Douglas Litterick Swan

Montrose Harbour Lock Gates (The Dutch Boat) by Douglas Swan, 1950s Circa

Circa 1950

Alethea Garstin 1894-1978 Newlyn Harbour, 1930, circa oil on canvas laid on board 40.6 x 30.5 cm 16 x 12 in Alethea was born in Penzance, the daughter of acclaimed painter Norman Ga...

Honfleur by Alistair Grant, 1956 Additional information: Medium: lithograph 61 x 48 cm 24 x 18 7/8 in signed and dated in pencil Alistair Grant was a printmaker, painter and illust...

Guns on Cardiff Dock, Oil on Canvas by Nan Youngman, 1960 Additional information: Medium: Oil on Canvas 45.7 x 66 cm 18 x 26 in Signed and dated Nan ...

Coastal Scene, Gouache Painting by Peter Potworowski, 1950s circa Additional information: Medium: Gouache 17 x 21.5 cm 6 3/4 x 8 1/2 in Tadeusz Piotr (Peter) Potworowski was a Polish abstract and figurative painter who lived and exhibited in Paris, Poland, Sweden and England. Potworowski was born in Warsaw in 1898. After serving in the First World War, Potworowski enrolled at the Warsaw University of Technology to study architecture, though his studies were halted by the Bolshevik campaign. After the end of the Polish-Soviet War in 1921, Potworowski returned to Warsaw and began to study art at the school of Konrad Krzyżanowski. By the following year, he had taken a place at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, where he studied under Józef Pankiewicz. It was Pankiewicz who incorporated Potworowski into the Paris Commute, or Kapists, a group of Polish artists who travelled to the French capital in 1924. During his seven years in Paris he became personally acquainted with Pablo Picasso, Pierre Bonnard, Jean Cocteau, Constantin Brancusi and attended for a short time Fernand Léger's studio. It was through this job that he met his first wife Magdalena Mańkowska, a student of anthropology in Paris. After marrying in France, and visiting Britain in 1928, the couple returned to Poland in 1930, where their first son John was born. In 1931, Warsaw was the locale of the first Kapists exhibition, entitled New Generation, which took place at the Artist's Club, Hotel Polonia, and the Institute of Art Propaganda. Here, Potworowski received a prize for his painting Three Women in the Interior. The following year, he held his first solo exhibition at the Makowski Salon in Poznań. This success was sustained through 1937 when the artist received a silver medal at the International Exhibition of Art and Technology in Paris, as well as the award from the Minister of Foreign Affairs. After this strong development, Potworowski had a travelling solo exhibition arranged, held in 1938 at the Institute of Propaganda of Art in Warsaw and then in Lviv. Following the invasion of Poland in 1939, Potworowski escaped to Sweden via Lithuania. It was from here that the artist, with his wife and two young children, made his way to Britain, arriving in 1943. After serving in Scotland, Potworowski settled in London, and in January 1946, an exhibition of 33 of his works was held at the Redfern Gallery. This was followed by regular exhibitions with the Redfern, Gimpel Fils (1948 onwards) and The London Group, to which he was elected a member in 1949. He was also the president of the Association of Polish Artists and published regularly in the monthly magazine "Nowa Polska". Potworowski's teaching career included eight years as Professor of Painting at the Bath Academy of Art, Corsham (1949-57), where he had considerable European influence, specifically on abstraction, and was acknowledged by contemporaries including Peter Lanyon, Bryan Wynter...

Title: Watercolor of Fishing Boats in Dry Dock; Entitled Bateaux en Cale de Halage by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017) Signed: Yes Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper Siz...

Frank Forty (1902-1996) Irish watercolour painting: Inscribed verso, Vigo Size 11 x 15 inches Superb original watercolour painting by the well listed and popular Irish painter, Fr...

Jean La Forgue (French 1901-1975) watercolour and ink on paper, unframed painting: 13 x 18 inches provenance: the artists estate, France condition: very good and sound condition; the...

A charming impressionist depiction of a harbour at dusk. The artist captures the scene using a light impasto technique to capture the textures and movement of the scene. Signed to th...