Rosie McLay

'Sister, A portrait of the Moon' , Signed Etching c2021

2021

Fine print from the 1960's London. Embackment in London, by the Thames. City side with Houses of Parliamant looking west. Fine piece of history. Banham made many works of Central London...

A fine Raymond John 'Jack' Coutu (1924-2017) ARE, ARCA. color lithograph/ engraving. 'Tree Root'. 6th of a 50 handmade edition by the artist.. circa 1959. Well listed Modern Artist. Signed and presented in the original framing. Raymond John "Jack" Coutu ARE ARCA (13 September 1924 – 17 May 2017) was an English printmaker, sculptor, etcher, engraver, carver, watercolourist and teacher. He was influenced by Oriental art.Jack Coutu was born Raymond John Coutu at Farnham, Surrey, England, and was educated at Farnham Grammar School.[ On leaving school in 1940, he worked at Abbott of Farnham, a coachbuilding company in Farnham, where his father Bert Coutu was also employed painting coats of arms and heraldic shields. In 1942, at the age of 18 during World War II, he joined the Royal Corps of Signals, where after training he served in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), India, and Singapore. At the end of WWII, he was in Kure, Japan, in the Hiroshima Prefecture. From 1947 to 1951, Coutu studied at the Farnham School of Art, followed by the Royal College of Art in London from 1951 to 1954 and the Central School of Art from 1951 to 1955. At the Central School of Art, Merlin Evans was an influence on Coutu's printmaking. Coutu taught printmaking at the Central School of Art from 1957 to 1965 and then at the West Surrey College of Art and Design in Farnham from 1965 to 1985. In 1968, he started to carve netsuke (as practised in Japan) and he joined the Netsuke Kenkyukai Society, based in the United StatesHe is also a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers and the Printmakers Council. Jack Coutu has exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, netsuke conventions, jointly with Michael Rothenstein...

A fine profile portrait drawing of an elder tribesman. ( specific region unknown to us). Pencil and conte crayon on paper circa 1960's. Masterful use of the mediums . Unsigned. The q...

Arthur G. Nebra (1880-1955) Swiss. 'Lake in the Mountains' circa 1930's. oiil on canvas 54cm x 73cm including the original frame. Romantic Realism iso...

An elegant and delicate seascape of Brightlingsea Hard, Essex circa 1925 18/75. Drypoint etching on cream laid paper, 5 1/2 x 7 7/8 inches (138 x 198 mm), full margins. Signed and ...

Drypoint etching on watermarked cream wove paper, 5 7/16 x 8 7/16 inches (39 x 215 mm), wide (perhaps full) margins. A very desirable, bright and richly inked impression, with the da...

JOSHUA FISHER (AMERICAN, EIGHTEENTH CENTURY) A Chart of Delaware Bay and River, 1776 Printed for John Bennet and Robert Sayer, London Engraving on pape...

Engraving by Albert Emil Kirchner Dutch artist born in 1813 and died on 1885 He have 176 registered auctions. The oldest was in 1989 and the most recent in 2022 The theme of the engraving is one of the most famous castle in Switzerland "le chateau...