Browse & Darby
Overleaf: No. 28 (a detail)
40th Annual Exhibition British & French paintings, drawings, prints & sculpture including ceramics by William Plumptre
8 June - 15 July 2016
Monday - Friday 10 - 5.30 Saturday 11 - 2
Browse & Darby
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Catalogue CRAIGIE AITCHISON (1926-2009) 1. Head of a Man, circa 1980 oil on canvas 12 x 9 inches Provenance Private Collection, UK. 2. Scottish Landscape (Aran), 1993 oil on canvas 7 x 9 3/4 inches Provenance Timothy Taylor Gallery, London. MAURICE BRIANCHON (1899 - 1979) 3. Nature Morte au Lierre, 1958 oil on canvas signed ‘Brianchon’ (lower left) 29 x 24 inches Provenance David Findlay B Galleries, New York. Paul Mazur, New York. Adolphia K. Mazur, New York. Sale, New York, Sotheby’s, 8 May 1991, no. 243. Private Collection, London. Exhibited New York, David B. Findlay Gallery, Brianchon, November 1959, no. 14. Literature (Reproduced on cover of Nina Bawden, The Ice House, Virago Press, London, 1993). P.-A. Brianchon & O. Daulte, Maurice Brianchon – Catalogue de l’oeuvre peint, 2008, no. 537 (illustrated p. 251). 4. Nature Morte aux Pommes de Pin, 1962 oil on canvas signed ‘Brianchon’ (lower right) 23 5/8 x 36 1/4 inches Provenance Wildenstein & Co. Browse & Darby, London. Exhibited Neuchatel, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Maurice Brianchon,
May – August 1962, no. 122 (illustrated p. 288). Literature P.-A. Brianchon & O. Daulte, Maurice Brianchon – Catalogue de l’oeuvre peint, 2008, no. 640 (illustrated p. 288). EDGAR DEGAS (1834 - 1917) 5. Cheval Caracolant, cast between 1921 and 1931 bronze with brown patina signed, stamped and numbered ‘Degas, A.A. Hébrard Cire Perdue 65/Q’. 10 x 11 inches Provenance Acquired from Hébrard, by Walter Halvorsen, Glasgow, 1 March, 1924. Alex Reid, Glasgow. Sir David Cargill, Lannock. Sotheby’s, London, 23 March 1983. Private Collection, USA. Sladmore Gallery, London, 2012. Exhibited ‘The Complete Sculptures of Degas’, The Lefevre Gallery, 1976, Page 65. Literature Pingeot Anne - Le Normand-Romain Antoinette Margerie Laure de, Musée d’Orsay. Catalogue sommaire illustré des sculptures, Paris, 1986. Pingeot Anne - Horvat Frank [photogr.], Degas, sculptures, Paris, 1991. Czestochowski Joseph S. - Pingeot Anne, Degas Sculptures. Catalogue raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002. Héran Emmanuelle-Voisin Elise, ‘Beauté Animale’, Album de l’Exposition., 2012. 6. Danseuse Assise, circa 1897-1900 pastel and charcoal on paper mounted on card stamped Degas (lower right); stamped Atelier Ed. Degas (on the verso) 22 3/8 x 16 1/2 inches Provenance Atelier Edgar Degas (and sold: Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, 3ème Vente, April 7-9, 1919, lot 170). Vignier Collection, Paris (and sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 21, 1931, lot 56).
Stoppenbach & Delestre, Ltd., London. Acquired from the above in 2004. Literature Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, vol. III, Paris, 1946, no. 1300bis, illustrated p. 757. 7. Danseuse se Frottant le Genou (or Etude pour Danseuse en Arlequin), cast between 1919 and 1937 bronze with brown patina stamped with signature ‘Degas’ (Lugt 658), numbered and stamped with the foundry mark ’39/O CIRE PERDUE A. A. HEBRARD’ (on the top of the base) height: 11 3/8 inches This bronze cast between 1919 and 1937, in an edition of 20 numbered A-T, plus two casts reserved for the Degas heirs and the founder Hébrard. Provenance Galerie Blanche, Stockholm. Hans Mott, Lidingö, Sweden by the early 1950s. Private collection, Switzerland, by descent from the above in 1986. Literature J. Rewald, Degas Sculpture, The Complete Works, London, 1957, no. XLVIII (another cast illustrated p. 62). F. Russoli and F. Minervino, L’opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S27 (another cast illustrated p. 142). C. W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976 (another cast illustrated p. 76) J. Rewald, The Complete Sculptures of Edgar Degas, London, 1976, no. 27, p. 12 (another cast illustrated p. 46). A. Pingeot & F. Horvat, Degas Sculpture, Paris, 1991, p. 165, no. 27 (another cast illustrated pp. 142-143, 165). S. Campbell, ‘Degas, The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné’, Apollo, vol. CXLII, no. 402, August 1995, pp. 29-30, no. 39 (another cast illustrated p.29). M. Guillard, Degas, Form and Space, Paris, 1984, no. 36 (another cast illustrated fig. 161) J. S. Czestochowski & A. Pingeot, Degas, Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonne of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 39, p. 197 (another cast illustrated pp. 196, 197).
8. Femme Nue s’Essuyant charcoal on paper stamped Degas (lower left) with the Atelier mark and numbered in blue pencil, 1547 and ph. 810 on reverse 19 1/4 x 12 5/8 inches Provenance Vent a Degas III, Paris, 1999, cat. no. 207, 1,800 Francs. Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, April 7 to 9, 1919, cat. no. 207, 1,800 Francs. Paul Haim, Paris. Albert Loeb, New York. James Goodman Gallery, New York. Sale, London, July 2, 1970, cat. no. 30, former collection of Mrs. BD. RAOUL DUFY (1877 - 1953) 9. Le Vase aux Anemones, 1937 gouache and watercolour on paper signed ‘Raoul Dufy’ (lower left) 24 x 19 inches Provenance Private Collection, USA. Literature F. Guillon-Lafaille, Catalogue Raisonné des aquarelles, gouaches et pastel par Fanny Guillon-Lafaille, Paris, 1981-1982, no. 1271. JOAN KATHLEEN HARDING EARDLEY (1921-1963) 10. Girl in a Macintosh, Holding a Sou’wester pastel 19 1/2 x 12 inches Provenance Roland, Browse & Delbanco. Mercury Gallery, 1969. 11. Girl in a White Singlet pastel 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches Provenance Acquired from the Artist’s Estate circa 1987 by Cyril Gerber Fine Art, Glasgow.
LUCIAN FREUD (1922 - 2011) 12. Blond Girl, 1985 etching on Somerset Satin White paper signed with initials in pencil, numbered 40/50 Printed by Terry Wilson at Palmtree Editions. Published by James Kirkman Ltd, London and Brooke Alexander Inc., New York. 34 5/8 x 28 inches (sheet), 27 1/4 x 21 1/5 inches (plate) Literature Roger Bevan, ‘Freud’s Latest Etchings’, Print Quarterly, vol.3, Dec. 1986, pp.334–43. Robert Flynn Johnson, ‘The Later Works 1961–1987’ in Lucian Freud: Works on Paper, exh. cat., South Bank Centre 1988, p.20–1. Jane Norrie, ‘Lucian Freud: Works on Paper’, Arts Review, vol.40, 3 June 1988, p.391. Craig Hartley, ‘Freud as an Etcher’ in Lucian Freud: The Complete Etchings 1946–1991, exh. cat., Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd 1991, [p.7]. Craig Hartley, Lucian Freud: Acqueforti, exh. cat., Galleria Arialdo Ceribelli, Bergamo 1994, p.17, repr. p.75. 13. Head and Shoulders of a Girl, 1990 etching on Somerset Satin White paper signed with initials in pencil, numbered 7/50 Reference: Hartley 41; Figura 32. Related Work Lying by the Rags, 1989-90. 30 3/4 x 24 3/4 inches (sheet), 27 1/4 x 21 1/2 inches (plate) ARMAND GUILLAUMIN (1841-1927) 14. Le Puy Barriou, Paysage de la Creuse, c. 1910 pastel on paper signed ‘Guillaumin’ (lower left) 18 x 5/16 x 24 1/2 inches Provenance Madame Rousso, Paris. Eardley Knollys. 1954 Literature To be included in the Comité Guillaumin’s (Dominique Fabiani, Jacques de La Béraudière and Stéphanie Chardeau-Botteri) forthcoming second volume of the catalogue raisonné.
HENRI GAUDIER-BRZESKA (1891 - 1915) 15. Male Nude Standing, circa 1913 charcoal on paper 20 x 15 inches Provenance Ex Coll: Ezra Pound. Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London. Mercury Gallery, London. Private Collection, Switzerland. Exhibited Lugano, Galleria Pieter Coray, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1984, no. 20. AUGUSTUS JOHN (1878 - 1961) 16. Female Nude Standing, circa 1898 black chalk on paper. 17 x 14 inches Provenance Thomas Gibson Fine Art, Ltd., London. Private collection, USA. 17. Portrait of a Young Woman, circa 1923 charcoal on paper signed (centre right) and inscribed (lower right) ‘to Dr Jerome Martin/Ziegler/1923’ 14 x 10 inches Provenance The Artist, gifted to Dr Jerome Ziegler. Thence by descent. Literature Martin Birnbaum, The Last Romantic, The Story of More Than a Half Century in the World of Art, Twayne, 1960, p. 172. 18. Still Life of Dahlias oil on canvas signed (lower right) 30 x 25 inches Provenance Alex. Reid & Lefevre Ltd, 1940. Royan Middleton (1885-1965). Thence by descent. 19. Still Life of Poppies oil on canvas signed (upper right) 36 x 26 inches
Provenance Collection of Royan Middleton (1885-1965). Thence by descent. GWEN JOHN (1876 - 1939) 20. Black Cat Sleeping on Chair, Facing Right, circa late 1910s / early 1920s charcoal on paper stamped signature (lower right) 7 5/8 x 9 5/8 inches Provenance Ex. Collection: Estate of the Artist, until 2014. 21. Rear View of Nun and Orphan Seated in Church, circa 1920s gouache on paper stamped signature (lower right) 5 5/8 x 5 7/16 inches Provenance Acquired from the Artist’s Estate, estate no. EJ 1215. Literature Another version of this composition is illustrated in Cecily Langdale, Gwen John, London & New Haven, 1987, illus. as pl.356, p.223, no.311. 22. Red Flowers on White Bloom watercolour on paper stamped signature (lower left) 6 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches Exhibited Gallery/exh labels on verso ‘Mattiesen Ltd, Gwen John Memorial Exhibition 1946’. ‘Matthiesen Gallery Gwen John Exh. 1961’. 23. Portrait of a Lady, thought to be Maude Boughton-Leigh, circa 1909-10 pencil and grey wash 8 x 6 1/8 inches Provenance Private Collection, USA, 1996. Private Collection, UK. Exhibited Chichester, Pallant House Gallery, ‘Gwen John and Celia Paul – Painters in Parallel’, October 2012- February 2013.
24. Still Life of Flowers at a Window, 1928 watercolour and gouache inscribed and dated ‘Des fleurs à la fenêtre. Oct.1.28.’ (on the reverse of the supporting sheet) 5 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches Provenance Private collection, France, in the family of the present owner since circa 1929. ALBERT LEBOURG (1849 - 1928) 25. La Route, 1887 oil on canvas signed, lower right ‘A. Lebourg 1887 15 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches Provenance Arthur Tooth & Sons. PAUL MAZE (1887-1979) 26. Sailing Boats on an Estuary oil on board 10 1/2 x 28 1/2 inches Exhibited O’Hana Gallery, Carlos Place, London, ‘Paul Maze Exhibition’, May 1958, as ‘Boats’. BERTHE MORISOT (1841-1895) 27. Femme et Enfant au Bois pencil on paper laid on card stamped with the Artist’s initials ‘B.M’ and numbered no. 25 (lower right); further inscribed ‘For my granddaughter 23.10.1970./Suzanne Eisendieck’ (on reverse) 21 x 15 15/16 inches Provenance Gifted by Mrs Suzanne Eisendieck to her granddaughter Exhibited Paris, Musee Jacquemart-Andre, ‘Exposition Berthe Moriso’.
JOHN NASH (1893-1977) 28. The Mill Pond, Evening oil on canvas signed (lower right) 23 1/2 x 33 1/2 inches Provenance Thos. Agnews, London. Mrs Marchant, 11 Berkley Square, London W1. Browse & Darby, London. Private collection, UK. BEN NICHOLSON (1894 - 1982) 29. George and Rufus, c.1938-1942 screenprint in colours on rayon Produced by Edinburgh Weavers (1938-1942). 16 x 24 inches
Provenance Acquired directly from the Artist by Winston and Clementine Churchill, and thence by descent to their daughter Mary. Exhibited London, National Gallery, ‘Exhibition of Paintings by Sir William Nicholson and Jack B. Yeats’, 1st January 15th March 1942, cat. no.74. Literature Lillian Browse, William Nicholson, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1956, cat. no.448, p.104. Patricia Reed, William Nicholson, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Modern Art Press/Yale University Press, London, 2011, cat. no.737, illustrated p.565. Colin Campbell, William Nicholson, The Graphic Work, London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1992, pp. 44-55, pl.48.
WILLIAM NICHOLSON (1872 - 1949) 33. The Drum Major, 1898 30. Flower Girl (Any Corner), 1898 woodcut engraving, hand coloured by the artist woodcut engraving, hand coloured by the artist signed in black ink One of less than 40 impressions from the Deluxe One of less than 40 impressions from the Deluxe Edition of London Types, published by William Edition of London Types, published by William Heinemann. 1898 Heinemann. signed and dated (lower left) 10 x 9 inches 10 x 9 inches Literature 34. The Guardsman, 1898 Colin Campbell, William Nicholson, The Graphic Work, woodcut engraving, hand coloured by the artist London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1992, pp. 44-55, pl.48. signed and dated One of less than 40 impressions from the Deluxe 31. Racing, 1897 Edition of London Types, published by William woodcut engraving, hand coloured by the artist Heinemann. ‘From the Deluxe Edition of ‘An Almanac of Twelve 10 x 9 inches Sports’. Ref: Campbell 33 A. Signature should be ‘signed Literature in black ink, (lower left)’ Colin Campbell, William Nicholson, The Graphic Work, 7 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1992, pp44-55, pl.48. Literature Colin Campbell, William Nicholson, The Graphic Work, JOHN PIPER (1903-1992) London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1992, pp44-55, pl.48. 35. Portland Bill, circa 1950 oil on prepared canvas board 32. The Castle, Malaga, 1935 6 1/5 x 8 inches oil on canvasboard Provenance 13 x 16 inches Stephen Mazoh, Baltimore, USA. signed with initials, titled and dated Jan 1935 on the Private Collection, UK. reverse
WALTER RICHARD SICKERT (1860 - 1942) 36. Ennui, 1914 etching, 6th state, signed in plate 17 3/4 x 12 1/2 inches Literature Ruth Bromberg, ‘Ennui: Etching as Drawing’, in ‘Walter Sickert: ‘drawing is the thing’’, exhibition catalogue, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester 2004, p.16. Ruth Bromberg, Walter Sickert Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London 2000, pp.185–6, no.156.6, reproduced. Gordon Cooke, Prints by Walter Richard Sickert (1860– 1942), exhibition catalogue, London 1988, nos.9–10. Fine Art Society, Sickert: Pages Torn from the Book of Life, exhibition catalogue, New York 2002, p.47, reproduced no.34. Tate Liverpool, W.R. Sickert: Drawings and Paintings 1890–1942, Tate Liverpool exhibition catalogue, Liverpool, 1989, p.24. 37. St Rémy, le Chevet de l’Eglise, Dieppe, circa 1900-03 oil on canvas 15 x 18 1/4 inches Provenance Bernheim Jeune, Paris. Raphael Bullrick, and by descent, 2002. Browse & Darby, London, 2003. Private Collection, UK, 2012. Exhibited Browse & Darby, London, 2002, no.26. ‘Sickert in Dieppe’, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, 2015, cat. no. 38, p. 61 Literature Wendy Baron, Sickert Paintings & Drawings, London, 2006, p.249, no 143.1. SIR MATTHEW SMITH (1879 - 1959) 38. Still Life with Blue Jugs watercolour signed (lower right) 16 3/4 x 13 3/16 ins. Provenance Mr Richard Attenborough.
39. Still Life with Flowers and Striped Cloth, circa 1931 oil on canvas signed with initials ‘MS’ (lower right), signed with initials again and inscribed ‘MS/10 PASSAGE NOIROT/ PARIS.’ (on the reverse) 29 1/4 x 23 3/4 inches Provenance Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London. Mr Ivor Novello. Colonel Robert Henriques, M.B.E., Gloucestershire, by 1960. Mrs David Henriques. Mrs Westbury, June 1978. Exhibited London, Royal Academy, ‘Sir Matthew Smith Memorial Exhibition’, October-December 1960, no. 148, as ‘Flowers in a vase-white cloth, red stripes’. London, Arthur Tooth & Sons and Roland, Browse & Delbanco, Mathew Smith - a Loan Exhibition, April May 1976, no. 54, as ‘Flowers in a Vase on white cloth with red’. Literature J. Gledhill, Matthew Smith Catalogue Raisonné of the oil paintings, Farnham, 2009, pl 151, no. 331, illustrated. 40. Still Life with White Dish and Fruit oil on canvas signed with initials 15 1/2 x 20 inches Provenance Roland, Browse Delbanco, 1957. 41. Yellow Flowers in a Round Vase, circa 1928 oil on canvas signed with initials ‘MS’ (lower left) 18 1/8 x 13 3/4 inches Provenance Dr. Richard Alexander, acquired 1989, thence by descent to the present owner Private Collection, U.K.
42. Yorkshire landscape, circa 1931 oil on canvas 24 x 30 inches Provenance Piccadilly Gallery, 1965. Private collection, UK. Exhibited Brook Street Gallery (early exhibition but date unknown) Literature John Gledhill, Matthew Smith: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Lund Humphries, 2009, no. 352 Malcolm Yorke, Matthew Smith: His Life and Reputation, London: Faber & Faber, 1997, pl. 37. SIR STANLEY SPENCER, R.A. (1891 - 1959) 43. Late Youth pencil, squared for transfer inscribed ‘Late youth’ (lower centre) There is an unfinished sketch of bathers by the same hand on the reverse. 23 1/8 x 18 inches Provenance Gillian Jason Gallery, London, where purchased by the previous owner’s father, circa 1980, and by descent. PHILIP WILSON STEER (1860 – 1942) 44. L’Enfant Rose, 1893 oil on panel 10 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches Provenance Mrs Alfred Thornton. R.A.Peto, (acquired in 1938). Mrs Rosemary Peto. Christie’s, 4 June 1971, no.98. Fine Art Society, London, 1972 & 1989. Mr & Mrs Will Richeson. Private Collection, UK. Exhibited Manchester, 1893, no 375, as L’Enfant Rose. (possibly) London, Goupil’s Gallery, 1894, no 38, as The Pink Frock. London, Leicester Galleries, ‘Summer Exhibition’, 1938, no.33. Literature D S McColl, Philip Wilson Steer, London, 1945, p.193. Bruce Laughton, Philip Wilson Steer 1860-1942, Oxford, 1971, pp 47-8, 134, no 119, pl.93.
EUAN UGLOW (1932-2000) 45. Judy Lying Down pencil on paper 13 x 18 inches Provenance Gifted from the artist to the previous owner. 46. Nude, 1958 oil on canvas 16 7/8 x 21 1/8 inches Provenance Private Collection, UK. Exhibited ’Euan Uglow 2015’, Browse & Darby, London, 7 Oct - 6 Nov 2015, cat. no. 50. WILLIAM PLUMPTRE 47. Kick wheel vase inlaid blue and white slip, nuka glaze 7 x 5 inches 48. Paddled bottle inlaid iron slip, nuka glaze 13 x 6 x 6 inches 49. Thrown vase inlaid cobalt slip, wood ash glaze 14 x 8 inches 50. Vase inlaid iron slip, nuka glaze 13 x 11 inches 51. Tile inlaid iron slip nuka and tenmoku glaze 12 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches 52. Rectangular press mould plate inlaid cobalt slip and nuka glaze 7 1/2 x 5 inches Additional ceramics by William Plumptre available.
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