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1940s/1950s Table Football Game. Must be viewed item which folds up for easy storage. Good condition in working order. We estimate this is just post war and must be one of the earliest examples of the game they still play today. Wood still good for approx 70 years old. Goals pull out. Rare item of red v blues.
Derby County 1940s Football Programmes + Table Lighter: Home programmes 46/47 Preston, 47/48 Man City Aston Villa, 48/49 Stoke Preston, 49/50 Burnley rusty staple. Very good unless stated. (6) C/W heavy table lighter with the ram and Derby County engraved probably from the 50s.
Football Referees Memorabilia + Magazines: Some unusual items in this lot include numerous FA News magazines with the World Cup 1966 issue amongst them. A long run of Football League Handbooks FA Bulletins Football Referee Magazine from the 50s and 60s small table flags including a rare one for the 1966 World Cup newsletters reports and much more. (3 boxes)
Robert Gwelo Goodman (South African 1871-1939) PROTEAS signed with artist's initials oil on canvas PROVENANCE The Barlow Family of Vergelegen; T Barlow Trust; Sold: Stephan Welz & Co, in Association with Sotherbys; Johannesburg, 11 November 2008, lot 430 108 by 98cm The final exhibition that artist Robert Gwelo Goodman held in Cape Town was at the Argus Gallery from late February until mid-March 1938. On March 12th Germany had invaded Austria, and there was little doubt in the minds of the many who gathered to see his work, of the grim future that awaited the world. No one bought and for the first time, the colossus of the South African art scene had to concede defeat – his exhibition of 52 pictures was a financial disaster. Seventeen of the works included in the fateful exhibition were flower pieces, “…among them was a large picture of Proteas. Lady Bailey (then Miss Stella Chiappini) in decorating the Gallery had set a vase of giant proteas next to this picture. With a smile at the effect, Gwelo asked, ‘So you are putting nature up in competition with me? I must say nature runs me a very good second.’"¹ Such was the nature of Gwelo Goodman in the last years of his extraordinarily successful life in South Africa. It began as the fifteen year old emigrated to Cape Town from Britain with his relatively poor parents. They seized the opportunities in their new country in order to realize the aspirations of their child. Robert Goodman (as he was christened, adopting Gwelo later on in life) had the opportunity of studying art in Cape Town, Paris and London, where he remained until 1915 gaining a considerable reputation abroad, including the prestige of having three landscapes accepted by the Royal Academy. On his return to South Africa he moved in prominent circles and built on his successes as a painter of landscapes, heritage architecture and above all flowers. He developed a strongly personal style of painting adapted from French Impressionism and Pointillism, using loose, short brush-strokes in bright colours, juxtaposed against a dark background to render light effects such as foliage and shadows in a spectacular manner. His tour de force is recognized as the large painting of Cape Town Parade and City Hall against the backdrop of Table Mountain, housed in the Permanent Collection of the Iziko South African National Gallery. In Proteas, a commanding composition of bushy, naturally foraged specimens, illustrates - in shades of pink, cream muted green and browns - the diversity and grandeur of the species. It also demonstrates his botanical insight in the rendering of at least five varieties of Cape flora. Majestic King proteas (p.cynoaroides) are central, surrounded by sugarbush (p.repens), velvet edged (p.neriifolia), leucodendron and pin-cushion (leucospermum cordifolium) varieties set against a calming, unadorned background of dark brown canvas. The present large work was in the possession of the Barlow family at Vergelegen for seventy years, making it likely that it was purchased around the time of his last exhibition in Cape Town in 1938. The artist died a year later, on March 11th 1939. Some of Goodman’s other acclaimed protea pieces² were purchased after his death by the Cape Government for inclusion in the Government Residences amongst them Westbrooke (renamed Genadendal by Nelson Mandela in 1994) and Leeuwenhof in Cape Town - C. K. Berman, E., Art and artists of South Africa, AA Balkema, Cape Town, 1974 Newton-Thompson, J., Gwelo Goodman: South African Artist, Howard Timmins, Cape Town, 1951 Fransen, H., Three centuries of South African Art, Donker, Cape Town, 1982 ¹ Newton-Thompson, J., Gwelo Goodman: South African Artist, Howard Timmins, Cape Town, 1951, p115 ² A similar oil painting, also titled Proteas, is reproduced in colour (plate 100-108) in Newton-Thompson, J., Gwelo Goodman: South African Artist, Howard Timmins, Cape Town, 1951
A VICTORIAN SILVER PLATED TABLE CENTREPIECE, 19TH CENTURY the openwork central column centred by a flame finial, applied with scroll floral arms supporting a central cut-glass bowl and four smaller bowls, on a shaped octagonal base, further raised on four foliate bracket feet, the whole with beaded and foliate borders 32cm high
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