Elin Sian Blake

Until Tomorrow (Tan Yfory). South Wales Valleys. Mining. Miner End of Shift.

Claudia Williams. English ( b.1933 ). Girl Combing Hair, 1989. Oil on Canvas. Signed lower left. Image size 14.8 inches x 17.9 inches ( 37.5cm x 45.5cm ). Frame size 17.7 inches x 21...

Available for sale; this original oil painting is by the French artist Raymond Moritz and dates from 1927. The painting is presented and supplied in a sympathetic contemporary frame (which is shown in these photographs), mounted with new fixtures. The canvas and the painted surface have benefitted from cleaning and conservation, which was performed on our instruction, supervision and approval. This vintage painting is now in very good condition. It wants for nothing and is supplied ready to hang and display. The painting is signed lower left. A later dedication to “Louise” dated April 1942 in the artist’s hand is set around the earlier signing. Raymond Moritz was a French impressionist artist and illustrator. He was born in Paris on 8 July 1891. His family came from the Alsace region and were poor and Catholic. On his mother’s side, the Staubs were from Wihr-au-Val where they had been coopers for several generations. His uncle, Marie Clement Staub, was the founder in Canada of the Sisters of Saint Joan of Arc. Moritz fought during the Great War in the Picardy region of the Somme with the 2nd machine gunner company. He won the French 1914-1918 War medal with bronze palm attachment, which signifies that the awardee was mentioned in dispatches at army level. Moritz obviously created some art during the war because during the inauguration of the new town hall in the town of Albert he was congratulated by the French President, Albert Lebrun, and the British press for the paintings he had produced. Albert was the main town behind the lines for the Allies on the Somme battle fields...

Late 18th or Early 19th Century Continental follower of Peter Paul Rubens. Flemish ( b.1577 - d.1640 ). Judith and the Head of Holofernes. Oil on Canvas. Image size 31.1 inches x 23...

Elin Siân Blake. Welsh ( b.1981). First Light. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. Image size 23.4 inches x 17.3 inches ( 59.5cm x 44cm ). Frame size 28.5 inches x 22.4 inches ( 72.5c...

Elin Siân Blake. Welsh ( b.1981). Making Ripples. Oil on artist’s canvas board. Signed lower right. Image size 19.5 inches x 15.6 inches ( 49.5cm x 39.5cm ). Frame size 22.8 inches ...

Elin Siân Blake. Welsh ( b.1981). The Hosts of Rebecca. Oil on artist’s canvas board. Signed lower right. Image size 17.5 inches x 23.6 inches ( 44.5cm x 60cm ). Frame size 20.3 inc...

The painting is an oil on canvas, measuring 48" x 36". The painting is multilayered to show skin texture, and source of light. The painting shows a young woman fixing her shawl, an a...

The painting is an oil on canvas, measuring 45" x 33". There is a lot of texture on this painting created by cigarette butts and ash mixed with oil paint, smeared on the canvas to highlight the hair. The painting shows a character inspired by Bollywood, in the market, reflecting on all the patterns and designs she sees in a South Asian jewelry...

This painting is an oil on canvas measuring 36" x 29". Portrait was stylized on artist owned images. Framing is available based on buyers preference. The image depicts a middle aged...

Painting is an oil on canvas, measuring 30" x 22". There is a lot of texture on this painting built up entirely of scraped and dried oil paint. This image is a dark one, showing a wo...

The painting is about a woman stuck still in time, statuesque and hard looking. The are many layers of strokes to build on the hardness of the figure...

A sawah landscape, Sumatra Signed and dated 'Sonnega '54' (lower right), and annotated 'Voor Jan de Bas 1-1-1970 / R de Bas' (on the reverse) oil on canvas, 50,5x60,5 cm Provenance: - Collection Pieter de Bas (1909-1979) Mr de Bas was head of the MULO school and acting head of the HBS school in Medan. Thence by descent to the present owner. Exhibited: - Hotel de Boer, Medan 1954, where acquired by the first owner. The light I observed everywhere was of a special quality, fluorescent blue, shone from nowhere but radiated from every point, oddly with great depth and intensity. The light in an entirely different dimension came from nowhere and went nowhere shimmering with the glow of a bright blue jewel. The most important thing I discovered was of being omnipresent and able to understand everything at the same time, yes I could fathom creation completely. Auke Sonnega, born March 9, 1910 in Leeuwarden, known as the painter, primarily of young Balinese men and women. Originally raised in the reformed denomination, the parents of Auke apparently practised theosophy and their children, including Auke were taught these principles. The talent for drawing revealed itself at an early stage which in 1926 lead to a 4-year study of textile design at the Academy for Art and Craft in Amsterdam. He completed the academy in 1930 and worked in a carpet factory in Twente until 1934 and then followed in his sister Aafje’s footsteps leaving the Netherlands to go to the Dutch East Indies where in 1935 he started working as a graphic designer with an advertising bureau in Batavia. He was able to travel through Java and Bali on the motorbike that he brought with him from Europe, and was paid for his travelogue, enhanced with his own photo’s which appeared in several Dutch newspapers and magazines. In the 1930’s two Europeans, Walter Spies and Rudolf Bonnet...