32 Anon.
Bank Holiday, c1920s. Pen and ink with water-colour on colour
paper, titled in pencil lower left, 25.2 x 20.9cm. Minor foxing
to left edge, old mount burn.
In
the style of Jean Dupas, a French artist and designer with a
distinctive Art Deco style.
$1,650
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33 Karel Appel (Dutch, 1921-2006)
[Abstract], c1980. Colour lithograph, editioned 125/160 and signed
in pencil in lower margin, 54.6 x 75.5cm. Framed.
Appel
was a Dutch painter, printmaker, sculptor, and poet. He started
painting at the age of fourteen and studied at the Royal Academy
in Amsterdam in the 1940s. He was one of the founders of the
avant-garde movement Cobra in 1948.
$1,950
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34 Karel Appel (Dutch, 1921-2006)
[Two Blue Heads], c1964. Colour lithograph, editioned "epreuve
d'artiste (artist's proof)" and signed in pencil in lower
margin, titled, dated and signed in pencil in another hand verso,
51 x 67cm.
Appel
was a Dutch painter, printmaker, sculptor, and poet. He started
painting at the age of fourteen and studied at the Royal Academy
in Amsterdam in the 1940s. He was one of the founders of the
avant-garde movement Cobra in 1948.
$1,950
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35 Karel Appel (Dutch, 1921-2006)
[Abstracted Figure], 1969. Colour lithograph, editioned 56/75,
signed and dated in pencil in lower margin, 64 x 50.2cm. Minor
discolouration to margins.
Appel
was a Dutch painter, printmaker, sculptor, and poet. He started
painting at the age of fourteen and studied at the Royal Academy
in Amsterdam in the 1940s. He was one of the founders of the
avant-garde movement Cobra in 1948.
$1,950
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36 Robert Austin (British, 1895-1973)
Mendicanti (Beggars), 1924. Etching, signed and dated in plate
upper centre, signed and dated in pencil in lower margin, 11.4
x 9.5cm. Minor stains to left margin.
Born
in Leicester, Austin studied under Sir Frank Short. An etcher,
engraver and lithographer, he won a scholarship to the British
School in Rome in 1922, where he produced a number of etchings.
During WWII Austin worked as a war artist. He returned to teaching
at the Royal College of Art from 1946. Austin was an advisor
on the design of bank notes to the Bank of England and designed
ten shilling and one pound notes during the 1950s to 1960s.
$990
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37 Leonard Beaumont (British, 1891-1986)
[Adam And Eve], c1932. Colour linocut, signed in pencil in lower
margin, 25.2 x 20cm. Minor foxing overall, slight tears, creases
and missing portions to margins.
Born
in Sheffield, Beaumont attended evening classes at Sheffield
School of Art whilst working for a local newspaper. He began
making prints in the 1920s: mainly linocuts and etchings. He
was design consultant to Sainsbury's from 1950 to 1964. Beaumont
exhibited etchings at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and
a retrospective exhibition of his work was held at Mappin Art
Gallery, Sheffield in 1983. His work displays the influence of
the Vorticists, a short-lived early- 20th century British movement
in art and literature that used abstract forms to express concern
about the future and the
machine age.
$4,900
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38 Ross Braught (Amer., 1898-1983)
Arcadia, 1940. Pencil drawing, titled, signed and dated lower
left to right, artist and annotated "Tortola B.W.I. 40"
verso, 41.5 x 55.3cm. Slight foxing and retouching to centre,
stains and slight creases to edges, pinholes to corners not affecting
image, old mount burn.
A
cancelled drawing appears verso.
$4,900
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39 Arthur Briscoe (British, 1873-1943)
Mooring Her, 1927. Etching, titled, signed and dated in plate
lower right, editioned 7/75 and signed in ink by Briscoe and
annotated in pencil in an unknown hand in lower margin, 17.4
x 38.6cm. Minor soiling to margins.
Annotation
includes "Published state. Mooring Her (No.2)." There
were two plates produced with the same title; the first plate
was never issued - only three trial proofs were pulled. This
etching is an
impression from the second plate, issued in an edition of 75.
Ref: Laver #104, Hurst #192.
$1,650
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40 Gerald Leslie
Brockhurst (British, 1890-
1978)
Phemie (Marguerite), 1924. Etching, signed in plate lower right,
signed in pencil in lower margin, 9.9 x 7.3cm.
From
an edition of 76. Also known as "Amanda II." Ref: Fletcher
#42. Brockhurst favoured young women as models for his images,
often choosing exotic or unusual feminine names as the titles.
The woman pictured in this etching appears to be Marguerite,
the sister of Brockhurt's first wife, Anais (they appear together
in the image Deux Landaises). Marguerite was also the subject
of several other portraits, as were Brockhurst's two wives.
$1,100
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