Karl Stanley Benjamin

#13 (Cloud Series)

1979

Alirio Palacios Paisaje azul, 1997 Natural pigments on paper mounted on wood 150 x 160 cm 59 x 62.9 in. The artwork is signed and dated on the fro...

Introducing a beautifully gripping post-war oil painting by British artist Joseph Duncan. Within this intense expressionistic work, the powerful use of c...

Introducing a captivating post-war modern painting by German artist Ferdinand Spindel. In a stunning abstract composition, this piece features a harm...

Oil on board, 62cm x 42cm, (70cm x 50cm framed). The picture is in good condition. Plummer trained at the Royal Academy Schools in the early 1950s, championed by Stanley Spencer and Sir Herbert Read, he was the recipient of the coveted Leverhulme Scholarship. In a mixed career which included illustration work for The National Trust, anatomical illustration for Guys Hospital and teaching, painting ran parallel to his commercial work. Plummer specialised in the medium of egg tempera, as well as oil painting, a technique little used since the frescos of the Renaissance, he often worked on a large scale, but in tremendous detail, combining Classical iconography and formal composition with visual exploration evocative of William Blake and...

Alkyd-oil on Masonite, signed and dated (middle left), 61cm (diam.), (83cm diam. framed). (This work was kept by the artist for his personal collection. It remained in his collection...

Oil on canvas, signed and dated (lower left), 30cm x 24cm (41cm x 34cm framed). A prodigious talent from an early age, Pagliacci took part in the Venice Biennale in 1929 or 1930 at...