june 2010
goldmark
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham She travelled extensively in Europe and a visit to Switzerland in 1948 inspired her Glacier series of paintings. In 1955 she took up an Italian Government Travelling Scholarship which produced much evidence of her incisive draughtsmanship. During the 1950s she taught at Leeds School of Art and from 1961-63 had a studio in London before returning to St. Ives.
Barns-Graham (1912-2004) was born at St. Andrews, Fife and studied at the Edinburgh College of Art (1932-37). Three years later she moved to St. Ives in Cornwall to stay with her friends, the artists Margaret Mellis and Adrian Stokes. At St. Ives she met many of the leading avant-garde artists of the day including Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo and also joined the artistic societies at Newlyn and Penwith.
Early in her career Barns-Graham had produced abstracts in coloured chalks but from the 1960s onwards her work became more conceptually abstract. Throughout her career she exhibited regularly in Cornwall, London, Scotland and elsewhere. The first major retrospective of her work was held at Newlyn Art Gallery (1989-90) and a Memorial Exhibition took place at The Scottish Gallery (2007). Her work is held in several public collections including the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and The Arts Council. Barns-Graham was awarded a C.B.E. and in 2001 a substantial monograph was devoted to her life and work. The eminent art historian Martin Kemp has described Barns-Graham’s art as being about: . . . order and disorder, regularity and irregularity, singularity and plurality, simplicity and multiplicity, edgy contour and fluid colour, the wonder of viscous substances, thick and thin, congealed and runny, patterns of process that transcend object, scale and material, and, above all, the interdependence of motion and emotion.
ARTISTS INDEX Barns-Graham, Wilhelmina Bellmer, Hans Creffield, Dennis Dali, Salvador Davison, Francis
1 30,31 8,9 28,29 4-7
Frink, Elisabeth Hammond Steel, George Kuhn, Andrzej Moore, Henry Palazuelo, Pablo Paolozzi, Eduardo
22,23 2 14,15 20,21 26,27 10-13
Piper, John Thornton, Valerie Ubac, Raoul Wallis, Alfred Warhol, Andy
16-19 24,25 32 3 33
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
1. Untitled oil on paper on board, 1964, signed, 58 x 90 cm
ÂŁ14,500
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George Hammond Steel
2. St Ives, Harbour oil on board, c1950s, signed, 30 x 40.5 cm
ÂŁ6500
George Hammond Steel (1900-1960) was born in Sheffield the son of the artist G. T. Steel. He studied at Sheffield School of Art and later in Birmingham and London. His work was exhibited at several institutions such as the Royal Academy, the Royal Institute of Watercolour Painters and the Paris Salon and is represented in public collections including Sheffield. For the most part Hammond Steel depicted townscapes and cottage scenes in Essex where he lived and landscapes including coastal scenes in East Anglia and Cornwall, such as the atmospheric oil painting of St. Ives Harbour offered here.
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Alfred Wallis
3. Grey Harbour (Ship Passing Lighthouse) oil and pencil on board, 11.5 x 31.5 cm
£22,000
An important ‘association’ painting having been owned by Sven Berlin, Wallis’ first biographer. It is illustrated in the second edition of Alfred Wallis Primitive. It was then given by Berlin to the painter Adrian Ryan (19201998). A note on the reverse states: given to me by Sven Berlin 1949, A. Ryan SVEN'S FRAMING! A record price of £85,000 was paid in Sotherby’s last week for a Wallis which had been owned by Ben Nicholson.
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Francis Davison
Francis Davison (1919-1984) was born in London. He was married to the artist Margaret Mellis. Davison was brought up by adoptive parents in France and England. After reading English and anthropology at Cambridge University he wrote poetry, then began to draw in 1946. Moving to Suffolk in 1948, he settled in Southwold. By the early 1950s his paintings became simplified shapes, then in 1952 he became a collagist. Over the next 20 years reference to landscape disappeared and the colour range was extended. Davison said that he was the only true collagist, as he relied entirely on found, used and not painted papers. He exhibited at MoMA, Oxford; Hayward Gallery, London and Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge.
36 page full colour catalogue available price £10.00 Dvd available price £5.00
Francis Davison was a quiet and intensely private man. Had he not moved to Suffolk but stayed in St. Ives, we feel that he would already be seen to stand with the best of his generation.
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Francis Davison
4. Farm House pencil and oil on board, 1950-51, 25.5 x 31.5 cm
ÂŁ4500
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Francis Davison
5. House with Pond collage, c1952-63, 60.5 x 50.5 cm
ÂŁ6000
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Francis Davison
6. Mountain Cottages collage, c1952-63, 62 x 74 cm
ÂŁ6000
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Dennis Creffield Dennis Creffield was born in London in 1931 and he studied with David Bomberg at the Borough Polytechnic followed by the Slade School of Fine Art where he won the Tonks Prize for Life-Drawing and the Steer Medal for Landscape Painting. As a student Creffield also mixed with several contemporary artists, particularly Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff. Creffield often paints in an Expressionist style influenced, amongst others, by David Bomberg and in 1961 he was a prize winner at the John Moore’s Liverpool Exhibition. Three years later he was appointed Gregory Fellow in Painting at Leeds University and held his first solo exhibition at Leeds City Art Gallery in 1966. In 1977 he won an ACGB Major Award for Painting but it was ten years later that Creffield gained wider public recognition when he was commissioned by the South Bank Board to draw all the English medieval cathedrals. These works, as Drawings by Dennis Creffield – English Cathedrals, formed a touring exhibition of which the sole sponsor was the Goldmark Gallery. This exhibition toured for over two years and visited many English cathedral cities and other towns. R. B. Kitaj speaking of Creffield and the touring exhibition wrote, Creffield is one of England’s closely guarded secrets and it’s about time someone blew his cover. This exhibition, this commission was just such a brilliant idea. The drawings are wonderful and Creffield’s great gift can’t be hidden away anymore. Creffield’s work is represented in several important public collections including the Arts Council of Great Britain, Balliol & Keble Colleges, Oxford, University College, London, Manchester City Art Gallery and Leeds City Art Gallery.
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Dennis Creffield
7. Orford Ness: Pagoda Sea & Sky oil on canvas, 1995, signed verso, 63.5 x 76.5 cm
ÂŁ1650
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Eduardo Paolozzi Paolozzi (1924-2005) was born to Italian parents at Leith near Edinburgh and initially he studied at Edinburgh College of Art. He moved to the Slade School of Art in London and whilst there fully discovered the range of Picasso’s work which was to have a profound influence upon his own art. He moved to Paris in the late 1940s and met many artists including Brancusi, Braque and Giacometti. In Paris he developed an interest in Surrealism and Dada which he later adapted into photomontage collages now regarded as early examples of Pop Art. His work was shown at the Galerie Maeght, Paris (1948) and on his return to London Paolozzi shared a studio with Lucian Freud and became acquainted with Francis Bacon. He taught at the Central School of Art until 1955 and in 1960 he held a solo show in New York. From 1977 to 1994 Paolozzi was a professor in Germany and he seems to have felt that he was much more appreciated there by both academics and collectors than he was in Britain. However he did receive many major commissions in Britain including Piscator (1981) at Euston Station and Newton (1997) at the British Library. His large mosaic for the platform at Tottenham Court Road Tube Station (1980-82) is seen by thousands of people everyday. Paolozzi was made a C.B.E. (1968), appointed a Royal Academician (1978) and knighted in 1989.
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Eduardo Paolozzi
8. To Dunmow and all Villages due North pen and ink, c1960s, signed, 22.5 x 32 cm Dedicated ‘Eduardo Paolozzi to Mike’
£2450
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Eduardo Paolozzi
9. Frog,
1989, signed verso, hand-coloured, 8.5 x 7.5 x 6.5 cm,
10. Mask,
1989, signed verso, hand-coloured, 18 x 18.5 x 6.5 cm,
£550
£675
Paolozzi was very keen that the medium of plaster should have a higher status as a sculptural medium than it had previously enjoyed in the 20th century. He took a particular interest in this question after Albert Elsen’s ‘Rodin Rediscovered’ exhibition (1981) which re-valued Rodin’s practice with plaster. Most of the plasters from the 1990s were not often cast in any other material. A lot of the animals were made specially for the ‘Arche Noah’ exhibition in Munich in 1990. Paolozzi often gave the plasters as gifts to friends and visitors.
11. Mouse,
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signed verso, 5 x 9.5 x 5 cm,
£475
Eduardo Paolozzi
12. Locusts (copulating),
1989, signed verso ‘for Paul’, hand-coloured, 11 x 27 x 4 cm,
£1250
13. Crocodile (Meezles),
1993, signed verso, 6.5 x 21.5 x 8.5 cm,
£975
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Andrzej Kuhn
14. Dervish Chasing the Sun oil on board, c2000, signed, 48.5 x 48.5 cm
£1600
‘On the day before his mother, his sister and he were transported (from Poland in 1940), tenyear-old Andrzej, possessed by foreboding, sought ease by sifting through the illustrations in his children’s books. No doubt memories of them continued to console the child during the transports, during his 3 years in Russia, and in
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his further exile; a lesson in the power of art that he never forgot. Thus it is that a Kuhn painting brings to the viewer an inward smile of pleasure. They are meant to be images that warm when one is depressed; that uplift with their humour, their wit and humanity.’ Glyn Hughes, novelist and painter
Andrzej Kuhn
15. Man and Woman oil on board, 1975, signed, 98 x 78 cm
ÂŁ2250 Kuhn rarely dates his work so this painting is unusual in being both dated and early.
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John Piper
16. Female Nude ink and brown chalk, 1969, 28 x 17 cm
ÂŁ2000
These two Piper nude studies are from a private collection. They were purchased directly from the artist and have never been shown or been through auction. Each comes with a note of authentication signed by Myfanwy Piper.
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John Piper
17. Reclining Nude ink and wash, 1984, 36 x 25 cm
ÂŁ4500
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John Piper
18. Old Church of Mynachlogddu etching, 1987, ed 70, signed, 39.5 x 53 cm
ÂŁ2500
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John Piper
19. Llyn Teifi etching, 1987, ed 70, signed, 39.5 x 57.8 cm
ÂŁ2650
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Henry Moore
20. High Wire Walkers etching, 1975, artist’s proof ed 15, signed, 25 x 18.7 cm
£2450
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Henry Moore
21. Circus Scenes etching, 1975, artist’s proof ed 15, signed, 24.6 x 20.4 cm
ÂŁ2450
This is the first time we have seen these delightful Moore etchings.
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Elisabeth Frink
22. The Second Nun’s Tale
23 The Shipman's Tale
etching and aquatint, 1972, 50 x 34 cm
etching and aquatint, 1972, 50 x 34 cm
unsigned, ed 300,
£500
signed, artist’s proof aside from ed 50,
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unsigned, ed 300,
£1500
£500
signed, artist’s proof aside from ed 50,
£1500
Elisabeth Frink
24. Petit Cheval CouchĂŠ lithograph, 1972, ed 70, signed, 49 x 56 cm
ÂŁ1950
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Valerie Thornton
25. Farm Buildings at Vauracon, Mazangé, France etching, 1986, ed 70, signed, 24.2 x 36.3 cm
£545
26. The Tower of London etching, 1979, ed 90, signed, 37.2 x 58.2 cm
£745
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Valerie Thornton
27. Lanercost Pillar pencil and wash, 1975, signed, 57.9 x 45.6 cm
ÂŁ950 Drawn on hand-made paper and floated in frame.
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Pablo Palazuelo Pablo Palazuelo (1916-2007) was born in Madrid but during the 1930s he studied architecture at the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Central School of Arts & Crafts in London. On his return to Madrid in 1939 he devoted all his time to art which initially was largely figurative in style. However he saw Paul Klee’s work in 1947 and, greatly influenced by him, produced his first abstract work that year. The following year he won a scholarship to study art in Paris and in fact remained there for fifteen years, becoming a friend of the artist Chillida. Also in 1948 Palazuelo joined the famous Galérie Maeght in Paris and began an association which was to last for almost fifty years. He was awarded the prestigious Kandinsky Prize in 1952 and the Carnegie Prize in 1958. From the early 1950s onwards he produced sculptures, perhaps his most famous being Landa I for Madrid Airport. Besides participating in numerous group exhibitions Palazuelo held many solo shows in Paris, Barcelona and Zurich. His etchings and lithographs were exhibited at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris (1966).
28. Untitled lithograph, 1952, ed 50, signed, 57 x 37 cm
£450
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Pablo Palazuelo
29. Untitled lithograph, 1952, ed 100, signed, 38.5 x 82.4 cm
ÂŁ450
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Salvador Dali
30. Le Roi Marc (King Marc) engraving, 1970, ed 125, initialled, 40 x 26.5 cm
ÂŁ1250
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Salvador Dali
31. Iseult au Blanches Mains (Iseult of the White Hands) engraving, 1970, ed 125, initialled, 40 x 26.5 cm
ÂŁ1250
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Hans Bellmer
32. ÂŁ950
33. ÂŁ950
Bellmer (1902-1975) was born in Kattowitz, Germany (now Katowice, Poland) and he received training as a technical draughtsman in Berlin, 1922-24. In fact he worked as a draughtsman in his own advertising company until 1926. In Berlin he became a friend of George Grosz who was a strong influence upon his early work and also became interested in Dada. In Paris he worked with the Surrealists producing many etchings and drypoints of which eroticism was a major source of inspiration. During the German occupation Bellmer is thought to have helped the French Resistance by producing fake passports and he remained in France for the rest of his life.
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Hans Bellmer
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35. £950
À Sade engravings, 1961, HC copy aside from ed 50, signed, 20 x 14 cm
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Raoul Ubac Ubac (1910-1985) was born in Cologne but brought up in Belgium. During the late 1920s he travelled extensively throughout Europe but from 1930 he spent much time in Paris where he met the celebrated avant-garde printmaker Stanley William Hayter who taught him engraving at the renowned Atelier 17. During the 1930s Ubac became intimately involved with the Surrealist group in Paris. He was influenced by the work of Max Ernst and Man Ray and he began to use the newly discovered Surrealist photographic techniques of brulage (burning), solarisation and petrification. In the late 1940s he moved away from photography and Surrealism and embraced abstraction in his painting and printmaking, being particularly interested in Klee’s principle of ‘abstraction with memories’. He received a number of diverse commissions including a slate relief mural for the Société Chimique d’Aquitaine (1958), stained glass windows in collaboration with Georges Braque at the church in Varengeville (1960), wall mosaics at Orsay and Rheims and numerous tapestries. Ubac held his first solo show in Brussels (1941) and continued to exhibit regularly at other European venues and, eventually, in New York (1965). During his lifetime Ubac held retrospective exhibitions in Brussels, Paris and Zurich and posthumously he was shown in Brussels, Vevey and Paris.
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36. Untitled lithograph, 1950, signed, ed 50, 63.5 x 47.5 cm
£745 Surprisingly this is the very first Ubac that we have had and we are pleased to be able to offer it at this price.
Andy Warhol
37. Interview Magazine 1975, signed, framed in perspex box, 38 x 29 cm
ÂŁ1450 Signed by Warhol on the front cover over an image of Mick Jagger as Father Christmas carrying Iman and Paul von Ravenstein in his sack. Founded in 1969 by the pop art pioneer Andy Warhol, Interview Magazine was dedicated to the cult of celebrity. It featured cutting edge graphics and interviews with some of the most notorious figures of the day. In the early days Warhol himself would distribute copies free as he walked the streets of Manhattan's Upper East Street.
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Artist
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