John Craxton

Dancer in a Landscape - 20th Century, Work on paper by John Craxton

1943

Signed lower right Provenance: The Artist By whom gifted to Duncan Guthrie, 1952 Private Collection, UK Reference: HMF 2186b This drawing is one of the preparatory studies...

Coloured crayon, ink and pencil Signed lower right The Henry Moore Foundation has suggested a date of 1948 for the drawing and that it originally was part of the 1947-49 sketchbook ...

Signed lower right and inscribed verso

Pencil, wax crayon, watercolour wash, pen and ink, crayon on cream medium weight wove Signed with pen and ink lower left 'Moore/39'

Signed and dated Reynolds 55 lower left. Also signed, dated and titled in pencil verso. Reynolds’ intense study of nature led him to create sketchbooks filled with botanical studies, pressed leaves, grasses, seedpods and feathers – forms upon which he based abstract landscapes during the first, figurative stage of his career. Among the most significant sequence of paintings derived from these studies was ‘The Four Seasons’, showing landscape transformed across the cycle of the year. Legend in December (1955) relates to this series, showing a winter landscape in which the moon hangs low over the horizon. Bushes cast pallid shadows, and whitened seed heads appear like fireworks against the sky. On the roof of a chapel, haloed, is a cross mirrored...

Initialled lower right. The Swimmer is the maquette for a lithograph of the same name, Tassi 147, printed by Mourlot, Paris in 1973. Sutherland made several studies of the same subje...

Big Baloo / Head Study No. 86 , drawing / painting featuring the head portrait of a young woman. in blue, pink, gold and white. The work is created with mixed media on Bristol paper,...

Bright Lashes / Head Study No. 93, drawing / painting featuring the head portrait of a young woman. in monochromatic grey, brown and white. The work is created with mixed media on ar...

Wartime / Head Study No. 76 , drawing / painting featuring the head portrait of a young woman. in yellow. The work is created with mixed media on Canson paper, including stabilo penc...

Hungarian/American artist/illustrator depicts a charming scene of sledding in the snow in Central Park. The work is abstract in its design as it's functional in its narrative - Unpublished New Yorker...

Signed lower left, 'Jais' for Johannes Knud Ove Jais-Nielsen (Danish, 1885-1961) and dated 1938. A powerful figural work showing a view of Jesus kneeling in the Garden of Gethsemane on the evening before his trial and execution. Born in Denmark, Jais Nielsen initially studied at Kunstnernes Frie Studieskoler under Kristian Zahrtmann and exhibited for the first time at the 1907 Autumn Salon at the Charlottenborg Palace. Nielsen participated in the early and groundbreaking, “Group of Thirteen" Modernist show, where his focus on dynamic figural painting and his bold use of color set him dramatically apart from his contemporaries. From 1907-11, Nielsen's use of 'primitive' Fauve colors would continue to reinforce his break with traditional Danish painting. During this period, he made study excursions to important art centres, including, in 1909, to Berlin. In 1911, he moved to Paris where he settled in the Latin Quarter near the Musée Cluny. His first formal Paris exhibition was at the Salon d’Automne of 1912. During this first Paris period, Nielsen attended meetings of the Section d’Or at the studio of Jacques Villon and, as a result, began to incorporate subtle, yet distinct, Cubist elements into his work.   With the outbreak of World War One, Nielsen returned to Copenhagen, taking with him both his increasing compositional sophistication and a thorough understanding of the principles of Modernism. During this period, ports, dance and circus life became subjects of interest and he painted many canvases in the style of Analytic Cubism, of which he became the earliest and, arguably, the finest Danish exponent. From 1915 onwards, Nielsen also created Cubist sculptures and, from 1922-28, was employed as a sculptor by the Royal Copenhagen porcelain factory. Here, he produced a series of ceramic sculptures on Biblical themes which included the Good Samaritan and several versions of Jacob Wrestling with the Angel...

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...