Pádraig MacMiàdhachain

Birthday in the Souk, Morocco, Gouache and Pastel Painting, 1991

1991

Étude en rouge, Gouache Painting by Henri Hayden 1883-1970, 1964 Additional information: Medium: Gouache 50 x 50 cm 19 3/4 x 19 3/4 in Signed and dated Henri Hayden was a School of...

Gouache, Pencil and Sand 'Bay III' Painting by Keith Purser B. 1944, 2002 Additional information: Medium: Gouache, pencil and sand Dimensions: 42 x 50 cm 16 1/2 x 19 3/4 in Signed, ...

Coastal Composition, Gouache and Ink Painting, by Trevor Bell, 1955 Additional information: Medium: Gouache and ink 18.5 x 9 cm 7 1/4 x 3 1/2 in Trevor Bell was an abstract painter...

Kirby Hall, Northamptonshire, Gouache with Ink and Wash Painting, 1940-42 circa Additional information: Medium: Gouache with ink and wash 15.2 x 18.5 cm 6 x 7 1/4 in As part of an eight-page pamphlet for The Colour of English Country Houses in 1944, Piper included a lovely auto-lithograph of Kirby Hall in Northamptonshire. This work was most likely sketched on the occasion of his visit to the Hall at this time and is of a slightly different angle. It is a working version of the cover of C Aspinall-Oglander's 'Admiral’s Widow’, 1942 (Hogarth Press). The print is cat. no.51.\\\ Piper gives a lovely description of this Elizabethan country house in the introduction to the pamphlet as follows: ‘A yellow stone house of the seventeenth century, in rolling green hunting-country. It gleams in the sun, forms a warm eye-catcher in dull weather and glimmers whitely in moonlight. It is another ruin, partly roofless, and has recently taken over by the Office of Works to be preserved as a show-place.’ (John Piper). Here, Piper, painting at night in the light of the moon, depicts the north front from the inner courtyard, capturing the brilliance of the moonlit night as it dances over the ruins making it in Piper’s own words ‘glimmer whitely’ whilst the dramatic shadows darken the archways and windows. John Piper was a painter of architecture, landscape and abstract compositions, a designer for the theatre and of stained-glass windows, and a writer on the arts. Piper was born in 1903 in Epsom, Surrey, the son of a solicitor. Throughout his childhood, he regularly visited Italy, and by 1924 he had published a book of poems and his own illustrations. He worked in his father's office in Westminster until 1928 when he began studying at the Richmond and Kingston Schools of Art. This was followed by two years study at the Royal College of Art. In 1927 he exhibited with David Birch at the Arlington gallery, and in 1931 with Clarice Moffat, P. F. Millard, and his first wife Eileen Holding...

Landscape signed by Geza Somerset-Paddon (British 20th century) gouache painting on board, unframed size: 8.25 x 6 inches condition: overall very good inscribed verso provenance: all...

Landscape by Geza Somerset-Paddon (British 20th century) gouache painting on canvas , unframed canvas: 10 x 12 inches inscribed verso condition: overall very good provenance: all th...

Portrait/ abstract geometric by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003) signed original gouache painting on thick paper/ card unframed condition: very good and sound; the edges have a fe...

Hay Bails by Helen Greenfield (British 20th century) gouache painting on artist paper, unframed painting: 14 x 20 inches condition: overall very good provenance: all the paintings w...