Simon Fraser

Original large Scottish interior scene oil painting DOG & OWNER IN A KITCHEN

1975

ARTIST: Guy Roddon (1919-2006) British TITLE: "French Cafe Street Scene" SIGNED: lower left MEDIUM: oil on board SIZE: 80cm x 70cm inc frame CONDITION: excellent DETAIL: Painter and teacher, born in London. After Bryanston School he studied at Goldsmiths’ College School of Art with James Bateman and Clive Gardiner, 1937–9, then at the Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting, 1939–40, with Ernest Jackson, and drawing at La Grande Chaumière, Paris. During World War II he served in Royal Engineers before transferring to the Camouflage Unit, which included Frederick Gore, Oliver Messel, Roland Penrose and Claude Rogers. Roddon spent part of the war stationed in the Old Assembly Rooms, Norwich, as a camouflage instructor alongside Messel and Penrose. From 1948–50, he taught at Goldsmiths’; from 1960–1 was commissioned to paint The Stations of the Cross and Resurrrection for St Thomas More, Patcham; from 1960–3 moved to Paris; rented Edwin John’s studio in Tite Street for 10 years; and began a series of portraits, sitters including the novelist L P Hartley, composer John Ireland...

ARTIST: Mid 20th Century English School TITLE: "Still Life Composition" SIGNED: appears unsigned MEDIUM: oil on board SIZE: 69cm x 64cm inc frame CONDITION: , Good condition, original frame, some light warping to the board hence the additional couple of new nails on the back of the frame. NOTES: A very impressive and most unusual mid 20th century English still life oil painting...

ARTIST: Margery Noel Slaney RSW SSA GI (1915-2000) Scottish TITLE: "Flowers And A Red Scarf" MEDIUM: oil on board SIZE: 69cm x 46cm inc frame NOTES: Artist mainly in oil, full name...

ARTIST: Frank Johnson (1917-1998) British TITLE: “Female Nude In Bathroom Interior" MEDIUM: oil on canvas SIZE: 70cm x 59cm inc frame CONDITION: very goo...

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