MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART
SATURDAY 17 JUNE 2023
SATURDAY 17 JUNE 2023
20TH CENTURY DESIGN
SATURDAY 17 JUNE
9.30AM (221 lots)
In line with rising interest with this area of visual culture, Tennants offer a wide range of examples by ar tists and movements from the 20th centur y through to the present day.
Tennants is the leading auction house in the Nor th of England representing and promoting high calibre and varied examples from this genre of ar tists. The impor tance of our local consigners and collectors, as well as those works sourced and sold from fur ther afield, is testament to the notable reputation held by the Depar tment.
The Picture Depar tment is proud to have successfully represented many impor tant living ar tists and ar tists’ estates from the Nor th, including Norman Cornish, Peter Brook, John Ridgewell, Marie Walker Last, Karl Torok and Sally Arnup, to name but a few, and we continue to build new and lasting relationships with numerous living ar tists and estates.
Francesca Young
Modern & Contemporary Art Specialist
Charlotte Conboy
Head of Pictures
Guy Cooper
Picture Specialist
Lucy Campbell
Picture Department Administrator
Tennants is the UK’s largest family-owned fine art auctioneers, with a well-deserved reputation for delivering unrivalled service and results. Twenty-seven specialist depar tments offer an outstanding range of depth and exper tise that, combined with the company’s strong traditional values and a personal approach, have won Tennants widespread respect in the international marketplace. Each year Tennants holds over 80 auctions and handles in excess of 40,000 lots covering all major discipliners, making it one of the UK’s busiest salerooms.
After Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA, RA (1887-1976)
“The Pond”
Signed, with the blindstamp for the Fine Ar t Trade Guild, a colour reproduction, 46cm by 58cm
£1,500-2,500
2 ✓
After Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA, RA (1887-1976)
“Man Holding Child”
Signed, with the blindstamp for the Fine Ar t Trade Guild, a colour reproduction, 49cm by 73cm
£1,200-1,800
After Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA, RA (1887-1976)
“Mrs Swindells’ Picture”
Signed, with the blindstamp for the Fine Ar t Trade Guild, a colour reproduction, 43cm by 31.5cm £1,500-2,500
After Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA, RA (1887-1976)
“Three Men and a Cat”
Indistinctly signed, with the blindstamp for the Fine Ar t Trade Guild, a colour reproduction, 27.5cm by 18cm £1,000-1,500
5 ✓
After Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA, RA (1887-1976)
“Two Brothers”
Signed, with the blindstamp for the Fine
Ar t Trade Guild, a colour reproduction, 63cm by 31.5cm
£2,000-3,000
6 ✓
After Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA, RA (1887-1976)
“The Contraption”
Signed, with the blindstamp for the Fine Ar t Trade Guild, a colour reproduction, together with the reproduction preparator y sketch, 34.5cm by 31cm and 31cm by 19cm respectively (2)
£2,000-3,000
7 ✓
After Laurence Stephen Lowry
RBA, RA (1887-1976)
“Children Coming out of School”
Each signed, postage stamp, 3cm by 4cm (13) (unframed) £700-1,000
10 ✓
Trevor Grimshaw (1947-2001) “Aqueduct”
Signed and numbered 33/50, lithograph, 29.5cm by 39.5cm £70-100
11 ✓
Trevor Grimshaw (1947-2001) “Stonehenge”
Signed and numbered 43/50, lithograph, 30cm by 40cm £100-200
12 ✓
Tom McGuinness (1926-2006)
“Gala Day Seaham”
Signed, inscribed and dated (19)92, numbered 138/200, lithograph, 44cm by 68cm £150-250
14 ✓
Tom McGuinness (1926-2006)
“The Nature Trail Murton”
Signed, inscribed and dated (19)92, numbered 141/200, lithograph, 44cm by 68cm £150-250
13 ✓
Tom McGuinness (1926-2006)
“The Allotments, Easington”
Signed, inscribed and dated (19)92, numbered 161/200, lithograph, 49cm by 68cm £150-250
16
David Wilders (Contemporary)
“Strike 1984-1985”
Signed, inscribed and dated 2010, numbered 3/6, linocut with oil hand colouring, 47.5cm by 31.5cm
17
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David Wilders (Contemporary)
“Snap Time”
Signed, inscribed and dated 2021, etching with watercolour, together with a fur ther etching by the same hand “In By”, 13.5cm by 17.5cm and 17cm by 18.5cm respectively (2)
£150-250
18
David Wilders (Contemporary)
“Collier”
Signed and dated 2015, inscribed verso, acr ylic on canvas, 49cm by 48cm
£250-400
19
19
Harry Malkin (b.1951) “The Struggle”
Signed, inscribed verso, acr ylic on board, 60cm by 91cm
Castleford-born Harr y Malkin took up painting full time shor tly after the last strike when his pit closed in 1985. Drawing on his experience of being a miner, he began to create public and private commissions, these include The “Allerton Bywater Colliery Miners Memorial” and a memorial for the ex Prince of Wales Collier y, Pontefract. He also became an ar t teacher. His works have been exhibited at the Southbank Centre in London, he was represented by the late leading Yorkshire ar t dealers Tom and Rosamund Jordan and his work is included in “Shafts of Light” by Rober t McManners and Gillian Wales. His paintings are housed in many public and private collections including The National Coal Mining Museum for England and The Mining Ar t Galler y in Bishop Auckland.
£500-800
“Pit
Signed, mixed media together with a fur ther mixed media work by the same hand
£150-250
Exhibited:
“L.S Lowry”
Signed, bronze on a granite base, 33cm high (including base)
A version of this bust is in the collection of the National Por trait Galler y, cat no. NPG 5091
£1,200-1,800
Laurence Stephen Lowr y was a deeply complex figure, now widely recognised as one of the most impor tant British ar tists of the 20th centur y. Whilst most people today may first think of his oil paintings, executed in his distinctive five-colour palette of black, white, red, blue, and yellow, Lowr y himself was vehement about the impor tance of drawing and was constantly sketching on whatever scraps of paper he could get his hands on. Indeed, he has been quoted as saying: “Can you tell me, sir, why does a painting cost more than a drawing? After all, a drawing is every bit as important, and sometimes a damned sight more effective. Besides, it is more difficult to do; for one thing, you haven’t got colour to get you out of a mess”. He considered it an ar t form in its own right and was highly skilled in capturing the essence of his subject and filtering out extraneous detail.
As a young man, Lowr y completed a formal ar tistic training whilst working full-time. At Manchester College of Ar t, he was taught to draw by master Adolphe Valette in the classical manner, and his life drawings from this period are technically excellent. However, during the 1920s he began to develop his own unique style, experimenting with different techniques of drawing, and establishing a visual language that he would utilise and hone throughout his career. His drawings of this period saw him focus on the urban landscape of Manchester, with groups of figures all executed with clear, precise line drawings. His characteristic ‘stock’ figures of hunched workers and scampering boys begin to appear, too.
By the 1930s, Lowr y had developed his mature, distinctive style and visual shor thand for drawing his myriad figures of the working man in the urban environment. Tending to focus on recognisable streets and buildings, his figures remained largely anonymous; groups of people became patterns on the page as Lowr y passively documented the cityscape. Interestingly, throughout his career he continued to dress his figures in the same depression-era clothes of the 1920s, when widespread pover ty in the Nor th West led workers to wear second-hand clothing, hats and shoes that were often baggy and ill-fitting. Whilst this can be par tially attributed to the 1920s being the time when he established his style, it was also the happiest period of his often-troubled life, and in addition Lowr y admitted to finding the oversized clothing ver y amusing.
From the 1960s, towards the later stages of his life, Lowr y’s drawings became both less formal and more critical towards his subjects. Figures became almost objects of ridicule, in exaggeratedly ill-fitting clothes, shoes and hats, as seen in ‘Group of Figures Young and Old’ (lot 27). He often focussed, too, on marginalised or unsavour y figures such as tramps and football hooligans, leaning more towards a social commentar y rather than purely documenting his surroundings. “Family Group at the Seaside” (1969) (lot 26), is a rare example of Lowr y’s depictions of contemporar y dress and hairstyles. The drawing, which comes with provenance from the Lefevre Galler y in London, Lowr y’s dealer ’ and is illustrated in Mer vyn Levy’s 1976 book “The Drawings of L S Lowry, Public and Private”
As time went on Lowr y increasingly became interested in depicting, often with hostility, the relationships, and interactions between small groups of figures rather than the massed groups of people of his early career. Sometimes focussing solely on one loan figure. He had great difficulty in understanding how humans ever made deep connections with each other, and his drawings at this point in his life are possibly his way of tr ying to get to grips with the human relationships that he did not really understand in his own isolated life.
“A Family Group” (1966) (lot 25) was executed by Lowr y on one of his frequent holidays to the Seaburn Hotel, Sunderland. Lowr y delighted in obser ving and recording ordinar y people going about their lives. However, sometimes he would conjure up a scene of ever yday life from his imagination, as in the present drawing that was executed during a conversation with Leslie Anthony, the manager of the Seaburn Hotel. Whilst talking, Lowr y began drawing on the flyleaf of a catalogue of the Sunderland Museum and Ar t Galler y retrospective L.S. Lowr y. He switched between a ballpoint pen and a pencil as he worked; once completed, he gave the drawing to Mr Anthony, who was delighted with this spontaneous gift. The drawing was later exhibited at the Sunderland Museum and Ar t Galler y, and it is sold together with four letters from Lowr y to Mr Anthony at the Seaburn Hotel arranging visits and a copy of "L.S. Lowry in the North East" by Juliet Horsley for Tyne and Wear Museums Ser vice 1989, in which the drawing is featured.
25 ✓
Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA, RA (1887-1976)
“A Family Group”
Signed, inscribed and dedicated “To Leslie Anthony”, dated 13 September 1966, pencil and biro, 18cm by 18cm
Provenance: Mr Anthony, Manager of the Seaburn Hotel Sunderland Christie’s South Kensington, 20th Centur y British Ar t, Thursday 13 July 2000, lot 117
Exhibited: Sunderland Museum and Ar t Galler y, no.68
Literature: “L.S. Lowry in the North East” by Juliet Horsley for Tyne and Wear Museums Ser vice 1989, p.50
Sold together with four letters from L S Lowr y to Mr Anthony at the Seaburn Hotel and a copy of “L.S. Lowry in the North East” by Juliet Horsley for Tyne and Wear Museums Ser vice 1989
£5,000-8,000
26 ✓
Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA, RA (1887-1976)
“Family Group at the Seaside”
Signed, inscribed and dated 1969, pencil, 41cm by 28.5cm
Provenance: The Lefevre Galler y London Richard Green, London Private Collection, UK
Literature: “The Drawings of L S Lowry, Public and Private”, Mer vyn Levy, 1976, Jupiter Books, London, no.198
£40,000-60,000
27 ✓
Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA, RA (1887-1976)
Group of figures young and old (1970)
Signed, pencil, 28.5cm by 40.5cm
Provenance: The Ar tist’s Estate
Crane Kalman Galler y, London
Private Collection, UK
£30,000-50,000
28 ✓
Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA, RA (1887-1976)Street Scene with Figures (1947)
Signed and dated 1947, pastel, 27cm by 35.5cm
Provenance: Leigh Galler y, Manchester where purchased by the vendor ’s father in 1976
Thence by descent
The present lot is an exciting discover y as it’s the earliest work so far to appear on the market from a unique, rare group of joyful and vibrant figurative pastel works by Lowr y, of which he seems to have made one a year between 1947 (or earlier) and 1950. There are two notable works from the series that have previously come to market namely;
“Cowles Fish & Chips, Cleator Moor”, 1948, sold for £145,250 in May 2012; and “The Broken Shop Window at Cleator Moor”, 1950, sold for £50,000 in July 2020.
When comparing these two works with Street Scene with Figures, 1947, it is evident that not only is Lowr y’s handling, style and technique the same in all three works, but they are also all the same size, and use the same medium and suppor t, i.e., pencil and pastel on blue paper
Lowr y executed these pastels during his annual visits to Cumbria to stay with his friend, Reverend Geoffrey Bennett (1902-1991). Lowr y and Bennett first met in 1926 when Bennett worked as a clerk with Lowr y’s cousin, Grace Shephard, at the London and County Westminster Bank in Manchester. The two men shared a lifelong friendship and over the years Bennett acquired many works from his friend and formed a ver y significant Lowr y collection, which included the above mentioned, “Cowles Fish & Chips, Cleator Moor”, 1948. When Bennett married after the War, he moved from Manchester with his wife Alice and son, also Geoffrey, to Cumbria as manager of the National Westminster Bank branch in Cleator Moor. Bennett was ordinated into the Anglican Church in 1962 and he became known to Lowr y as the ‘Reverend Gentleman’. When Lowr y died in 1976, Reverend Bennett conducted the funeral ser vice.
Following Bennett’s death in 1991 his collection of works by Lowr y was sold in 1995 for a total of £528,440, to benefit Carlisle Cathedral.
We are grateful to Jonathan Hor wich for his assistance with this catalogue entr y.
£40,000-60,000
29 ✓
Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA, RA (1887-1976)
“Tug”
Signed and dated 1959, oil on panel, 19cm by 17.5cm
Provenance: Piccadilly Galler y, London Clarendon Galler y, Manchester, where purchased by the vendor ’s father in 1976
Thence by descent
“Tug” is a fine example of a work inspired by Lowr y’s love of the Nor th Sea and was probably painted on one of his extended holiday stays at the Seaburn Hotel, Sunderland. Here from his hotel room (always the same room) with his easel set up by the window, Lowr y could look straight out to the Nor th Sea which obligingly offered up its wide empty skies, with ships and boats bobbing about on the near or far horizons, all feeding Lowr y’s imagination and inspiring him to paint. The tug itself feels tiny on the vast grey sea, however Lowr y has given it strength and determination as it battles its way across the composition from right to left leaving an impressive trail of black smoke in its wake as it powers against the tides. Lowr y puts the little tug front and centre in the composition and it stands out against the distant more anonymous shipping in the background seemingly giving it the strength to per form all its seaborne tasks in spite of its lack of size.
We are grateful to Jonathan Hor wich for his assistance with this catalogue entr y.
£60,000-90,000
30 ✓
Harold Riley DL, DLitt, FRCS, DFA, ATC (1934-2023)
“Man in a Wheelchair”
Signed by Harold Riley and L S Lowr y, dated (19)60, oil on board, 25cm by 14.5cm
Provenance: Purchased from Harold Riley by the vendor ’s father in the 1970’s
Thence by descent
Lowr y and Harold Riley first met in 1945 when the former presented Riley with an award for first prize at a Salford Grammar School ar t exhibition. They went on to be close friends and painting companions for over thir ty years. They more usually painted works on paper together, thus making this fully finished oil painting a rarity. I have seen a number of these ‘joint ventures ‘ over the years and I imagine both ar tists had great fun deciding who would paint what, perhaps swapping their usual subjects to tease us…… Judging from the positioning of Lowr y’s signature on the wall to the right, and evidence of his usual pigments and trademark scratching out technique, then my best guess is that Lowr y has deliberately avoided painting the figures altogether to keep us guessing and has gone for the pavement, wall, windows and the wheelchair contraption and Riley has painted all the figures. Now with the sad passing of Harold Riley only last month we no longer have anyone to ask, so we will never know for sure, which would probably amuse both ar tists greatly!
We are grateful to Jonathan Hor wich for his assistance with this catalogue entr y.
£10,000-15,000
Arthur Dooley (1929-1994)
Warrior
Initialled and dated (19)73, b
Ar thur Dooley was a self-taught a Liverpool. He left school at 14 a Mersey tugboats and apprenticed at Cammell Laird’s shipyard. When lookin Dooley said to the author Pete shipyard was really my art school’
In 1945 he enlisted into the I bagpiper and rose to the rank of Se However, he left without leave to joi Liberation Organisation, wher Colonel. When he was captur to a militar y prison, and it was he to experiment with sculpture, it was also d this period he became a devo staunch communist.
After Dooley left the army in 1953, he wo janitor and obser ved students at St. Ma of Ar t in London. He developed his sc from working with discarded mate scrap metal, and was informed by his i experiences working at the docks. I exhibited his works at his first o St. Mar tins. He then returned to Live he learned more about the metal casti whilst working for Dunlop’s in moulder and created sculptur
This patinated bronze sculptur elongated figure with a featur cloak and helmet. The figure’s feet a strong stance on a textured recta brandishes a round shield with text embellishment and a spear. This ‘ recurring theme in Dooley’s oe versions created since 1966 with diffe and heights, sometimes unde
Dooley continued to exhibit a on commissions such as the 1974 ‘
Shook the World,’ Beatles Memo and campaigned on TV and in redevelopment, abolition of highbetter care for the unemployed. I founded a workshop for unemployed people a helped found the Liverpool Academy of A £2,000-3,000
“Sun
Signed and inscribed, oil on board, 40.5cm by 50cm
Provenance: From the Ar tist’s Estate
Private Collection
“A
Signed and inscribed, oil on board, 49.5cm by 70.5cm
39 ✓
Noel Gibson (1928-2005)
“Guys Hospital of Borough High St.” Signed, oil on board, 121cm by 90cm
Provenance: Gifted by the ar tist to the vendor ’s grandfather Ecclesiastical Architect Ronald Sims after they worked together on Southwark Cathedral.
£800-1,200
40 ✓
Fred Yates (1922-2008)
“Town Buildings, Hayle”
Signed, oil on board, 39.5cm by 51.5cm
Provenance: Market House Galler y, Cornwall
£700-1,000
41 ✓
Allen Tortice (b.1948)
“Paradise Road”
Signed, inscribed verso and dated 1989, oil on canvas, 52cm by 76cm
£400-600
42 ✓
Allen Tortice (b.1948)
“St Paul’s Street (Blackpool)”
Signed, inscribed verso and dated 1989, oil on canvas, 60cm by 76cm
£400-600
Signed, inscribed verso
and dated 1989, oil on canvas, 76cm by 58cm
Signed, inscribed verso
and dated 2017, acr ylic
on board, 44cm by 33.5cm
Mackenzie Thorpe (b.1956)
“Holding Back the Storm”
Signed, signed, inscribed and dated (19)93 below the mount, pastel, 40.5cm by 45.5cm £500-700
47
Steven Scholes (b.1952)
“Market Street Manchester, 1962”
Signed, inscribed verso, oil on canvas, 39cm by 49cm £300-500
49 ✓
Harry Ruther ford (1903-1985)
“Early Spring, Cartmel”
Signed, oil on board, 39.5cm by 49.5cm
Provenance: Tib Lane Galler y, Manchester
£300-500
48 ✓
Steven Scholes (b.1952)
“White Chapel, London, 1962”
Signed, inscribed verso, oil on canvas, 39.5cm by 49cm
£300-500
50 ✓
Harry Ruther ford (1903-1985)
“Cartmel”
Signed, oil on board, 39.5cm by 49.5cm
Provenance: Tib Lane Galler y, Manchester
£300-500
53
John Perrin (1918-1944) American Mechanics working on a North American B-25 Mitchell aircraft at an airfield Mechanics working on a North American B-25 Mitchell aircraft in a hanger
Each signed and dated 1944, oil on board, 35.5cm by 47cm (2)
New Jersey-born John Perrin flew with the United States Army Air Force, flying fighter sweeps in P-47 Thunderbolts. On American Independence Day, 1944 he was delivering a Mustang Fighter from base workshops at War ton, Lancashire to Steeple Morden in Cambridgeshire when it appeared to catch fire. So as to miss the Tillington Manor Primar y School, (then known as Holmcroft Primar y) and the nearby houses he stayed with his stricken plane. He was 25 years of age when he was killed.
£400-600
Signed and dated (19)93, oil on canvas, 99cm by 90cm
Ronald
Sunlit landscape, probably on the Continent
Signed, oil on canvas board, 34cm by 40cm
Seascape
Signed and dated 1939, oil on board, 28.5cm by 38.5cm
57 ✓
Ian Macdonald Grant (1904-1993)
“Brookside Under Snow” (1972)
Signed, oil on board, 48cm by 73.5cm
Provenance: Gateway Galler y, Cheshire £300-500
58 ✓
Brita Granström (b.1969) Swedish “Among Islands”
Signed and dated 2016, inscribed verso, oil on canvas, 60cm by 80cm
Provenance: Thompson’s, Suffolk £300-500
Although born in Hereford, Reginald James Lloyd is associated as a West Countr y ar tist. He moved to Dawlish in Devon with his family at two years old and his works demonstrate the inspiration he took from the local topography.
After Army ser vice, he attended par t-time classes at Exeter School of Ar t and was a member of RI from 1992, having been awarded its bronze medal in 1989. Lloyd was accomplished in a diverse range of mediums, from painter and printmaker to sculptor and potter
His works demonstrate Neo-Romantic tendencies and draw inspiration from ancient sites and rituals such as Silbur y, Stonehenge, Avebur y and Maiden Castle.
Lloyd exhibited in many shows, including at Bur ton Ar t Galler y, Waterside Ar t Galler y, Instow, Harlequin Galler y and The Long Cur ve Galler y, Chipping Campden
His commissions included a painted rood for the Church of the Assumption, Walkern, 1954; a 70-foot mural for Salesian College, Battersea, 1965; and an iron lectern for St Boniface’s Church, Adler Street.
He also illustrated books by the poet Ted Hughes, including “What is Truth”, 1984, and “The Mermaid’s Purse”, 1993.
Examples of his works are housed in National Maritime Museum, Bur ton Ar t Galler y and Museum and Forde House.
The vendor ’s father was a great friend and suppor ter of Lloyd.
Wave and sun
Bronze, together with a fur ther abstract bronze, 15.5cm high and 20cm high respectively (2)
Provenance: Directly from the ar tist
Thence by descent £250-400
60 ✓
Reginald James Lloyd (1926-2020)
“Wave Breaking Over Buoy”
Signed and dated 1959, inscribed verso, oil on board, 89cm by 120cm
Provenance: Directly from the ar tist
Thence by descent
£200-300
61 ✓
Reginald James Lloyd (1926-2020)
“Midsummer Triptych”
Signed and dated 1967, oil on board, 121cm by 151.5cm
Provenance: Directly from the ar tist
Thence by descent
£200-300
62 ✓
Reginald James Lloyd (1926-2020)
“Two Figures Sillbury Hill”
Signed and dated 1971, inscribed verso, oil on board, 90cm by 121cm
Provenance: Directly from the ar tist
Thence by descent
£200-300
63 ✓
Reginald James Lloyd (1926-2020)
“Path in the Corn”
Signed and dated 1975, inscribed verso, oil on board, 44.5cm by 115cm
Provenance: Directly from the ar tist
Thence by descent
£200-300
64 ✓
Reginald James Lloyd (1926-2020)
“Midsummer”
Signed and dated 1983, stoneware vase, together with two fur ther vases by the ar tist each titled “Midsummer” 1984, 19cm and 22cm high respectively (3)
Provenance: Directly from the ar tist
Thence by descent
£150-250
65 ✓
Peter Barton (1921-2010)
“Ice Gully and Ridge”
Signed and dated (19)86, oil on laminate, 121cm by 59cm
This work is from the ar tist’s “Mountain Experience” painting series
£200-300
66 ✓
Keith Grant (b.1930)
“Snowing - Antarctica”
Signed, inscribed verso, oil on canvas, 70cm by 105cm
Provenance: Cadogan Contemporar y, London £1,000-2,000
John
Scottish
“Autumn Sunset Duart, Isle of Mull”
Signed, inscribed verso and dated 2010, oil on canvas, 28.5cm by 28.5cm
Provenance: Walker Galleries Ltd., Harrogate
£1,000-1,500
71 ✓
John Lowrie Morrison “Jolomo” OBE (b.1948)
Scottish “Benbecula Reflections”
Signed, inscribed verso and dated 2008, oil on canvas, 21.5cm by 21.5cm
Provenance: The Jolomo Studio, Argyll Walker Galleries Ltd., Harrogate
£700-1,000
74 ✓
John Titchell RA (1926-1998)
“Sun Drenched Road, Hythe in Kent”
Oil on board, 29cm by 33.5cm
£200-300
75 ✓
David Bronhoff (20th/21st Century)
“The Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem”
Signed, oil on canvas, 49cm by 59cm
£250-400
76 ✓
Geoffrey Key (b.1941)
“White Tree”
Signed and dated 5.4.(19)79, mixed media, 48cm by 35cm
£600-800
77 ✓
John Egerton Christmas Piper CH (1903-1992)
“Vaux le Vicomte” (1972)
Signed and numbered 36/70, lithograph, 70cm by 100cm (unframed) £600-800
78 ✓
Carlos Nadal (1917-1998) Spanish “Pont Du Village”
Signed, mixed media, 19cm by 23.5cm
Exhibited: “Collection Particulière”, Duncalfe Galleries, Harrogate and London, no.78
This work has been authenticated by Le Comite Nadal £800-1,200
79 ✓
Carlos Nadal (1917-1998) Spanish
“Village Normande”
Signed, inscribed verso and dated 1978, with the Carlos Nadal atelier stamp, mixed media on paper laid on canvas, 37cm by 45cm
Literature: “Carlos Nadal An English Perspective”, John Duncalfe, Tillington Press, 2010, p.184
This work has been authenticated by Le Comite Nadal
£4,000-6,000
P
Provenance: Mira Godard Galler y, Canada
Jules
Signed, oil on canvas, 20.5cm by 25.5cm
Provenance: Omell Galleries, London
Jules René Hervé (1887-1981) French “Le Sortie Scolaire”
Signed, oil on canvas, 20.5cm by 25.5cm
Provenance: Omell Galleries, London
Signed and dated (20)10, inscribed verso, oil on canvas, 40cm by 50cm
Signed, inscribed verso, oil on canvas, 76cm by 63cm
86
Andrew Macara NEAC (b.1944)
“Beach Cricket Abersoch”
Signed, inscribed verso, oil on canvas, 40cm by 76cm £600-800
87
Andrew Macara NEAC (b.1944)
“School Outing to Newquay”
Signed, inscribed verso, oil on canvas, 63.5cm by 76cm £700-1,000
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“The Straw
Initialled, inscribed verso, oil on board, 20cm by 17.5cm
90 ✓ Darren Yeadon (b.1970) “Ammonite”
Signed, Carrara marble, 22cm high £400-600
91 ✓ Darren Yeadon (b.1970) “Sunfish”
Signed, Carrara marble, 50cm high £800-1,200
“Sneaky Cat”
Monogrammed, oil on board, 50cm by 50cm
Provenance: White Space Ar t, Devon £300-500
Signed, inscribed and dated 1975, oil on board, 20cm by 22cm £150-250
Martin
“Cat with Green Eyes”
Signed, inscribed to label verso and dated (19)74, oil on board, 26.5cm by 27cm
£200-300
Martin
“Playmates”
Signed, inscribed verso, oil on board, 39cm by 25.5cm
£200-300
96 ✓
William Norman Gaunt FIAL, NDD (1918-2001)
“Early Morning Exercise”
Signed and inscribed, oil on board, 44cm by 120cm
£500-800
97
Jonathan Armigel Wade (b.1960)
“On the Bridleway”
Signed, inscribed verso and numbered 2304 with the ar tist’s numbering system, oil on board, 41cm by 60cm £800-1,200
98 ✓
Kit Williams (b.1946)
“Sanctus”
Signed and dated (19)74, oil on board, in a folding marquetr y frame with velvet and embroider y inside the two folding panels, 27.5cm by 19cm (with arched top)
£600-800
99 ✓
Gwen Raverat (1885-1957)
“Horses at Night”
Signed, inscribed and dated (19)13, woodblock print, 15cm by 20cm
£200-300
Signed, inscribed and dated (19)97, car ved and painted driftwood with glass eyes, 24cm by 70cm
Signed and inscribed, car ved and painted driftwood with glass eyes, 22.5cm by 47cm
Francis
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Provenance: Purchased from the ar tist by Nawab Rahim Khan Inherited
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£2,000-3,000
105
105 Jules Olitski (1922-2007) Ukranian/American
Nude
initialled and dated (19)65, pencil, together with an abstract Christmas card of the same year dedicated to Leslie Waddington by the same hand, 30cm by 23.5cm and 10cm by 30cm respectively (2)
Provenance: Christie’s, London, “The Leslie Waddington Collection Part II”, 22 November 2016, lot 63
£500-700
106 ✓
Jacob Kramer (1892-1962)
Portrait of an elegant lady- possibly Dolores
Signed, coloured chalks, 53cm by 41cm
£300-500
107 ✓
Jacob Kramer (1892-1962)
Head and shoulders portrait of a gentleman, thought to be Quentin Crisp
Signed and dated 1922, oil on canvas, 50cm by 40cm
£300-500
108 ✓
Ken Howard OBE, RA, RBA, NEAC (1932-2022)
“Karen at South Bolton Gardens”
Signed, oil on board, 22cm by 15cm
£500-700
Pat Douthwaite (1934-2002) Scottish Born in Glasgow, Pat Douthwaite (1934-2002) initially studied movement, mime and modern dance with Margaret Morris. Following several years successfully per forming with the Celtic Ballet she decided to become an ar tist, a decision often linked to the influence of Morris’s husband, Scottish Colourist J.D. Fergusson. In 1958 she moved to Essex where she knew several ar tists, including William Crozier, were working.
From 1959, and for some years, she travelled worldwide, then settling to work as a painter and printer in Britain. Douthwaite’s works pursue a variety of themes, often reflecting the torment of humanity and par ticularly that of a female nature. Her expressive dark imager y combines vibrant colours with a fragile line. During her lifetime, she exhibited with Richard Demarco, at the Talbot Rice Galler y, the Royal College of Ar t, Third Eye Centre and at the Scottish Galler y, who also held a memorial exhibition in 2005. Douthwaite’s work is held at The Scottish Ar ts Council, Aberdeen Ar t Galler y and Ferens Ar t Galler y. The vendor was a great companion and adviser of the ar tist. The two shared a close relationship and were evidently kindred spirits. He later became her executor
See p.74 “Pat Douthwaite” by Guy Peploe, The Scottish Galler y.
111 ✓
Pat Douthwaite (1934-2002) Scottish “Annie Steiner with Sacrificial Goat” (1984-85)
Oil on canvas, 151.5cm by 120cm
Provenance: Directly from the ar tist
Literature: Illustrated in the ar tist's obituar y by Douglas Hall, Wednesday 31 July 2002, p.29 (see image)
Illustrated on the back cover of “Douthwaite Paintings and Drawings
1951-1988”, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Peacock Printmakers, Aberdeen, 1988
£4,000-6,000
Provenance: The Scottish Galler y, Aitken and Dott Ltd., Edinburgh
Exhibited: “Pat Douthwaite Retrospective 1960-2000”, The Scottish Galler y, Edinburgh, 5-28 June 2000, no.22
£4,000-6,000
113 ✓
Pat Douthwaite (1934-2002) Scottish
“Paul Hogarth (The Shit)”
Signed and inscribed, charcoal, 77cm by 55cm
Paul Hogar th was the ar tist's husband between 1963-1970.
Provenance: Directly from the ar tist
£400-600
114 ✓
114
Pat Douthwaite (1934-2002) Scottish Crying woman
Mixed media, 63.5cm by 48cm
Provenance: Directly from the ar tist
£700-1,000
115 ✓
Pat Douthwaite (1934-2002) Scottish
Two headed bird
Signed and dated (19)72, charcoal, 49cm by 64cm
Provenance: Directly from the ar tist
£300-500 115
117
116 ✓
Pat Douthwaite (1934-2002) Scottish
Untitled Charcoal, 58.5cm by 41cm
Provenance: Directly from the ar tist
£300-500
117 ✓
Pat Douthwaite (1934-2002) Scottish
Untitled Charcoal, 68cm by 49cm
Provenance: Directly from the ar tist
£300-500
118 ✓
Norman Adams RA (1927-2005)
“The Weeping Magdelen Seeks Christ”
Initialled and dated (19)61, inscribed verso, oil on canvas, 122cm by 91cm
Provenance: Purchased from the ar tist
£600-800
119 ✓
Norman Adams (1927-2005)
“The Kiss of Judas”
Initialled and dated (19)61, inscribed verso, oil on canvas, 81cm by 86cm
Provenance: Purchased from the ar tist
£400-600
121 ✓
Alan Reynolds (1926-2014)
“Weald” (1959)
Screen printed cotton for Edinburgh Weavers, 38cm by 49cm
Literature: “Artists’ Textiles in Britain 1945-1970”, The Antique Collectors’ Club in association with The Fine Ar t Society/Target Galler y, 2003, p.98
£120-180
123 ✓
Alan Reynolds (1926-2014)
“Crystalline” (1960)
Jacquard and woven cotton and rayon for Edinburgh Weavers, 35 cm by 53.5cm
“Crystalline” is a translation of Reynold’s painting “August Image”.
Literature: “Artists’ Textiles in Britain 1945-1970”, The Antique Collectors’ Club in association with The Fine Ar t Society/Target Galler y, 2003, p.98
£200-300
122 ✓
Alan Reynolds (1926-2014)
“Legend” (1963)
Screen printed cotton for Edinburgh Weavers, 61cm by 55.5cm “Legend” is a translation of Alan Reynolds’s painting “Black Ovoid” 1962. It received the Design Centre Award for 1965.
Literature: “Artists’ Textiles in Britain 1945-1970”, The Antique Collectors’ Club in association with The Fine Ar t Society/Target Galler y, 2003, p.99
£200-300
John
“Cotswold”
Screen printed cotton for David Whitehead and Sons circa 1960, 55cm by 55cm
Literature: “Artists’ Textiles in Britain 1945-1970”, The Antique Collectors’ Club in association with The Fine Ar t Society/Target Galler y, 2003, p.87, no.76
“House and Garden”, November 1960, p.136
£200-300 124
125
“Saraband” (1956)
Screen printed cotton for Edinburgh Weavers, 40cm by 54cm
£150-250
126 ✓
Michael O’Connell (1898-1976) “Leprechauns”
Signed, hessian wall hanging with hand embellishment circa 1967, 125cm by 175cm
Sold together with a copy of Michael O’Connell “The Lost Modernist” by Harriet Edquist
Michael O’Connell (1898-1976) was born to Irish parents, initially living in Dalton followed by Lancashire and Cumbria. In his early years he was sent as a lay boy to Ushaw College, a Roman Catholic seminar y in County Durham. In 1920 he emigrated to Australia where his ar tistic career began, firstly creating watercolours, concrete pots and ornaments. He gained great acclaim in this field and became an active member of the Ar ts and Crafts Society of Victoria. After a visit home to England O’Connell star ted creating textile designs with Australian inspiration. Using a combination of techniques and ideas the works featured vibrant primitive designs in bright colours.
O’Connell returned to England in 1937. Here he purchased land at Perr y Green and built The Chase House and Studio. He established links with many decorative textile companies including Heals and Harrods of London which sold much of his work. Although production halted during WW2, O’Connell used this time to develop techniques, moving into freehand drawing and resist pastes. When the war ended Christopher Heal was instrumental in obtaining supplies of fabric to enable work to begin again. The newly developed techniques were those used to create the Festival of Britain Wall hangings.
After the Festival of Britain, the popularity of Michael’s work increased and he received commissions to create murals for public buildings, restaurants, factor y canteens and showrooms. In the 1960s, he began to travel widely and to teach his techniques in ar t schools. He also worked with architects, producing murals for universities and churches. Collections of his work are held in the Victoria and Alber t Museum, the Museum of English Rural Life, the National Museums Scotland, the National Galler y of Australia, Canberra and the National Galler y of Victoria, Melbourne.
£600-800
Screenprint on linen, for Schumacher & Co, USA, 110cm by 46.5cm
This fabric is featured in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Ar t, New York
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Sc
“Cavallo” (1959)
Jacquard woven furnishing fabric for Edinburgh Weavers, 43cm by 53cm
Literature: “Artists’ Textiles in Britain 19451970”, The Antique Collectors’ Club in association with The Fine Ar t Society/Target Galler y, 2003, p.102 £200-300
134 ✓
Joan A.R. Penck (1939-2017) German “Standart auf Kreuzsockel” (Standart on cross base) (1993/94) This piece is unique, hand signed (incised into the metal verso), ed.1/7, stainless steel, each with a different base, 24cm by 23cm by 17cm
Provenance: Collection of Gottfried Bräunling Galerie Kellermann, Düsseldor f Private Collection, California Private Collection, UK
Sold together with the cer tificate of authenticity
Born Ralf Winker (1939-2017) in Dresden in the wake of WWII and the par tition of Germany, Penck was a painter, printmaker, draftsman, sculptor, filmmaker, and musician. He was a largely self-taught ar tist, the ar t academies of the GDR (German Democratic Republic) having repeatedly denied him entr y into formal training, but he managed to study drawing and painting at a community college (1953-54) before taking up a draughtsman apprenticeship at an adver tising agency. In 1968 he began to exhibit illicitly in Cologne, West Germany. It was around this time he took up the pseudonym of ‘A.R Penck’ after studying the work of the geologist Albrecht Penck. The unlawful exhibitions led to the Stasi (secret police) watching him, so in 1980 he was expatriated from East to West Germany. When he officially entered the West in 1980, his visual language of reduced, simplified stick figures and symbols acclimatised to the wave of Neo-Expressionism. He called his style “Standar t,” standard symbols that could be understood universally. The simple forms were inspired by cave paintings, and follows the ar tistic traditions set by German Expressionism. He utilised “Standar t” to confront socio-political themes and personal emotions. In 1970 he said that “Every Standart can be imitated and reproduced and can thus become the property of every individual…What we have here is a true democratisation of art.” This unique stainless-steel figure is one of seven, each with a different base. The free-standing sculpture showcases the austere simplicity of the industrial material as well as the irregular depiction of the human body.
Penck had a prolific career and worked in Dusseldor f, Dublin, London, and Cologne. He par ticipated in some Documenta exhibitions (1972, 1977, 1982, and 1992) in Kassel, Germany, and in the 41st Venice Biennale (1984); has received multiple awards, not limited to the Goethe Rembrandt Prize by the Foundation in Basel (1980) and Nord/LB Prize for Ar t (1987). Today, Penck’s works can be found in the collections of the London Tate Modern, the Ar t Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Ar t in New York, the Stedelijk Museum, the Kunstmuseum Basel and others.
£30,000-50,000
135 ✓
Peter Thursby (1930–2011)
“Looking Forward”
Signed, mixed media study for the bronze sculpture commissioned by Exeter City Council to commemorate the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977, together with two fur ther unframed 1987 watercolour sculptural studies by the ar tist, an abstract drawing dated 18/12/(19)69 and a copy of “Peter Thursby” by Vivienne Light and Simon Olding, 50cm by 35cm, 63.5cm by 48cm & 76cm by 56cm respectively (5)
£250-400
136 ✓
Ivor Abrahams RA (1935-2015)
Surreal forms in a landscape
Screenprint with flocking and cut out card, together with a collection of fifteen fur ther surreal screenprints by the same hand and a copy of “The Life and Work of Ivor Abrahams” by Andrew Lambir th, 12cm by 17cm and various other sizes (17) (unframed)
Ivor Abrahams (1935-2015) was a British sculptor, ceramicist and printmaker He studied sculpture at Saint Mar tin’s School of Ar t (1952-54) before going on to attend Camber well School of Ar t (1954-57). He found inspiration in a diverse range of subjects, including the British garden, cityscapes, oceans, mythologies, animals and the human figure. By the late 1960s, Abrahams began experimenting with new materials, including bronze, nylon flocking, prevulcanized latex, styrene, and plastics. His works have been exhibited widely, with a sculpture retrospective at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 1984 and a prints retrospective at the Royal Academy of Ar ts in 1999. His works are held in several public collections including the British Council, the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, and the Metropolitan Museum in New York. £100-200
139 ✓
Sir Sidney Robert Nolan OM, AC, CBE, RA (1917-1992)
Australian/British
“Desert Landscape”
Signed, inscribed and numbered 54/100, lithograph, together with three fur ther signed and inscribed lithographs each numbered 54/100 by the same hand “Night”, “Dalila” and “Ram in Thicket”
58cm by 71cm (4)
£200-300
140
Clement Meadmore (1929–2005) Australian
“Split Ring”
Signed and dated (19)72, inscribed and numbered 15/125, screenprint, 69cm by 64cm
£150-250
141 ✓
Julian Opie (b.1958)
“Still Life with Orange, Grapes and Red Apple” (2001)
Signed and numbered 5/40, lambada print laminated onto canvas, 39cm by 65cm
£700-1,000
143 ✓
Tracey Emin CBE, RA (b.1963)
“I’m the Last of My Kind” (2019)
Offset lithographic poster for Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome, 80cm by 60cm (unframed)
£100-200
144 ✓
Tracey Emin CBE RA (b.1963)
“Sex for One”
Signed and dated 2010 on an Ar tists’ Tale First Day Cover, biro, 11.5cm by 21.5cm (unframed)
£300-500
145 ✓
Sir Peter Blake CBE, RDI, RA (b.1932)
Doodle
Signed, mixed media, together with a signed Beatles First Day Cover and a signed t-shir t by Rose Blake from The Ar t Car Boot Fair, 10cm by 15cm and 13cm by 22.5cm respectively (4) (unframed)
£150-250
146 ✓
Sir Peter Blake CBE, RDI, RA (b.1932)
“The First Real Pop Shoes” No.242/600, size 44, in the original box and tin, together with a signed Beatles Lonely Hear ts Club Band print, 25.5cm by 20cm (unframed) (2)
£250-400
147 ✓
Sir Grayson Perry CBE RA Hon FRIBA (b.1960)
“Normal People”
Signed poster with Alan Measles doodle, together with a V&A Museum First Day Cover signed by the ar tist, 59.5cm by 42cm and 11cm by 22cm respectively (2)
£200-300
148 ✓
Sir Grayson Perry CBE RA Hon FRIBA (b.1960)
“100% ART PLATE”
China plate, with ar tist’s seal printed to base, produced for York Ar t Galler y, 22cm (dia)
£150-250
149
Cy Twombly (1928-2011) American
“3 Notes From Salalah” (2008)
Offset lithographic poster for Gagosian Galler y, Rome, 76cm by 56.5cm (unframed)
£250-400
150
Woop Studios (Contemporary)
“An Alphabet of Collective Nouns”
Each signed and numbered 1/11, with the Woop Studios blindstamp, screenprint, 59cm by 42cm, encased in the original por tfolio case (26)
£250-400
151
Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) South African
“The Struggle Series”
Signed ar tist’s motivation, together with five fur ther lithographs, each numbered 263/950, 19.5cm by 14cm (framed as one)
Provenance: Touch of Mandela, Cape Town £700-1,000
152
Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) South African
“The Cell from The Robben Island Launch”
Numbered 42/1500, lithographic poster together with a fur ther poster from the same series Nelson Mandela, “The Window”, numbered 73/1500, 84cm by 51cm (2)
£200-300
154
Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) South African
“The Ward”
Signed and numbered 243/350, lithograph, together with a fur ther lithograph depicting the “Artists Motivation” and a signed photograph of the ward by Grant Warren, 40cm by 50cm (3)
Provenance: Touch of Mandela, Cape Town £1,000-1,500
Bob Dylan (b.1941) American “Woman in Red Lion Pub” (2014) Signed and numbered 260/295, giclee print, 61cm by 45.5cm
Sold together with the Washington Green Fine Ar t cer tificate of authenticity
Signed and numbered 238/295, giclee print, 62.5cm by 45.5cm
Sold together with the Washington Green Fine Ar t cer tificate of authenticity
160
160
Bob Dylan (b.1941) American “Lay Lady Lay”
Signed and numbered 466/495, lithograph from “Mondo Scripto”, 45cm by 73.5cm
Sold together with the Washington Green Fine Ar t cer tificate of authenticity
£800-1,200
161
Bob Dylan (b.1941) American “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”
Signed and numbered 214/495, lithograph from “Mondo Scripto”, 45cm by 73.5cm
Sold together with the Washington Green Fine Ar t cer tificate of authenticity
£800-1,200 161
162
After Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
American Mick Jagger
Lithographic exhibition poster for “Warhol at the Pigeonhole”, 63.5cm by 52cm (unframed)
£150-250
162
163 ✓
The Connor Brothers (b.1968)
“I Tried to Drown My Sorrows But The Bastards Learnt To Swim”
Signed, offset lithograph, 70cm by 50cm (unframed)
£200-300
165
164
164
Yoshitomo Nara (b.1959) Japanese “Marching on a Butterbur Leaf”
Offset lithographic poster, published by Dallas Contemporar y, USA, 61cm by 46cm (unframed)
£250-400
165
Yoshitomo Nara (b.1959) Japanese “Banging the Drum”
Offset lithographic poster, published by Dallas Contemporar y, USA, 68.5cm by 43cm (unframed)
£250-400
166
Yoshitomo Nara (b.1959) Japanese “Real One”
Offset lithographic poster, published by Dallas Contemporar y, USA, 38cm by 43cm (unframed)
£250-400
167
Shepard Fairey (b.1970) American “Obey 3 Face Collage”
Each signed and dated (20)23, offset lithographic poster, 61cm by 45.5 (3) (unframed)
£250-400
168
Shepard Fairey (b.1970) American “Make Art Not War”
Signed and dated (20)23, offset lithograph, together with a fur ther signed offset lithograph by the same hand “Liberté Egalité Fraternité”, 91.5cm by 61cm (2) (unframed)
£300-500
169 ✓
David Shrigley OBE (b.1968)
“He Will Only Eat Squid Ink Pasta”
Offset lithographic poster, together with three fur ther posters by the same hand
“Life is Very Good”, “I Did Not Ask to Be a Bird” and “I Will Not Fight”, 80cm by 60cm (4) (unframed)
£300-500 169
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170 ✓
David Shrigley OBE (b.1968)
“People Expect so Much From Me”
Offset lithographic poster, together with three fur ther posters by the same hand “Some of My Best Friends Are Pigs”, “Truth” and “You Are to Close”, 80cm by 60cm (4) (unframed)
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Hendrik Reekers (1815-1854)
Dutch
A plentiful still life with varied game and hunting accoutrements, flowers and fruit on a silver platter before a classical urn and arranged on a stone ledge Signed, oil on panel, 92cm by 80cm £5,000-8,000
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Arthur A Friedenson (1872-1955) Loaded hay wagon and haymaking before a sun drenched coast Signed and dated (18)94? oil on canvas, 28.5cm by 44cm £1,000-1,500Buyer ’s Premium
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