Cats in a Conservatory - Applique work Picture, British c.1950

circa 1950

PAMELA MARY SPENCER (1924-2012) The Hen Coop Signed and dated 1946 Watercolour and pencil, unframed in conservation mount only 30 by 28 cm., 11 ¾ by 11 in. Provenance: The artist’s estate. Pamela Spencer was the niece of Sir Stanley Spencer RA and Gilbert Spencer...

ALBERT RUTHERSTON, RWS (1881-1953) Page for the Emperor – Costume Design for Androcles and the Lion Variously inscribed: “Androcles”/No.28/ Two Pages for The Emperor/ Mr Alfree/Mr Bugh/King Watercolour, pen and ink and gold paint Framed 25 by 19 cm., 9 ¾ by 7 ½ in. (frame size 43 by 36 cm., 17 by 14 ¼ in.) Provenance: By descent in the family of the artist. Exhibited: London, Sally Hunter Fine Art, Albert Rutherston – Drawings, Theatre Designs & other Treasures, 2016, no.75. The present work is a costume design for a page in Androcles and the Lion, a play in two acts by George Bernard. Rutherston designed the set and costumes for the 1913 premier production performed at St James’s Theatre, London and produced by Harley Granville-Barker. Born Albert Daniel Rothenstein, he was the youngest of the six children of Moritz and Bertha Rothenstein, German-Jewish immigrants who had settled in Bradford, Yorkshire in the 1860s. He and his siblings proved to be a hugely talented and artistic family, his elder brother became Sir William Rotherstein (1872-1945), the artist and director of the Royal College of Art; two of his other siblings, Charles Rutherston and Emily Hesslein, both accumulated major modern British and French art collections and his nephew Sir John Rothenstein was direct of the Tate Gallery. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School before moving to London in 1898 to study at the Slade School of Art where he became close friends with Augustus John and William Orpen. He met Walter Sickert during a painting holiday in France in 1900 and by introducing Sickert to Spencer Gove became instrumental in the beginning of the Camden Town Group. He was one of Sickert’s most frequent companions and was one of the original members of the Fitzroy Street Group. Rutherston had a sociable and attractive personality, he frequently travelled abroad with other artists including Max Beerbohm, Spencer Gore, Walter Russell and Edna Clarke Hall...

ELIZABETH TAGGART (Born 1943) An Outside Performance Signed l.l.: TAGGART; signed, inscribed with title and dated 1978 on the backboard Oil on board Framed 12 by 20.5 cm., 4 ¾ by 8 in. (frame size 21 by 29 cm., 8 ¼ by 11 ½ in.) Elizabeth Ferguson Taggart was born in Donaghadee, Co Down, Northern Ireland. She trained under John Luke and Romeo Toogood in Belfast’s College of Art. Painting highly individual, surreal, flamboyant and quirky works, she has exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Hibernian Academy, Irish Exhibition of Living Art...

CAROLYN SERGEANT (1937-2018) Seated Woman in Profile Pen and ink with wash, unframed 45.5 by 32 cm., 18 by 12 ½ in. (mount size 62 by 47 cm., 24 ½ by 18 ½ in.) Carolyn Cann stud...

A stunningly original mixed-media collage showing an Ark containing various life-forms and a dove resting in the waves. Fridman has used oil paint, papyrus and pre-columbian textiles...

The Beautiful Ones, 2020, 35” x 72,” Kanekalon hair, organic silk, turmeric, cotton. A special commission for Gigi Journal pt II with V Magazine .

Weathering Hypothesis, 2020, 30 1/2” x 69,” Kanekalon Hair Extensions, Cotton twine. Based on the proposal of American public health research professor, Arline Geronimus that African American women...

Nails and thread on wooden panel. The work comes in a plexiglass box. In his latest body of work, the Dutch artist Nemo Jantzen is combining skills obtained in the earlier years of ...