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Brecon Lane, Oil on Board Painting by Nicholas Turner, 2023

2023

Out of the Thicket, Oil on Board Painting by Mary Adshead Additional information: Medium: Oil on board 179.5 x 75.5 cm 70 5/8 x 29 3/4 in Signed English mural painter and designer ...

Steeple and Moon, Oil on Board Painting by John Christopherson, 1970 Additional information: Medium: Oil on board 15 x 13 cm 5 7/8 x 5 1/8 in Signed with initials; also signed verso; titled and dated '23 September' to the Artist's label attached to the reverse John Christopherson was a painter of small dreamlike townscapes and abstract paintings that combine an almost naïve intensity with great sophistication. Born in Blackheath, London in 1921, Christopherson began his working life at Shell-Mex House in 1938, the period when Jack Beddington, the manager of the publicity department was pioneering the use of modern art in advertising. After a wartime illness, Christopherson worked at County Hall in London, choosing for his office wall a print of Paul Nash's Wood on the Downs and Nash's primeval landscapes and magical moons were later to have a lasting influence on Christopherson's own paintings. In 1950, while working as a civil servant at the Geological Museum in South Kensington, he became interested in the French Art Brut movement and corresponded with Jean Dubuffet, who offered encouragement when Christopherson himself began to paint. John Christopherson felt that his life in art did not really begin until 1950, when he met Jacob Epstein and started to visit West End galleries - he said that it was a revelation that 'such a magical world co-existed on the same level and at the same time as the boring, prosaic one of rationing, coupons and the civil service', and he determined to enter it. He said that his annus mirabilis was 1951, the year of the Festival of Britain. This was the time when his tastes and interests were moulded and when he found his vocation. In 1959, he resigned from his appointment in the civil service at the Geological Museum and became a full-time painter. From boyhood he was fascinated by the idea of antiquity. He was always interested in ancient stones, pavements, mosaics, archaeological sites, walls and buildings which had gradually changed and been eroded by time. Walls with faded posters and graffiti particularly attracted him - he treasured and identified himself with what he described as the 'forlorn poetry of the unregarded'. Christopherson's pictures linger in the memory. His image world is a distillation of cultural debris sifted with poetic intensity. His pictures are a microcosm of his tastes and obsessions. Each small painting is haunted by a sense of déjà vu, the ordinary becomes extraordinary. The subtle depths of layers of glazes are incised with the mysterious markings of a private language. Terence Mullaly once described how his works 'convey the impression of a world frozen in a dream'. George Melly...

Game for Moonlight, Oil on Board Painting by Alan Davie, 1968 Additional information: Medium: Gouache on paper 55.9 x 76.2 cm 22 x 30 in Signed, dated 'Nov' and titled Alan Davie i...

Mosaic, Oil on Board Painting by Laurence Scarfe, 1960 Additional information: Medium: Oil on board 50.8 x 111.8 cm 20 x 44 in Signed with initials; signed again, dated and titled v...

constellation original acrylic paper painting virtual frame Son of Josep Tharrats i Vilà, in 1932 he moved to Béziers until 1935, when he returned to Barcelona to study at the Massan...

Intuition, Meditation, Revelation by Lyora Pissarro (b. 1991) Oil on board framed with LED lights 116.8 x 116.8 cm (46 x 46 inches) Signed on the reverse Executed in January 2020 Pr...

This piece depicts an abstract Street Haring Dog with bursts of color and pop art design. It is done on aluminum dibond and has a strong resin coating which...

Virginia Berresford Pond in Back of Her House Signed and titled on the reverse Oil on board 23 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches Virginia Berresford was an underrated American modernist who had ...