Unknown Still-life Paintings

A Swedish School oil on panel Trompe L'Oeil painting of a coastal landscape bordered by blossoming flowers. Framed - 20 x 27 Inches Unframed - 15.25 x 22.25 Inches

Striking Haitian acrylic painting on canvas depicting a colorful healthy array of fruits and vegetables executed in a distinctive naive style. Signed Paulo in the lower right and pre...

Children's illustration of Ponies and Puppies Signed lower left Children’s Books Published by The Merrill Company

Still Life with Jugs, Oil on Canvas by Stella Steyn, 1951 Additional information: Medium: Oil on Canvas 61 x 91 cm 24 1/8 x 35 7/8 in Dated and titled verso Stella Steyn trained in Dublin, Berlin and Paris in the 1920s, meeting Samuel Beckett and James Joyce for whom she undertook the illustrations for ‘Finnegan’s Wake...

Still life with Fruit and Flowers, Oil on Canvas by Matthew Smith, 1950s Circa Additional information: Medium: Oil on Canvas 25.5 x 31 cm 10 1/8 x 1...

Hyacinths and Almond Tree, Oil on Canvas Painting by Margaret Mellis 1914-2009, 1951 Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas 51 x 63 cm 20 1/8 x 24 3/4 in Margaret Mellis was an important figure in the story of St Ives, though her artwork is often overlooked. Known for her collages and constructions in the 1930s and 1940s, the break-up of her marriage to Adrian Stokes and subsequent marriage to Francis Davison with the move to Suffolk in 1948, resulted in a dramatic change in her work: ‘I couldn’t even go on with what I was doing, so I went right back to the beginning of where I left off representational painting. I started over again’. The early 1950s saw a series of still-life compositions in which colour remained central to her working and her former abstract tendencies are still evident. Here, the use of the window obscures the foreground-background distinction and the deliberately arbitrary use of colour allows for Mellis to subtly distort the subject matter. Provenance The Estate of the Artist Exhibitions London, The Redfern Gallery, 'Margaret Mellis: Paintings and Constructions', 2016 Literature 'Margaret Mellis: Paintings and Constructions', The Redfern Gallery, London, 2016, illus., p. 22 Margaret Mellis was one of the early members, and last survivors, of the group of modernists that popularised St Ives as a hub of artistic activity in the 1940s. Mellis was born in Wukingfu, Swatow, China, where her father was a missionary. Her family returned to East Lothian when she was one year old, shortly after the First World War broke out, so her father David Barclay Mellis-Smith could join up. Abandoning an initial interest in music, she studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1930 to 1934, under colourist Samuel John Peploe...

Pink Poppy and Sweet Peas, Oil on Canvas Painting by David Michie 1928-2015, circa 1980 Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas 92 x 127 cm 36 1/4 x 50 in Signed David Michie was a Scottish painter, known for his still lifes, landscapes and depictions of everyday people. David Michie was born in 1928 in Saint-Raphaël, the south of France. He was born into a family of artists, his mother was the renowned Edinburgh School painter Anne Redpath (1895-1965) and his father the painter and architect, James Beattie Michie (1891-1960), his elder brother, Alastair Michie...

Still Life with Shell and Feathers, Oil Board Painting by William George Gillies Additional information: Medium: Oil on board 34.5 x 48 cm 13 5/8 x 18 7/8 in Signed The sumptuous f...