Bernard Dunstan

Bernard Dunstan RA RWA (1920-2017) Signed & Framed English Pastel, Woman Resting

A wonderful portrait of a young woman by the listed British artist Peter Collins. Here he has captured the sitter's effortless beauty with a small number of expressive pencil marks a...

A fine pastel study of a mother and her child, finished with delicate graphite detail. Well presented in a glazed wood frame with a gilded inner window and a washline mount.Signed a...

A wonderful portrait of a young woman by the listed British artist Peter Collins. Here he has captured the sitter's effortless beauty with a small number of expressive pencil marks a...

A wonderful portrait of a young woman by the listed British artist Peter Collins. Here he has captured the sitter's effortless beauty with a small number of expressive pencil marks a...

A very pretty portrait in a wonderful palette showing a young girl sitting elegantly poised, with her hands in her lamp, on a wooden chair. She is wearing a pink cardigan with green...

A wonderful portrait of a young woman by the listed British artist Peter Collins. Here he has captured the sitter's effortless beauty with a small number of expressive pencil marks a...

A drawing by Fernando Botero. "Dibujo a la Manera de Velasquez" is a portrait, charcoal and pastel on cardboard in an earth-tone palette by Latin American artist Fernando Botero. It is signed upper right, "Sobre Velazquez Botero -1-27-60 Para Rita. el recuerdo de uno payaso". Fernando Botero, best known for his voluptuously rotund human figures, was born in Medellín, Colombia on April 19, 1932. His father died when he was young, and he was raised by his mother, along with his two brothers. He attended a Jesuit school in Medellín and from the age of 12 to 14, he attended a matador training school. The bull fight became a recurring theme in Botero’s early work and while he was in his early teens, he sold his pictures of bull fights in front of the arena. By the time he was 16 years of age, Botero was working as an illustrator for the local magazine El Colombiano. He also began writing articles about art theory, one of which, entitled Picasso and Non-Conformity in Art, led to his expulsion from the Jesuit school for its endorsement of Cubism. One of Botero’s important early works, Woman Crying...

Gouache and charcoal on paper, 53cm x 37cm (74cm x 55cm framed). Provenance: the Artist’s estate (stamped verso). 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...

A drawing by Irving Norman. "Related Figures" is a social surrealist painting, pen, ink, and pencil on artist's board in black and white by American Post-War artist Irving Norman. Th...

A drawing by Andy Warhol. "Woman in a Pink Hat" is a figural drawing, ink and tempera on paper in a soft palette of pink and white by Post-War American artist...

"Prison Portrait" Inks on Paper Painting 13" x 9" in by Inji Efflatoun Signed and dated Inji Eflatoun pursued free studies in art. Since 1942, she has participated in the exhibiti...

"Seated Officers" Pencil Drawing 10" x 14" inch (1960) by Inji Efflatoun signed & dated Inji Eflatoun pursued free studies in art. Since 1942, she has participated in the exhibitio...