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* JOHN BELLANY CBE RA HRSA (SCOTTISH 1942 - 2013), SEA PEOPLE oil on canvas, signed, further signed, titled and dated 1980 verso 170cm x 150cm (approx 67 x 60 inches) Framed. Provenance: Private Scottish collection. Collection of Samuel Farber (Sam Farber was a Manhattan businessman who was an avid collector and a champion of "outsider art" in the USA. He also served on the board of directors of The American Folk Art Museum for many years). The Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, USA. "Sea People" is dated 1980 and represents a focus Bellany developed during the 1970's of anthropomorphic figures (athropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions or intentions to non-human figures. It is considered to be an innate tendency of human psychology). Rejecting the new fashionable wave of abstraction, he embraced figurative painting, engaged with the grand themes of life and death, good and evil and quickly developed his own symbolic language in which animals and humans merge and combine. Throughout his oeuvre, fish, birds, the sea and people of the sea recur. Although the title "Sea People" might have been suited to many of his equally important works, this is the only recorded painting of this title inscribed in Bellany's hand. John Bellany was born in the Scottish fishing community of Port Seton, along the coast from Edinburgh. During the war years, while his fisherman father was away on active service, his mother spent protracted periods with her parents, Mr and Mrs Sonnie Maltman - also fishing folk, in the Berwickshire harbour town of Eyemouth. The years spent with his maternal grandparents were to have a formative effect on Bellany’s life. At his grandparents’ house in Eyemouth he was haunted by skulls on the seventeenth century gravestones in the old cemetery behind their street. A book recounting the Eyemouth maritime disaster of 1881 (the year of his grandfather’s birth), when the entire fishing fleet was destroyed by a hurricane thereby reducing the local population to women and children, lay on the table next to his bed. The dominant cultures of fishing and harsh Presbyterianism were all pervasive. Bellany's work is included in many of the world's great collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Tate Britain, London.
Circa 1880 W Avery & Son Miniature Novelty Games and Sewing Table Needle Case, in gilt metal, with hinged oval cover embossed with a games board, internal hinged cover to the sewing basket, on a stretcher base, marked under the basket with the number '618', 6cm high by 6.5cm wide and 4cm depth
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