goldmark
november 2011
John Piper
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Houghton Hall, Norfolk pen and ink, 13.5 x 29.53 cm
ÂŁ1250 Taken from a Piper sketchbook
ARTISTS INDEX Bacon, Francis
Many thanks to David Buckman, Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945 8
Hogarth, Paul
32
Rothenstein, Michael
Benjamin, Anthony
33
Hoyland, John
16
Sutherland, Graham
Blake, Peter
17
Hume, Gary
16
Thornton, Valerie
17
Irvin, Albert
16
Tilson, Joe
Long, Richard
17
Trevelyan, Julian
15
Warhol, Andy
Caulfield, Patrick Christo Delaunay, Sonia Frink, Elisabeth Frost, Terry Hockney, David
18,19 14 back cover 12,13,17 10
Magritte, RenĂŠ Piper, John Priseman, Robert Quinn, Marc
above, 20-25 9 16
Wootton, Olive
2,3 1 30,31 4,5 26-29 11 6,7
Graham Sutherland
Thorn Cross is considered to be Graham Sutherland’s most important graphic work of the post-war era. Very scarce.
2.
Thorn Cross lithograph, 1955, signed, ed 100, 47.5 x 64 cm
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Printed in Paris by Fernand Mourlot
ÂŁ4500
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Michael Rothenstein Born into an influential artistic family in London Michael Rothenstein was the son of the artist Sir William Rothenstein and his brother John became Director of the Tate Gallery. Initially he studied art at the Chelsea Polytechnic followed by the Central School of Arts, 1924-27. In 1948 Rothenstein commenced printmaking, producing lithographs and monotypes, but four years later a profound change in his artistic style work started to evolve after he attended the avant-garde Atelier 17 print studio in Paris run by Stanley Hayter. Rothenstein later said of the experience, . . . it absolutely changed my life . . . it was all happening against the backdrop of what Picasso was doing and what Braque and Matisse were doing, so it was heady stuff. To me it was an absolute revelation . . . it was a most marvellous thing. In entering this glittering world I felt I could discern huge tracts of untried country. His work is held by many important public collections including the Tate Gallery, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the British Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Rothenstein was elected a Royal Academician in 1983. The art critic Robin Garton has said of Rothenstein’s work, his creative imagination and the development of relief prints, especially in the direct use of found materials, have been internationally recognised, and have won him a string of international prizes. Further praise came from Bryan Robinson who wrote, Rothenstein gave to British art a particular liveliness and joie de vivre, a relish for the physical world and a sensual flair for colour and texture in both paintings and prints.
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Sun and Moon wood and metal construction, 1963, 133 x 98.5 cm
ÂŁ12,500
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Michael Rothenstein
Sun and Moon
(1962)
Sun and Moon is a wood and metal construction measuring 52 x 39 ins. (133 x 98.5 cms). The work was shown at the New Vision Centre Gallery, London in 1963 in an exhibition entitled Wood Metal and Painted Reliefs which was the first show of Rothenstein’s constructed assemblages. Writing about the latter show Mel Gooding called Rothenstein’s work . . . accomplished relief constructions, combining beaten copper and aluminium panels and found fragments of wooden planking . . . Rothenstein characteristically exploits the intrinsic qualities of the materials for dramatic effect. The dull gleam of the copper, the reflective brightness of the aluminium, the distinctive outlines and textures of the wood, with its accidents of knot and crack: all these features are enlisted into moody adumbrations of landscape overhung by sun and moon.
Sun and Moon is illustrated, p.4, in Mel Gooding’s monograph Michael Rothenstein’s Boxes.
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Joe Tilson
The title refers to Demeter the classical Greek goddess of the harvest, the fertility of the earth, the seasons, fecundity etc. Tilson spells out her name DEMETRA on the canvas employing letters of the ancient Greek alphabet and depicts at least two other of her symbols, three ears of wheat and a torch. Tilson working in his studio at Christian Malford
Born in London in 1928. He studied at St. Martin’s School of Art, where fellow students included Kossoff and Auerbach, followed by the Royal College of Art with Peter Blake. He won the Rome Prize in 1955 and from the early 1960s became closely associated with the British Pop Art movement when his work often involved the use of bold colours and schematized, emblematic imagery sometimes combined with grids as a structural device. These elements have occur in the work on offer here Demeter (1990).
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He has won several more prestigious awards including the Gulbenkian Foundation Prize (1960). He has had major retrospectives in Vancouver (1979), Bristol (1984) and the Royal Academy (Tilson:Pop to Present, 2002). In 1991 he was elected a Royal Academician and his work is held by many important public collections.
Demeter (diptych)
Demeter was exhibited at the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition,
Oil on canvas on wood relief, 1990, 221 x 221 cm
Walker Art Gallery (1991) and Joe Tilson Works 1961-1991,
The work is signed, inscribed and dated ‘DEMETER / Tilson
Waddington Galleries (1992). Reproduced Waddington Galleries
1990’ on the reverse.
catalogue (p.19) and the monograph Tilson (p.162) published by
£45,000
Thames & Hudson.
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Olive Wootton Olive Wootton was born in Lewisham and went on to study at Goldsmith’s College of Art where she graduated with first class honours. In 1953 she entered the Royal College of Art where her tutors included the renowned sculptor John Skeaping and two years later she was represented in the Young Contemporaries exhibition in London. Although Wootton has exhibited throughout her life, it is since the untimely death of her painter husband, Gordon, that she has returned to sculpture with renewed energy. She has exhibited with a number of galleries, societies and selected groups and has enjoyed considerable success with individual shows in Britain and overseas. In 1992 she was elected an Associate Member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and in recent years has shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions. She lives and works at her studio in an attractive area of rural Northamptonshire and her work is represented in many public and private collections. The artist Fred Cuming R.A. has described Olive Wootton as being . . . the master of her medium. This mastery requires years of dedication, a strong will and the discipline to put in the hours of work. She has acquired the techniques and now her ideas and visions are in full flow.
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Daphne
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resin bonded bronze, 1990, 182 cm high, bronze, ed 6,
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£35,000
£11,750
Olive Wootton
Metamorphosis of Daphne Daphne was a river nymph in Greek mythology, being the daughter of Peneus. She was the first and most celebrated of all Apollo’s loves, but his attentions were not reciprocated. He pursued her and she fled praying to Mother Earth to save her – whereupon branches sprouted from her arms and roots from her feet. She was transformed into a laurel tree. To console himself Apollo made a laurel crown.
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Francis Bacon
6.
Portrait of John Edwards lithograph, c1989, proof aside from main edition, signed, 72 x 54 cm
ÂŁ7500
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Robert Priseman
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Two Doors
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oil on canvas, 2004, 76.5 x 76.5 cm
was ÂŁ5000, now ÂŁ3500
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David Hockney
This etching is from Hockney’s small, self-published series called Dog Wall, in which he pictured his two dogs, Stanley and Boodgie, resting while he worked in his studio. The etching is signed and dated in pencil by Hockney and is also inscribed with the letters B a T, short for Bon à Tirer, literally meaning good to pull.
8.
Dog Wall No 6 etching, 1998, ed 35, signed, 30 x 35 cm
£7500
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Andy Warhol
Inspired by the work of Andy Warhol, The Souper Dress was created in the 1960s by Campbell’s Soup for an advertising campaign. Paper dresses were fashionable at the time and this is a classic example of fashion, art and industry intersecting in one image. We know of one example making an outrageous £24,000 at auction and last year a number sold at between £10,000 and £15,000. Most that have sold for less money have been in very bad condition. Ours is near mint and we are pleased to offer it at £4750. The label reads: No Cleaning - No Washing - It's Carefree Fire Resistant Unless Washed or Cleaned To Refreshen, Press Lightly with Warm Iron. 80% Cellulose, 20% Cotton The dress is in The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection, the Andy Warhol Museum, FIT, as well as other museums and collections around the world.
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The Souper Dress screenprint on cotton and cellulose dress, c1966, presented
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in a purpose-made acrylic box, framed size 107.5 x 65 cm
£4750
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Terry Frost
From the late 1970s Frost began incorporating Lorca's words and ideas into his own work. The result came in 1989 with the publication of what is perhaps his most important suite of prints: the Lorca Portfolio. Dominic Kemp, author of Terry Frost Prints, Lund Humphries, 2010,
10. Thamar Y Amnon (Thamar and Amnon) etching and aquatint, 1989, ed 75, signed, 56.5 x 38.5 cm
ÂŁ1450
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Terry Frost
11. Lilac and Red Tolcarne
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screenprint, 1999, ed 75, signed, 87 x 48 cm
ÂŁ2950
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Sonia Delaunay
12. Untitled lithograph, 1970, ed 75, signed, 54 x 39 cm
ÂŁ1950
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René Magritte
Magritte’s graphic work is scarce, with only five works created during his lifetime - two lithographs and three etchings - where he personally worked the plates or stones. In addition there were another fifteen etchings but several of these were published posthumously. This lithograph was from a work entitled the Domaine Enchanté, after a mural which he painted for the
13. Une Porte s'Ouvre sur la Nuit Veloutée . . .
Municipal Casino at Knokke-le-Zoute in Belgium. It was executed by the renowned fine art printer Fernand Mourlot in Paris. The suite was limited to a numbered edition of 350 copies, of which this is number 302. Each lithograph is signed in pencil by Fernand Mourlot and in the stone by Magritte. They are printed on Vélin d’Arches art paper.
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lithograph, 1968, ed 350, signed in plate, 27 x 47.5 cm
£1500
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Cultural Ties
a. Albert Irvin
14. Cultural Ties ed 300, signed in the cloth
ÂŁ35
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b. Gary Hume cotton and silk
silk
each
c. John Hoyland silk
d. Marc Quinn silk
Cultural Ties
e. Patrick Caulfield silk and cotton
f. Peter Blake silk
Cultural Ties was a scheme devised and brought to fruition between 1998 and 2000 by the independent arts curator Kapil Jariwala. Eighty artists from all over the world agreed to design ties for the scheme. The ties were produced in signed, limited editions of 300 each by the Italian firm of Ratti based at Como employing a variety of fabrics such as silk, linen, velvet and taffeta.
g. Richard Long silk
h. Terry Frost cotton and silk
We have a small number of each tie offered here. Each tie comes in an acrylic presentation box which can be easily wall mounted.
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Christo
At sunrise, on October 9, 1991, Christo and Jeanne-Claude's 1880 workers began to open the 3100 umbrellas in Ibaraki and California, in the presence of the artists at both sites. This Japan-USA temporary
work of art reflected the similarities and differences in the ways of life and the use of the land in two inland valleys, one 12 miles long in Japan, and the other 18 miles long in the USA.
15. The Umbrellas, Japan four colour offset lithograph, 1991, signed, 50 x 99 cm
ÂŁ450
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Christo
16. Wrapped Coast, Little Bay Australia four colour offset lithograph, 1969, 64.5 x 99 cm
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ÂŁ350
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John Piper
We have just acquired these two extremely scarce John Piper prints, Nursery Frieze I & II. They were printed on very thin paper in 1937 and were intended to be pasted onto children's bedroom walls. A fire destroyed most of the edition of Nursery Frieze I. These two are in great condition and Nursery Frieze II is signed. Very scarce.
17. Nursery Frieze I lithograph, 1936, 46 x 121.5 cm
ÂŁ9000
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John Piper
18. Nursery Frieze II
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lithograph, 1936, signed, 46 x 121.5 cm
ÂŁ6000
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John Piper
19. St Raphael, Dordogne screenprint, 1968, ed 70, signed, 57.5 x 78.5 cm
ÂŁ2750
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John Piper
20. Capesthorne
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screenprint, 1977, ed 75, signed, 64 x 101 cm
ÂŁ3450
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John Piper
21. Ottery St Mary screenprint, 1987, ed 100, signed, 57 x 76 cm
ÂŁ2750
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John Piper
22. St Germain-de-l’Ivret screenprint, 1983, ed 75, signed, 45.7 x 66.8 cm
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ÂŁ2650
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Julian Trevelyan
23. Corpus College, Cambridge lithograph, 1959-62, ed 70, signed, 38.5 x 53.5 cm
ÂŁ950
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Julian Trevelyan
24. St Catherine's College, Cambridge
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lithograph, 1959-62, artist’s proof, signed, 40 x 45.5 cm
ÂŁ850
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Julian Trevelyan
First published in 1932. Based on Jane Austen's Love and Friendship. This is one of a small number of restrikes that Trevelyan made for close friends after his retrospective exhibition at Waterman's Art Centre London, 1985.
25. Love and Friendship
etching and aquatint, 1964, ed 30, signed, 24.5 x 41.5 cm
1932, signed, 18 x 23.5 cm
ÂŁ695
ÂŁ750
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26. Tuscany
etching with fabric pressed into soft ground from zinc plate
Julian Trevelyan
27. Holland etching and aquatint, 1975, ed 52, signed, 48 x 35 cm
ÂŁ1100
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Valerie Thornton
28. Suffolk Farm etching and aquatint, 1976, ed 150, signed, 36 x 59.5 cm
ÂŁ650
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Valerie Thornton
29. The Bishop's Palace, St David's
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etching and aquatint, 1979, ed 79, signed, 42.5 x 61.5 cm
ÂŁ850
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Paul Hogarth
Paul Hogarth 1917-2001
30. The Harbour of Naousa. Greece lithograph, ed 200, signed, 42 x 59.5 cm
ÂŁ275
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Painter, illustrator, printmaker and teacher. Hogarth studied at Manchester School of Art and obtained a doctorate at the Royal College of Art where he was a senior tutor in the faculty of graphic art. In 1981 he was commissioned by the Imperial War Museum to depict the Berlin Wall. His work is held in the Fitzwilliam Museum, the V&A Museum and many other public galleries.
Anthony Benjamin
Anthony Benjamin 1931-2002
31. Gazebo etching, 1977, ed 100, signed, 41 x 59 cm
Painter, printmaker, sculptor and teacher, Benjamin studied drawing in Léger’s Paris Studio in 1951 and then printmaking with S. W. Hayter at Atelier 17 in Paris 1958/9. He had an impressive series of international exhibitions including Gimpel Fils. His work is held in 60 public collections including the Tate Gallery and MOMA New York.
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£450
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Elisabeth Frink
32. Wood Pigeon
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lithograph, 1967, ed 50, signed, 39.5 x 68.5 cm
ÂŁ2400
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