Ottocento

A striking Post-Impressionist composition by the French artist Jean-Marie Bertaux, painted in 1949. Executed in oil on board, the work demonstrates a confident handling of colour and...

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) From Les Songes Drôlatiques de Pantagruel (Field 73-7P; M&L 1406e) Lithograph, 1973 signed in pencil, numbered from the edition of 50 in roman numerals ...

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) From Les Songes Drôlatiques de Pantagruel (Field 73-7P; M&L 1406e) Lithograph, 1973 signed in pencil, numbered from the edition of 50 in roman numerals prin...

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) Le Cheval et Le Loup, from Le Bestiaire de La Fontaine (Field 74-1L; M&L 658) Etching with drypoint and pochoir printed in colours, 1974 signed in pencil, n...

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) Le Chêne et le Roseau, from Le Bestiaire de La Fontaine (Field 74-1K; M&L 664) Etching with drypoint and pochoir printed in colours, 1974 signed in penc...

Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904 - 1989) Le Cerf Se Voyant Dans L'Eau, from Le Bestiaire de La Fontaine (Field 74-1G; M&L 660) Etching with drypoint and pochoir printed in colours, 1974 ...

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) Le Cheval S'étant voulu Venger du Cerf, from Le Bestiaire de La Fontaine (Field 74-1E; M&L 655) Etching with drypoint and pochoir printed in colours, 1974 s...

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) Les Animaux Malades de la Peste, from Le Bestiaire de La Fontaine (Field 74-1D; M&L 657) Etching with drypoint and pochoir printed in colours, 1974, signed ...

Jean Dupas (French, 1882 – 1964) The angel of light Pen and ink and charcoal on paper Unsigned 14.3/4 x 12.1/2 in. (37.5 x 31.8 cm.) One of the leading artists of the Art Deco period, Jean Théodore Dupas was the son of a merchant marine captain and began his adult life as a merchant seaman. Poor health meant that he had to abandon this career and he enrolled in art school instead, first in his native Bordeaux and later in Paris. He won the Prix de Rome in the category of painting in 1910 and studied at the Académie de France in Rome, from where he sent several paintings to the Paris Salons, although his studies were interrupted by the outbreak of war. Dupas’s work came to public prominence on the occasion of the seminal Exposition des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 1925. He was chosen by the furniture designer Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann to provide paintings for the latter’s Maison d’un collectionneur, alongside furniture by Ruhlmann and objects by many of the leading Art Deco craftsmen of the day, while other paintings by Dupas were also displayed to great effect elsewhere in the Exposition. In the late 1920’s and 1930’s Dupas won a number of important and prestigious commissions. In 1926 he worked alongside Ruhlmann and the sculptor Alfred Jeanniot on the decoration of the tearoom of the ocean liner Ile-de-France; the first of the grand transatlantic ships to be built in France after the First World War. By this time Dupas had firmly established his reputation. Writing in 1927, his fellow artist George Barbier could already note that ‘Few artists have at such an early age attained such a degree of success, or gathered around them such swarms of imitators and disciples.’ Dupas reached the height of his fame in the mid 1930’s, and in 1934 he received his most important commission to date; a series of large glass murals...

Patrick Hughes (British, b.1939) Assemblage, c. 1970 Oil on floating panel Unsigned 35.7/8 x 47.7/8 in. (90.8 x 121.3 cm.) Patrick Hughes is a British artist known as the creator of...

Attributed to John Frederick Herring Snr. (1795–1865) Tom Thumb, by Whalebone, Winner of the July Stakes, Newmarket, 1826 Oil on canvas Unsigned 23¼ x 30¼ in. (75 x 56 cm.) Titled to...

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) Le Corbeau et Le Renard, from Le Bestiaire de La Fontaine (Field 74-1C; M&L 656) Etching with drypoint and pochoir printed in colours, 1974 signed in pencil...