Robert Colquhoun

Modern British art, Scottish Modernist print

1947

A wonderful image by one of the great modern masters of English art, depicting a whimsical pastiche of Kew Gardens. Edward Bawden (1903-1989) Kew Gardens Signed, titled and numbered 36/40 Engraving 17 x 10.5 cm Edward Bawden was a watercolourist, illustrator, designer, printmaker and teacher, born in Braintree, Essex, the county in which he spent much of his life, finally living in Saffron Walden. Studied at Cambridge School of Art from 1919, then at Royal College of Art, 1922-5, on a scholarship, in the design school being taught by Paul Nash. Soon began on commercial work for Poole Pottery and Curwen Press, then in 1928-9 with Eric Ravilious and Charles Mahoney did decorations for Morley College. Bawden went on studying engraving and bookbinding at Central School Arts and Crafts after leaving the Royal College and himself taught there, the Royal Academy Schools and Goldsmiths' College School of Art. First one-man show at Zwemmer Gallery in 1934, after which he showed extensively including RA, being elected RA in 1956. Work poured from Bawden's studio in the 1930s, for companies such as Shell-Mex; book illustrations such as Good Food, 1932, and The Week-end Book, 1939; and a mass of often ephemeral work which evinced a wonderful wit, economy and aptness to subject. Official War Artist in World War II, much of his output being in the Imperial War Museum. Tate Gallery and many other public collections hold his work. Bawden did decorations for the SS Orcades and Oronsay and for the Unicorn Pavilion for the Festival of Britain of 1951. His son was the artist Richard Bawden...

An incredibly rare image of the very early days of surfing in Hawaii dating to around 1921. The striking contrasts and intricate technique immediately bring to mind Japanese woodblock art, in particular Katsushika Hokusai' s The Great Wave - such images had a profound influence on the artist's work. In very good condition with strong colour, ready to hang on the wall. Charles William Bartlett...

Robert Henry Lewis (mid 20th Century) "Sofie: : A sleeping cat Signed, numbered 4/5 and dated "(19)64" beneath in image in pencil Titled, "Sofie" Etching 5.5 x 6.5 inches (image) 14....

A very atmospheric watercolour capturing the light and shimmer of a Venetian canal. One of two views of Venice by the artist that I am offering - please see my other listing. Dennis Page (born 1926) Venice Balcony Signed Watercolour 8½ x 12 inches including the frame 16¾ x 21 inches with the frame Painter, mainly in watercolour who was born in Hampstead, London. He studied art at Harrow and the Central School of Arts & Crafts, where his tutors included Mervyn Peake...

Marc Chagall (French/Russian, 1887-1985), "Nude Floating in Vase", Lithograph in Colors on Paper, numbered edition "380/400" lower left, signed in plate lower right, lacquered wood ...

"Departure #7" - Lithograph on Paper Purple and tan lithograph depicting abstracted figures floating in space by Jim Crabb (American, b. 1947). Abstracted figures take up the page, ...

Limited edition hand signed lithograph featuring two consecutive modern portraits of faces with varying degrees of abstraction, in pink and green, by Dennis john Ashbaugh (American, b. 1946). Numbered "7/7" in the lower-left corner. Signed "Dennis John Ashbaugh" in the lower right corner. Presented in a new tan mat with foam core backing. Unframe. Image size: 4"H x 6.75"W. Some toning yellowing at mat opening. Dennis John Ashbaugh (American, b. 1946) was born in Red Oak, Iowa, and attended California State University at Fullerton, receiving his MA in 1969. Ashbaugh has spent most of his career in New York City. In 1992, he collaborated with William Gibson, a fiction writer, and with publisher Kevin Begos on a book, Agrippa, meaning 'book of the dead'. Exhibition venues include the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American ArtPublic collections holding his work include the Hirshhorn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the New York Metropolitan. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Ashbaugh lives in a trim frame house in Flamingo Park...

Gerry Mulligan, Baritone Sax - Rare Signed Figurative Lithograph in Ink on Paper Bold lithograph by Eugene Hawkins (American, b. 1933). Gerry Mulligan sits on a stool holding his ba...