Gabriel Van Schnell

1946 Dutch Expressionist watercolour by Gabriel Van Schnell

1946

Carl Hofer (German, 1875 – 1955) Abstracted form Pencil and pen and ink on paper Signed with monogram ‘CH’ (lower right) 11.3/8 x 7.1/2 in. (28.8 x 19 cm.) Provenance: These works c...

Derrick Latimer Sayer (British, 1917 – 1992) Caterpillar Signed, inscribed and dated ‘CATERPILLAR’ (lower left), ‘Derrick Sayer 55’ (lower right) Gouache 7.7/8 x 9.1/4 in. (20 x 23.5 cm.) Derrick Latimer Sayer (1912–1992) has been described as a Neo-Romantic and pop artist, with a career that spanned from the spiritualism of postwar English landscapes, to the bright, optical playfulness of 1960s Pop art. Sayer had a distinguished start to his career, having studied at the Chelsea School of Art in the early 1930s under Graham Sutherland and Henry Moore. In 1936 he founded the Mousehole Group Art School in Cornwall with fellow painters George Lamborn and Guy Allen, and for the next few years he exhibited at a number of small local galleries, while also executing commercial advertising work for major companies such as Shell Oil. The 1940s and 50s were a period of widespread travelling, teaching and experimentation for Sayer, as he founded the Army Art Centre in 1945, worked in the South of France in 1949 and displayed works at the Leicester, Redfern and Winton Galleries across the 1950s. In 1966, he took up the helm as the Head of Art at the Chelsea Westminster Adult Education Institute, a position he held until his retirement in 1982. Ten of Derricks works can be found at the Chelsea Westminster Hospital Arts Project, hung alongside a permanent collection that includes Patrick Heron, Howard Hodgkin, and Sian Tucker. Sayer was known for his studies of female nudes, particularly the examination of the nude in...

Norman Basil Town (British, 1915 – 1987) Covering sorrow Ink on paper 7 x 11.3/4 in. (17.8 x 29.5 cm.) Norman Basil Town (1905–1984) was a British artist known for his evocative rel...

Norman Basil Town (British, 1915 – 1987) A classical allegory Pen and ink 6.3/4 x 9.1/4 in. (17.2 x 23.3 cm.) Norman Basil Town (1905–1984) was a British artist known for his evocat...

Gerhard Uhlig (1926-2015) Watercolor “untitled”, created in 1984, signed and dated by hand, framed behind glass Dimensions: Frame size: 43 x 34 cm Sheet size: 15 x 10 cm Gerha...

A charming study of a forest path captured in a soft palette and an expressive style. Signed to the lower right. Presented in a contemporary white frame. Part of a pair of watercolou...

James Gahagan was an American abstract ? expressionist artist/painter , also known as colorist.The size of the work by itself is 9 x 12 inches also signed LR, Gahagan 61. Has the ori...

Robert Jacobsen (1912-1993). Composition, watercolor and ink on paper in polychrome colors. Sign. Robert Jacobsen Framed with passe-partout. Dimensions of watercolor: 13 x 22.5 cm. Robert Julius Tommy Jacobsen was a Danish artist who was self-taught as a sculptor and graphic artist. Jacobsen is represented with works of art, including sculptures, in museums and public squares...