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Lot 11
* MOIRA BEATY (SCOTTISH 1922 - 2015),STILL LIFE WITH CHERRIESoil on board, signed26cm x 36cmFramed and under glassNote: Moira went to Glasgow School of Art in 1939 where her contemporaries included Joan Eardley and Margot Sandeman. These three young women were regarded by their lecturers as the brightest stars of their generation. After one year as a student she was recruited to Bletchley Park where she worked as a code breaker, one of Churchill's 'corkscrew thinkers'. She returned to GSA in 1947 to complete her studies. Moira's enduring talent was recognised again in 2014 at the age of 92 with a sell out exhibition in Kirkcudbright. Moira Beaty was a resolute and determined woman who was an integral part of the famous group at Bletchley Park who did much to aid the Allies' victory in the Second World War. She worked in Hut 8 where Alan Turing and Peter Twinn set up the Naval Enigma Code. Beaty was responsible to Twinn - the first mathematician to be recruited to Bletchley. ''I discovered something,'' Beaty modestly remarked years later, ''a code within a code. I was immediately moved to within the codebreakers and became a cryptographer working on the German Secret Service codes.'' The Twinn team was involved in breaking the secretive Abwehr codes which were even more complicated than the ordinary military messages. The information this provided to the Allies in such major operations as the desert campaign, the D-Day landings and the sinking of the battleship Tirpitz proved vital to the war effort. Her first solo exhibition was at the Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh in 1979 and at the Collins Gallery in Glasgow. Her works were also seen at the Cadogan Contemporary Gallery in London and around Dumfries - notably at the Gracefield Arts Centre. In 2001 Gracefield held a major retrospective exhibition of both Moira and Stuart Beaty's works, entitled Full Circle. In 2014 Beaty officially opened the Kirkcudbright Summer Art Exhibition: Glasgow Girls 1920 - 1960, and held a solo exhibition in the town's Harbour Cottage Gallery. Both exhibitions were hugely popular and, at 92, Moira Beaty was still making a strong impression and gaining new collectors.
Lot 16
* SIR ROBIN PHILIPSON RA PRSA RSW RGI HRHA (BRITISH 1916-1992),HUMANKIND, THE EMBRACEoil on canvas50.7cm x 50.7cm (20 x 20 inches)Framed and under glassLabel verso: Aitken Dott & Son (The Scottish Gallery), Edinburgh. Additional label verso inscribed with artist's name, address, title, medium and dated 1973.Note: Born in 1916 in Broughton-in-Furness, Sir Robin moved to Scotland in 1930. He studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1936 to 1940, becoming a lecturer there in 1947. He was a significant and influential presence on the Scottish Art Scene for more than three decades. He had numerous commitments as Head of School of Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh College of Art and eventually President of the Royal Scottish Academy. However, he was above all, a practicing painter, who, in spite of the demands upon him was still able to produce, throughout the years, a distinguished and original body of work. He received many honours throughout his life including being knighted in 1976.
Lot 89
* HILDA GOLDWAG (1912 - 2008),JANET,oil on board, signed60cm x 95cm Framed.Note: Hilda Goldwag was born in Vienna in 1912. As an artistically gifted child she attended Art School in her native city and graduated in 1938 with distinction. With the growth of Nazism life became increasingly fraught for anyone of Jewish origin. She got a permit to “escape” to Scotland in 1939, and worked as a domestic servant in a manse in West Linton. Her family were due to follow in September 1939 - the day war broke out. All died in Dachau, including her four year old nephew. During the war years she worked (as an enemy alien) in factory jobs. Living in Hill Street, Garnethill, near the Glasgow Art School she had various art related jobs and soon took up painting again. She became a familiar sight with her easel and paints and brushes in the area, and her paintings began to appear in exhibitions. She moved to a low rise flat in Yoker/Knightswood after the Great Storm of 1968 took the roof off her city centre flat.Painting had become a full-time occupation with solo shows in Greenock and Gourock in the 1970’s , in the Royal Glasgow Institute’s Kelly Gallery in Glasgow, and the Lillie Gallery in Milngavie in the eighties. A major exhibition of her work appeared at the University of Strathclyde’s Collins Gallery in 2005.She painted until a year or two before her death in January 2008, trailing around the area - the parks and canal banks - with her gear stacked on a supermarket trolley. She ventured out to Kirkintilloch and other spots in bussing distance from Glasgow - returning with her large canvases or boards, the paint still wet, spread on the bus luggage racks. After Hilda Goldwag died her little flat was stacked with paintings. Most of these were consigned to McTear's who staged a hugely successful auction with prices that would have surprised and delighted the artist. Her work had reached a new, wider, deserved and enthusiastic audience.
Lot 7
Guillaume Michiels (1909-1997), a still life with a marine lantern, oil on canvas in profiled frame Dim.: 98,5 x 78,5 cm (frame)Dim.: 88,5 x 68,5 cm Condition reports and high resolution pictures are available on our website at www.rm-auctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
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