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Click here to subscribeRobert Linklater, 20th/21st Century, Reclining female nude, signed with initials, pastel, 9 1/2" x 17" and a further study by the same hand, Ron Freeborn, 20th/21st Century `The Balcony` signed and dated `91, oils on canvas, 23 1/2" x 17 1/2" and a still life of lemons and glass tumblers, by the same hand, signed and dated `89, oils on canvas, 21 1/2" x 15" (4).
MARGARET ROSS HISLOP RSA, RBA (Scottish 1894-1972) Shirley Poppies signed, inscribed verso, oil on panel 51cm x 40.5cm Note: Born West Calder and trained at Edinburgh College of Art. She exhibited at the RSA and was elected a Royal Scottish Academician in 1964. Best known for her still life and figures in oil, Hislop`s work has sold consistently strongly at Sotheby`s (£1400 & £1350) Christie`s, Lyon & Turnbull (£1200 & £1600), Bonhams and Philips (£1350 & £1300) over numerous years.
RUNYON DAMON: (1880-1946) American Writer, author of Guys and Dolls (1932). Interesting T.L.S., Damon Runyon, in bold pencil, two pages, 8vo, Las Melaleuccas, Hibiscus Island, 6th December 1937, to Mr. Brittain. Runyon states that his correspondent`s letter has finally caught up with him at his winter quarters and continues `I hate to tell you how we spend Christmas in Florida, because I might catch you in the midst of a snow storm and cause you to burst into tears.` Runyon further writes `I am grateful to you for your kind expressions about my stories. I have received a number of reviews from various English publications and I note with pain that I am accused by some of perverting the English language with my slang. Of course it isn`t slang at all. I never invented a slang expression in my fiction in my life. I merely pick up the speech of my characters, and try to reflect their manner of thinking and their attitude toward life -- and death.` and continues `Incidentally, nearly all slang, especially underworld slang, stems directly from the English. I guarantee to trace any slang term, not born of some new and modern field like our baseball, or the movies, etc., to the English. Take, just for instance, "doll", meaning a girl. It goes back to the old English "Bartholomew Doll", meaning a bawd. "Guy" is old English meaning a country fellow. The Americans use it to mean fellows in general. The curious thing about underworld slang is that it has changed so little across the century and that the same words that were in use in the old English underworld are still in use today. Well, with this brief lecture on slang, I`ll again thank you, and turn off. It seems to me that in writing stories, the story is more important than the manner of telling it, but the critics never seem to give consideration to my stories as stories, but as curiousities (sic) in method of narration.` A letter of fine content, particularly with its reference to the origination of the words Guys and Dolls. Typed on onion skin paper, with some show through, although Runyon has carefully avoided typing across the same lines and the letter therefore remains perfectly legible. VG
Valentine Bartholomew (1799-1879). Still Life of Anemones and Spring Flowers. Signed with the artist`s initials, pencil and watercolour with scratching out, 14cm by 9.5cm, From 1821-1827 the artist lived and worked with Charles Hullmandel the lithographer. In 1826 exhibited a flower piece at the RA, was a member of the New Watercolour Society and elected an associate member of the Old Watercolour Society in 1835. He was appointed flower painter to the Duchess of Kent and Flower Painter in Ordinary to the Queen in 1837.
Jean Alexandre Remy Couder (1808-1879) French. "Still Life with Fruit and Wine Glass". Signed, inscribed on a plaque attached to the original frame, also extensively inscribed on an exhibition label verso, oil on panel, 16cm by 21cm, Provenance: Marie-Louise Fine Art, The Middlehey, Oxton, Nottinghamshire. See illustration
A Pair of Derby Porcelain Floral Dinner Plates, circa 1820, each of gadrooned "silver" circular shape, centrally painted with sprays of summer flowers in vivid enamel colours against a dark blue ground with scroll edged reserves enclosing further flowers and enriched in gilt, red painted crown, crossed batons, dots, D and 48, 26.3cm diameter; A Pair of English Porcelain Fruit and Flower Still Life Painted Dessert Plates, circa 1840, with rich blue and salmon glazed borders enriched with trellis and acanthus leaves in gilt, pattern number 6 over 2767, 23.5cm diameter; and A Copeland & Garrett Felspar Porcelain Dessert Plate, circa 1850, decorated with birds, flowers and sea shells against an apple green ground, printed factory mark, 24cm diameter (5)
English School (20th century). Still life Study: Gloriosa Virescens var. Rothschildiana. Watercolour. Inscribed lower right. 54cm x 39cm. Together with a pencil and watercolour study of an orchid (2). Provenance: The Estate of the late Dame Miriam Rothschild. Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports.
Peter Campbell 1931-1989- "Still Life"; oil on board, signed, bears label for The Phoenix Gallery, Lavenham, Suffolk, 55x47cm Note: Peter Campbell was born in London and studied art at Goldsmiths College 1951-3. A versatile artist who worked in graphics and enamels as well as paint, he moved to Eye in Sussex in 1971 and stayed there till his death. Campbell wrote "My intention is not to reproduce the apparent physical appearance of the natural world, but rather to choose and reshape the essence, as I see it, of the thing seen. I try not to allow the `subject` to get in the way of making the painting." Key solo exhibitions included Portal Gallery, London in 1964, Metarco Gallery New York in 1969/70 and Phoenix Gallery, Lavenham 1987. Retrospectives since his death have included Bircham Gallery, Norfolk in 1990 and again in 2006 and Chappel Galleries, Essex in 2005. Campbell`s work is held in a number of public collections in the UK and Vancouver City Art Gallery, Canada.
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