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Lot 145
Duncan Grant (18851978)
Newhaven
£10,00015,000
Hans Coper (19201981)
An early and large stoneware vessel, circa 1950
£15,00025,000
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ILLUSTRATIONS
Front cover: Lot 146 (detail) Back cover: Lot 82
Catalogue £10.00 (£15.00 by post)
LOTS 134
THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE AUSTIN WORMLEIGHTON
Samuel John Lamorna Birch, RA, RWS (1869–1955) was a British landscape painter closely associated with the artistic communities of Cornwall. Born in Egremont, Cheshire, Birch spent much of his early childhood in modest circumstances following the death of his father. His mother moved the family to Manchester where Birch began to show an early aptitude for drawing, despite receiving only a limited formal education.
Birch initially trained as a clerk and worked in cotton mills but he pursued art with determination, enrolling at the Académie Julian in Paris during the 1890s. There, he absorbed influences from French Impressionism, working en plein air and developing a sensitivity to light and atmosphere that would define his mature work. His time in France was crucial in shaping his painterly approach, encouraging looser brushwork and a brighter palette than was typical in British art of the period.
In 1895, Birch settled in Lamorna Valley in Cornwall, a location that would become central to both his identity and artistic output, so much so that he adopted ‘Lamorna’ as part of his name. He became associated with the Newlyn School and Birch’s style combined Impressionist techniques with a distinctly British sensibility, characterised by vibrant colours, textured brushstrokes and an emphasis on the play of natural light.
His subject matter focused largely upon the Cornish landscape: sunlit valleys, rugged coastlines, sparkling streams and pastoral scenes. Unlike some of his contemporaries, Birch often emphasized decorative qualities and emotional resonance over strict realism, creating works that feel immediate, lyrical and personal.
Birch achieved considerable success during his lifetime, becoming a member of the Royal Academy in 1934. His legacy in popularizing the Lamorna Valley as an artistic hub and in bridging British and French painting traditions in his own distinctive idiom cannot be overestimated. Today, his work is remembered for its celebration of light, colour, and his great love of the enduring beauty of the Cornish landscape.
Austin Wormleighton (19372019), wholly synonymous with Birch expertise and a distinguished historian of the Newlyn artists, wrote the definitive biography about Birch, ‘A Painter Laureate: Lamorna Birch and his Circle’ (recently republished by Whitefox Publishing, 2025). This readable but learned account of Birch’s life shows Austin’s skill at lucid narrative (derived from a career in journalism) and his evident admiration for the artist’s oeuvre. Austin’s support of, and contributions towards, many exhibitions of Birch’s work brought him into contact with likeminded enthusiasts. He will be fondly remembered for his gentle, affable demeanour; his profound knowledge that was always lightly worn; and for his passionate love of Birch’s work.
Many of these works by Birch were included in the exhibition Lamorna Birch: A Painter Laureate at Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Penzance (October 2025January 2026)
Austin Wormleighton
Lamorna Birch (18691955) in his studio. © Private Collection. The Penhaul Archive/Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Penzance
SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA BIRCH, RA, RWS 18691955
The Old Quay, Lamorna (from my Garden)
Signed and dated S. J. Lamorna Birch. (lower left), inscribed with alternative title Nestling Sun The Quay Lamorna (verso), signed and inscribed on label on backboard in ink, ‘The Old Quay Lamorna/ (from my Garden)/ S. J. Lamorna Birch Lamorna/ Penzance’ Oil on ply panel
32.5 x 40.5cm
Exhibited:
Warrington Museum & Art Gallery; Salford Quays The Lowry; Birkenhead, Williamson Art Gallery, Shades of British Impressionism - Lamorna Birch and his Circle : A Memorial Exhibition (October 2004February 2005) (for which this subject was the publicity image)
Penzance, Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Summer in February (MarchJune 2013)
Penzance, Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Entranced by a Special Place (JuneSeptember 2018)
Penzance, Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Lamorna Birch: A Painter Laureate (October 2025January 2026)
Literature: Austin Wormleighton, A Painter Laureate: Lamorna Birch and his Circle (Whitefox Publishing, 2025), illustrated p.279
This study of the old quay was painted from Birch’s garden at Flagstaff Cottage. He gave an alternative title to the picture, ‘The Nestling Sun, The Quay, Lamorna’ and this is written in his hand verso.
£3,0005,000
2
SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA BIRCH, RA, RWS 18691955
Lamorna Stream in Springtime
Signed and dated S. J. Lamorna Birch (lower left)
Oil on canvas
46 x 61.5cm
Provenance:
Albert V. Jones, a fellow artist who exhibited 19101913, by whom purchased at the exhibition in Birkenhead and kept within his family until sold in 1997
Exhibited:
Possibly London, Royal Academy, 1922, no.73 (as ‘Spring Sun’)
Birkenhead, Williamson Art Gallery, Lamorna Birch
Memorial Exhibition, 19551956, no.155
Preston, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Morning Tide: John Anthony Park and the Painters of Light, no.24
Penzance, Penlee House Gallery & Museum, A Painter Laureate (MarchJune 2001, no.18)
Warrington Museum & Art Gallery; Salford Quays
The Lowry; Birkenhead, Williamson Art Gallery, Shades of British Impressionism - Lamorna Birch and his Circle : A Memorial Exhibition (October 2004February 2005)
Penzance, Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Entranced by a Special Place (JuneSeptember 2018)
Penzance, Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Lamorna Birch: A Painter Laureate (October 2025January 2026)
Literature:
Walter Shaw Sparrow, Angling in British Art (London, Bodley Head, 1923, illustrated)
Austin Wormleighton, A Painter Laureate: Lamorna Birch and his Circle (Whitefox Publishing, 2025), illustrated p.188 and on front of dustjacket
In about 1994, it was discovered that this subject was affixed to another painting underneath it on the same stretcher. This scene is halfway down the Lamorna Valley, close to Munnings’ studio. It is the location of Birch’s 1923 picture ‘Flyfishing at Lamorna in Early Spring’.
£3,0004,000
3
SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA BIRCH, RA, RWS
18691955
Downfalling Stream, Lamorna
Signed and dated S. J. Lamorna Birch 1954 (lower left), bears typed label on frame Oil on canvas
51 x 61cm
Exhibited:
London, The Royal Academy, 1954, no.368 Penzance, Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Entranced by a Special Place (JuneSeptember 2018)
Penzance, Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Lamorna Birch: A Painter Laureate (October 2025January 2026)
Literature:
Austin Wormleighton, A Painter Laureate: Lamorna Birch and his Circle (Whitefox Publishing, 2025), illustrated p.388 (detail) and p.402
£2,5003,500
4
SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA BIRCH, RA, RWS 18691955
Through the Old Wade Bridge, Glenalmond, Perthshire
Signed and dated S. J. Lamorna Birch (lower right) Oil on canvas
51 x 61.5cm
Exhibited:
London, Royal Academy, 1934, no.125 (the year that the artist was elected an Academician)
Plymouth City Museum, Falmouth Art Gallery, Lamorna Birch RA RWS: A Retrospective (November 1987February 1988; and AugustSeptember 1997)
Penzance, Penlee Art Gallery & Museum, A Painter Laureate (MarchJune 2001, no.43)
Penzance, Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Entranced by a Special Place (JuneSeptember 2018)
Penzance, Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Lamorna Birch: A Painter Laureate (October 2025January 2026)
Literature:
The Royal Academy Illustrated 1934 (Walter Judd Ltd) Austin Wormleighton, A Painter Laureate: Lamorna Birch and his Circle (Whitefox Publishing, 2025), illustrated p.334
Published:
As a colour print by Frost & Reed Ltd
This view was painted on July 14th 1933 while Birch was staying at The Cairnies in Glenalmond. On July 15th 1933, Birch wrote, “I did a good painting of Wade bridge yesterday..”
£2,5003,500
5 SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA BIRCH, RA, RWS 18691955
Fowling Pool
Scratch signed and dated S. J. Birch/ 95 (lower right) Oil on panel
26.5 x 35.5cm
Exhibited:
Plymouth City Museum, Falmouth Art Gallery, Lamorna Birch RA RWS: A Retrospective (November 1987February 1988; and AugustSeptember 1997)
Warrington Museum & Art Gallery; Salford Quays, The Lowry; Birkenhead, Williamson Art Gallery, Shades of British Impressionism, Lamorna Birch and his Circle, A Memorial Exhibition, October 2024February 2025
Penzance, Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Entranced by a Special Place (JuneSeptember 2018)
Penzance, Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Lamorna Birch: A Painter Laureate (October 2025January 2026)
Literature:
Austin Wormleighton, A Painter Laureate: Lamorna Birch and his Circle (Whitefox Publishing, 2025), illustrated p.37
This early study was one of the last pictures signed ‘S. J. Birch’. Birch was soon to leave Cornwall for studies in Paris and when he returned in 1896 he had adopted the additional name of ‘Lamorna’ in order to distinguish his work from that of another artist, Lionel Birch (Fl.18981916). Thereafter his pictures were signed ‘S. J. Lamorna Birch’.
This picture shows a scene in the Vale of Trevider, close to the artist’s home. The pool was a breeding place for wild duck. The Birch children were taken here for picnics, nature rambles and for sketching wild flowers, frogs and butterflies. Birch’s elder daughter, Mornie, recalled that the pool was especially memorable for the clumps of oversize flag irises growing at the water’s edge.
£1,0001,500
6
SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA BIRCH, RA, RWS
18691955
Shores of Loch Riddon
Signed and dated S. J. Lamorna Birch. 1936 (lower left), inscribed in pencil Shores of LOCH RIDDON (on the overlap) Oil on canvas
86.5 x 101.5cm
Exhibited:
London, Royal Academy, 1937, no.199
Plymouth City Museum, Falmouth Art Gallery, Lamorna Birch RA RWS: A Retrospective (November 1987February 1988; and AugustSeptember 1997) Warrington Museum & Art Gallery; Salford Quays The Lowry; Birkenhead, Williamson Art Gallery, Shades of British Impressionism - Lamorna Birch and his Circle : A Memorial Exhibition (October 2004February 2005)
Penzance, Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Entranced by a Special Place (JuneSeptember 2018)
Penzance, Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Lamorna Birch: A Painter Laureate (October 2025January 2026)
In June 1953, Birch and his wife joined a family cruise along the West Coast of Scotland with their elder daughter ‘Mornie’, their soninlaw James Lennox Kerr and their grandson Adam. Lennox Kerr had converted a former ship’s lifeboat into a motor cruiser and described a story of that journey in a book, Cruising in Scotland, illustrated by Birch. Kerr said that Birch had discovered the loveliness of Loch Riddon when they had anchored there for repairs. Kerr also adored the place and wrote, “The rocks on the port hand drop sheer into the water below thickly wooded hills, while on the starboard bank the country is like cultured parkland.”
Mornie Kerr and Adam (aged two) are the two figures in this picture.
£6,0008,000
7
SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA BIRCH, RA, RWS
18691955
The Clapper Mill, Lamorna
Signed and dated S. J. Lamorna Birch/ 1898 (lower right, the date indistinct) Oil on canvas
76.5 x 64cm
Exhibited:
Exeter, Art Gallery & Museum, Corporation Fine Art Exhibition, 1898
Plymouth City Museum, Falmouth Art Gallery, Lamorna Birch RA RWS: A Retrospective (November 1987February 1988; and AugustSeptember 1997)
Penzance, Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Entranced by a Special Place (JuneSeptember 2018)
Penzance, Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Lamorna Birch: A Painter Laureate (October 2025January 2026)
Literature:
Austin Wormleighton, A Painter Laureate: Lamorna Birch and his Circle (Whitefox Publishing, 2025), illustrated p.90
The Clapper Mill is at the eastern side of Lamorna Valley
£2,5003,500
8
SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA BIRCH, RA, RWS 18691955
Lamorna Woods
Signed and dated SJ. Lamorna Birch (lower left) Oil on board
65.5 x 37cm
Exhibited:
Possibly London, Royal Academy, 1903, no.237 (as ‘Thro’ Copseclad Valleys’)
Plymouth City Museum, Falmouth Art Gallery, Lamorna Birch RA RWS: A Retrospective (November 1987February 1988; and AugustSeptember 1997)
Penzance, Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Entranced by a Special Place (JuneSeptember 2018)
Penzance, Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Lamorna Birch: A Painter Laureate (October 2025January 2026)
Literature:
Austin Wormleighton, A Painter Laureate: Lamorna Birch and his Circle (Whitefox Publishing, 2025), illustrated p.142
An old sepia photograph of this picture is in the Birch family archive.
£1,0001,500
9
SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA BIRCH, RA, RWS 18691955
The Incoming Tide, Bright Day, Cape Cornwall
Signed and dated S J. Lamorna Birch 1931 (lower left), inscribed The Incoming Tide/ “Bright Day” Cape Cornwall (verso) Oil on ply panel
28.2 x 35.5cm
Exhibited:
Plymouth City Museum, Falmouth Art Gallery, Lamorna Birch RA
RWS: A Retrospective (November 1987February 1988; and AugustSeptember 1997)
Penzance, Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Lamorna Birch: A Painter Laureate (October 2025January 2026)
Literature:
Austin Wormleighton, A Painter Laureate: Lamorna Birch and his Circle (Whitefox Publishing, 2025), illustrated p.329 and on dustjacket
£1,5002,000
10
SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA BIRCH, RA, RWS 18691955
The Avon Gorge at Clifton, Bristol
Signed and dated S. J. Lamorna Birch (lower left), bears inscribed label on frame and stretcher ([N]o 7/ The Avon Gorge at/ Clifton Bristol/ .... Lamorna ../ Penzance/ Cornwall) Oil on canvas
30.5 x 40.5cm
Exhibited:
London, Royal Academy, 1944, no.673
£8001,200
11
SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA BIRCH, RA, RWS 18691955
The Mill Pool, Lamorna
Signed S J Lamorna Birch (lower left) Oil on card
14.7 x 23cm
Exhibited:
Plymouth City Museum, Falmouth Art Gallery, Lamorna Birch RA RWS: A Retrospective (November 1987February 1988; and AugustSeptember 1997)
Warrington Museum & Art Gallery; Salford Quays, The Lowry; Birkenhead, Williamson Art Gallery, Shades of British Impressionism, Lamorna Birch and his Circle, A Memorial Exhibition, October 2024February 2025
Penzance, Penlee House Gallery & Museum, A Painter Laureate (MarchJune 2001, no.34)
Penzance, Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Lamorna Birch: A Painter Laureate (October 2025January 2026)
£8001,200
12
SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA BIRCH, RA, RWS 18691955
The Vale of Trevider
Signed and dated S. J. Lamorna Birch/ 1899 (lower right) Oil on canvas
102.5 x 129cm
Exhibited: Plymouth City Museum, Falmouth Art Gallery, Lamorna Birch RA RWS: A Retrospective (November 1987February 1988; and AugustSeptember 1997) Warrington Museum & Art Gallery; Salford Quays, The Lowry; Birkenhead,
Williamson Art Gallery, Shades of British Impressionism: Lamorna Birch and his Circle - A Memorial Exhibition (October 2004February 2005)
Penzance, Penlee Art Gallery & Museum, Wild Cornwall (MarchJune 2009)
Penzance, Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Entranced by a Special Place (JuneSeptember 2018)
Penzance, Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Lamorna Birch: A Painter Laureate (October 2025January 2026)
Literature:
Austin Wormleighton, A Painter Laureate: Lamorna Birch and his Circle (Whitefox Publishing, 2025), illustrated p.51 (as dated 1898)
£8,00012,000
13
SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA BIRCH, RA, RWS 18691955
February, My Garden, Lamorna
Signed and dated S. J. Lamorna Birch/ 1945 (lower right), inscribed in pencil “February”, My Garden, Lamorna (on the stretcher) Oil on canvas
86.5 x 101.5cm
Provenance:
Purchased at the Royal Academy by Sir George Eltherton, 1945; By family descent to the previous owner, from whom purchased by Austin Wormleighton, 2011
Exhibited:
London, The Royal Academy, 1945, no. 232
Penzance, Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Entranced by a Special Place (JuneSeptember 2018)
Penzance, Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Lamorna Birch: A Painter Laureate (October 2025January 2026)
Literature:
Austin Wormleighton, A Painter Laureate: Lamorna Birch and his Circle (Whitefox Publishing, 2025), illustrated p.377
The picture was purchased at the RA in 1945 by Sir George Etherton, one time Lancashire County Solicitor, and it passed by descent within his family until it was acquired by Austin Wormleighton in 2011. Sir George had kept dutifully the catalogue and correspondence with Birch and those papers are offered now with the picture. A slip of paper in Birch’s hand gives the artist’s own title as ‘February: In My Garden, Lamorna’.
The subject depicts the stream by the artist’s studio in the Lamorna Valley, just 1⁄4 mile from the sea. The studio was the favourite of the four that Birch had used within the valley as it was close enough to running water for him to fish for trout whenever he wished. The family home, Flagstaff Cottage, can be seen through the trees beyond.
£10,00015,000
14
SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA BIRCH, RA, RWS 18691955
The Lune Valley at Tebay, c.1895
Inscribed verso Tebay Bridge/ rocks below./ - The Lune Valley at Tebay Oil on board
23 x 26.5cm
£8001,200
15
SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA BIRCH, RA, RWS 18691955
Where the Divi Turns
Signed S.J Lamorna Birch. (lower right)
Watercolour and bodycolour
27.5 x 42.5cm
£500700
16
SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA BIRCH, RA, RWS 18691955
Spring Evening, Tregiffian, Vale of Trevider
Signed S. J Lamorna Birch (lower left)
Watercolour and pencil
47.5 x 58.5cm
£300400
17
SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA BIRCH, RA, RWS 18691955
The Kemyells Farm from Lamorna
Signed and inscribed S. J Lamorna Birch. “The Kemyells farm” - from Lamorna. (lower left)
Watercolour and pencil
25 x 34.5cm
£200300
18
SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA
BIRCH, RA, RWS 18691955
The Rocks of Tregiffian
Signed S J. Lamorna Birch. (lower left)
Watercolour and bodycolour
47.5 x 56.5cm
£500700
19
SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA
BIRCH, RA, RWS 18691955
Carn Dhu, Cornwall
Signed S J Lamorna Birch (lower left)
Watercolour
24 x 34cm
£300400
20
SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA BIRCH, RA, RWS 18691955
The Village Pond at Grewelthorpe, near Ripon, Yorkshire
Signed and dated S. J. Lamorna Birch/ 1948 (lower right), bears title “The Village Pond”/ at Grewelthorpe/ Near Ripon (verso)
Watercolour and pencil
22 x 31.5cm
£150200
21
SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA BIRCH, RA, RWS 18691955
Dawn Breaking over Jungfrau (recto); Sketch of Snowy Mountains (verso)
Signed S J Lamorna Birch. (lower left), also signed and inscribed S. J Lamorna Birch - sketch of Jungfrau (verso)
Oil on panel
25 x 35.5cm
£8001,200
22
SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA
BIRCH, RA, RWS 18691955
The Cottage in the Hollow, Lamorna Valley
Signed S. J. Lamorna Birch. (lower left), inscribed No.2 The Cottage in the Hollow Lamorna Valley (verso)
Watercolour 35 x 52cm
£300400
23
SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA
BIRCH, RA, RWS 18691955
Between Showers: Scene in the Lune Valley between Caton and Hornby, 1903
Signed and possibly dated indistinctly S J. Lamorna Birch (lower right), signed and inscribed on worn label formerly on old backboard, now attached to new backboard
Watercolour heightened with white and scratching out
29.5 x 39.5cm
£200300
24
SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA
BIRCH, RA, RWS 18691955
A Passing Shower Watercolour 17 x 24.2cm
Together with an etching of ‘Pedne Vounder’, unsigned, 11 x 13cm; and a photographic print of Birch’s studio, 13 x 17.5cm (3)
£150250
25
SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA
BIRCH, RA, RWS 18691955
Departing Day
Signed S. J. Lamorna Birch. (lower left)
Watercolour and pencil 24 x 29.7cm
Together with a Christmas card gift of ‘Bickleigh Vale’, inscribed To Dear Old Tan from JB + HB.1915 Xmas (lower right margin), 9.5 x 12cm.; and an unsigned view of ‘Carn Dhu’, 11 x 17cm (3)
£200300
26
SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA
BIRCH, RA, RWS 18691955
A June Day in Devonshire
Signed and dated S J Lamorna Birch “1953 (lower right), inscribed To Frankie from John (lower left)
Watercolour with scratching out 16.7 x 24.5cm
Together with ‘Sketch of a Fisherman’ (the artist fishing for grey mullet with a bamboo pole), watercolour and pencil, 13 x 11.5cm (2)
£150200
27
SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA
BIRCH, RA, RWS 18691955
October
Signed and dated S J. Lamorna Birch (lower left)
Watercolour and bodycolour over pencil
44 x 59.5cm
£8001,200
28
SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA
BIRCH, RA, RWS 18691955
Night: A Cornish Farm
Signed and inscribed and dated Night/ A Cornish Farm/ S J Lamorna Birch 1908 verso
Watercolour 17 x 24.5cm
Together with ‘A Cornish Beach’, signed and inscribed To Charles Dean with love from S J. Lamorna Birch Xmas 1922 (date unclear), 11.5 x 16.5cm; and ‘September Evening on the Cliffs at Tregiffian’, watercolour and pencil, 17 x 26cm (3)
£150250
29
SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA
BIRCH, RA, RWS 18691955
Tin Mine, Camborne
Signed S J Lamorna Birch (lower left)
Watercolour and pencil
23.5 x 26.5cm
Together with ‘High Summer in the Cotswolds’, watercolour, 25.5 x 35.7cm; and ‘Castle Ruin, France’, watercolour, 15 x 22.5cm, both unsigned (3)
£150250
32
SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA BIRCH, RA, RWS 18691955
Four Sketches: The Cliff (study for ‘Morning Fills the Bowl’); From the Harbour to the Hill, Lamorna; The Sanatogen Stream, Newlyn; River Scene
The first signed and inscribed The Cliffs”/ S J. Lamorna Birch., the second signed and inscribed “From the Harbour to the Hill” Lamorna./ S. J. Lamorna Birch., the third inscribed Sanatogen/ stream 1943 SJLB 30 x 22, the fourth with c.36 words of colour notes
Each pencil
Two 22 x 27.5cm; 14 x 22.5cm; 13.5 x 30cm (4)
£150250
30
SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA BIRCH, RA, RWS 18691955
Cottage by a Stream: The Artist’s Last Picture, December 1954
Watercolour 8 x 13cm
£200300
31
SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA BIRCH, RA, RWS 18691955
The Lamorna Stream Black pencil or crayon 19 x 24cm
Together with pencil sketches of a stream in Newlyn, upon an envelope, c.1930, 21.5 x 13cm approx; and a pencil sketch for a Great War poster (‘For Those Within To Those Beyond’), signed with initials and inscribed, image 15 x 17.5cm (3)
£150250
33 AFTER SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA BIRCH, RA, RWS 18691955
St. Ives at Low Tide (2 copies); A Breezy Day at Lamorna Quarry; The Devil’s Punchbowl, Ettrick; Sea Urchins on the Coast at Newlyn
Five, colour prints, four published by Frost & Reed Ltd, 19351944, the last modern
The largest 49.5 x 73.5cm One unframed (5)
£100150
34
ELIZABETH ADELA STANHOPE FORBES, ARWS 18591912
A Painter Sportsman: Portrait of Lamorna Birch
Signed EAForbes (lower left), inscribed A Painter Sportsman (in ink upper right) Brown ink and wash (‘Prout’s Brown’), c.1908
28.5 x 19.5cm
£600900
35
SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA BIRCH RA, RWS 18691955
Salmon River
Signed and dated S.J. Lamorna Birch 1934 (lower right)
Oil on canvas
50.9 X 61cm
Provenance: Private Collection, UK; By whom sold, Bonhams, London, 20th Century British Art, 12 March 2008, lot 79
The present work was probably painted in May in either Devonshire or Cornwall prior to the artist’s annual fishing and painting trip to the Scottish Highlands.
£2,5003,500
OTHER PROPERTIES
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SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA BIRCH, RA, RWS 18691955
Dulverton below Eye Bridge
Signed and dated S J Lamorna Birch/-1953, inscribed Dulverton Below Eye bridge (lower right)
Watercolour and pencil
21.2 x 26cm
£200300
37
BERNARD SICKERT
c.18631932
Railway Arches
Signed Bernard Sickert (lower right), inscribed with title on overlap (now obscured by brown paper)
Oil on canvas
32 x 51cm
£400600
38
SIR GEORGE CLAUSEN, RA, RWS 18521944
Landscape, Dusk
Signed with initials G.C. lower right
Pastels
15.7 x 22cm
£300500
39
REX VICAT COLE 18701940
Moored for Repairs
Signed REX VICAT COLE (lower right) Oil on canvas
76.2 x 106.6cm
Provenance:
Phillips, London, Modern British and Irish Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, 5 October 1993, lot 61
Exhibited: London, Royal Academy, 1924, no.202
£500700
40
PAUL MAITLAND
18631909
Kensington Palace from the Gardens
Signed P Maitland (lower left) Oil on canvas
43.6 x 65cm
Provenance: Rutland Gallery, London; Private Collection, UK; By whom sold, Bonhams, London, 19th Century European, Victorian and British Impressionist Art, 26 September 2018, lot 126
£8,00012,000
40 (framed)
41
PHOTOGRAPHICS EDITIONS LTD (PUBLISHERS)
Photo Classics 1: Victorian Photography; Photo Classics 2: Werner Bischof
Two folios of photographs, the first comprising seven (of ten) bromide prints (by Cameron, Carjat, Fenton, Howlett, Locherer, Martin and Thomson), each mounted on card, each numbered HC V/V (hors commerce), aside from the formal edition of 100, published London, 1971, 37 x 30cm or 30 x 37cm approx; the second comprising five (of ten) photographs, each mounted on card, each numbered HC II/V (hors commerce), aside from the formal edition of 100, 39 x 29cm or 29 x 39cm approx, eight framed (8 + 2 folios)
£1,5002,000
42
CYRUS CINCINATO CUNEO
18791916
Studies for [Sir Henry] Rider Haggard’s ‘The People of the Mist’
Two, one signed CYRUS CUNEO (lower right, faint), the other signed C. CUNEO. (lower left)
Oil en brunaille et en grisaille on board, probably published in Newnes’s Sixpenny Novels, c.190206
Each 29 x 19cm approx. Unframed (2)
£200300
43 Φ
EDMUND BLAMPIED
18861966
Pig Dealers
Signed and dated E. Blampied/May.05. (lower right)
Watercolour with pen and black ink on card
20.5 x 33.5cm
Provenance:
Alexander Coutanche, Baron Coutanche (18921973), Bailiff and Governor of Jersey and a close personal friend of the artist, from whom the picture was acquired;
And thence by descent
£250350
ABEL PFEFFERMANN PANN
Latvian, 18831963
Dinah...went out to see the Daughters of the Land
Signed Abel Pann (lower left) Pastels
48 x 64cm
Provenance:
The Fine Art Society Ltd, London, August 1935, no.10 (label on backboard)
£3,0005,000
45
ANTONION ZENO SHINDLER
American, 18231899
Fireworks, July 4th 1878, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia
Signed with monogram and dated 1878 (lower left) Oil on canvas
30.5 x 41.5cm
Provenance:
Bonhams, London, Travel & Topographical Pictures, 29th April 2003, lot 187 (as ‘oil on canvas laid on board’)
Christies, London, Travel, Science and Natural History, 29th September 2011, lot 280 (as ‘oil on canvas laid on board’)
£2,0003,000
GEORGES HAMEL, ‘GEO HAM’ French, 19001972
A Road Race, possibly the ‘Targa Florio’ in Sicily
Signed indistinctly (lower left)
Oil on Masonite
40 x 55cm
£200300
47 FREDERICK KITSON COWLEY American, 18841931
Nantucket Beach
Bears name, title, date and signature verso Oil on canvas board, 1929
25.5 x 35.5cm
£400600
48 Φ MARCEL DOMINIQUE POGGIOLI French, 18821969
Picking Meadow Flowers
Signed M Poggioli (lower left) Oil on canvas
65.5 x 100.5cm
£300500
49 CIRCLE OF MARY ADSHEAD 19041995
Tethering Goats
Tempera and pencil
35 x 45.5cm
£200300
50
WILLIAM LEE HANKEY, RWS, RI, ROI, RE 18691952
French Town on Market Day
Signed W LEE HANKEY (lower right)
Oil on canvas
51 x 61cm
£2,0003,000
51 WALTER HERBERT ROE FL.18821909
An Idle Day at The Beach
Signed W HERBERT ROE (lower centre)
Oil on canvas
61 x 47.5cm
£300500
52 Φ
GUSTAF CARLSTROM SWEDISH, 18961957
Summertime
Signed Gustaf Carlstrom (lower right)
Oil on canvas
81.5 x 73cm
£8001,200
53
ATTRIBUTED TO STANISLAS LEPINE
French, 18351892
Figures in a Field on the Outskirts of a Town
Bears signature S Lepine (lower left)
Oil on cradled panel
18.5 x 28.5cm
£300500
54
WILLIAM TEULON BLANDFORD FLETCHER
18581936
The Vegetable Seller, Rye
Signed BLANDFORD FLETCHER (lower left)
Oil on board
35.5 x 23cm
£500700
56
FOLLOWER OF CAMILLE PISSARRO
French, 18301903
Breton Woman on a Rural Lane
Oil on board, a study 27 x 34.5cm
£300400
55 GERMAN SCHOOL, 1919
Landscape Scene
Signed indistinctly and dated 1919 (lower left)
Oil on board
65 x 49.5cm
£200300
57 Φ NOEL G. BLIGH
18881984
Seaside in Spain
Oil on canvas
26.9 x 41cm
£150200
58 Φ
CLARE ‘TONY’ ATWOOD 18661962
Children in a Street
Signed and dated Clare Atwood
1915 (lower left)
Oil on canvas
40.5 x 51cm
£500700
59
JANOS KLEH Hungarian, 18811919
Market Scene
Signed KLEH JANOS (lower right) Oil on canvas
36 x 45cm
£400600
60 Φ
SEPTIMUS EDWIN SCOTT 18791965
Pulling the Haycart
Signed and inscribed in pencil Sep E
Scott/ Pulling the Hay Cart/ 1926 and Sept Scott (verso)
Oil on canvasboard
26 x 35cm
£500700
61 Φ
FRANCIS WYNNE THOMAS 19071988
River Landscape, Possibly at Greta Bridge
Signed F WYNNE THOMAS (lower left)
Oil on canvas
41 x 51cm
Exhibited:
Probably Royal Society of British Artists, 1952
£300500
62 SWEDISH SCHOOL 20th Century
Nude, Bathing in a Glade Oil on canvas
71.5 x 65.5cm
£500700
63 Φ
JANOS CZENCZ Hungarian, 18851960
Judith
Signed Czencz J (lower left)
Oil on canvas
42.5 x 34.5cm
Exhibited: Pozsony (Bratislava), Spring Exhibition 1912 (label verso)
£200300
64 FRENCH SCHOOL, 20th Century
Le Colporteur de Journaux
Oil on board
92 x 47.5cm
£300400
65 ATTRIBUTED TO NIKOLA MARTINOSKI (Macedonian/Yugoslav, 19031973)
Study of Man smoking a Cigarette
Bears indistinct signature N S Marz (lower right)
Oil and charcoal on canvas
49 x 35.5cm
£200300
66 Φ
ATTRIBUTED TO BENJAMIN CROFT EVANS
18761958
Self Portrait of a Young Artist, HalfLength, wearing a Dark Suit and Holding a Palette and Brushes
Oil on canvas
68 x 56.5cm
This portrait had previously been thought to depict Philip Wilson Steer. However, a comparison to a contemporary photograph of Steer suggests this must be a misidentification. An intriguing hint as to the origin of this error can be found in photograph of Augustus John, Ambrose McEvoy and a third sitter, previously thought to be Steer, but who is now believed to be Benjamin Croft Evans (National Portrait Gallery, London, no.NPG P1830). The photograph of Evans seems to show a close resemblance to our sitter
£300500
67 SIR JAMES JEBUSA SHANNON, RA 18621923
Portrait of Raymond Vaughan Edwin De Barri Crawshay, almost full length, seated upon a fur, wearing an ivory lace dress with blue sash
Signed Jas J. Shannon (upper left)
Oil on canvas
61 x 40.5cm
Provenance:
By descent in the family of the sitter
The sitter (18801966) was born at Rosefield, Sevenoaks, Kent, the elder son of de Barri and Rose Mary Crawshay of the family of Ironmasters at Cyfarthfa. He became a sailor, a businessman, a racing driver, a clock repairer and latterly a church warden and organist at Maldon in Essex. He married his third wife, Joyce Michell (b.1920), in 1960.
£8001,200
68
CIRCLE OF GERALD LESLIE BROCKHURST
18901978
Springtime
Oil on canvas laid on board
86.5 x 56cm
Provenance:
From the estate of Jerrold Northrop Moore
£8001,200
69 Φ
JAMES ARDEN GRANT 18871974
Portrait of a Gentleman, BustLength, Wearing a BlueGrey Coat, Russet Waistcoat and Red Bowtie
Signed with initials and dated J A G 1963 (lower left)
Pastels
53 x 43cm
Provenance: Sotheby’s, London, The Ian Grant Collection
Removed from 41 Ladbroke Square, 18 September 2001, lot 277
£100150
70
CIRCLE OF HAROLD KNIGHT, RA 18741961
The Sun Hat Oil on canvas
46.5 x 36.5cm
Provenance: E W Busby Esq, owner of Busby’s Department Store, Bradford; Presented to a colleague A.T.Asquith, c.1933; By descent until acquired by the present owner, 2023
The sitter in the present work bears a striking resemblance to the model in Harold Knight’s Girl in a White Dress of 1896 (Castle Museum, Nottingham), which Knight painted when he was at the Nottingham School of Art.
£2,0003,000
71 FRED STEAD 18631940
Bluebells
Pastels
31.5 x 37.5cm
£8001,200
72
PHILIP WILSON STEER, OM 18601942
The Black Domino
Signed and dated PW Steer
1904 (upper left)
Oil on canvas
102 x 77cm
Provenance:
George Russell and then by descent;
The Fine Art Society, London, 1968;
The Fine Art Society, London, 1989; Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh,
The Forbes Collection at Old Battersea House, 1 November 2011, lot 36
Exhibited:
New English Art Club, London, 1904, no. 89; New English Art Club, Liverpool, April 1905, no. 41; The Fine Art Society 1968, no. 4 (reproduced)
Literature:
Bruce Laughton, Philip Wilson Steer 1860-1942, Oxford, 1971
£8,00012,000
74
BERTRAM WALTER PRIESTMAN, RA 18681951
Above Andrecht [sic]
Inscribed and dated Above Andrecht/ 1894/ BP (verso)
Oil on canvas laid on board
22 x 38.5cm
Provenance:
The Artist’s Estate Private Collection £500700
73
ROBERT BORLASE SMART 18811947
Ben Loyal, Scotland
Signed BORLASE SMART (lower left), also signed and inscribed on exhibition label verso
Oil on panel
53.5 x 64.5cm
Exhibited:
London, Royal Institute of Oil Painters (label on backboard, no date)
Literature:
Marion Whybrow, Borlase Smart: - St Ives Artist - Man of Vision (Wellington, 2012), p.59 (illustrated, as ‘Mountains and Clouds, Scotland’). A copy of the book accompanies this lot. (2)
£2,0003,000
75
BERTRAM WALTER PRIESTMAN, RA 18681951
Camsix, Hertford End, Essex
Bears inscription ? CAMSIX_HERTFORD END
_ESSEX 1903-4 (verso)
Oil on panel
25.5 x 34cm
Provenance: The Artist’s Estate £500700
76
WILLIAM WATT MILNE
18651949
Punting on a Summer’s Day
Signed W. Watt Milne (lower left)
Oil on canvas
94.5 x 86.5cm
Provenance:
David Messum Fine Art, Marlow, Buckinghamshire; Private Collection, Gloucestershire
£2,0003,000
77 Φ
FRANK DOBSON, CBE, RA 18861963
Standing Nude
Signed Frank Dobson (in pencil, vertically, lower left)
Watercolour with pen and black ink
49.5 x 35cm
£2,0003,000
78
WALTER RICHARD SICKERT, RA 18601942
The Chef
Signed Rd.St.ARA (lower right)
Pen and brown ink
28.5 x 22cm
Provenance:
Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, November 1961 (label on backboard)
Possibly related to Sickert’s oil of ‘The Tottenham Distillery’ (c.1924, Tate), a public house at 6 Oxford Street where the artist often took lunch.
£400600
79 Φ
SIR STANLEY SPENCER, CBE, RA 18911959
Study: probably for Christ Preaching at Cookham Regatta (19539)
Oil and pencil study on card, pencil study verso, possibly for ‘The Resurrection of the Soldiers’ (Burghclere Chapel, 19278)
38.5 x 49cm
Unframed
Provenance:
Dreweatt’s, Newbury, Modern & Contemporary Art, to include Kindred Spirits - The Artistic World of Sir Stanley Spencer, 10 July 2025, part of lot 109
From 19511953, Spencer worked tirelessly on studies and ideas for his ambitious final work. The low pink riverbank may be a reference to the one at Bellrope Meadow behind Holy Trinity Church in Cookham and is also to be seen in ‘John Donne Arriving in Heaven’ (1911, Fitzwilliam, Cambridge). Various compositional elements such as the figures on the riverbank, those punting, seated and in deckchairs hint at a Regatta theme. The standing woman, her dress gathered at the knee, appears to refer to a similar figure in ‘Listening from Punts’ with a group behind her that may be Christ with disciples.
We are grateful to Dr Amy Lim, Curator of the Stanley Spencer Gallery in Cookham, for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of this lot.
£1,0002,000
80
GEORGE LESLIE HUNTER
Scottish 18771931
The Quayside, Fife
Signed Leslie Hunter (lower left)
Pencil, watercolour and bodycolour
44.1 x 56.4cm
Provenance:
Pearson and Westergaard, Glasgow; Sotheby’s Glasgow, Scottish and Sporting Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours and Wemyss Ware, 4 December 1991, lot 231; Private Collection, Gloucestershire
£3,0005,000
81
GEORGE LESLIE HUNTER
Scottish 18771931
Figure in Orange Grove
Coloured chalks on paper 43 x 56cm
Provenance:
Sotheby’s, London, Animalier Bronze, Sporting and Scottish Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours, 30 August 1994, lot 1050; David Messum, London; Private Collection, Gloucestershire
£1,5002,500
HENRI MATISSE
French 18691954
Grande Odalisque à la Culotte Bayadère (D.455)
Signed and numbered 12/50 Henri Matisse (in pencil to margin)
Lithograph, 1925, on China paper
54.3 x 44.2cm (image)
70.4 x 57.4cm (sheet)
Provenance:
Purchased from the artist by Leon Kroll (18841974);
Agnew’s, London, 1989, where purchased by the previous private collector; And by family descent
Exhibited:
London, Agnew’s, Old and Modern Master Prints, JuneJuly 1989
Literature:
Agnew’s 1982-1992 (London, 1992), p.196, 203, pl.183
Henri Matisse ’ s Grande Odalisque à la Culotte Bayadère is his most important and sought after lithograph. He focused on lithography in three distinct phases in his career, 1906, 1914, and lastly in the 1920s, and this extraordinary print, dating from 1925, is the culmination of his work in the medium. The subject is Matisse’s favourite model, Henriette Darricarrère, in the guise of an odalisque, sitting with one leg raised and tucked under the other. It was a pose that fascinated Matisse during this period, appearing in many of his paintings and prints. The image is full of striking contrasts of textures and surfaces, such as the bold stripes of Henriette’s trousers, the heavy floralpatterned cloth of the armchair, and the smoothness of the model’s skin. Across the whole work Matisse explores the play of light, with the rich tonal effects enhanced by the lithographic medium, not unlike that of a charcoal drawing, and which contributes to the sensuality of the pose. Grande Odalisque à la Culotte Bayadère represents the zenith of his work in lithography; the epitome of the exoticism and voluptuousness that is expressed through his numerous depictions of Odalisques; and a testament to the inspiration he drew from the longstanding collaboration with his foremost model.
This impression was originally purchased from Matisse by the American artist Leon Kroll, who was studying in Paris at the time. In his memoirs Kroll recalls spending an afternoon with Matisse whilst he was working on the stone of the Odalisque. Matisse complained that “I can’t get a firm line on this stone. It’s terrible”. Kroll advised Matisse to grind the stone to a smoother surface, saying “Your stone is too rough”, and clearly the advice was effective.
£120,000180,000
83 Φ
HENRYK GOTLIB
Polish, 18901966
Landscape with White Oxen
Watercolour and pencil, heightened with white gouache, 1964
37.5 x 50cm
Provenance: The Artist’s Estate
£200300
84 Φ
HENRYK GOTLIB
Polish, 18901966
Female Nude Lying on her Side
Watercolour and pastel, 1963
31 x 38.5cm
Provenance: The Artist’s Estate
Exhibited:
National Museum of Warsaw, Contemporary Art Gallery
Exhibition, Henryk Gotlib, JanuaryFebruary 1980, no.II.93 (label on backboard)
£200300
85 Φ
HENRYK GOTLIB
Polish, 18901966
Fishermen on boats in Concarneau
Pencil, 1958
24.5 x 34.5cm
Provenance: The Artist’s Estate
£100200
86 Φ
HENRYK GOTLIB
Polish, 18901966
Four Men in a Cafe, Val di Castello
Pencil, 1960
26 x 35.5cm
Provenance:
Leinster Fine Art, London (as signed) (label on backboard); The Artist’s Estate
Exhibited:
National Museum of Warsaw, Contemporary Art Gallery
Exhibition, Henryk Gotlib, JanuaryFebruary 1980, no.II.82 (label on backboard)
£100200
87 Φ
HENRYK GOTLIB
Polish, 18901966
Two Girls, a Man and a Dog
Signed GOTLIB (lower left)
Pencil and charcoal, 1964
48 x 34.5cm
Provenance:
The Artist’s Estate.
£100200
88 Φ NICOLAS STERNBERG
Hungarian, 1901c.1960
Sophistication
Signed and dated N. Sternberg/1939 (left centre)
Washes en grisaille
65 x 42.5cm
£200300
89 Φ
SIR CECIL BEATON, CBE
19041980
Study of a Young Lady Holding her Necklace
Pencil
31 x 13.9cm
Provenance:
Christie’s, London, Cecil Beaton
Studio Sale, 7 June 1984 (according to label);
Chorley’s, Gloucestershire, 19 May 2011, lot 219
£200300
90 Φ
PAUL MAZE
18871979
Jessie Reading
Signed P. Maze. (lower right)
Pastels on buff paper
25 x 19.5cm
Provenance:
Acquired by the former owner’s mother from the artist.
£200300
91 Φ
ROBERT HENDERSON BLYTH, RSA, RSW 19191970
Down She Goes
Signed and dated R Henderson Blyth . 44 (lower left), and inscribed with title (to verso)
Watercolour with pen and ink 26 x 36cm
Exhibited:
Edinburgh, The Fine Art Society
Ltd, Modern: Twentieth Century Scottish Works of Art, FebruaryMarch 2021(label on backboard)
£200300
92 Φ
ROBERT HENDERSON BLYTH, RSA, RSW 19191970
Unloading off Normandy
Signed and dated R Henderson Blyth 44. (lower centre), titled verso
Watercolour with pen and ink heightened with white 25.5 x 36cm
Exhibited:
Edinburgh, The Fine Art Society Ltd, Modern: Twentieth Century Scottish Works of Art, FebruaryMarch 2021 (label on backboard)
£200300
93 Φ
ROBERT HENDERSON BLYTH, RSA, RSW 19191970
Trucks in Transit
Watercolour with pen and black ink, 1944 28 x 37.5cm
Exhibited:
Edinburgh, The Fine Art Society Ltd, Modern: Twentieth Century Scottish Works of Art, FebruaryMarch 2021 (label on backboard)
£200300
94 Φ
ROBERT HENDERSON BLYTH, RSA, RSW 19191970
Ambulance crossing a Bridge
Signed and dated R. Henderson Blyth 44. (lower centre)
Washes in brown and grey, with pencil, heightened with white 28 x 37.5cm
Exhibited:
Edinburgh, The Fine Art Society Ltd, Modern: Twentieth Century Scottish Works of Art, FebruaryMarch 2021 (label on backboard)
£200300
95 Φ
ROBERT HENDERSON BLYTH, RSA, RSW 19191970
Tank Engineers
Watercolour with pen and black ink, 1944
28 x 37.5cm
Exhibited:
Edinburgh, The Fine Art Society
Ltd, Modern: Twentieth Century Scottish Works of Art, FebruaryMarch 2021 (label on backboard)
£200300
96 Φ
IAN FLEMING, RSA, RSW
19061994
The Battlefield
Signed and dated Ian Fleming .45. (lower right)
Watercolour and pencil
37 x 52.5cm
Exhibited:
Edinburgh, The Fine Art Society
Ltd, Modern: 20th Century Scottish Works of Art, FebruaryMarch 2021 (label on backboard)
£400600
97
MARTIN BLOCH
German, 18831954
In Kew Gardens
Signed Bloch (lower right), inscribed and dated Kew/June 9th 40 (lower left), bears later labels on backboard
Watercolour with pen and ink and crayons
19 x 24.5cm
Together with another by the same hand, tree study, crayons, 15.5 x 21.5cm (2)
£150250
98
JACK SPURLING 18701933
A Clipper
Signed and dated J. Spurling/ 1923 (lower left)
Watercolour, heightened with white and scratching out 36 x 50.5cm
£300500
ERIC BROWN 18941955
Salisbury Cathedral
Signed and dated Eric/Brown 52 (lower left)
Oil on board
52.7 x 71.7cm
£500700
101 Φ
REGINALD BRILL, RA 19021974
Spoleto
Signed Reginald Brill (lower right)
Oil on canvas
40.5 x 61cm
£8001,200
100 Φ FRANK RUNACRES 19041974
Oast House, Octavia Hill, Kent
Signed F. RUNACRES. 1938 (lower left), bears inscription F Runacres/ 5
Guilford St/ WC2 (verso) and with further inscription with artist’s address on label verso
Oil on canvas laid on board
51 x 61.5cm
£300500
102 Φ CHARLES MARCH GERE, RA, RWS 18691957
The Severn
Signed with monogram and dated 1928 (lower right)
Oil on canvas
64.5 x 92cm
Exhibited:
London, New English Art Club (rubbed label on stretcher)
£8001,200
103 Φ
DOUGLAS PERCY BLISS 19001984
Granny’s Garden (recto); Classical Head Still Life (verso)
Signed D.P.BLISS. (upper right corner), signed and inscribed “GRANNY’S GARDEN/ D.P.B. BLACKHEATH - 1935./ (RA.1935)/ D. P. BLISS/ 1935 (verso)
Oil on board
50.7 x 61cm
Provenance:
Thomas Agnews & Sons Ltd, London (no.46595) (label on frame)
Baring Brothers & Co Ltd (ref PT72) (label on frame)
£2,0003,000
104 Φ
DOUGLAS PERCY BLISS 19001984
Conversation Piece
Signed with initials and dated D.P.B ‘39 (lower right), signed and inscribed “Conversation Piece”/ DP BLISS/ BLACKHEATH - 1935- (verso)
Oil on board
50.7 x 76cm
£8001,200
105 Φ HAROLD WORKMAN
18971975
Barge Corner, Brentford
Signed HAROLD/WORKMAN (lower left)
Oil on canvas
49.5 x 49.5cm
A similar subject (75.5 x 63.5cm) was exhibited at Exhibition of Pictures by Harold Workman RBA at Oldham Municipal Art Gallery, FebruaryMarch 1939, no.16, and is now in the collection of Gallery Oldham (no.45.38).
£1,5002,000
106 Φ HAROLD WORKMAN
18971975
The Barge
Signed WORKMAN (lower right)
Oil on canvas
56 x 69cm
£1,5002,000
107 Φ
HAROLD WORKMAN
18971975
Glebe Place from Upper Cheyne Row, Chelsea
Signed HAROLD/WORKMAN (lower left), inscribed Glebe Place Chelsea (in pencil, on stretcher)
Oil on canvas
46 x 61cm
Provenance: By family descent to the present owner
Between 1945 and 1965, Workman had studios at 296 Kings Road and at Flood Street, each within ½ mile of this scene.
£2,0003,000
108 Φ
HAROLD WORKMAN
18971975
River Thames View
Signed WORKMAN (lower left)
Oil on canvas
45.5 x 61cm
£1,2001,800
109 Φ
NADIA BENOIS
Russian/British, 18961975
Hillside Houses
Incised with signature and date N BENOIS/ 1932 (lower right)
Oil on canvas
64 x 76.5cm
£400600
110 Φ
NADIA BENOIS
Russian/British, 18961975
Country House and Orchard
Signed and dated N Benois/ 1932 (lower right)
Oil on canvas
60.5 x 71.5cm
£600800
111 Φ
ANTHONY DEVAS 19111958
Landscape with Trees
Signed Devas (lower right)
Oil on canvas
61.5 x 51cm
Provenance:
Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London (label on frame)
£300500
112 Φ
EDWARD HERSEY b.1948
A Sunny Corner of the Farmyard
Signed E. Hersey (lower right) Oil on canvas
50.5 x 40.5cm
£500800
113 Φ
ROLAND OUDOT
French, 18971981
Eygalieres
Signed Roland Oudot (lower left), bears types label with title (verso)
Oil on canvas
60 x 81cm
Provenance:
Paris, Galerie Framond (label and inscription on stretcher)
£500700
114 Φ
EDWIN LA DELL, ARA 19141970
Rowers on the River Thames
Bears signature Edwin Ladell (on stretcher)
Oil on canvas
41 x 51cm
Provenance:
Bonhams, London, Modern British & Continental Pictures, Drawings and Sculpture, 22 February 1990, lot
134
£1,2001,800
115 Φ GUDRUN SIBBONS 19242020
A Peaceful Day’s Fishing
Signed Gudrun Sibbons (lower right)
Oil on board
44.5 x 55cm
£200300
116 Φ
EDWARD WESSON 19101983
A Corner in Venice
Signed (incised) Wesson (lower left)
Oil on Masonite
20.2 x 26.7cm
Provenance:
Ash Barn, Petersfield, May 1973 (label verso)
£150200
117
FRENCH SCHOOL
20th Century
A Sunny Day, Fishing Village Oil on panel
24 x 33cm
£100200
119 Φ
CONSTANT LE BRETON
French, 18951985
118 Φ
RENÉ TOUTAIN
French, 19151999
La Loire à Chaumont
Signed RENE TOUTAIN (Lower right), inscribed La Loire a Chaumont on stretcher Oil on canvas
38 x 55cm
£100200
Peniche à Mont Jean (Maine et Loire)
Signed C. Le Breton. (lower right), inscribed with title Peniche à Mont Jean/(MAINE et Loire) (on stretcher)
Oil on canvas
54 x 65cm
Provenance: Collection of His Honour Judge Trevor Morgan
Exhibited:
Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, June 1950 (label on frame) London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd, French Landscape by Contemporary French Painters, October 1950, no.37 (label on frame)
Swansea, The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Some Modern French Paintings and Drawings, no date, no.35 (label on frame)
£400600
120 Φ
CHARLES WYATT WARREN 19081993
The Church in the Sea, Llangwyfan, Anglesey
Signed Chas Wyatt Warren (lower left)
Acrylic on Masonite
25.2 x 55.5cm
£300400
FRANK MCKELVEY
Irish 18951974
The Bloody Foreland, County Donegal
Signed FRANK MCKELVEY (lower left)
Oil on canvas
38 x 50.8cm
Provenance:
Stable Galleries, Ardee, 3rd July, 1974, lot 915; Parker Fine Art Auctions, Surrey, 9 September 2021, where purchased by the present private collector
£2,0003,000
122
JAMES P. POWER
act. 19241938
Chalk Hills Rochester
Signed JAMES P.POWER (lower right)
Oil on canvas
44.8 x 67cm
£400600
123 Φ
OLIVER HALL, RA, RE, RWS 18691957
Peel Castle, Lower Furness
Signed Oliver Hall (lower right) Inscribed “Peel Castle, Lower Furness”/ by
Oliver Hall.R.A. (to label)
Oil on canvas
56.5 x 71.5cm
Provenance:
Martin Muncaster, the artist’s grandson
£300500
124 Φ
PIERRE SEBASTIAN
French, 20th/21st Century
La Bourse de Paris with Flower Sellers
Signed Sebastian (lower right)
Oil on canvas
91.5 x 122cm
£300500
127 Φ
MACIEJ MILEWSKI
Polish, b.1963
Plac Zamkowy, Warsaw
Signed with initials and dated MM/89 (lower left), inscribed “Plac Zamkowy” Oles 89/M.
Milewski (on stretcher)
Oil on canvas
50.5 x 66cm
£200300
125 Φ
REX HARLEY c. 19501960
Gay Paris
Signed Rex/ Harley (lower right)
Oil and pencil on canvas
51 x 61cm
Unframed
£60100
128 Φ
JULES RENÉ HERVÉ
French, 18871981
The Opéra, Paris
Signed Jules R Hervé (lower right)
Oil on canvas
56.5 x 45.5cm
Unframed
Provenance:
126 Φ
GEORGE HANN 19001979
A Parisian Street
Signed George Hann (lower right)
Oil on canvas
50.8 x 61cm
£200300
The Cooling Galleries Ontario Ltd, London
£300500
ANTOINE BLANCHARD
French, 19101988
Paris: Spring; Autumn
A pair, both signed Antoine. Blanchard. (lower right) Oil on canvas
Each 33 x 45.5cm (2)
Provenance: W. Cutler Galleries, Bournemouth, purchased 27
February 2001
£4,0006,000
130 Φ
RONALD OSSORY DUNLOP, RA 18941973
The White Swan, Twickenham
Signed Dunlop (lower right)
Oil on canvas
41 x 51cm
£1,2001,800
131 Φ
RONALD OSSORY DUNLOP, RA 18941973
A View of Notre Dame, Paris
Signed Dunlop (lower left)
Oil on board
37.5 x 45.5cm
£8001,200
132 Φ
RONALD OSSORY DUNLOP, RA
18941973
Near Kingston on Thames
Signed Dunlop (lower right)
Oil on canvas
63.5 x 76.5cm
£1,2001,800
133 Φ
RONALD OSSORY DUNLOP, RA
18941973
Farm, South of France
Signed Dunlop (lower right)
Oil on panel
34 x 42cm
Provenance:
The Redfern Gallery Ltd, London, September 1954, where purchased by Mrs George Villiers (label verso)
£8001,200
134
JULIUS OLSSON, RA
18641942
Crashing Waves
Signed Julius Olsson (lower left)
Oil on panel
35.5 x 46.5cm
£2,0003,000
135
JULIUS OLSSON, RA 18641942
Cornish Seascape
Signed and inscribed Julius Olsson/ To FWR (lower right)
Oil on canvas
45.5 x 61cm
£2,0003,000
136 Φ
MONTAGUE DAWSON, RSMA, FRSA 18951973
The Ivanhoe
Signed MONTAGUE DAWSON (lower left)
Oil on canvas
61 x 91.5cm
Provenance:
Mawson Swan & Morgan Ltd, NewcastleuponTyne, where purchased by the previous private collector, February 1929; And by descent
£6,0008,000
137 Φ
ETHELBERT WHITE 18911972
Still Life with Fruit, a Jug and a Tea Cup
Signed Ethelbert White (lower right)
Oil on canvas
54.5 x 65.5cm
Provenance:
Sotheby’s, London, 20th Century
British & Irish Art, 7 June 2007, lot
48
Exhibited: Gloucestershire, Upton Lodge
Galleries
£1,0001,500
138 OTTO SOHNRETHEL German, 18771949
Artichokes and Poppies
Initialled and dated 1910/ O.S-R (lower right)
Oil on canvas
71 x 80cm
£600900
139 Φ LAURENCE BIDDLE 18881968
Pansies, Wallflowers, Forgetmenots, Aubretia, Saxifrage, Geraniums and Sweet Williams
Signed and dated Laurence Biddle/48 (lower right), inscribed with title on artist’s label on frame
Oil on canvas
50.5 x 76.5cm
Provenance:
The Fine Art Society Ltd, London, June 1948 (label on frame)
£300500
140 Φ
YVONNE MOTTET French, 19061968
Potted Plant upon a Chair
Signed Mottet (lower left)
Oil on canvas
81 x 59.5cm
£300500
141 Φ
ALFRED AARON WOLMARK 18771961
Rose in a Pot Oil on panel
38 x 29.5cm
Provenance:
Christie’s South Kensington, Alfred Wolmark Studio Sale, 28 February 1983, lot 25 (part lot)
£8001,200
142 Φ
ALFRED AARON WOLMARK 18771961
Still Life with Flowers in a Vase
Signed and dated WOLMARK/ 50 (lower left) Oil on panel
61 x 50.5cm
Provenance:
Christie’s South Kensington, Alfred Wolmark Studio Sale, 28 February 1983, lot 39 (part lot)
£1,0001,500
143 ISABEL CODRINGTON 1874–1943
Still Life with Flowers in a Jug
Signed with monogram (lower left) Oil on canvas
73.8 x 45.8cm
Provenance:
The Artist’s Family and thence by descent to the previous owner; Parker Fine Art Auctions, Surrey, 9 September 2021, where purchased by the present private collector
Exhibited: Eastbourne, Towner Art Gallery
£1,0001,500
144 Φ
ARTHUR RALPH MIDDLETON TODD 18911966
A Vase of Flowers
Signed Middleton Todd (lower right) Oil on canvas
76 x 63.5cm
£300500
145 Φ
DUNCAN GRANT
18851978
Newhaven
Signed and dated d Grant/38 (lower right)
Oil on panel
55.5 x 81cm
Provenance:
Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd, London, no date, no.29 (labels on backboard)
£10,00015,000
£40,00060,000 145
146 Φ
IVON HITCHENS
18931979
Still Life with Flowers
Stamped twice with the studio stamp (to the reverse)
Oil on canvas
66.2 x 56.8cm
Provenance:
Purchased from the artist’s studio by the previous private collector; And by family descent
Ivon Hitchens once said 'I love flowers. I love flowers for painting...One can read into a good flower picture the same problems that one faces with a landscape, near and far, meanings and movements of shapes and brush strokes. You keep playing with the object' (Alan Bowness (ed.), Ivon Hitchens, Lund Humphries, London 1973, p.13.). Flower paintings perfectly showcase Hitchen's skill, as they combine strong vibrant colours with deliberate and unified compositions, executed in his unmistakable bravura technique.
18931979
Stamped twice with the studio stamp (to the reverse)
Oil on canvas, c.1934
56.5 x 61.3cm
Provenance:
Purchased from Mollie Hitchens by the previous private collector, 31 March 1985; And by family descent
£30,00050,000
147 Φ IVON HITCHENS
Water Meadows
148 Φ IVON HITCHENS
18931979
Grey Willows
Signed Hitchens (lower left)
Oil on canvas, c.1932
51.1 x 76.2cm
Provenance:
Purchased from the artist’s studio by the previous private collector; By family descent to the present owner
£20,00030,000
148
148 (framed)
149
ERICH OCKERT
German, 18891953
Men Pushing a Cart
Signed with monogram and dated 50 (lower right)
Oil on Masonite
99.5 x 100.5cm
Unframed
£500700
150
ERICH OCKERT
German, 18891953
Christ and Mary Magdalene
151
ERICH OCKERT
German, 18891953
The Stone Breaker
Signed with monogram and dated 49 (upper left)
Oil on Masonite
109.5 x 92cm
£300500
152
ERICH OCKERT
German, 18891953
Painter Apprentice H. Weber
Signed with monogram and dated 52 (upper left), also signed and inscribed Erich Ockert. Dresden - Weisedorf/ “Malerlehrling H. Weber.” (on the stretcher)
Oil and charcoal on canvas
81 x 60cm
Unframed
£300500
154
ERICH OCKERT
German, 18891953
The Virgin Mary with Christ and John the Baptist
Signed with monogram and dated 48 (lower left)
Oil on canvas
66 x 43.5cm
Unframed
£250350
Signed with monogram and dated 50 (lower left), inscribed Christus & Maria Magdalena 4.500DM on stretcher and further signed and inscribed with artist’s address on stretcher
Oil on canvas
56 x 66.5cm
Unframed
£250350
153
ERICH OCKERT
German, 18891953
Mrs P de Haas at the Inauguration of the New Church building at the Bruhleschen Garden
Signed with monogram and dated 49 (upper left), inscribed Frau Pfaner de Haas zur Einnseihung der neuer Kirchenhauses am Bruhleschen Garten 4/ gineidmet/ [unclear] Ockert./ Weindorf, am 26 Ocktober 1956 (on ply backboard)
Oil on board
83 x 47.5cm
Unframed
£250350
Australian/British, 18941968
The Deposition
Bears artist’s name and price (£175) verso, also inscribed I believe there is an Estate Duty/ exemption on this/ painting verso (possibly in the artist’s hand) Oil on board
48 x 44.5cm
Provenance: Geoffrey HoughtonBrown (19031993); And by descent to the present owner
£2,0003,000
155 Φ ROY DE MAISTRE
156 Φ EDWARD BURRA, CBE 19051976
The Gateway
Signed with stamped signature E. J. Burra (lower right) Pencil, watercolour and gouache, c.19621963 132 x 78.5cm
Provenance:
The Lefevre Gallery, London; Sotheby's, London, Works from the Estate of Edward Burra, Lady Ritchie of Dundee and Associated Owners, 3 July 2002, lot 298, where purchased by Anthony John Lippitt; The Collection of the late A J Lippitt
Exhibited:
The Lefevre Gallery, London, Watercolours by Edward Burra, 1963, no.12
Literature: Andrew Causey, Edward Burra: The Complete Catalogue (Oxford, 1985), no.287
Painted in 19623 The Gateway shares similar subject matter to other Burra works of this period, for example The Fountain and The Tomb, in which Burra has depicted figurative statuary. Burra’s love for the unusual and macabre is apparent in these works as the figures seem almost lifelike but are nonetheless trapped within the lifeless stone. The figures and the bull recall motifs within Picasso’s Guernica (1937), the sinuous forms here both static and energised.
£50,00080,000
156 (framed)
EDWARD BURRA, CBE
19051976
Spanish Singer
Signed with stamped signature E. J. Burra (lower right)
Watercolour and bodycolour, c.19331934
48.2 x 25.4cm
Provenance:
The Lefevre Gallery, London, where purchased by Anthony John Lippitt c.2000; The Collection of the late A J Lippitt
Burra’s fondness for Mediterranean mala vida is apparent here. From 1933 onwards, he had a particular penchant for the vibrant and invigorating atmosphere of Spain but he preferred to seek out its seedier backstreets. Coupled with a love of the language and his own perceptive skills of observation, Burra was able to devise his watercolours almost from memory.
This subject shows the singer performing and the bright palette complements the fiery Spanish passion of the scene. The artist's love of the sinister and macabre is shown in the singer’s despondent appearance which contrasts with the tawdry glamour of her setting. Burra shared his love of these sleazy clubs in a letter to Paul Nash (1933): ‘Barcelona was lovely nothing but music halls and bars and cinemas … they did some lovely dancing with castanets however in daintie spanish costumes of black transparent net with diamonte embroidery (over the parts) [sic]’
£20,00030,000
157 (framed)
158 Φ
JOHN ARMSTRONG, ARA 18971973
The Visitation
Signed with initials and dated JA 49 (lower left)
Tempera on board
27 x 30.5cm
£1,5002,500
159 Φ
JOHN ARMSTRONG, ARA 18931973
Still Life
Signed and dated John Armstrong 58 (lower left)
Oil on board
41 x 36cm
Provenance:
Purchased directly from the Artist by Don Hewitt by 1958; Bonhams, Knightsbridge, Modern British and Irish Art, 11 March 2014, lot 28
Literature:
Andrew Lambirth, John Armstrong: The Paintings (London, 2009), no.649
£2,0003,000
160 Φ
JACK BUTLER YEATS
Irish 18711957
The Plains of Mayo
Signed JACK B/YEATS (lower left), and inscribed THE PLAINS/OF MAYO (to verso)
Oil on board, 1949
24.8 x 37.4cm
Provenance: The Artist; Collection of Raymond Bantock; The Waddington Galleries, London; Purchased from the above by the father of the present owner; And by family descent
Literature:
Hilary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, p.876, no.967
Painted in 1949, The Plains of Mayo, exemplifies Jack Butler Yeats mature expressionistic style, when he created some of his most sought after paintings. Painted at the apex of his career, it demonstrates how he broke away from the confines of line, to create a dynamic scene full of swirling movement and thick impasto, with figure and landscape merging into one another. Typically the fluid, instinctive brushwork is enhanced by a rich variety of colour, and the work embodies Thomas Rosenthal’s view that “the 1940s gave us a series of paintings in which the artist’s vigour in terms of colour and composition seemed to grow ever more powerful”.
The title of the present work may be a reference to the famed Irish poet and fiddler, Antoine Ó Raifteirí (17841835), sometimes known as Anthony Raftery. Blind since childhood, Ó Raifteirí was an itinerant performer in an ancient tradition. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries people started to
publish and translate his poems. Indeed Yeats illustrated a translation of Ó Raifteirí’s County Mayo by Padraic Colum (18811972) for his poetry pamphlet A Broadside in May 1912, which contains the lines “I solemnly swear that the heart in me rises/As the wind rises up and the mist breaks below;/When I think upon Carra and Gallen down from it/The Bush of the Mile and the Plains of Mayo”.
£70,000100,000
(framed)
JOHN BROMFIELD ‘BROM’ GAY REES (19121965)
John Bromfield ‘Brom’ Gay Rees was born in Llanelli in 1912. Aged thirteen, he won first prize in Drawing and Design in the Junior section (under 17) at the National Eisteddfod. At fourteen he attended the school of Art and Craft in Llanelli, where the Principal D.E.H. Pratt ARCA encouraged him to enrol at the Royal Academy Schools in 1932. He was bright and gregarious at that time, proving to be an intelligent student with a lively personality. However, in 1935 Brom underwent a sinus operation and soon afterwards suffered a life threatening grand mal epileptic seizure. Ever fearful of a relapse he became increasingly agoraphobic and dependent upon barbiturates. He lived under the care of his sisters and his cloistered situation, compounded by ongoing ill health, made Brom taciturn and increasingly nocturnal. His former conviviality gone, the artist remained practically unknown to the general public during his lifetime. His style shows the influence of Synthetic Cubism (notably Picasso, Braque and Gris) following a single brief visit to Paris in 1948 but the lowkey and informal subject matter reflects his isolated lifestyle. At intervals he was urged to show his work. He would always reply with insistence that he was ‘not ready yet’ although some pictures were included in an Arts Council touring show of Contemporary British Painting in 1951. He died of lung cancer in Brompton hospital, aged 53. There was no major exhibition of his work until a show at the Michael Parkin Gallery in London in 1989.
163 Φ
JOHN BROMFIELD GAY REES
19121965
Harlequin
Signed and dated Bromfield Rees./19.iii.54. (lower left)
Oil on canvas, unstretched
57 x 45cm
Unframed
Provenance:
By descent in the family of the artist
£200300
164 Φ
JOHN BROMFIELD GAY REES
19121965
Guitarist
Signed and dated Bromfield Rees./—.ix.53(lower left); and signed Bromfield Rees./-ix.53 (verso)
Oil on ply panel
42.5 x 31.5cm
Provenance: By descent in the family of the artist
£100200
161 Φ
JOHN BROMFIELD GAY REES
19121965
Still Life Composition
Signed and dated Bromfield Rees/30.iii.54 (lower right)
Oil and sgraffito on canvas, unstretched Image 49 x 56cm
Unframed
Provenance: By descent in the family of the artist £200300
162 Φ
JOHN BROMFIELD GAY REES
19121965
Still Life Compositions
Three, each signed Bromfield Rees. and each dated 14.iv.54 (lower left), 19.x.53 (lower left) and 18.4.54 (lower left)
Oil and sgraffito on canvas, unstretched 35 x 53.5cm; 32 x 54.5cm; 40 x 60cm
Unframed (3)
Provenance: By descent in the family of the artist £250350
165 Φ
JOHN BROMFIELD GAY REES
19121965
Still Life Compositions
Two, both signed and dated Bromfield Rees/15.iii.54 (lower right) and Bromfield Rees./1.52 (verso)
The former oil on canvas unstretched and backed onto cardboard, the latter oil on ply panel 40 x 42cm; 28.5 x 61cm Unframed (2)
Provenance: By descent in the family of the artist
£150250
166 Φ
JOHN BROMFIELD GAY REES
19121965
Still Life Compositions
Two, both signed and dated Bromfield Rees./23 v.54 (lower right) and Bromfield Rees. 5 v.54. (lower left)
Oil on canvas, unstretched
23.5 x 31cm; 23 x 35cm Unframed (2)
Provenance: By descent in the family of the artist
£150250
167 Φ
JOHN BROMFIELD GAY REES
19121965
Still Life Compositions
Two, one signed and dated Bromfield Rees/ 27.IX.53. (lower right and verso), the other signed and dated Bromfield Rees./ 9.VII.53. (verso only)
Oil on panel
27.5 x 39.5cm; 20.5 x 31.5cm Unframed (2)
Provenance: By descent in the family of the artist
£200300
168 Φ
JOHN BROMFIELD GAY REES
19121965
Still Life Compositions
Two, each signed and dated Bromfield Rees/ v.54 and Bromfield Rees 25 11.54. (lower left)
Oil on canvas, unstretched 51 x 56cm; 47 x 59cm Unframed (2)
Provenance: By descent in the family of the artist
£200400
168
169 Φ
JOHN BROMFIELD GAY REES 19121965
Still Life Compositions
Two, both signed and dated Bromfield Rees/27.xi.54 (lower left) and Bromfield Rees/6.xi.54 (lower left)
Three subjects, oil on two unstretched canvases
51 x 43cm; 75.5 x 43cm
Unframed (2)
Provenance: By descent in the family of the artist £250350
170 Φ
JOHN BROMFIELD GAY REES 19121965
Still Life Compositions
Two, both signed and dated Bromfield Rees 11.iv.54 (lower left) and Bromfield Rees 1.iv.54 (lower left)
Oil and sgraffito on canvas, unstretched
60.5 x 40.5cm; 40 x 60.5cm
Unframed (2)
Provenance: By descent in the family of the artist £200400
171 Φ
JOHN BROMFIELD GAY REES 19121965
Einstein Meditations
Signed and dated Bromfield Rees/16.ix.41 (lower left)
Watercolour and pencil with pen and ink and collage detail 67.5 x 52cm
Provenance: By descent in the family of the artist £150250
172 Φ
JOHN BROMFIELD GAY REES 19121965
James Joyce in a Dublin Pub
Oil reverse painted on glass 51 x 40cm
Provenance: By descent in the family of the artist £200300
173 Φ
JOAN MIRO
Spanish, 18931983
La Captive (Dupin 489)
Signed and inscribed Miro (in pencil lower right) and HC (in pencil lower left) Aquatint with etching and carborundum, printed in colours, an hors commerce impression aside from the numbered edition of 75, 1969
73.5 x 56cm (plate); 94.5 x 71cm (sheet)
£4,0006,000
174
WILLIAM GEAR, RA, FRSA, RBSA
Scottish 19151997
Red Structure
Signed and dated Gear ‘63 (lower right), and further signed, inscribed and dated Gear/”RED STRUCTURE”/APRIL ‘63 (to verso)
Oil on canvas
122.2 x 91.7cm
Exhibited:
London, Redfern Gallery, William Gear, 75th Birthday Exhibition, SeptemberOctober 1990, no.21
£1,8002,500
WILLIAM GEAR, RA, FRSA, RBSA
Scottish 19151997
Garden Feature
Signed Gear/’77 (lower right), and further signed, dated and inscribed Gear/SEPT-OCT. ‘77/”GARDEN FEATURE” (to verso)
Oil on canvas
121.8 x 91.4cm
£1,2001,800
176 Φ
WILLIAM GEAR, RA, FRSA, RBSA
Scottish 19151997
Yellow Painting
Signed and dated Gear 58 (lower right) and further signed, dated and inscribed Gear/”YELLOW PAINTING”/JULY ‘58 (to verso)
Oil on canvas
101.8 x 71.4cm
£2,5003,500
177 Φ
PATRICK PROCKTOR, RA 19362003
Lake TaiHu, Wusih (from ‘A Chinese Journey’)
Signed Patrick Procktor (lower right)
Watercolour and pencil
44.5 x 59.5cm
Published in 1980 as an aquatint by The Redfern Gallery and Editions Alecto Ltd (edition of 75, with 15 artist’s proofs, ref. ea986), sold with a brochure that accompanied the suite, signed in pencil by the artist (2)
£8001,200
178 Φ
VICTOR PASMORE, RA 19081998
Points of Contact No.37
Signed with monogram, dated and numbered III/XX VP/82 (to margin)
Screenprint in colours, 1982, a proof aside from the formal numbered edition of 70, printed by Kelpra Studios, published by Marlborough Fine Art Ltd, London 66.5 x 32.5cm
£600800
179 Φ
SIR PETER BLAKE, CBE, RDI, RA B.1932
Y is for Yacht
Signed, numbered and inscribed 21/95 ‘Y is for Yacht’ Peter Blake (in pencil to margin)
Screenprint, 1991, from the Alphabet series 102.8 x 77.3cm (sheet)
Provenance: Viart Corporation, London; Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Modern British & 20th Century Art, 7 June 2017, lot 385, where purchased by the present private collector
£150250
180 Φ JACK PENDER 19181998
Reflections on a Mackerel Morning No. 3
Signed and inscribed J. Pender./ FISHERMANS’ SQ/ MOUSEHOLE/ CORNWALL/ ‘REFLECTIONS ON A MACKEREL
MORNING No.3/ 1972 (verso)
Mixed media with fabric collage on canvas
50.7 x 76cm
£8001,200
181 Φ
JOE TILSON, RA
19282023
The Stones of Venice: La Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista
Signed and dated Tilson 2015 (lower right) and numbered 15/40 (lower left)
Screenprint, carborundum and inkjet, printed in colours and finished by hand, 2015, printed by Stamperia d’Arte Berardinelli, Verona
90 x 93cm (image)
£300500
182 Φ
DAVID SMITH
19201994/8
Large Forge
Signed and dated David Smith 1968 (lower right) and titled and numbered D Large Forge 9/14 (lower left)
Colour lithograph
81 x 53.5cm approx
Together with four further colour lithographs by the same hand, each signed and dated David Smith 1965 and 1966, three titled Fenland and Flower Piece, numbered from editions of 3-13, , various sizes, three unframed (5)
£200300
183 Φ
DAVID SMITH
19201994/8
Town Scenes (4); Cromer (?); Sunset Landscape; Rural Viaduct; Fishermen’s Cottages
Eight, six signed David Smith and variously dated 1952-1956 (lower right or lower left)
Watercolour, some with pen and ink and/or pencil
The largest 56 x 76cm; the smallest 25 x 57cm
Six unframed (8)
£200400
184 Φ
DAVID SMITH 19201994/8
Washing Day, Fisherman’s Cottage, Lowestoft; The Slipway, Lowestoft; The Old Pier Head, Lowestoft
Three, each signed and dated David Smith 1972 (lower right), each inscribed with title and with Artist’s Proof (lower left)
Etching with aquatint 54 x 69cm; 49 x 75cm; and 54 x 69cm
Together with four further works by the same hand, comprising an unsigned and untitled etching with aquatint of a town scene, 35 x 55cm; ‘The Slipway’, etching, signed and dated David Smith 47 (lower right) and titled The Slipway (lower left), 13.5 x 14cm; ‘Cromer’, etching with aquatint, signed and dated David Smith 48 (lower right) and titled Cromer (lower left), 19.5 x 24cm; and a small portrait sketch, signed and dated David Smith/54 (lower right), pencil, sight 10.5 x 9cm, the first unframed (7)
£500700
LOTS 185193
THE COLLECTION OF JOHN ACTON OBE
John Acton OBE (1932 2017), was the British council’s representative to Delhi in the mid to late 1960s. It was there that he and his wife Joy hosted Howard Hodgkin who painted Mrs Acton in Delhi and a portrait of John and Joy Acton entitled The Terrace, Delhi.
From the late 1950s, and throughout the 1960s, he was involved in the London art scene where he was friends with David Hockney, Eduardo Paolozzi, Bernard Cohen and others. Throughout his career with the British Council he welcomed artists to the countries he was posted to, including a visit to São Paulo by Gilbert and George, in the early 1980s. He was made Deputy Controller of the British Council's Art’s Division and Director of the Music Department in 1980.
185 Φ BERNARD COHEN b.1933
Style VI
Signed, dated and inscribed BERNARD COHEN/STYLE VI/OCTOBER 1963 (to reverse)
Tempera on canvas
91.5 x 91.5cm
Unframed
Provenance: Kasmin Limited, London; The Collection John Acton OBE (19322017), by 1968; Sold on behalf of the Estate of Mrs J. Acton
Exhibited:
Delhi, The British Council 1st Triennale, 1968
£3,0005,000
John Acton OBE
186 Φ
BERNARD COHEN
b.1933
Ten Studies
Pencil, charcoal and coloured crayons
52 x 63.4cm
Provenance:
The Collection John Acton OBE (19322017);
Sold on behalf of the Estate of Mrs J. Acton
£400600
187 Φ
PATRICK CAULFIELD, CBE, RA 19362005
Bathroom Mirror (Cristea 9)
Signed and numbered Patrick Caulfield 40/75 (in pencil lower right)
Screenprint in colours, 1968, published by Leslie Waddington Prints, London
71.1 x 93.5cm (sheet)
Provenance:
The Collection John Acton OBE (19322017);
Sold on behalf of the Estate of Mrs J. Acton
£8001,200
188 Φ
SIR EDUARDO PAOLOZZI CBE, RA
Scottish 19242005
Metallization of a Dream
Signed, inscribed and dated To John Acton Unique Eduardo Paolozzi 1963 (in pencil to margin)
Screenprint, an impression with a unique colour combination from the edition of 40 50.3 x 48.7cm (image)
Provenance:
The Collection John Acton OBE (19322017);
Sold on behalf of the Estate of Mrs J. Acton
Exhibited:
India, The British Council, Nine British Sculptors, 196566, no.53
Metallization of a Dream is a key print in Paolozzi’s career. It was one of his first screenprints and, by using Chris Prater’s technical expertise, he changed the colour combinations of each impression.
£500700
189 Φ
SIR EDUARDO PAOLOZZI CBE, RA
Scottish 19242005
Conjectures to Identity
Screenprint printed in colours, an unsigned impression from the edition of 40 75 x 48.3cm (image)
Provenance: The Collection John Acton OBE (19322017);
Sold on behalf of the Estate of Mrs J. Acton
£150250
190 Φ
SIR EDUARDO PAOLOZZI CBE, RA
Scottish 19242005
A Formula That Can Shatter Into a Million Glass Bullets
Signed, inscribed and dated For Joy & John Acton Eduardo Paolozzi A/P 1967 (in pencil to margin)
Screenprint in colours, 1967, from the Universal Electronic Vacuum series
100.8 x 68.2cm (sheet)
Provenance: The Collection John Acton OBE (19322017);
Sold on behalf of the Estate of Mrs J. Acton
£150250
191 Φ
SIR EDUARDO PAOLOZZI CBE, RA
Scottish 19242005
Moonstrips Empire News
The complete set of 100 screenprints with photoscreen, eight signed and numbered Eduardo Paolozzi/468/500 (in pencil)
Printed on various papers, 1967, published by Editions Alecto, London (their stamp to verso of each sheet), in original pink perspex box
Each 38 x 25.4cm (sheet, two smaller)
Provenance:
The Collection John Acton OBE (19322017);
Sold on behalf of the Estate of Mrs J. Acton
£1,5002,500
192
GILBERT & GEORGE
b.1943 & b.1942
Dark Shadow
No 732 of an edition of 2000, signed and numbered by the artists and inscribed For John and Joy/with fond memories of/happy times and/friendly pingo’s./love/Gilbert & George/1981
Photographic illustrations, original marbled cloth, gilt, spine gilt, a little rubbed and bumped, 8vo, Art for All, 1974
Together with a photograph of the artists with John and Joy Acton; and David Hockney, Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, a facsimile edition, 64vo approx (3)
Provenance:
The Collection John Acton OBE (19322017); Sold on behalf of the Estate of Mrs J. Acton
£100150
193 Φ GERD WINNER
German b.1936
Industrial Building
Signed and numbered 68/200 G Winner (in pencil to margin)
Screenprint in colours 59 x 102cm (image); 70 x 102.6cm (sheet)
Provenance: The Collection John Acton OBE (19322017); Sold on behalf of the Estate of Mrs J. Acton
£100150
OTHER PROPERTIES
194 Φ
KEITH HOPE SHACKLETON, MBE 19232015
Rural Landscape with Geese
Signed and dated Keith Shackleton 47. (lower right)
Oil on canvas board
40 x 50cm
Together with a copy of the book Keith Shackleton - An Autobiography in Paintings (Shrewsbury, 1998) (2)
£400600
195 Φ
EDWARD SEAGO, RWS, RBA 19101974
The Fleet Dyke, Norfolk
Signed indistinctly Edward Seago (lower left)
Watercolour and pencil
26.5 x 36.5cm
Provenance: P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London (label on backboard)
£8001,200
196 Φ
EDWARD SEAGO, RBA, RWS 19101974
StrandontheGreen, Chiswick, London
Signed Edward Seago (lower left), and bears title STRAND ON THE GREEN - LONDON (to verso) Oil on Masonite
66.5 x 91.5cm
Provenance:
Laing Galleries, Toronto; Christies’s, London, Modern British and Irish Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings & Sculpture, 23 November 1993, lot 63; Christie’s, London, The London Sale, 26 November 1999, lot 167; Private Collection
£15,00020,000
197
197 Φ
EDWARD SEAGO, RBA, RWS
19101974
Portrait of Sir Billy Collins (19001976) on Horseback in a Landscape, possibly at Pipewell, Northamptonshire
Signed Edward Seago (lower left) Oil on canvas
88.9 x 101.8cm
Provenance:
Purchased from the artist by the sitter; And by family descent
William Alexander Roy (‘Billy’) Collins was a famous publisher, chairman of Collins printers and publishers. He was a great collector of Edward Seago’s work, and particularly admired paintings such as this which show the clear inspiration of Sir Alfred Munnings.
Lots 198 and 199 are studies for the present work.
£6,0008,000
198 Φ
EDWARD SEAGO, RBA, RWS
19101974
Landscape study, possibly at Pipewell, Northamptonshire
Oil on board
20.5 x 25.8cm
Provenance:
Purchased from the artist by Sir Billy Collins (19001976); And by family descent
The present work is a study for Edward Seago’s Portrait of Sir Billy Collins (19001976) (lot 197).
£2,0003,000
199 Φ
EDWARD SEAGO, RBA, RWS
19101974
Study of a Grey, standing in a Landscape
Oil on board
20.3 x 25.5cm
Provenance:
Purchased from the artist by Sir Billy Collins (19001976); And by family descent
The present work is a study for Edward Seago’s Portrait of Sir Billy Collins (19001976) (lot 197).
£2,0003,000
200 Φ
AFTER LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY, RA
18871976
Deal Beach
Signed L. S. Lowry (in pencil to margin)
Colour reproduction, published by Venture Prints Ltd, 1973, from the edition of 850, blindstamp lower left
26 x 50.5cm
£1,5002,500
202 Φ
PETER BRANNAN
19261994
East Coast Beach Scene
Signed and dated PETER BRANNAN 1967. (lower left), inscribed East Coast Beach Scene on label verso Oil on Masonite
45.5 x 76cm
Provenance:
The Trafford Gallery, London (label verso)
£250350
201 Φ
AFTER LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY, RA 18871976
Sailing Boats
Signed L. S. Lowry (in pencil to margin)
Colour reproduction, published by Venture Prints Ltd, 1975, with publisher’s blindstamp in margin (lower left)
29 x 33.7cm
£1,5002,500
203 Φ
ALFRED DANIELS
19242015
Figures in the Piazza del Duomo, Milan
Signed and dated Alfred Daniels 1958-2009 (lower left) Oil on Masonite
55 x 70cm
£8001,200
19211978
Signed and dated Alan Lowndes 1960 (lower left), bears title and date THE ISLAND/ St Ives May 196.. (verso) Oil on Masonite
81 x 76.5cm
£8,00012,000
Φ
ALAN LOWNDES
The Island, St Ives
205 Φ
STUART ARMFIELD 19161999
Still Life with Lilies, Apples and an Anchor
Signed Stuart/Armfield (lower right)
Tempera on board
76.5 x 51cm
£500700
206 Φ
STUART ARMFIELD 19161999
White Hyacinths and other Flowers in a Vase, with a Compass
Signed Stuart.Armfield (lower right)
Tempera on board
61 x 51cm
£500700
207 Φ
STUART ARMFIELD 19161999
Fleeting Moment
Incised signature Stuart Armfield (lower left)
Inscribed and dated Fleeting Moment/by/Stuart Armfield/Polperro 1951 (verso)
Tempera on board 51 x 76cm
£500700
208
210
208 Φ
STUART ARMFIELD
19161999
Sea Shore Still Life No.9
Incised signature Stuart Armfield (lower right)
Inscribed BY/STUART ARMFIELD/1666 HOUSE
STUDIO/FORE STREET/LOOE/CORNWALL (verso)
Tempera on board
51 x 76.5cm
£400600
209 Φ
STUART ARMFIELD
19161999
The Sands of Time
Signed Stuart Armfield (incised lower left), and with artist’s label (verso)
Egg tempera on ply panel
107 x 45.5cm
£500700
210 Φ SIR SIDNEY NOLAN
Australian, 19171992
Leda and the Swan
Signed Nolan (on left), bears date and title 27th Dec.1959/Leda in pencil on label on backboard
Mixed media on card
24.5 x 29.5cm
Provenance: James Colman Fine Art, London (label on backboard)
£1,2001,800
209
211 Φ
HENRY INLANDER 19251983
The Siesta
Signed H. Inlander (lower right), inscribed with number and title 21 The Siesta on the stretcher
Oil on canvas
50 x 40cm
£200300
212 Φ
MICHAEL LEONARD 1933–2023
Emerging Figure
Signed and dated LEONARD/65 (lower right)
Mixed media on board
46.8 x 37.7cm
£500700
213 Φ
LESZEK TADEUSZ MUSZYNSKI Polish, 19232012
Avenue in Ibiza
Signed and dated L. T. Muszynski/ 69; signed L. T. Muszynski RRA (verso) and inscribed AVENUE IN IBIZA 69/ 150gns (verso)
Oil on canvas
71 x 91cm
Provenance: Collection of Countess Andrei TolstoyMiloslavsky
£300500
214 Φ
HANS TISDALL
German/British, 19101997
Still Life with Kites
Signed Tisdall (lower right) Oil on panel 64 x 86.5cm
Exhibited:
Southport, Atkinson Art Gallery, 1950, no.32 (label on backboard)
£300500
215 Φ
MICHAEL AYRTON 19211975 Minotaur Pent
Signed Michael Ayrton (lower right) and inscribed Proof IX/X lower left
Etching
Both 56 x 76cm (sheet)
£200300
216 Φ
MICHAEL AYRTON
19211975
Barley Flight
Signed and dated Michael Ayrton `66 (upper left), inscribed and dated BARLEY FLIGHT/ Feb `66 (verso)
Oil on canvas, with barley collage
76.5 x 63.5cm
£1,0001,500
217 Φ
MICHAEL AYRTON
19211975
Discovery of the Nautilus
Signed and numbered Ayrton 1/9 (on edge of base)
Mixed media (bronze, clear and black acrylic, Nautilus shell), 1969 56 x 39 x 42cm; upon rotating wooden base 57 x 41 x 4cm
£3,0005,000
218 Φ
RICHARD EURICH, OBE, RA 19031992
Drifting Snow
Signed R. Eurich. `78. (lower left), and further signed, dated and inscribed DRIFTING SNOW. 1978/ RICHARD EURICH (verso) Oil on Masonite
20 x 35.2cm
Provenance:
Alresford Gallery, Alresford; where purchased by Nigel Reid, 1998 (label verso) Collection of Grant Waters
Exhibited:
London, Royal Academy, 1978, no.1133
Alresford, Alresford Gallery, An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Richard Eurich OBE RA, March 1998, no.36
£2,0003,000
219 Φ
RICHARD EURICH, OBE, RA 19031992
Rocks at Port Erin, Isle of Man
Signed and dated R. Eurich.`65. (lower left), inscribed Port Erin/ Isle of Man/ R Eurich (to verso) Oil on Masonite
30.5 x 40cm
Provenance: Arthur Tooth & Sons, 1968
Exhibited:
London, FBA Galleries, New English Art Club 118th Exhibition (Winter), October 1965, no.6 London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Richard Eurich Paintings, FebruaryMarch 1968, no.16
Eurich travelled to the Isle of Man in 1964 on a commission from Shell, in order to do paintings for calendars and other promotional materials.
£2,0003,000
220 Φ
SIR ROGER DE GREY, KCVO, PRA 19181995
Little Buckland
Signed deG (lower left) Oil on canvas 76 x 91cm
£2,0003,000
221 Φ
DAME ELISABETH FRINK, DBE, RA 19301993
Viszla B (Wiseman 125)
Signed and numbered 5/75 Frink (in pencil to margin) Etching with aquatint printed in colour, 1980, printed by Kelpra Studio, published by Waddington Graphics, with publisher’s blindstamp 54 x 69cm (plate)
£3,0005,000
222 Φ
MARY NEWCOMB 19222008
Koi Carp
Signed with initials MN (lower right) Pencil, watercolour and pastel
33.6 x 28.5cm
Provenance: Thetis Blacker (19272006); Her posthumous sale, Ewbanks, Surrey, 20 June 2008, lot 2930
£1,5002,500
223 Φ
MARY NEWCOMB 19222008
The Golden Leaf
Signed and dated Mary Newcomb/October 53 (lower right), bears title The golden leaf (on label verso)
Oil on Masonite 81 x 53.5cm
Provenance: Gifted by the Artist to the previous private collector; By whom sold, Bonhams, London, Modern British and Irish Art, 18 November 2014, lot 145
£7,00010,000
LOTS 224239 PROPERTY FROM BURGHCLERE HOUSE
224 Φ MARY NEWCOMB
19222008
The Apple Pickers
Signed and dated Mary Newcomb/62 (lower right) and signed and inscribed The Apple pickers/Mary Newcomb (to reverse) Oil on board
70.7 x 90.6cm
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist by the previous owner’s mother; By descent to the previous owner; By whom sold, Christie’s, London, Modern British & Irish Art, 21 march 2018, lot 71, where purchased by the present private collector; Property from Burghclere House
£10,00015,000
224 (framed)
225
225 Φ
MARY FEDDEN, OBE, RA, RWA 19152012
A Slice of Melon
Signed and dated Fedden 1991 (lower left) Oil on canvas
50.6 x 61.4cm
Provenance:
Christie’s, London, 5 November 1999, lot 12, where purchased by the previous owner;
Christie’s, London, Modern British & Irish Art, 21 March 2018, lot 62, where purchased by the present private collector; Property from Burghclere House
£8,00012,000
225 (framed)
226 Φ FREDERICK GORE, CBE, RA 19132009
La Catalan, Les Baux
Signed F Gore (lower left), and further signed, inscribed and dated LA CATALAN. LES BAUX 1960 JULY FREDERICK GORE/FREDERICK GORE ‘LANDSCAPE IN THE ALPILLES’/(LES BAUX) (to stretcher) Oil on canvas
63.5 x 76.4cm
Provenance:
Christie’s, South Kensington, 20th Century British Art, 15 July 2009, lot 76, where purchased by the present private collector; Property from Burghclere House
£6,0008,000
227 (framed)
227 Φ FREDERICK GORE, CBE, RA 19132009
Roses d’Inde et Pastis
Signed F.Gore (lower left), and further signed, dated and inscribed FREDERICK GORE RA 1984 “ROSES D’INDE ET PASTIS” (to stretcher) Oil on canvas
77.1 x 101.7cm
Provenance:
Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, 20th Century & Contemporary Art, 8 June 2016, lot 257, where purchased by the present private collector; Property from Burghclere House
£8,00012,000
227
227 (framed)
228 Φ
ADRIAN BERG, RA 19292011
St Katharine’s Precinct, Regent’s Park, April
Signed Adrian Berg/4.79/80 (to reverse)
Oil on canvas
76.4 x 76.4cm
Provenance:
Christie’s, South Kensington, 20th Century British Art, 25 August 2005, lot 179, where purchased by the present private collector; Property from Burghclere House
Exhibited:
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Adrian Berg, 1986, no.5
£2,0003,000
229 Φ
CELIA WASHINGTON b.1959
London
Signed with initials CW (lower right) Oil on canvas 91.5 x 71cm
Provenance:
Christie’s, South Kensington, 20th Century British Art, 25 August 2005, lot 134, where purchased by the present private collector; Property from Burghclere House
£200300
230 Φ
CELIA WASHINGTON b.1959
Shooting Star
Signed and dated C.Washington-87 (lower centre)
Oil on canvas 91 x 62.8cm
Provenance:
Christie’s, South Kensington, 20th Century British Art, 25 August 2005, lot 131, where purchased by the present private collector;
Property from Burghclere House
£200300
PATRICK HAYMAN
19151988
The Circus of Infinity
Signed HAYMAN (lower left)
Oil on paper laid on board, 1984
43.8 x 88cm
Provenance:
The Artist; With Crane Kalman, London, where purchased by Michael Bentley, March 1987; Christie’s, South Kensington, 20th Century British Art, 25 August 2005, lot 112, where purchased by the present private collector; Property from Burghclere House
£1,5002,500
Provenance: By descent from the artist to the previous owner;
Exhibited: London, Jablonski Gallery, Zdzislaw Ruszkowski: Recent Paintings, October November 1987, no. 11
Figures at the Beach
Signed Riuzkowski (lower centre) Oil on canvas, 1985
79.1 x 124.3cm
By whom sold, Christie’s, South Kensington, Modern British & Irish Art, 23 March 2017, lot 157, where purchased by the present private collector; Property from Burghclere House
Literature: Michael Simonow, Ruszkowski: A Catalogue Raisonné of his Paintings (London, 1987), p.309, no.680 (illustrated)
£3,0005,000
233 Φ
ALFRED EGERTON COOPER 18831974
Study of Sunlit Park Oil on canvas
50.9 x 61.2cm
Provenance:
Dreweatt Neate, Newbury, 30 January 2002, lot 266 (where inscribed A Cooper, A.R., 4 Jubilee Place, Chelsea, SW (to reverse), where purchased by the present private collector; Property from Burghclere House
£300500
234 Φ
OWEN WATERS
1916–2004
Looking towards Blofield
Signed Owen Waters (lower right)
Oil on board
38.4 x 48.5cm
Provenance:
Property from Burghclere House
£200300
235 Φ
PAUL AYSHFORD, LORD METHUEN, RBA, RA 18861974
Still Life with Flowers in a Window with a Port beyond
Signed Methuen (lower right)
Oil on card
50.6 x 40.5cm
Provenance:
Property from Burghclere House
£300500
236 Φ
ROY PETLEY b.1950
Still Life with Flowers in a Vase
Signed Roy Petley (lower left)
Watercolour
55.8 x 34.9cm
Provenance:
Property from Burghclere House
£200300
237 Φ
PETE NEVIN
b.1952
Edgar’s Orchard
Signed and dated P Nevin 87 (lower left)
Charcoal
76 x 57.4cm
Provenance:
With Vanessa Devereux Gallery, London;
Christie’s, South Kensington, 20th Century British
Art, 25 August 2005, lot 137 (part lot), where purchased by the present private collector; Property from Burghclere House
£100150
238
AHARON BEZALEL
Israeli 19252012
Mother and Children
Bronze
63.9 x 17 x 15.4cm
Provenance: Property from Burghclere House
£300500
239 Φ
PAUL MOUNT
19222009
Untitled
Signed Paul Mount (to base)
Stainless steel on a slate base
74 x 61.4 x 51.7cm (including base)
Provenance:
Christie’s, London, Modern British & Irish Art, 21 March 2018, lot 126, where purchased by the present private collector;
Property from Burghclere House
£6,0008,000
OTHER PROPERTIES
240 Φ PAUL MOUNT
19222009
Two Forms
Signed Paul Mount (to base)
Stainless steel on a slate base
38.5 x 34.7 x 34.7cm
Provenance: W H Lane and Son, Penzance, 10 February 1998; Property from a deceased estate
£3,0005,000
241 Φ MICHAEL STALLARD b.1944
Scribble III
Marble
52 x 47.8 x 23.5cm
Provenance:
W H Lane and Son, Penzance, 25 October 2001; Property from a deceased estate
£8001,200
242 Φ
DENIS MITCHELL
19121993
Porthcressa
Stamped with initials, dated and numbered DAM/61/2 (to reverse) Bronze on a slate base, 1961 from the edition of 3 plus 1 Artist’s Cast 90.8 x 18 x 15.6cm (including base)
Provenance:
Waddington Galleries, London, 1961; W H Lane and Son, Penzance, 10 February 1998; Property from a deceased estate
Exhibited:
London, Waddington Galleries, Denis Mitchell Sculpture, 1 26 May 1961, no.19 (either this cast or cast no.1); Swansea, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery and Museum, Festival Exhibition of Sculpture by Denis Mitchell, 6 October 3 November 1979, no.6, (another cast);
British Council Touring Exhibition, Denis Mitchell; An Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawing, 197379, no.2, (another cast), with tour to Malta, Cyprus, Greece, Yugoslavia, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Zealand and Korea; St Ives, Penwith Galleries, 1965 (details untraced, another cast); Chicago, Devorah Sherman Gallery, Denis Mitchell Sculpture, 1962, no.6, (another cast); St Ives, Penwith Galleries, Denis Mitchell, Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture 19321992, 30 June 1 August 1992, no.57, (another cast); Winchester, The Winchester Gallery, Winchester School of Art, Works from the George and Ann Dannatt Collection, 2004 (details untraced, another cast)
Literature:
Herbert Read, Contemporary British Art, 1964, illustrated pl.17b (another cast).
£12,00018,000
243 Φ
JOHN RATTENBURY SKEAPING, RA
19011980
Neck and Neck
Signed and dated JOHN SKEAPING 63 (lower right)
Watercolour and bodycolour
55 x 74.5cm
£500800
244 Φ
JOHN RATTENBURY SKEAPING, RA 19011980
Le Depart
Signed and dated JOHN SKEAPING
64 (lower right)
Watercolour and bodycolour
50 x 72cm
£500800
246 Φ
JOHN RATTENBURY SKEAPING, RA 19011980
Clairefontaine: Over the Water Jump
Signed and dated JOHN SKEAPING
65 (lower right)
Watercolour and bodycolour
50.5 x 67cm
£500800
245 Φ
JOHN RATTENBURY
SKEAPING, RA 19011980
Closing In
Signed JOHN SKEAPING (lower right)
Watercolour and bodycolour
48 x 72.5cm
£500800
247 Φ
JOHN RATTENBURY
SKEAPING, RA 19011980
Close on the Final Bend
Signed and dated JOHN SKEAPING 1965 (lower left)
Watercolour and bodycolour
48 x 68cm
£500800
250
248 Φ
RODGER MCPHAIL
b.1953
Evening Feed (Partridge)
Signed and dated R. McPhail `75 (lower right)
Watercolour
30 x 53cm
Provenance:
Tryon Gallery, London (label on backboard)
£600800
250 ALLEN WILLIAM SEABY 18671953
Two Water Pipits
Signed A. W. SEABY. (lower right)
Watercolour and bodycolour on linen, laid on board
14 x 22.5cm
Unframed
£200300
249 Φ
RODGER MCPHAIL
b.1953
The Fruits of Autumn
Signed R. McPhail (lower right)
Watercolour
45.5 x 29cm
Provenance:
Tryon Gallery, London (label on backboard)
£200300
251 Φ
SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL FLINT, RA, PRWS 18801969
The Two Maids, Tilly + Willa
Signed W Russell Flint (lower right) and inscribed with title on mount
Brown crayon, possibly on antique paper
21 x 34.5cm
Provenance:
Sotheby’s, London, Modern British and Irish Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture, 2 October 1996, lot 2210
£500700
252 Φ PIERRE DE CLAUSADE
French, 19101976
Mare en Beauceron
Signed P. de Clausade. (lower right), inscribed 10F 55 x 46 MARE EN BEAUCERON-69 (to verso) Oil on canvas
46 x 55cm
£600800
253 Φ ELINOR BELLINGHAM SMITH 19061988
The Wild Rose
Signed with initials EBS (lower left), inscribed “THE WILD ROSE” 1987 ELINOR BELLINGHAM SMITH 77
HIGH STREET BILDESTON Nr IPSWICH SUFFOLK (on the overlap) Oil on canvas
50.5 x 101cm
£250350
254 Φ CHRISTOPHER HALL 19302016
The River Musone near Recanati
Signed and dated C. C. Hall - 1966. (lower left), inscribed CHRISTOPHER HALL 6 PORCHESTER
ROAD, NEWBURY, BERKS./ The River Musone, near Recanati on frame verso Oil on board 19 x 40cm
£150250
255 Φ CHRISTOPHER HALL 19302016
Jullianges
Signed and dated C Hall 1972 (lower left) Oil on board 30 x 48cm
£200300
256 Φ CHRISTOPHER HALL 19302016
Reading Corner Shop
Signed and dated C. C. Hall — 1973 (lower left), also signed and inscribed CHRISTOPHER HALL
READING CORNER SHOP on paper on reverse of frame Oil on board 34 x 42.5cm
£200300
257 Φ
DAVID SHEPHERD, CBE 19312017
Lion
Signed David Shepherd (lower right), inscribed For Jules/ for your `big 60`/ With very best wishes from David/and Avril/ with love (on frame verso)
Oil on canvas
10.5 x 12.5cm
£2,5003,500
258 Φ
BRENDA JOHNSTON b.1930
The Farmhouse
Signed and dated BRENDA JOHNSTON 1975 (lower right)
Oil on canvas
56.3 x 76cm
Provenance:
John Nicholson’s, Surrey, 11 August 2021, where purchased by the present private collector
£300500
259 Φ
ROSEMARY SARAH WELCH b.1946
A Solitary Rider
Signed Rosemary Sarah Welch (lower right) and inscribed A Solitary Rider (to stretcher)
Oil on canvas
51.2 x 61cm
£200300
257
RIDGEWELL
IV 1981
Signed J Ridgewell (lower right) Oil on canvas
126.8 x 101.9cm
Unframed
Provenance:
Fisher Fine Art, London; Bearnes, Hampton & Littlewood, Exeter, 20th Century & Contemporary, lot 149
£500700
JOHN RIDGEWELL
2004
Punch & Judy, East Coast
Bears inscribed label Punch + Judy East Coast. J Ridgewell 41 x 31 £116 (on stretcher)
260 Φ
JOHN RIDGEWELL
19372004
Townscape 2
Signed and dated J Ridgewell/66 (lower right)
Oil on canvas
101.5 x 126.5cm
Provenance:
The New Art Centre, London (label on stretcher)
£7001,000
261 Φ
JOHN RIDGEWELL
19372004
Cornish Tin Mine
Signed J Ridgewell (lower right), bears title Cornish Tin Mine
£150 (on stretcher)
Oil on canvas
70.5 x 90.5cm
£400600
264 Φ
JOHN RIDGEWELL
19372004
Surrealist Still Life in a Landscape
Signed J Ridgewell (lower right)
Oil on canvas
86.8 x 71cm
Provenance:
Morphets, Harrogate, 1 December
2016, lot 351
£400600
265 Φ
JOHN RIDGEWELL
19372004
A Ruined Abbey, possibly Byland Abbey
Signed J Ridgewell (lower right)
Oil on canvas
40.8 x 51cm
Provenance
Tennants, Leyburn, 27 February 2016, lot 2153 (part lot)
£250350
266 Φ
JOHN RIDGEWELL
19372004
Landscape with a Bust of Lucius Verus
Signed JRidgewell/66 (lower right)
Oil on canvas
71 x 91.6cm
Provenance: Tennants, Leyburn, Modern & Contemporary Art, 27 February 2016, lot 2143
£400600
267 Φ
WALTER JOHN BEAVAIS 19421998
Beach Scene, 1984
Signed with monogram (lower right)
Oil on panel
16.5 x 26.5cm
Provenance:
20th Century Gallery, London; from whom purchased 22 December 1984
£200300
268 Φ FRED YATES
19222008
Cottage at Sennen
Signed FRED YATES (lower left)
Oil on board
91 x 106.5cm
£2,5003,500
270 Φ
FRED YATES
19222008
Le Shopping
Signed FRED YATES (lower right)
Oil on canvas
121 x 91cm
£3,0005,000
269 Φ FRED YATES
19222008
Coy Carp, Provence
Signed FRED YATES (lower left) Oil on Masonite
49 x 64.5cm
£8001,200
271 Φ FRED YATES
19222008
Pietrasanta, Tuscany
Signed and inscribed
Pietrasanta/Fred J Yates/Tuscany (in ballpoint, lower left)
Watercolour
39.5 x 49cm
£300500
272 Φ FRED YATES
19222008
Crowd
Signed FRED YATES (lower centre)
Oil on canvas
54.4 x 37.2cm
Provenance: David Lay, Cornwall, Fine Art, 26 October 2017, lot 136; Private Collection, UK; By whom sold, Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Modern British & 20th Century Art, 11 December 2019, lot 359
£600800
273 Φ
GEOFFREY WOOLSEY BIRKS 19291993
Friday Market
Signed and dated G. W. Birks/1983 (lower right), inscribed Friday Market (verso)
Watercolour and pencil
33 x 55cm
Unframed
£300400
274 Φ SIMEON STAFFORD b.1956
Liverpool Oil on canvas
76 x 101.5cm
Provenance: Purchased by the owner from the artist
£1,0001,500
275 Φ SUE ATKINSON 19492021
Cockle Pickers
Signed Atkinson (lower left)
Watercolour heightened with white 53 x 53.5cm.
£200300
276 Φ ANDREW LANYON b.1947
Beside the Seaside
Signed, inscribed and dated Beside the seaside/07 Lanyon oil (to backing board)
Oil on board
20 x 20cm
£300500
278 Φ
SVEN BERLIN 19111999
Firework Girl
Signed and dated Sven/`62 (lower right)
Oil on canvas
59 x 48.5cm
Provenance:
David Lay Auctions, Penzance, The Julia and Sven Berlin Collection, 7 April 2022, lot 186
£150250
280 LEONARDO MENDELIJS NIERMANN Mexican, 19322023
Music
Signed Niermann (lower right), inscribed with title MUSIC (to verso)
Oil on board
90 x 122cm
£300500
277 Φ
SVEN BERLIN 19111999
Parrots
Signed and dated Sven/`63 (lower left)
Oil on canvas
89 x 59cm
Provenance:
David Lay Auctions, Penzance, The Julia and Sven Berlin Collection, 7 April 2022, lot 187
£200300
279 Φ
IVAN WALTER ADLER Czech, 19141989
Fighting Bulls
Signed and dated IVAN/66 (verso)
Oil on canvas
45 x 61cm
£200300
281
CRAIGIE AITCHISON, CBE, RSA, RA
Scottish 19262009
Yellow Vase
Dated 1979 (to overlap)
Oil on canvas
45.8 x 40.7cm
Provenance: Basil Jacobs Gallery; By descent to the present owner
£8,00012,000
282 Φ
CRAIGIE AITCHISON, CBE, RSA, RA Scottish 19262009
Coastal Landscape with a Yacht in the Distance Mixed media on board
25.4 x 20.4cm
Unframed
Provenance: Given by the artist to the present owner c.1996
1997
£1,0001,500
283 Φ
JOHN H HOWARD b.1940
Interior Scene
Signed and dated John H H
1980 (upper right) Oil on canvas
92.5 x 91cm
£500700
284 Φ DAVID HUMPHREYS b.1937
Female Nude Under a Tree
Signed Humphreys (lower centre)
Acrylic on board
30.3 x 30.3cm
£150250
285 Φ LOUIS TURPIN b.1947
Visiting Vita’s
Signed L Turpin (lower right), inscribed with title VISITING VITA’S (on overlap)
Oil on canvas
114.5 x 106.5cm
£300500
286 Φ LOUIS TURPIN b.1947
Quiet Corner II
Signed Turpin (lower right) Oil on canvas
20.5 x 20.5cm
£300500
287 Φ YVES GANNE French, 19312019
Nature Morte a la Cafetiere
Signed and dated Y. Ganne 61 (upper right), inscribed Nature Morte/ a la cafetiere/ 61 and signed Y. Ganne (verso) Oil on canvas
60 x 73cm
£200300
288 Φ HUGH BUCHANAN
b.1958
After the Battle
Signed and dated Buchanan 96 (lower right), titled and dated AFTER THE BATTLE/ 1996 verso
Mixed media on canvas, laid on board
112.5 x 81cm
Provenance: Francis Kyle Gallery, London (label verso)
£8001,200
Gorebridge Landscape
Signed Buchanan (lower right)
Watercolour 38 x 28.5cm
Provenance: Francis Kyle Gallery, London (label to backboard)
£200300
£200300 289
Monument To The Lost Forests
Signed and dated Buchanan 93 (lower right)
Watercolour 37.5 x 28.5cm
Provenance:
Francis Kyle Gallery, London (label to backboard)
£200300 290 Φ HUGH BUCHANAN b.1958
On The Stair, Mirabell, Salzburg
Signed and dated Buchanan 89 (lower right
Watercolour 37.5 x 28cm
Provenance: Francis Kyle Gallery, London (label to backboard)
292 Φ HUGH BUCHANAN b.1958
The Legions Reclaim Their Own
Signed and dated Buchanan 93 (lower right)
Watercolour 48 x 21cm
Provenance: Francis Kyle Gallery, London (label on backboard)
£200300
297 Φ
SYDNEY FOLEY
19162001
St Paul’s Cathedral from Cheapside
Signed Sydney Foley (lower left)
Oil on canvasboard
30.2 x 40.9cm
Provenance:
Parker Fine Art Auctions, Surrey, 5 August 2021, where purchased by the present private collector
£100200
293 Φ
TOM COATES, NEAC 19412023
Entrance to the Louvre
Signed with initials in monogram (lower left), inscribed Tom Coates/Entrance to the Louvre on backpaper on frame
Oil on canvas board
35 x 45.5cm
£300500
294 Φ
TOBIT ROCHE b.1954
Safdarjung’s Tomb, Late Afternoon, New Delhi
Signed and inscribed
Safdarjung’s Tomb Late Afternoon/ New Delhi/ Tobit Roche Feb. 1989 (verso)
Oil on canvas
31 x 41cm
£200300
295 Φ
TOBIT ROCHE b.1954
Humayun’s Tomb, Nizamuddin
Signed and inscribed Tobit Roche/ Delhi Jan. 1987/ Humayuns Tomb/ Nizam-ud-in (verso)
Oil on canvas
30 x 40.5cm
£200300
296 Φ
TOBIT ROCHE b.1954
Tomb of Ishan Khan & Afsar Wali Mosque, Delhi Nizamuddin
298 Φ
WILLIAM DAVIES
19282011
Westminster from Lambeth
Signed W.DAVIES (lower left)
Oil on canvas
32.8 x 50.1cm
Provenance:
Omell Galleries, London, 1993; John Nicholson, Surrey, 25 June 2021, where purchased by the present private collector
£200300
Signed and inscribed Tobit Roche/ January 1989/ Delhi Nizamudin/ ARAB-KE-SERAI MASJID/ TOMB OF ISHAN KHAN & AFSAR WALI MOSQUE/ c 1565 (verso)
Oil on canvas
30 x 41cm
£200300
299 Φ
LEONARD MCCOMB, RA 19302018
Nevada Roses in South London Garden Spring 1989
Signed with monogram and dated 1989 (lower right)
Oil on canvas
24.8 x 30.5cm
Provenance:
Property of the Artist; Beaux Arts, Bath
Exhibited:
Bath Festival, Beaux Arts, Three Generations of Scottish Painters, 1990
£8001,200
300 Φ
OLWYN BOWEY, RA b.1936
Crouch Farmhouse, Barlavington
Signed Olwyn Bowey (lower right)
Oil on board
54.4 x 60cm
£8001,200
301 Φ JACK MORROCCO b.1953
Nude Study, Gill
Signed and dated MORROCCO `99 (lower right) Oil on canvas 28 x 36cm
Provenance: Purchased from the artist by the present private collector
£400600
302 Φ
BERNARD DUNSTAN, RA 19202017
Nude in a Bedroom
Signed Bernard Dunstan (in margin lower right) and numbered 62/195 (in margin lower left)
Colour lithograph
34.5 x 34cm
£60100
LOTS 303313 – THE COLLECTION OF TOM COATES PPNEAC
303 Φ
SIR STANLEY SPENCER, CBE, RA 18911959
Self Portrait, c.1942
Pen and sepia ink
17.5 x 15cm
Provenance:
Canon Michael Westropp, Vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Cookham (19521961), with whom the artist lived during the last years of his life. Sydney Mason
New Grafton Gallery, London, May 1982 (label on backboard)
The Collection of Tom Coates, PPNEAC (19412023)
Literature:
The Daily Telegraph, 18 May 1982 (Peterborough column)
£8001,200
304 PAUL NASH 18891946
First World War Battlefield
Signed with monogram (lower right) and with possible date 1 10 17 (on right)
Pencil and washes en grisaille 12 x 18.7cm
Provenance:
The Barry M. Keene Gallery, Henley on Thames, 26 January 1996; The Collection of Tom Coates, PPNEAC (19412023)
Nash was in France in 1917, serving as an officer on the Western Front, where he witnessed the devastation of trench warfare around the Ypres Salient.
£8001,200
305 Φ
RUSKIN SPEAR, CBE, RA 19111990
The Thames near Chiswick
Signed with initials RS (lower right) Oil on canvasboard
30.5 x 24.5cm
Provenance: Thos Agnew & Sons Ltd (label verso);
The Collection of Tom Coates, PPNEAC (19412023)
£1,0001,500
306 Φ
RUSKIN SPEAR, CBE, RA 19111990
St Austell Station
Signed Ruskin Spear (in pencil, lower left)
Oil on paper, laid onto stretched canvas, c.1950 17.5 x 31cm
Provenance:
The Collection of Tom Coates, PPNEAC (19412023)
£600800
307 Φ
PETER GREENHAM, CBE, RA 19091992
The Cement Works near Oxford Oil on canvas laid on board
78.5 x 132.5cm
Provenance: Collection of Sydney Mason, London; The Collection of Tom Coates, PPNEAC (19412023)
Exhibited:
London, Royal Academy, 1983, no.737
£2,0003,000
308 Φ
PETER GREENHAM, CBE, RA 19091992
Port Meadow, Oxford Oil on board
16.5 x 20.5cm
Provenance:
New Grafton Gallery, London, July 1989 (label verso); The Collection of Tom Coates, PPNEAC (19412023)
£600800
309 Φ OLWYN BOWEY, RA b.1936
Alliums
Signed Olwyn Bowey (loser right) Oil on board 52 x 49cm
Provenance: Alresford Gallery, Winchester (label on backboard); The Collection of Tom Coates, PPNEAC (19412023)
£1,5002,500
309
308
307
310
310 Φ
FRED CUMING, RA
19302022
View on the Coast, possibly Rye
Signed Cuming (lower left)
Oil on board
76.5 x 76.5cm
Provenance:
The Collection of Tom Coates, PPNEAC (19412023)
£3,0005,000
311 Φ
BERNARD DUNSTAN, RA 19202017
The Sunny Bathroom
A triptych, the central canvas signed and inscribed BERNARD DUNSTAN/ DIPTYCH - THE SUNNY/ BATHROOM/ R. H. SIDE/ 1971-72 (verso); the left canvas signed and inscribed BERNARD DUNSTAN/ DIPTYCHTHE SUNNY/ BATHROOM/ L. H. SIDE/ 1971-72 (verso); the right canvas inscribed R. H. SIDE OF TRIPTYCH/ THE SUNNY BATHROOM/ 3-4 90 16 (verso)
Central 152.5 x 121.5cm; left 152.5 x 51cm; right 152.5 x 50.5cm
Framed as one
Provenance:
The Collection of Tom Coates, PPNEAC (19412023)
£5,0007,000
312 Φ
BERNARD DUNSTAN, RA 19202017
Sickert
Signed with initials BD (lower left), inscribed with title and dated 91 33 verso
Oil on board
26 x 35cm
Provenance: The Collection of Tom Coates, PPNEAC (19412023)
Exhibited: London, NEAC at The Mall Galleries, 2000 (label verso)
£8001,200
313 Φ
BERNARD DUNSTAN, RA 19202017
Bathroom Door, Carcassonne
Signed with initials BD (lower left), signed BERNARD DUNSTAN (on paper on frame), inscribed BATHROOM DOOR/ CARCASSONE [sic]/ 7.84 and 43 (verso)
Oil on panel
31 x 27cm
Provenance: The Collection of Tom Coates, PPNEAC (19412023)
£8001,200
OTHER PROPERTIES
317 Φ
PAUL W. FLETCHER 20TH/21ST CENTURY
Reclining Girl
Bronze with a green patina, no.2 from an edition of 10 31 x 36cm
Provenance:
Purchased from the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition by the present private collectors, 1996
Exhibited:
London, Royal Academy, 1996, no.654
£500800
314
CARL MILLES
Swedish 1875–1955
Milkmaid
Signed and numbered Carl Milles 129 (to reverse of base)
Bronze
25 x 15.7 x 15.1cm
£1,5002,500
315
FRANCOIS POMPON
French, 18551933
Dinde
Signed Francois Pompon
Bronze with variegated patination, upon a slate base
31 x 31 x 23cm; plus 4.7cm base
£8001,200
316
CONTINENTAL SCHOOL, 20TH CENTURY
Nude, Arching her Back
Signed indistinctly (B. Czhere?)
Bronze with brown patina, upon a 4cm black marble base
32.5 x 14 x 15cm
£200300
318 Φ
SYDNEY CHARLES HARPLEY, RA 19271992
Portrait Bust of Sir Edward Heath, KG, MBE
Signed and dated and numbered Sydney Harpley 1973 1/6 (on left edge)
Bronze, with light brown patina 48.5cm
Provenance:
Formerly at St Stephens Constitutional Club, Westminster until the 1980s, when acquired by the consignor
£600900
319
E** FREEMAN
Russian/American, FL.C.1960
Mother and Child
Signed E Freeman (front left)
Marble on a wooden base
38.8 x 38.8 x 23.8cm (excluding base)
£200300
320 Φ
SVEN BERLIN
19111999
Warrior Head
Signed with monogram
Stone
48 x 21.5 x 29cm
£100150
321 Φ
JONATHAN CLARKE
b.1961
Bottle Form
Stamped with initials and numbered JC 8239 (to underside)
Aluminium
19.7 x 29 x 21.4cm
£300500
322 Φ
JONATHAN CLARKE
b.1961
Interlocking Bottle Forms
The principal element stamped with initials and numbered JC 8420, the subsidiary element numbered 8420 (on underside)
Both aluminium
16.6 x 19.7 x 10cm; 15.6 x 15.5 x 8cm (2)
£300500
323 Φ
JONATHAN CLARKE
b.1961
Untitled
White painted aluminium
17 x 28 x 20cm
£150250
324 Φ
SAM TAPLIN 19822012
Shark
Signed and inscribed SHARK SAM TAPLIN (to reverse)
Painted wood with marble eye and metal teeth
55.2 x 119 x 11.3cm
£200300
325 Φ
SAM TAPLIN 19822012
Barracuda
Signed and inscribed BARRACUDA
SAM TAPLIN (to underside)
Painted wood with marble eyes on a metal base
39 x 129 x 10.3cm (including base)
£200300
326 Φ
SAM TAPLIN 19822012
White Whale
Signed and inscribed WHITE WHALE SAM TAPLIN (to reverse)
Painted wood with marble eye
40.4 x 69.4 x 2.8cm
£200300
327 Φ
GUY TAPLIN b.1939
Swan
Signed, dated and inscribed SWAN/GUY TAPLIN/2000 (to underside)
Painted wood with glass bead eyes
26 x 37.6 x 16.5cm
£400600
328 Φ
GUY TAPLIN
b.1939
Grebe
Signed and inscribed
GREBE/GUY/TAPLIN (to underside)
Painted wood with glass bead eyes
15 x 35.2 x 11.9cm
£300500
329 Φ
GUY TAPLIN
b.1939
Eight Egrets
Signed and inscribed EIGHT EGRETS GUY TAPLIN (lower centre)
Painted driftwood
48 x 63 x 14cm
£4,0006,000
330 Φ
GUY TAPLIN
b.1939
Owl Family with Frog and Worm
Painted driftwood with glass bead eyes
35 x 64.5 x 12.8cm
£2,0003,000
331 †
GEOFFREY DASHWOOD
b.1947
Jay
Signed and numbered Dashwood 9/12 P.E (to base)
Bronze with a brown patina
31.6 x 23 x 9.2cm
Please note, VAT will be charged on the hammer price for this lot.
£2,0003,000
332 †
GEOFFREY DASHWOOD b.1947
GreatSpotted Woodpecker
Signed and inscribed Dashwood AP (to base)
Bronze with a green and red patina
19.2 x 11.2 x 6.2cm
Please note, VAT will be charged on the hammer price for this lot.
£2,0003,000
333
333 Φ
JONATHAN KENWORTHY
b.1943
Stalking Lion
Signed, dated and numbered KENWORTHY 65/6/10 (to bronze base)
Bronze on a black marble base
18.5 x 39.4 x 18cm (including base)
Provenance:
Christie’s, London, Modern British and Irish Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings and Sculpture, 23 November 1993, lot 125; Private Collection, Gloucestershire
£3,0005,000
334
334 Φ
SOPHIE RYDER
b.1963
Maryhare
Signed dated and numbered Ryder ‘18 8/50 (to underside) Bronze with grey patina
23.2 x 9.9 x 16.3cm
Provenance: Donated by the artist to The Mary Hare Foundation; Sold on behalf of The Mary Hare Foundation
The present work was donated by Sophie Ryder to the Mary Hare Foundation, in order to raise funds to benefit the Mary Hare School for Deaf Children. The work was inspired by Pippa Middleton, an ambassador for the charity.
£5,0007,000
337 Φ
JOHN BELLANY, CBE, RA 19422013
A Scottish Beauty
Signed Bellany (lower right) Pencil, 1998
56 x 38.5cm
Provenance: Beaux Arts, London and Bath (label on backboard)
£500700
338 Φ
GEOFFREY WOOLSEY BIRKS 19291993
Spen Valley Town
Signed and dated G.W. Birks./1980 (lower right), bears title on label on backboard
Watercolour and pencil
28 x 23.5cm
£200300
335 Φ
ELERI MILLS
b.1955
Defed III
Signed Eleri Mills (within image and upon support sheet lower right), inscribed Defed III (on support sheet lower left), also inscribed Defed III/ (Sheep III)/ 4” x 12”/ Eleri Mills (on a label on the backboard)
Charcoal 10.2 x 29.2cm
Provenance: Thackeray Gallery, London, May 2006 (bt. by Photini Riches)
£150250
336 Φ
ELERI MILLS
b.1955
Tirlun barddol III
Signed Eleri Mills (imp) (in margin lower right), numbered and titled 10/40 Tirlun barddol III (in margin lower left) Etching with aquatint 14.5 x 20cm
Provenance: London, Thackeray Gallery, March 2011 (bt. by Photini Riches)
£150250
339 Φ
STEPHANE MANDELBAUM
Belgian, 19611986
Champ de Bataille
Signed and dated 1981
Stephane Mandelbaum (lower right) and numbered E/A No.1 (lower left)
Etching with drypoint 22.2 x 26.2cm
£150250
340 Φ
FRANK WOOTTON 19141998
A Buccaneer Landing on an Aircraft Carrier
Signed WOOTTON (lower left)
Oil on canvas
76.2 x 58.7cm
£8001,200
341
MADE ARSANA Balinese, Contemporary Bamboo
Signed and inscribed MadeARSANA/ BAMBOO (lower left)
Oil on canvas
121 x 75.5cm
£300400
342 Φ
STEPHEN GODDARD b.1959
Portrait of the Artist’s Uncle Oil on board
50 x 37cm
£150250
343 CHINESE SCHOOL, 1972
Still Life in a Yellow Room
Signed indistinctly and dated, possibly Su Yin `72 (lower right)
Oil on canvas
102.5 x 76.5cm
£500700
344 † JOHN KELLY b.1965
Mug and Flowers
Signed and dated Kelly 16 (lower right)
Oil on canvasboard
15.5 x 30cm
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner
Please note, VAT will be charged on the hammer price for this lot.
£600800
347 Φ BRUCE MALLOCH
Australian, b.1936
A Settler’s Camp in the Outback
Signed and dated B. MALLOCH `76 (lower left) Oil on Masonite
26.2 x 36cm
£60100
348 Φ
PETER BEADLE
New Zealand, 19332021
Mount Earnshaw and the Humbolt Mountains, Head of Lake Wakatipu
Signed PETER BEADLE (lower left), inscribed Mt Earnshaw & the/ `HUMBOLT MTS`/ Head of Lake Wakatipu/ Roger Beadle/ 2006 on artist’s label on backboard
Oil on canvasboard
46 x 60.5cm
£200300
349 Φ
345 Φ
MICHAEL FELMINGHAM b.1935
The Salute Contre Jour; Salute October Morning
Two, both signed Michael Felmingham (lower right) Both pencil and watercolour heightened with white 36.2 x 55.2cm ; 35.7 x 54.4cm (2)
Provenance: Both Waterman Fine Art, London, 1992
£300500
346 Φ BRUCE MALLOCH
Australian, b.1936
Lone Rider
Signed and dated B. MALLOCH `85 (lower right)
Oil on board
37 x 50.5cm
£60100
PETER W. FOORD 20TH CENTURY
Chalk Quarry (recto); Warehouse Interior (verso)
Signed and inscribed PETER W FOORD/ CHALK QUARRY in ink on a label on the stretcher
Oil on canvas
71 x 91.5cm
Unframed
£100200
350 SANDRA WALKER
American, d.2018
Factory, Midlands
Signed WALKER (lower right)
Watercolour with pen and ink over traces of pencil
49.5 x 66cm
Provenance:
Bankside Gallery, London (label on backboard)
Exhibited: Possibly London, Royal Watercolour Society
£400600
351 SANDRA WALKER
American, d.2018
Cafe
Signed WALKER (lower right)
Watercolour and pencil
40.5 x 27.5cm
£200300
352 Φ PETER KELLY
19312005
The Open Door
Signed with initials PK (lower right) Oil on canvas laid on board 61 x 41.5cm
Provenance: Manya Igel Fine Arts, London, 2003
£500700
353 Φ SIMON PALMER b.1956
Lazy Summer Day; The Evening Service
Two, both signed and numbered 13/75 Simon Palmer and inscribed with title (in pencil to margin)
Both etching and aquatint
Both 19.1 x 15.4cm (plate) (2)
£200300
350
b.1960
354 Φ PETER JOYCE b.1964
Beyond Brochets
Signed and inscribed `Beyond Brochets`/pj`09/2009 Peter Joyce (on backboard), artist’s label on backboard
Acrylic and collage on board
25.5 x 26cm
£600800
355 Φ TERESA LAWTON CONTEMPORARY
Storm Force
Signed and inscribed `STORM FORCE`/Teresa Lawton (on backpaper), also bears typed label on backpaper
£200300 356
Oil on canvas
25 x 29.5cm
Indian Figure
Signed and dated Estelle Thompson./89 (verso) Oil on linen
30.5 x 30.5cm
Provenance: Pomeroy Purdy Gallery, London; Property of Robin Woodhead; By whom sold, Sotheby’s, London, As It Unfolds: Property From the Personal Collection of Robin Woodhead, 30 November 2022, lot 157
£200300
357 Φ
JOSEPHINE PRYDE b.1967
SelfInfiltration II
Chromogenic photographic print 49 x 39cm
Provenance: New Art Centre, East Winterslow, Salisbury (label on backboard)
£200300
358 Φ
DERRICK HAUGHTON b.1955
Untitled No.7
Signed with initials, dated and inscribed Untitled No.7 2000/DH 2000 (to reverse)
Acrylic and household paint on canvas on board
30.6 x 25.6cm
Unframed
Provenance: Houldsworth Fine Art, London, where purchased 16 January 2001
£150250
359 Φ
DAMIEN HIRST
b.1965
Spin Painting
Stamped signature (to verso)
Acrylic on paper, roundel, 2009 53cm diameter
Unframed
£1,5002,500
360 Φ
DAMIEN HIRST
b.1965
Wu Zetian (The Empresses) (Heni 101)
Signed Damien Hirst on label verso, number 2489 from the edition of 2853
Laminated giclee print in colours screenprinted with glitter on aluminium composite, published by HENI Editions, London, 2022, with original HENI card packaging
100 x 100cm
Unframed
£1,0001,500
Blaenaven, South Wales; Drill & Spanners
Two, both signed Moira Huntly (lower right and lower left) The former gouache, the latter pastels
31 x 22.5cm; 30.5 x 18.5cm (2)
Provenance: John Blockley Gallery, Stow on the Wold, Gloucestershire (label on backboard of each)
361
BERT STERN
American, 19292013
Marilyn, Nude Red Scarf (1962)
Signed, inscribed and numbered 48/72 Marilyn Stern (along lower edge in pink crayon)
Digital inkjet print, 2013 35.5 x 26cm (Image)
£8001,200
362
BERT STERN
American, 19292013
Marilyn Crucifix II (1962)
Signed, inscribed and numbered 62/62 Marilyn Stern (along lower edge in pink crayon)
Digital inkjet print, 2009 28.5 x 23cm (Image)
£8001,200
£400600 363 Φ MOIRA HUNTLY b.1932
364 Φ MICK O’DEA, PPRHA Irish, b.1958
Battle Scene
Signed and dated Michael O’Dea/ R.H.A. 1999 (lower right), bears indistinctly inscribed label on backboard
Acrylic on paper Sheet 76 x 56.5cm
£70100
365 Φ
MARTYN BREWSTER b.1952
Nature Painting 2: Song of the Sea (for W. Whitman)
Triptych, one wing signed and inscribed 1994./ Martyn Brewster/ `Song of the Sea/ for W. Whitman` (verso)
Oil on canvas
One 183 x 153cm; two 183 x 91.5cm (3)
Unframed
Provenance:
Jill George Gallery, London
£7001,000
366 Φ
BERNARD KAY
19272021
Assisi
Signed B...d Kay (lower right, forename indistinct), also signed and inscribed dated Bernard Kay/ “ASSISI”/1961 (verso)
Oil on canvas
13 x 17.7cm
£150250
367 Φ
BRIAN BALLARD b.1943
White Trees
Signed and dated Ballard 2002 (lower left)
Oil on canvasboard
50.1 x 60cm
£500700
368 Φ
FIONA MILLAIS b.1960
Tumulus 1999
Signed F. MILLAIS (lower left), signed Fiona Millais (verso) and inscribed FIONA MILLAIS - `TUMULUS` 1999 on the frame
Acrylic on board
55 x 66cm
Exhibited:
Oxford, The Wiseman Gallery, Fiona Millais, Lucy Butterwick & Emma Dunbar, September 1999
£300500
19312017
Pink Rocks: Corfu
Signed and dated John Hubbard 74 (lower left)
£300500 369 Φ JOHN
Pencil, watercolour and bodycolour
18.3 x 21.2cm
Provenance: The Collection of Michael and Henrietta Gough
HUBBARD
370 Φ ANN HEWSON 19332015
Three Cats
Signed ANN HEWSON (lower left) Oil on Daler Board
76.5 x 64cm
£500700
371 Φ MATTHEW HILLIER b.1958
Baby Indian Rhino
Signed Matthew Hillier (in pencil, lower right), inscribed and dated ‘BABY INDIAN RHINO`/ BY MATTHEW HILLIER/ GOUACHE.1989. on label on backboard
Watercolour
46.5 x 49cm
£300500
Signed with initials JA (lower right)
Provenance:
Flying Colours Gallery, London, from whom purchased 27 November 2001
£150250
A Quiet Thought
Signed A. Francis (lower left) Oil on board 103.5 x 65.5cm
Provenance:
Camilla Swiderska and Antonia Fraser, London, Contemporary Colourists, 2018
Private Collection
£400600 374 HONG 20TH CENTURY
The Cup of Temptation
Signed HONG (lower right)
375
JENNA LASH
American, Contemporary
Big Pink Money
Signed Lash (to verso), title printed on label verso Oil on canvas
127 x 127cm
Provenance:
Purchased from the artist by the present owner
£200300
376
JENNA LASH
American, Contemporary Untitled
Signed Lash (lower right) and signed Lash verso Oil on canvas
97 x 91.5cm
Provenance:
Purchased from the artist by the present owner
£200300
377
JENNA LASH
American, Contemporary Chinese Money
Signed Lash (twice to verso), title printed on label verso Oil on canvas
91.5 x 91.5cm
Provenance: Purchased from the artist by the present owner
£200300
378
JENNA LASH
American, Contemporary French Money
Signed Lash (lower right) and signed Lash (twice to verso), title printed on label verso Oil on canvas
91.5 x 91.5cm
Provenance:
Purchased from the artist by the present owner
£200300
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JENNA LASH
American, Contemporary
TwentyTwenty
Signed Lash (to verso), title printed on label verso Oil on canvas
101.5 x 121.5cm
Provenance: Purchased from the artist by the consignor
£200300
WEDNESDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER 2026
ENQUIRIES
Victor Fauvelle
+44 (0)1722 446961
vf@woolleys.live
101.2 x 69.8cm; 39¾ x 27½in
£10,000 – 15,000
Circle of Pieter Coecke Van Aelst I (Flemish 1502-1550)
The Adoration of the Magi Oil on panel with arched top
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3%£50,000.01 200,000
1%£200,000.01 350,000
0.5%£350,000.01 500,000
0.25%In excess of £500,000
Up to a maximum levy of £12,500
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