Peter Manzaroli

Yellow Blocks, Three-Dimensional Mixed Media, 20th Century British

Oil on canvas, on board Image size: 10 3/4 x 12 inches (27.25 x 30.5 cm) Original frame The Artist Joan Fairfax Whiteside was a prodigious artist and illustrator. Born into an emin...

Oil on board, signed and dated '1974' lower right Image size: 31 x 48 inches (79 x 122 cm) June 1987 Exhibition label on verso Original frame Provenance The Artist's Estate Exhibited "Raymond Booth, A Memorial Exhibition", The Fine Art Society, London, 12th August - 9th September 2016, no.62 "Raymond Booth, In the Wild", The Fine Art Society, London, 02 May -29 May 2017, No. 11 Booth was above all a great recorder of the natural world who could translate his observations of the Yorkshire countryside, its fauna and flora, into compositions of a beauty and intensity rivalling the greatest of his Victorian predecessors. This intense, yet intimate, landscape depicts a section of woods around Booth's home in Alwoodley, Leeds, where he spent much of his time. Here Booth has worked slowly to develop the densely worked, close-up, landscape in which the woodland and meadows have acquired a poetic quality through his sensitivity to season, weather and time of day. Raymond Charles Booth Intensely private, and possessing an obsessive work ethic and passion for the natural world, Raymond Booth earned a reputation as one of the greatest botanical painters and illustrators, despite rarely leaving his Yorkshire home. Eschewing the more fashionable modernist principles of the early mid-twentieth century, he instead produced beautiful, intense compositions in oil of British flora and fauna, that rival the very finest Victorian followers of the genre. Raymond Booth was born in Wetherby, West Yorkshire, on 8 August 1929, to John Booth, a member of the local police force, and his wife Margaret Edna. When Raymond was still a young child, the family moved from their first home in the crowded streets of central Leeds, to Fearnville Place, in the leafy suburb of Roundhay. His father was a keen rambler and impressed upon Booth from an early age a respect and understanding for the British countryside. Just a short walk from his childhood home was Roundhay Park, the second largest urban park in Europe, comprised of over 700 acres of parkland, lakes and woodland. It is likely that growing up so close to such an environment had a profound influence on him, helping to develop what would become a lifelong obsession with natural world. Booth’s early passion for nature was surely heightened by the number of summer holidays he spent on an estate near Winterslow, Wiltshire, where an uncle worked as a gamekeeper. In 1946, at the age of 17, Booth won a scholarship to study at Leeds College of Art. However, his studies were put on hold during two years of National Service, which he spent largely with the RAF in Egypt, guarding the Suez Canal. He returned to Leeds College in 1949, graduating in 1953. While at Leeds College, he had frustrated his teachers and fellow students by insisting on working in a more traditional, precise style, and rejecting the more Modernist principles that were being promoted. As a result, his teachers convinced him that he was unlikely to earn a living as an artist, and encouraged him instead to study for a teaching diploma. Shortly after graduation however, he was diagnosed as suffering from tuberculosis, a consequence of his time in Egypt, and was admitted to a sanatorium, where he would stay for the next six months. Years later, Booth would joke ‘I am one of the few people who can say, “Thank God for TB”’ (The Times obituary, 9 September 2015), as his months of recuperation gave him countless hours to develop his skills as a botanical artist. This enforced focus on his work gave him the confidence to submit a number of his drawings to a botanical art exhibition in London organised by the Royal Horticultural Society. These works attracted the attention of a number of prominent horticulturalists, including Dr Harold Fletcher, the director of the RHS’s gardens at Wisley, Sir George Taylor...

Oil on canvas on board Image size: 15 3/4 x 21 3/4 inches (40 x 55 cm) Contemporary style frame This sensitive portrait captures the use of contemporary dress of this lady beautifu...

Oil on board Image size: 6 x 8 1/2 inches (15 x 21.5 cm) Contemporary hand made float frame We have a considerable collection of Benham's landscape works. Please get in contact if ...

Oil on board Image size: 12 x 15 inches (30.5 x 38 cm) Contemporary style frame

Oil on board Image size: 19 x 14 inches (48.25 x 35.5 cm) Contemporary style handmade frame

Amitabh Sengupta - Untitled Oil on Acrylic Board , 12 x 18 inches , 2015 (Unframed & Door Delivered) Born : March 3, 1941, Mysore Bangalore Style : In his Cholamandal years, Vasude...

Anthony Thomas Triano (American 1928-1997) Abstract 1966 Oil on Board Signed & Lower Right 30" x 15" inches unframed Submitted by Leni Robbi...

Oil Painting of Snowdon Mountains & Lakes in Wales by Modern British Artist Charles Wyatt Warren (1908-1983) Art measures 21.5 x 9.25 inches Fra...

Really well done collage in black and white with a few subtle touches of deep red. Collage is done on a box board and ready to hang.

Suhas Roy - Radha - 20 x 20 inches ( unframed size) Tempera Coloured Conte on Pastel on Paper , 2005 Suhas Roy 's mystic woman which he calls 'Radha', either Oil on canvas or sof...

Boy eating fruit and corn By Great Modern Indian Artist Paritosh Sen Size 20 x 12 inches each (unframed size) Acrylic and Mixed Media on board ( Set of 2 works ) Inclusive of shipme...