Fred Dubery

Pelicans at London Zoo

Charles Wittmann (French, 1876 – 1953) Cows grazing in Franche-Comte Oil on board Signed ‘CH. WITTMANN’ (lower right) 21.1/4 x 36.3/8 in. (54 x 92.5 c...

Max Andrews (British, b. 1969) Moonlit horses Signed and dated ‘Max Andrews 19’ (lower right) Oil on board 12.1/5 x 12.1/5 in. (32 x 31.8 cm.)

Marcel Louis Baugniet (Belgian, 1896 – 1995) Sigale de Mer (Cicada of the sea) Oil on board with scraffito Signed ‘M L BAUGNIET / 47’ (upper right) 17.3/4 x 13.1/2 in. (45 x 34.3 cm.) Marcel-Louis Baugniet was born in Liege on the 18th March 1896. Painter, theorist, furniture designer, creator of posters, costumes and stage sets, he was one of the main defenders of the notion of Pure Plastic Arts. Baugniet studied painting at the Royal Academy of Beaux-Arts in Brussels where he mixed with Paul Delvaux, René Magritte, Victor Servrancks and Pierre-Louis Flouquet. He spent some time in Paris and decided that he would become an iconoclastic and avant garde artist. He discovered abstract art with Kandinsky, Kupka, Mondrian and Delaunay and with wonder and stupeur he also learnt of the constructivist movement, which was born in Russia with Malevitch and Lissitsky. In 1922, Baugniet then 26 years old returned to Brussels and married the Russian danser Akarova for whom he designed costumes and stage sets. M-L Baugniet painted, designed and engraved some superb series of dansers and sportspersons (the « Kaloprosopies »), works entrenched with impeccable lines of constructed art. He painted with contemplation geometric compositions which mixed a grace of colours with the rigour of shapes. Baugniet wrote articles on esthetics and applicated arts in the magasine 7 Arts and edited, with the Dutch architect Van Tonderen, the manifesto of the movement that they called « Le beau, C’est l'utile » (beauty is useful) Towards the end of the 20s, he separated from Akarova and in 1927 he opened his own Home Decor shop. With regret Baugniet laid down his paint brushes and threw himself into interior design and the creation of tubular furniture, everyday objects and carpets. He remarried the Russian Olga Reich. He created a circle of ideas that included artists, writers, politicians and intellectuals of all kinds. Throughout his career, Baugniet participated in numerous international exhibitions of decorative art. In 1977 abstraction, constructivism and Marcel-Louis Baugniet were rediscovered. Decorated and lauded, Baugniet began to paint once more and co-founded the magasine Mesures with Jo Delahaut...

Circle of George Morland (British, 1762 – 1804) A grey horse at an encampment Oil on board Indistinctly with signature (lower left) 12.1/8 x 10in. (31 x 40.8 cm.)

Derek Hirst (British, 1930-2006) La Mouche No.I (1952) Oil on canvas 20 x 24.1/4 in. (51 x 61.6 cm.) Provenance: Flowers East Gallery, Richmond Derek Hirst (b. in Doncaster, Y...

Derek HIRST (British,1930-2006) La Mouche No.2 (1952) Oil on canvas 17.1/2 x 24.1/4 in. (44.5 x 61.6 cm.) Provenance: Flowers East Gallery, Richmond Derek Hirst (b. in Doncast...

Butterflies 1974, oil on cardboard, 60x60 cm Lidija Auza (1914. 24. 02 Vitebsk, Belarus – 1989. 13. 12 Riga, Latvia) Painter She studied at the Art Academy of Latvia (1936-1938...

"Nude with Cat" by R. Walker is a charming portrait of a woman and cat posed by a window.

Born in Baku, Russia in 1899, prolific avant-garde artist and painter Nahum Tschacbasov studied in Paris with Leopold Gottlieb, Marcel Gromaire and Fe...

Oil on board, signed and inscribed on reverse Image size: 16 x 19 1/2 inches (40.5 x 49.5 cm) A charming painting of a Bull in a farmyard. The intense realism of the work elevates t...

A modernist landscape painting by American WPA artist Earle N. Sherm

Sally Michel Avery (1902 - 2003) Bucolic Landscape with Cows, 1963 Oil on canvasboard 9 x 12 inches Signed and dated lower left Provenance: The art...