Boris Smirnoff

Beauty and the White Dove, Mid Century Franco-Russian Watercolour

1940's

Late 20th Century watercolour on paper of a naked female figure before an open window. Signed bottom right but as yet not deciphered. Presented in carved, white painted wood frame. ...

A pencil and watercolour drawing of a Madonna and cherubs inspired by the carvings of Michelangelo Buonarroti. Signed and dated bottom right. An elegant and charming stylised drawin...

Late 20th Century French drawing on Canson paper by Gilbert Pastor. Signed bottom right. Acquired directly from the artist. Born in Marseille, Gilbert Pastor settled in Aups, the so...

French Mid Century Picasso Influenced stylised zoomorphic female nude drawing, oil crayon on paper, Paris School, signed and dated 1963. The work is presented in a chrome period fram...

A chalk and crayon study for a scuplture by French female artist Marie-Josèphe Bourron. Presented in modern frame with mount under glass. Though not signed the drawing was acquired d...

Late 20th Century French drawing on Canson paper of a lady in a chair by Gilbert Pastor. Signed bottom left. In his distinctive style with some use of body col...

Rudolf Bonnet (1895-1978) 'Mepèèd' (Mapeed) Signed lower right Titled upper right Pastel on gouache pigmented paper, 57 x 34 cm In original carved ebo...

Charcoal and gouache on paper, titled ‘Phil Richards’ and dated ‘Friday Dec 8 72’ (lower left), 64cm x 48cm (72cm x 56cm framed).(Provenance: the Artist’s estate (stamped verso)). the picture is framed behind UV glass Stonehouse had an extraordinary life. As a young art student studying fashion illustration, he joined the Royal Artillery at the beginning of WWII but soon became a part of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). He was sent to France as a radio operator but three and a half months later was caught by the Gestapo, tortured, given a death sentence and then selected for slave labour. He spent the subsequent war years in three French prisons and five concentration and labour camps, including Dachau. He still managed to continue to draw in some of the camps. Following the war, Stonehouse went to the US and continued his career as a fashion artist painting for magazines like Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and Elizabeth Arden. He was also an accomplished portraitist. His work is celebrated in Brian Stonehouse...

Marta Lebek is a Polish artist born in 1978. She currently lives and works in Spain. She studied at the School of Fine Arts and specialized in the departm...

Gabryela Wasowicz is a Polish painter born in 1947. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw and then at the Gerrit Rietveld Akademie in Amsterdam. Once she graduated in 197...

Gabryela Wasowicz is a Polish painter born in 1947. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw and then at the Gerrit Rietveld Akademie in Amsterdam. Once she graduated in 197...

A very magnificent work by 20th Century British artist Hans Feibusch of a nude classical figure posed for a study for the four seasons Escaping the grip of Nazi Germany in 1933, Han...