries Buy Art Online M1 Fine Art Gallery Soho M1 Fine Art Gallery Greenwich Thompsons Gallery Marylebone/Aldeburgh The Gallery Snape Maltings Rye Art Gallery John Nootts Gallery Wykeham Gallery ING Discerning Eye 2020 Exhibition (online) Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork I've decided to include three figurative works this year. Mainly know to be a sea/landscape artist. I'm enjoying going back to my roots of drawing, sketching and playing around with floral and figure. You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardizes the charitable work we do. Anyone found doing will subject to legal action.
Rachel Arif The Florist's Table, 2022 Oil on Paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Rachel is a Lancashire-born artist, known for her energetic seascape paintings as well as her landscape and figurative works. She is a member of the The Manchester Academy of Fine Art. Her weather filled seascapes, portray the relationship between the land, sea and the forces of nature, closely mirroring the way in which the land and weather can shape our emotions, hopes and aspirations as human beings. Her work is textured, magnetic and atmospheric. Education Early studies in Manchester, Art History then predominantly self taught. Select Exhibitions/Awards 2022 Summer Exhibition at Thompsons Gallery Aldeburgh 2022 Two works selected for The Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition 2022 Two works selected for The Pastel Society Annual Exhibition 2021 Exhibition at OXO London for Sketch for Survival initiative 2021 Two works donated to Sketch for Survival auction 2021 "All The Best" group exhibition with MAFA at Dean Clough 2021 Two paintings selected for The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition 2021 Selected as associate member of MAFA (Manchester Academy of Fine Arts) 2021 Restless Coast Exhibition at Gallery East Woodbridge 2021 RBA (Royal Society of British Artists) Two Selected Works Mall Galleries 2021 Three artist exhibition "Land, Sea and Sky at John Noott Gallery Cotswolds 2020/2021 Winter Exhibition at M1 Fine Art 2020 Christmas Exhibition at Wykeham Gallery 2020 The Autumn Hampshire Art Fair at Nadia Waterfield Fine Art 2020 Rye Art Gallery Turner Inspired 2020 Rye Art Gallery Seascapes 2020 Wyekham Gallery Summer Exhibition 2020 Thompsons Marylebone Summer Landscapes 2020 M1 Fine Art Landscape Exhibition 2020 M1 Fine Art Virtual Summer Exhibition 2020 Mall Galleries Curators Choice Online Exhibition 2020 M1 Fine Art Women in Art Spring Exhibition 2020 RBA (Royal Society of British Artists) Selected Works Mall Galleries 2019 Cambridge Contemporary Summer Show 2018 RBA (Royal Society of British Artists) Selected Works Mall Galleries 2018 Solo Exhibition at The Gallery Snape Maltings 2018 Talented Art Fair, Old Truman Brewery 2017 Art in Mind Exhibition, Brick Lane, London Gallery Representation The Pastel Society Mall Galleries and The Pastel Society online The RBA Exhibition Mall Galleries and the RBA online ING Discerning Eye Mall Galleries and ING Online Kairos Collective Manchester Academy of Fine Art Website Puckhaber Decorative Antiques (Fulham and Rye) Gallery East Woodbridge Nadia Waterfield Fine Art Mall Galleries Buy Art Online M1 Fine Art Gallery Soho M1 Fine Art Gallery Greenwich Thompsons Gallery Marylebone/Aldeburgh The Gallery Snape Maltings Rye Art Gallery John Nootts Gallery Wykeham Gallery ING Discerning Eye 2020 Exhibition (online) Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork I've decided to include three figurative works this year. Mainly know to be a sea/landscape artist. I'm enjoying going back to my roots of drawing, sketching and playing around with floral and figure. You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardizes the charitable work we do. Anyone found doing will subject to legal action.
A pair of Regency carved oak shell-back hall chairs attributed to Gillows The backs painted with family crests, above rectangular seats on octagonal tapering legs and ball feet, each 43cm wide, 38cm deep, 86cm high, seat height 45cm. (2) Provenance: The Estate of the Late Cherry Barker The shell and C scroll back is particularly associated with the firm of Gillows of London and Lancaster in the 2nd quarter of the 19th century. A pair of Gillows stamped hall chairs with this form of shell back are in the collection of Abbott Hall Art Gallery, Kendal. Gillows also made a set of 'shell back' hall chairs (not illustrated in their sketch books) for the Reverend Holland Edwards of Pennant, Conway, North Wales, in 1811. See S.Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840, Suffolk, 2008, pl.177.
Illustrated.- Aldin (Cecil) Old Manor Houses, one of 380 copies signed by artist with original sketch of terrier, frontispiece, plates and hand-coloured illustrations, original vellum-backed boards, ink-stain to lower cover, sunned, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, [1922] § Wilcox (Ella Wheeler) Poems of Passion and Pleasure, one of 500 copies signed by artist and author, frontispiece and plates by by Dudley Tennant, tissue-guards, scattered spotting, original vellum, without ties, soiled as usual, bumping to corners and extremities, n.d § The Fables of Aesop, one of 500 copies, frontispiece, plates and illustrations by Edward J. Detmold, original decorative morocco, gilt, 1981; and others illustrated, v.s. (33)
NO RESERVE Ballet and violin.- Zhdanov (L.) [Cyrillic] Bolshoi Ballet School, first edition, signed presentation inscription from Māris Liepa with sketch of 2 dancers to endpaper, additionally signed on leaf following title, photographic illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, some light rubbing and toning, Moscow, 1974 § Nijinsky (Romola) Nijinsky, by his Wife, printed not from the author loosely inserted with secretarial message inside loosely inserted, plates, original cloth, shelf-lean, fading, remains of dust-jacket laid down, 1933; and another, an inscribed work by Yehudi Menuhin, 4to & 8vo (3)
NO RESERVE Afghanistan.- Lushington (Henry) A Great country's little wars; or, England, Affghanistan, and Sinde; being a sketch, with reference to their morality and policy, of recent transactions on the north-western frontier of India, first edition, 2 lithographed maps, of which 1 folding, 2 advertisement ff. at end, title, second advertisement f., and endpapers foxed, occasional spotting, lightly browned, original cloth, spine gilt, spine faded, little stained, rubbed, rare in commerce, 8vo, John W. Parker, 1844.
attributed to Lemon Hart Michael (British, 1824-1902), ‘Guernsey 1886’, comprising a pencil and watercolour sketch of the slipway, Albert statue and Picquet House, St Peter Port; and an en grisaille watercolour looking across the harbour mouth from what is now the model yacht pond, St Peter Port 4 1/8 x 6 7/8in. (10.5 x 17.5cm.); 3¾ x 8 7/8in. (9.5 x 22.5cm.); together with two other pencil sketches by the same hand, ‘Steamer at ..?.. Guernsey 1885’; and a study of a sailing boat, inscribed ‘Guernsey 1885’. (4)
Rosanne Guille MA (RCA) (Sark, b.1973), 'Lobster Caught in Sark Waters, July 14th 2007' watercolour, signed lower right and titled lower left 7 ½ x 9 ¾in. (19 x 24.75cm.); together with a signed copy of the artist's book, 'Sark Sketch Book, Journal of a Local Artist', pub. 2004. (2) * Lightly faded acidic mount.
A VICTORIAN LANDSCAPE WATERCOLOUR, TITLED AND DATED 'WHITNASH JUNE 25th 1859', bears a signature T Baker lower left, attributed to Thomas Baker 1809-1869 to the mount, approximate size 24cm x 35cm, together with a Percy Lancaster 1878-1950 watercolour sketch of a farmyard scene, signed bottom right, approximate size 24cm x 35cm and a signed Marjorie C. Bates print of Chester (3)
3 Druckgraphiken und eine Zeichnung. Meist 18. Jahrhundert.Circa bis 49,5 cm x 71 cm. 3 Blätter. Unter anderem: Pierre GALLAYS (1677 - 1749), Andrea ZUCCHI (1678 - 1740). Dazu eine Zeichnung, wohl ein Entwurf für Kirchenfenster oder Altarflügel etc. (Keine Signatur gefunden).3 graphic works of art and one drawing. Mostly 18th century.Approx. up to 49,5 cm x 71 cm. 3 sheets. Among others: Pierre GALLAYS (1677 - 1749), Andrea ZUCCHI (1678 - 1740). In addition a drawing, probably a sketch for church windows or altar wings etc. (No signature found).
Donald Friend (Australian 1915-1989) "Sketch for Grenada Fishers" Signed, titled and dated 1945, with gallery label - 'The Piccadilly Gallery, London' on verso, ink and wash.36.5cm x 24.5cm (14.5in x 9.75in)Provenance: Christie's, London, Indian Contemporary Paintings, 16th October, 1995, Lot 10.Rosebery's, London, 14th July, 2009, Lot 627.Private collection, UK.The drawing is in very good, original condition. There are some minor spots of foxing across the sheet. The drawing is ornately framed and glazed. The original frame has some minor scuffs and knocks commensurate with age.
A quantity of military ephemera including a Home Guard signalling manual, an ARP questionnaire, a Fascist Italian military pamphlet identifying British military uniforms and armoured fighting vehicles, an Imperial German field post pro-forma and a pen, ink and watercolour sketch of Stonehenge from No 13 Camp, Larkhill, 1921, etc
Property from the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust, LondonMARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (1906-1996)Two women on a shipoil on canvassight-size: 40 x 29.2 cm (15 3/4 x 11 1/2 in)Painted in the early 1960sSold with a preparatory study: MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (1906-1996)A study for Two women on a ship charcoal and pastel sight-size: 21 x 18 cm (8 1/4 x 7 1/8 in)Executed in the early 1960sLITERATURE:I. Schlenker, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky 1906-1996, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, New York, 2009, p. 342, no. 198E. Michel, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky 1906-1996, 2003, p. 82(2)Doubtless inspired by a ferry crossing to the continent taken some time in 1963, in the present work Motesiczky portrays two women seated in high-backed red armchairs deep in conversation. The two travelling companions are strikingly different in their appearance; one blonde, blue eyed wearing light clothes of orange and yellow, whilst the other, who dominates the foreground, wears a deep blue robe with shiny dark hair.The pair are framed by a large porthole, indicating that the setting is on board a ship. In the background is the calm, light blue sea set against the setting sunset. Their surroundings are made clearer in the accompanying drawing, most likely executed on board the ship, that is included in this lot. In the sketch some details are more defined such as the fruit on the table, whilst other details are omitted in the final painting, including the light blue shawl of the brunette. Although the exact date of the painting is unknown, according to Schlenker, several facts attribute it to the early 1960s, including the contemporary hairstyles of the ladies. Writing to Elias Canetti, her lover of many years, Marie-Louise wrote of this boat journey that she 'saw wonderful things on deck… there the people really look the way I would love to have them in a portrait.' (J. Lloyd, The Undiscovered Expressionist, London, 2007, p. 181). Indeed, the soft-featured face of the blonde woman shares striking similarities with Iris Murdoch, an author and lifelong friend whose portrait Motesiczky would complete the following year. Selected Works from the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust Motesiczky’s expressive and very painterly style had been formed before the Second World War, in large part influenced and encouraged by Max Beckmann. On first being introduced to Beckmann in 1920 she recalled: ‘A winged creature from Mars could not have made a greater impact on me’. Once in Britain it was Oskar Kokoschka, a family friend from Vienna now similarly exiled, who helped champion her work. Thereafter, and very much on a personal level, it was the writer Elias Canetti (1905-1994) a fellow émigré who exercised a major influence over her artistic output. Marie-Louise von Motesiczky grew up with her parents and her brother Karl in central Vienna. Her mother Henriette came from an illustrious Viennese Jewish banking dynasty. Her maternal grandfather, Leopold von Lieben, was President of the Stock Exchange; her grandmother, Anna, one of Freud’s early patients. She counted the Todescos, and Ephrussis among her family circle, and she, her mother and her brother Karl spent their summers at Villa Todesco in Hinterbrühl, south west of the capital. But over time family tragedy, financial difficulties and the rise of Nazi Germany took their toll. Marie-Louise’s father died at the end of 1909 and after the First World War her mother’s considerable inheritance gradually diminished through high taxation, poor investments, and the financial crash of 1929. Then, with the rise of the Third Reich and the Anschluss in March 1938, when Austria was annexed by Germany, she and her mother fled Vienna for the Netherlands before emigrating to England in 1939. Further distress followed when her brother Karl, who had remained in Austria, was arrested and deported to Auschwitz, dying of typhus there on 25 June 1943. On Motesiczky’s arrival in London Kokoschka ensured her inclusion in a series of group exhibitions, and assisted her in the staging of a solo exhibition at the Czechoslovak Institute in the autumn of 1944. Further group shows followed, and in 1960 she had a second solo exhibition at the influential Beaux Arts Gallery off Bond Street. On the Continent she received acclaim for her work in exhibitions in Amsterdam and The Hague in 1952, one of her canvases being purchased by the Stedelijk Museum. The same decade she exhibited in Munich and Düsseldorf, and in the 1960s was the subject of shows in Germany and Austria, including a one-person exhibition at the Wiener Secession in 1966. In 1985, a full twenty-five years after her work had been shown at the Beaux Arts Gallery, she was the subject of another solo exhibition in London, at the Goethe-Institut, which was widely acclaimed in the press. In 1994 a major retrospective of her work was held in Vienna at the Österreichische Galerie, Oberes Belvedere and in Manchester at the City Art Gallery. In 2006-07 her work was celebrated in a centenary exhibition at Tate Liverpool, travelling to Frankfurt, Vienna, Passau and Southampton City Art Gallery. Also in 2007 Jill Lloyd’s biography of Marie-Louise appeared: The Undiscovered Expressionist. A Life of Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, followed in 2009 by the catalogue raisonné of her paintings by Ines Schlenker itemising over 350 works. Most recently in 2019-20, Tate Britain held an exhibition devoted to her to inaugurate the gallery named in perpetuity as the ‘Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Archive Gallery’ for all future displays of Tate’s archive holdings in general. The work of Marie-Louise von Motesiczky held in public collections Institutions in the UK holding works by the artist include: the Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, the British Museum, Burgh House, Hampstead, Freud Museum, Garden Museum, National Portrait Gallery and Tate in London (which also holds her archive); the Amersham Museum, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, Manchester Art Gallery, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh and the Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow. Elsewhere her work is in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin; the Stedelijk, Amsterdam; the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam; the Städel Museum, Frankfurt; the German Literary Archive in Marbach; the Albertina, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, the Leopold Museum and the Museum Wien in Vienna; the Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz and the Stanley Museum, University of Iowa, USA. Please find a link to the Catalogue Raisonné for Marie-Louise von Motesiczky: https://www.motesiczky.org/publications/ Marie-Louise von Motesiczky 1906-1996. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings by Ines Schlenker, Hudson Hills Press, New York, 2009. The Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust The Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust, is a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales (no. 7572024) and a registered charity (no. 1140890): www.motesiczky.org. The copyright for Marie-Louise von Motesiczky’s paintings, drawings and correspondence or other written work originating from her, her mother Henriette and brother Karl, lies with the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust.
J. McGregor (British 20th century) "Industrial Town (Stockport)", signed and dated '62, titled on artist's label verso, oil on board, together with a pencil sketch of the same scene by the artist, initialled, with annotations.45cm x 90.5cm (17.75in x 35.5in) and 13cm x 18.5cm (5in x 7.25in)Qty: 2The painting is in very good, original condition. The varnish has yellowed universally across the painting as highlighted by a lighter strip along the top of the painting. The painting is framed but not glazed. The frame has some minor scuffs and knocks commensurate with age. The drawing is in very good, original condition with no obvious faults to report. The drawing is unframed.

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