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Click here to subscribe'Large Shelf Still Life', offset lithograph printed in colours on wove paper after Jonas Wood (American 1977-), published for the Shio Kusaka/ Jonas Wood exhibition at the Museum Voorlinden, The Netherlands, 2017, 58.5cm x 58.5cm (unframed) Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs
A still life study of flowers, oil on canvas, signed N Hopflinner, framed in an oval gilt frame Surfaced dirt and discoloured varnish. Areas of large/ medium sized craquelure to the bottom of the picture within the blue table cloth and up into the brown area beneath the orange flowers, paint lifting and associated losses in places. Also craquelure evident to the top left hand corner and top right above the orange flowers. There are a number of worm holes to the right hand edge, top and left hand edges. Not examined with a uv light.
•LENA ROBB (SCOTTISH 1891-1980) STILL LIFE OF FLOWERS Oil on canvas board, signed verso, 39 x 29cm (15 1/4 x 11 1/4") Oil on canvas, signed verso, 41 x 30.5cm (16 x 12"), (2) Condition Report: STILL LIFE OF FLOWERS:. There is a stretcher bar line visible recto running horizontally along in proximity to the bottom edge. There is a small area of paint loss at the right edge, middle.
•ANNE REDPATH OBE, ARA, RSA, RSW, (SCOTTISH 1895-1965) A CORSICAN VILLAGE Lithograph, signed, 23 x 31cm (9 x 12 1/4") SIR ROBIN PHILIPSON RA, PRSA, RSW, RGI (SCOTTISH 1916-1992) Still Life with Fruit Lithograph, signed, 25 x 32cm (9 3/4 x 12 1/2"), (2) Condition Report:Both lithographs found to be in good condition with no significant issues to report.
CONTINENTAL SCHOOL (18TH/19TH CENTURY) PARAKEET WITH PEACHES AND GRAPES: STILL LIFE, BIRD'S NEST WITH EGGS Oil on canvas, 31 x 39.5cm (12 1/4 x 15 1/2"), 30.5 x 40.5cm (12 x 16") (2) Gilbert Telfer Collection, Edinburgh Condition Report: General overall cracking apparent over both canvases with light scoring noticeableto the left and bottom sections of 'Parakeet with Peaches and Grapes' and a small repair patch visible on the reverse of 'Still Life, Birds Nest with Eggs', located in the lower right hand quarter section, recto. Slight damage with paint loss areas on both oils.
Shaw (George Bernard, playwright and polemicist, 1856-1950) Collection of Autograph Postcards signed and other pieces mostly relating to Bernard Shaw, including: 1 Typed Note signed and 2 Autograph Postcards signed to Clementina Black, 1p. & 2 sides, 8vo, 10 Adelphi Terrace, London, 23rd May - 3rd June 1921, on the whereabouts of Eleanor Marx's ashes which were found in the offices of the Communist Party in King Street, London, when the police raided the office in 1921, "The raiders saw the oak casket, and were told that it contained ashes. This created an unprecedented situation, as their instructions did not cover so unusual a find. Accordingly, they left it alone; and it is still in the Communist Offices in King Street, Covent Garden, which are again in full operation. Poor Eleanor seems unable to escape even in death from the troubled atmosphere in which her life was passed. I daresay Marx's remains will be removed from Highgate to Westminster Abbey someday. Perhaps then they will put Eleanor's beside him, and hang Aveling's in chains from Big Ben"; and a small quantity of others, including: 4 pieces of Autograph correspondence from Bernard Shaw to Thomas King Moylan about the setting up of an Irish Society of Authors in Dublin, "Ireland may be more fertile in dramatic genius: but after making the most extravagant allowance for this, what chance have you of ever enjoying an income that will pay your office and staff expenses"; a sheet of expenses drawn up by the publisher, Constable, for Bernard Shaw's Translations and Tomfooleries, 1929, 2 Autograph Postcards signed by F.E. Lowenstein, Society of Authors, about publishing 2 cards by Bernard Shaw to Ellen Terry; 2 photographs of Ellen Terry, other correspondence concerning Jeffery Farnol etc., folds, v.s., v.d. (sm. qty).⁂ Eleanor Marx (1855-98), socialist writer and activist. Eleanor Marx, the youngest surviving daughter of Karl Marx was a lifelong Marxist campaigner. In 1884 she struck up a relationship with Edward Aveling (1849-1898), zoologist and socialist. "Her death was precipitated by Aveling's secret marriage to Eva Frye in June 1897. Eleanor learned about this in August, and although she continued to live on and off with Aveling she committed suicide by taking prussic acid on 31 March 1898... ." (Oxford DNB). After Eleanor's death her ashes, which were never interred, but passed around various Communist Party offices, went to the Marx Memorial Library after it opened in 1933 and were displayed in a glass cabinet in the Lenin Room. They were displayed in the room until 1956 when they were interred in the tomb of Karl Marx.Clementina Black (1853-1922), writer, feminist and pioneering trade unionist.
The Iconic and Excessively Rare Royal Humane Society Gold Medal and other related gifts and awards presented to the renowned Victorian heroine Grace Darling, who as a young lady of just 23 years old assisted her father in saving the lives of nine people during the wreck of the S.S. Forfarshire on Big Harcar Rock, close to the Farne Islands off the coast of Northumberland on 7 September 1838. Rowing out together in a simple ‘coble’ boat, the pair fought through the roughest seas, assisting numerous stricken passengers, and returning them to safety at Longstone. Such was her fame at the time, Queen Victoria herself, still then a young lady, sent Grace Darling a personal gift of £50 in admiration of her heroic conduct at sea, and The Times newspaper of 19 September 1838, made the statement that her actions formed ‘an instance of heroism on the part of a female unequalled perhaps, and certainly not surpassed, by any on record’. Her receiving of this exceptional medal marked two historic ‘firsts’ - the first issue of a Royal Humane Society gold award to a civilian for a specific act of life-saving at sea, and the very first official British gallantry medal awarded to a female recipient, comprising: Royal Humane Society, Large ‘Honorary’ Gold Medal, Type 2 (1837) by Pistrucci, for ‘successful rescue’, engraved to reverse ‘Grace Darling, VIT. OB. SERV. D. D. SOC. REG. HVM. 1838’ (The Royal Humane Society presented this gift for saving life), 123.01g, 51mm width, in modern fitted case, several small edge knocks and bruises and minor surface marks, otherwise good very fine, and extremely rare; together with associated items (see overleaf) (lot) Altogether an extremely rare and historically significant group of awards to arguably the single most famous life-saving figure of the 19th century, and one of the very earliest official and recognised gallantry awards issued to a lady (4) Included in the lot are: Ornate Gold Presentation Locket, by Fenton, with internal glazed centre containing six lockets of hair, set against a fine silk lining, with facing engraved inscription inside lid ‘To Miss Grace H. Darling, from a few Gentlemen of Arbroath, to mark their sense of her brave conduct on the 7th September, 1838.’ 38.25mm width, with suspension above, extremely fine; A Presentation Silver Ladies’ Tankard, by Robin Albin Cox, bearing hallmarks to base dated 1794, with ‘rococo revival’ outer embellishment, c.1838, engraved at centre with an ornate ‘D’ with the date ‘September 7th 1838’ below; this believed to be the ‘ornate silver mug’ given as a donation by the Lord and Lady Frederick FitzClarence; And a modern, privately-commissioned silver-gilt facsimile medal, cast after the above, hallmarked 1991.
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