Billy Couch Furniture

A large scale vintage abstract on canvas by the noted California artist Robert Lawson, circa 1960s.

This work is signed and dated PLUM 2011 recto and verso of the canvas; Canvas Size - 24" x 24" x 1.5" profile; Framed Size - 25.5" x 25.5" Black synthetic float frame included. Andr...

Mörsil, Sweden. A small village in Jämtland, surrounded by forests, mountains and the long winters of northern Sweden. It was here that Swedish artist and illustrator Billy Good spent his youth. And it is difficult to imagine a greater contrast to the painting he would create in 1949. There is nothing quiet about it. A monumental green face fills almost the entire composition. One eye looks outward while the other drifts sideways. A heavy red and blue mouth curves across the face, while dark lines divide its features into almost architectural planes. Then, in the lower corner, another figure appears. Small. Almost hidden. A pale face surrounded by red and yellow looks upward toward the enormous green presence beside it. The relationship between the two remains unexplained. That ambiguity is part of the painting’s extraordinary character. Painted in 1949, the work belongs to a fascinating moment in European art. The Second World War had ended only four years earlier, and artists across Europe were increasingly moving away from traditional representation toward abstraction, expressionism and fragmented interpretations of the human figure. Good’s painting seems to inhabit that same restless visual world. The face remains recognisable, yet it has been deliberately distorted. Perspective disappears. Colour becomes emotional rather than naturalistic. Green, yellow, red and blue collide across the surface, held together by powerful dark contours. Behind this striking modernist painting lies the story of an artist whose life and work are surprisingly little known today. Billy Good grew up in Mörsil in Jämtland before leaving for Stockholm during the 1940s, where he established himself as an illustrator and advertising artist. People, and particularly faces, appear to have remained a fascination throughout his life. Decades later, Good returned artistically to the community of his youth. He created 58 portraits of people connected with Mörsil, characters he remembered from growing up there during the 1920s and 1930s. He then transformed those portraits into something remarkable: a complete deck of playing cards. The blacksmith. The doctor. The skier. The accordion player. People from a small Swedish community became characters in Good’s own visual world. He also portrayed figures beyond Mörsil. Among his known graphic works is a portrait of Swedish football legend Nacka Skoglund, one of the country’s great sporting icons of the twentieth century. Seen against this background, the 1949 painting...

This 1930s large oil on canvas painting by Gregory Orloff, depicts a lovely aristocrat woman in a park setting. Signed in lower right corner. Original frame. Orloff (1890-1981) m...

Abstract Acrylic painting, titled:' Siesta Sunrise Big Sur' Acrylic on Canvas painting; California painting; Signed verso: PLUM; Canvas size 8" x 10"; Dated: April 2014. Andrew Plum ...

Framed oil on canvas of a South or Central American native. Painted by John Bond Francisco (b.1863-d.1931) an American California artist. Jo...

This work is signed, dated and titled "PLUM 2008 Caravan” verso of the canvas and signed PLUM on recto; canvas size - 16" high x 20” wide x 1" profile; framed size- 18.75” x 22.75” x...

This work is signed, titled and dated "PLUM 2011" recto and verso of the canvas and signed PLUM on recto; canvas size - 24" x 18"; frame size 26" x 20” x 1.5" profile. Andrew Plum wa...

James Strombotne is a contemporary artist who has had a successful career since 1956. His artwork is held in many prestigious museums and private collections, including those of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Hirschhorn Museum of the Smithsonian Institute. According to Strombotne, "Any subject is fair game...

Signed and dated "PLUM 2016" recto and verso of the canvas; canvas size - 36" x 48" x 1.5" profile. Andrew Plum was born in Lancashire, England in 1965 and moved to Canada at the age...

Impressive large portrait of a pretty farm girl with bonnet holding a basket and standing next to a harvest assortment of flowers and fruit. Artist brass plaque on the frame says Michel Moreau...

Edo period (18th century) painting of a flowing array of various types of chrysanthemums painted on beautifully faceted heavy gold leaf and behind afinely painted fence. Petals of th...