John Scarland

John Scarland (b.1947) - 1991 Gouache, Dancer Standing

1991

An unusual scene with mystical narrative, showing a figure resting in a grassy park by trees, under a bright, moonlit sky. Rows of charmingly naive houses are seen beyond the trees. ...

An accomplished portrait in an unusual style of dry brush worked gouache over graphite underdrawing finished with watercolour wash. The painting shows a portrait of a young man smoki...

Linear brush strokes are used in a direct, intuitive style to depict a strong portrait of a figure in sunglasses. Unsigned. On wove.

Signed illegibly. Well presented in a contemporary wood frame. On watercolour paper.

Deep crimson forms an alluring background to this captivating portrait of a gentleman, finished with dry, rough brush strokes. The artwork is unsigned, and well presented in a contem...

An impressively sized Indian gouache, showing a council of men listening intently to their leader who sits in a wooden pergola in a beautiful garden. Th...

THE HON. MARY SHUTTLEWORTH, NÉE COCKBURN (D. 1777) and her sister ANNA MARIA, 9TH BARONESS FORRESTER (D. 1808) Pastel and gouache on paper laid on canvas, on their original backb...

The portrait shows Mme Silvestre. Born in Paris, Silvestre was the daughter of Charles-Antoine Hérault and his wife Marie-Geneviève, who were her first teachers. In 1706 she married the painter Louis de Silvestre, moving with him in 1716 to Dresden. The couple's daughter Marie-Maximilienne became a pastellist. Silvestre died in Dresden, the year before her husband retired and returned to Paris. Her surviving pastels show the influence of Rosalba Carriera...

Serge Ferat " Arlequin " , canvas on board signed dated 1930.

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...

Alfred H. Maurer emerged as an influential crucial figure in the art scene of late 19th-century America, gaining widespread recognition for his innovative Fauvist approach characterized by vibrant colors and expressive brushwork. Departing from his renowned portraits and genre paintings, he delved into Fauvist landscapes, still lifes, and depictions of anonymous individuals. His distinctive technique relied on saturated colors rather than precise lines or forms, allowing him to convey a profound psychological intensity through dynamic, flowing strokes. As he matured as an artist, Maurer pioneered American...

Bowens (British, fl. mid 20th Century) Cambridge: Centre of Scientific Research Pye Group Records Pye - Nixa - Mercury - Vanguard - EmArcy c. mid-late 1950s Haig Road in Cambridge, where Pye had their factory, was subsumed into Elizabeth Way and was a long way from King's College chapel. However that iconic building is used to illustrate the Cambridge connection. EmArcy Records is a jazz record...