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19th Century drawing attributed to John Flaxman of a classical maiden
By John Flaxman
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Attributed to John Flaxman (British, 1755- 1826)
Study of a classical maiden
Pen and ink on paper
5.1/2 x 3.1/8 in. (14 x 8 cm.)
Category
19th Century Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Mid 20th Century Dutch Expressionist painting of a masked figure
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Gabriel Van Schnell (Dutch fl. 1908/1947)
The Masked Figure in Abstract
Signed, ‘SCHNELL’ (lower left)
13. 3/4 x 10 in. (35 x 25 cm.)
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
1946 Dutch Expressionist watercolour by Gabriel Van Schnell
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Gabriel Van Schnell (Dutch fl. 1908/1947)
The Sudden Shower
Signed, inscribed and dated ‘Gabriel 1946. SUDDEN SHOWER. / SUNSHINE. WIND AND RAIN’ (lower edge)
5 x 5 in. (12.7 x 12.7...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
English School, circa 1959, 'The Hampton Court paper chase'
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
English School, Circa 1859
The Hampton Court Paper Chase
Pen and ink
Dated ‘nov. 2.6.4/59’ (lower right)
5.1/4 x 7 in. (13.3 x 17.8 cm.)
Category
19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Female 20th Century British illustrator Eileen Soper 'The wind blew the washing'
By Eileen Soper
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Eileen Soper, RMS SWLA (British, 1905 – 1990)
The wind blew the washing
Pen and ink
5 5.1/2 in. (17 x 12 cm.)
Provenance: The Estate of George and Eileen Sopen
Chris Beetles Gallery, Ryder Street, London
Illustrated; Eileen Sopen, sail away shrew, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1949, Page 16
Category
20th Century Other Art Style Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Female, British 20th Century illustrator Eileen Soper 'Rabbit was in one ....'
By Eileen Soper
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Eileen Soper, RMS SWLA (British, 1905 – 1990)
Rabbit was in one of his dreamy moods
Signed ,inscribed with title (below mount)
Pen and ink
3.1/4 x 5.1/4 in. (9 x 16.2 cm.)
Provenanc...
Category
20th Century Other Art Style Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Jean Dupas art deco drawing, 'The Angel of light'
By Jean Dupas
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Jean Dupas (French, 1882 – 1964)
The angel of light
Pen and ink and charcoal on paper
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...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Ink, Pen
Sir Eduardo Paolozzi industrial drawings, (2 drawings), 20th Century, Scottish
By Sir Eduardo Paolozzi
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi CBE RA (Scottish, 1924 – 2005)
Industrial abstract; and another similar
Pencil, crayon and ink on paper
8 x 11.1/2 in. (20.3 x 29 cm.) (both)
Category
20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Ink, Pencil
Early 20th Century British illustration of a hornbill bird by Edward Detmold
By Edward Julius Detmold
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Edward Julius Detmold (British, 1883 – 1957)
Hornbill
Pen and ink on paper
Signed with initials’ ED’ (lower right)
16.3 x 15.8 cm.
Edward Julius Detmold (21 November 1883 Putney, Wandsworth, Surrey - 1 July 1957 Montgomery) and his twin brother Charles Maurice Detmold (1883-1908) were prolific Victorian book illustrators.
Their parents were Edward Detmold and Mary Agnes Luck. Their father, an electrical engineer was chronically ill, and they lived with their uncle and guardian, Dr Edward Barton Shuldham, who saw to their tuition and was a noted collector of porcelain and Japanese woodprints of plants and animals. Dr Shuldham occupied a house in Upper Richmond Road, Putney, where the twins had been born. He ensured their interest in natural history and art, and created a nurturing environment for their precocious talents. They also spent time with another uncle, the painter Henry E. Detmold, who encouraged them in their art. Most of their prodigious energy was expended on depicting animal subjects and their work showed great influence from traditional Japanese art, Albrecht Dürer and later the Art Nouveau movement. They were exhibiting watercolours at the Royal Academy and the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours at the age of 13. Edward Burne-Jones praised their work and warned against the dangers of uniformity inherent in art schools.
The twins subsequently mastered the techniques of watercolour etching and of colour printing with copper plates, buying a printing press and producing their own proofs at home.
In 1898 they compiled a portfolio of colour etchings of animals and flowering plants done in the Japanese style. These were much sought after and were rapidly sold out. They collaborated on the etchings and illustrations for their first book Pictures From Birdland published in 1899. This book resulted from a number of drawings being shown in the autumn of 1897, to the publisher J. M. Dent, who was so impressed that the two brothers were asked to provide coloured illustrations for a book of his. The first title mooted was Alphabet of Birds, eventually becoming Pictures from Birdland. "Particularly noticeable are the early influences in the paintings, Edward's design for an osprey, with its unusual water effects, testifying to a Japanese contribution. Already apparent is that style in which a searching study of natural forms, especially bird plumage, is subordinated to decorative arrangement" - David Larkin (The Fantastic Creatures of Edward Julius Detmold) This was followed in 1900, by an exhibition at the Fine Art Society's Gallery in London.
Their next joint project was to produce a set of 16 watercolours for Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book published in 1903, by Macmillan. The success of their painting careers seemed assured, but Maurice ended his life by inhaling chloroform in April 1908, shortly before they were due to leave for a holiday in Sussex with Dr Shuldham, who had arranged that Maurice put down the household cats using the anaesthetic. Although stunned by the death of Maurice, Edward threw himself into his work.
The recognition accorded the twins' illustrations of Kipling's classic tale was extraordinary. Consequently, in 1909 Edward illustrated The Fables of Aesop, producing 23 colour plates and a host of pen & ink drawings. This proved so popular that in 2006 The Folio Society of London published a facsimile of the original Hodder & Stoughton edition.
In 1911, Detmold worked on illustrations for Maurice Maeterlinck's The Life of the Bee, Camille Lemonnier's Birds and Beasts and Florence Dugdale's Book of Baby Beasts. In the following year he worked on Maeterlinck's Hours of Gladness, in 1913, on Florence Dugdale's Book of Baby Birds and in 1919, on W. H. Hudson's Birds in Town and Village In 1919, he also produced a portfolio of Twenty Four Nature Pictures and, in 1921, on Our Little Neighbours and Jean-Henri...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
British illustration by EH Shephard, illustrator for Winnie the Pooh
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Ernest Howard Shephard (British, 1879 – 1976)
The land of the lost toys – ‘Oh that’s you is it’
Inscribed with title (lower edge), and further inscribed ...
Category
20th Century English School Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
1950s British black and white abstract by Norman Edgar Hubert
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Norman Edgar Hubert (British, 1906 – 1985)
Geometric abstract in black and white
Signed and dated ‘E Hubert 55’ (on the reverse)
Gouache on black paper
25.3/8 x 20.3/4 in. (64.3 x 53 cm.)
Abstract painter, born Norman Edgar Hubert in Billingshurst, Sussex, and one of the mysterious curiosities of modern British painting. He was at school at Sherborne, and after studying art at University of Reading, 1924–6, was at the Slade School of Fine Art, 1926–9 (gaining a certificate for drawing, 1926–7). Henry Tonks was among his teachers and he shared rooms with William Townsend, in whose journals he appears. Although he socialized with such painters as Geoffrey Tibble, William Coldstream and Rodrigo Moynihan...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
17th Century map of Cumberland, UK by Robert Morden
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Robert Morden (British, circa 1650 – 1703)
A map of Cumberland with hand colouring
An engraving
14.1/4 x 16.5/8 in. (36.5 x 42.5 cm.)
Category
17th Century Academic Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
French Old Master oil painting of 3 figures releasing a dove
By Jean-Antoine Watteau
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Circle of Jean-Antoine Watteau (French, 1684-1721)
Freeing a dove
Oil on canvas
27.3/4 x 38.1/8 in. (70 x 96.8 cm.)
Possible repair to upper right. In overall good order for the age...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
British animator for Yellow Submarine, Richard Dalkin's painting 'Flying School
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Richard Dalkins (British, b. 1945)
Flying school
Pencil, watercolour and gouache on paper
Signed and numbered ‘Richard Dalkins P.5’ (lower right)
11.3/4 x 16.1/2 in. (29.8 x 41.6 cm....
Category
20th Century Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
British, early 20th Century oriental scene by female artist Katie Blackmore
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Katie Blackmore (British, 1890 – 1957)
Oriental fantasy
Ink and gouache on paper
Signed ‘K Blackmore’ (lower right)
9 x 8.3/8in. (22.8 x 21.2 cm.)
A Scottish figurative and decorative artist, Katie Blackmore was closely associated with both Jessie Marion King...
Category
20th Century Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
19th Century French woodland scene with girl by a stream by Rerolle
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Joseph Rerolle (French, 1829 – 1901)
A girl at a woodland stream, Leman
Oil on paper laid down on board
Signed ‘J. Rerolle’ (lower left)
13.7/8 x 16.3/4 in. (35.3 x 42.5 cm.)
Category
19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Board
British 20th Century watercolour drawing of figures having fun at the lido
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Attributed to Steven Spurrier RA (British, 1878 – 1961)
Fun at the lido
Pencil and watercolour on paper
Signed in pencil ‘Spurrier’ (lower left)
11.1/8 x 14.1/4 in. (28.2 x 36.2 cm.)
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Early 20th Century French Fauvist drawing by Andre Derain of a Saint
By André Derain
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Andre Derain (French, 1880 – 1954)
Saint
Black crayon
Signed with atelier stamp (lower right)
15.1/8 x 9.1/2 in. (38.3 x 24 cm.)
André Derain (10 June 1880 – 8 September 1954) was a...
Category
20th Century Fauvist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Early 20th Century French Fauvist drawing by Andre Derain of a lady in a dress
By André Derain
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Andre Derain (French, 1880 – 1954)
Lady in a dress
Pencil on paper
Signed with atelier stamp (lower right)
14.5/8 x 9.3/8 in. (37 x 23 cm.)
André Derain (10 June 1880 – 8 September ...
Category
Early 20th Century Fauvist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Early 20th Century French Fauvist drawing of a nude by Andre Derain
By André Derain
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Andre Derain (French, 1880 – 1954)
A nude looking right
Pencil on paper
Signed with atelier stamp (lower right)
16.1/4 x 8.1/4 in. (41.1 x 21 cm.)
André Derain (10 June 1880 – 8 Sep...
Category
Early 20th Century Fauvist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Early 20th Century drawing of a nude by French Fauvist artist Andre Derain
By André Derain
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Andre Derain (French, 1880 – 1954)
A nude looking up
Pencil on paper
Signed with atelier stamp (lower right)
16.1/2 x 9.1/8 in. (41.1 x 23.1 cm.)
André Derain (10 June 1880 – 8 Sept...
Category
Early 20th Century Fauvist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Early 20th Century figurative drawing by French Fauvist artist Andre Derain
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Andre Derain (French, 1880 – 1954)
Personnage de Theatre
Pencil on paper
Signed with atelier stamp (lower right)
13.3/4 x 11.1/8 in. (35 x 28.3 cm.)
André Derain (10 June 1880 – 8 S...
Category
Early 20th Century Fauvist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
19th Century Italian gouache painting of Mount Vesuvius and Naples, summertime
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A beautiful and naive painting of Naples from the sea in summertime from the 19th Century. The beautiful light blue tones of the sea highlight the architecture of Naples and Vesuvius beyond.
Circle of Gioacchino La Pira...
Category
19th Century Academic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Early 19th Century, English provincial school, 'Travellers at the inn
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
English Provincial School, early 19th Century
Travellers at an inn
Oil on canvas
17 x 21 in. (43.2 x 53.3 cm.)
Category
19th Century English School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Post Impressionist French landscape in blues and reds, pastels
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Andre Bicat (French, 1909 – 1996)
A Post Impressionist landscape
Pastel on paper
Signed ‘Bicat’ (lower left)
15.3/8 x 24 in. (39 x 61cm.)
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Sir Stanley Spencer 'Portrait of Hilda, Stanley's wife', 1924, drawing
By Stanley Spencer
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Sir Stanley Spencer, CBE RA (British, 1891 – 1959)
A Portrait of Hilda, the artist’s wife
Pencil on paper
Signed and dated ‘Stanley spencer 1924’ (lower right)
8 x 9.3/4 in. (20.3 x ...
Category
20th Century Academic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Art Deco, 20th Century, fashion, dress design for 'Estelle'
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Circle of Erte, Romain de Tirtoff (Russian / French 1892 – 1990)
A dress design for Estelle
Pencil, ink and watercolour on paper
Inscribed ‘Estelle’ (upper left) with other notations...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
Signed art deco lithography by Erte, Elegant 1990
By Erté
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Erte (Romain de Tirtoff) (Russian, 1892 – 1990)
Elegant, 1990
Lithograph
Signed ‘Erte’ in pencil (lower right)
27.1/2 x 22.1/4 in. (70 x 56.5 cm.) (sheet size)
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Signed Art Deco lithograph by Erte, Manhattan Mary III, 1979
By Erté
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Erte (Romain de Tirtoff) (Russian, 1892 – 1990)
Manhattan Mary III, 1979
Lithograph
Signed ‘Erte’ in pencil (lower right)
27.1/2 x 22.1/4 in. (70 x 56....
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
British 20th Century abstract oil painting by Roger Smith in shades of pink
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Roger Smith (British, 1932 – 2004)
Eight, 2a
Oil on board
Signed and titled (on the reverse)
18 x 12 in. (46 x 30.5 cm.)
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
British 20th Century charcoal on paper drawing of a head study of a young girl
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Elsie Mariam Henderson (British, 1880-1967)
A head study of a smiling girl
Charcoal on paper
9.3/8 x 7.1/2 in. (23.7 x 19 cm.)
Provenance: From the artist’s estate and thence by descent
Collection of Elsie Mariam Henderson, Baroness de Coudenhove
Elsie Marian Henderson was born in Eastbourne in Sussex and with the encouragement of her mother, a keen amateur painter, she attended the South Kensington Schools before studying at the Slade School of Fine Art between 1903 and 1905. She continued her art education in Paris and in 1916, after returning to London she enrolled at the Chelsea Polytechnic, where she was taught lithography by the artist Francis Ernest Jackson...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
19th Century gouache of a visit to Pompei on the Grand Tour
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Neapolitan school (early 19th Century)
A visit to Pompei on the the Grand Tour
Gouache on paper
Inscribed ‘Porzione del quartiere a Pompei’ and ‘In Nap...
Category
19th Century Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
20th Century British abstracted female nude in green
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Roger Smith (British, 1932 – 2004)
Abstracted female nude
Signed and dated ‘Roger Smith 89’ (on the reverse)
Oil on board
23 x 13 in. (58.4 x 33 cm.)
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
British 20th Century abstract painting by Roger Smith in reds
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Roger Smith (British, 1932 – 2004)
“Eight” 1b
Signed and titled ‘Roger Smith “Eight” 1b’
Mixed media on board
17.3/4 x 23.7/8 in. (45.5 x 61 cm.)
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
British 20th Century oil painting 'Glacier with Cone' by Roy Bizley, blues
By Roy Bizley
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Roy Bizley (British, 1930-1999)
Glacier with cone
Oil on canvas
Signed and titled ‘Glacier with cone R. Bizley’ (on the reverse)
27 .7/8 x 35.3/4 in. (70.3 x 90.7 cm.)
Provenance: F...
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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British square abstract oil painting 'Abstracted landscape' by Roy Bizley
By Roy Bizley
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Roy Bizley (British, 1930-1999)
Abstracted landscape
Oil on board
24 x 24 in. (61 x 61cm.)
Provenance: From the artist’s studio
Born in Swindon in 1930, Bizley studied painting and l...
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
19th Century British watercolour of Dartmoor ponies by Walter Bothams
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Walter Bothams (British, 1850 – 1914)
Dartmoor ponies
Watercolour on paper
Signed and dated ‘ W Bothams 84’ (lower right)
10.1/4 x 8in. (26 x 20.3 cm.)
Category
19th Century Academic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
British, early 20th Century etching of a lady serving tea in a theatre
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Mary Viola Paterson (British, 1899 – 1981)
Serving tea at the theatre
Etching
Signed ‘V Paterson’, in pencil (lower right), and number ‘2.’
5.3/4 x 3.3/4 in. (14.7 x 9.5 cm.) (to pla...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Jean Dufy, 1925 watercolour painting of the port of Le Havre, France
By Jean Dufy
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Jean Dufy (French, 1888 – 1964)
Vue de port du Havre, circa 1925
Watercolour on paper
Signed ‘Jean Dufy’ (lower right) and inscribed on the reverse
19.1/4 x 23.1/4 in. (48.5 x 59 cm....
Category
20th Century Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Original Cubist still life oil painting of a violin, French mid 20th Century
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Serra (French, 20th Century)
Homage au violin
Oil on canvas laid down on board
Signed ‘SERRA’ (lower right)
16.7/8 x 20.7/8 in. (43 x 53 cm.)
Category
20th Century Cubist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
British 21st Century still life oil painting by Cornish artist Leon Davies
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Leon Davies (British, b.1947)
Still life with Cornish harbour
Oil on board
Signed with monogram and dated ‘LD 2020’ (lower left)
Further inscribed on the r...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Bohemian Fantasy', British, 20th Century original painting
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Circle of Austin Osman Spare (British, 1888 – 1956)
Bohemian Fantasy
Pen and gouache on paper
13.1/2 x 19.5/8 in. (34.3 x 50 cm.)
Category
20th Century Art Nouveau Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Pen
Scottie Wilson, British outsider art, Ducks paradise
By Scottie Wilson
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Scottie Wilson (Scottish, 1888 – 1972, born Louis Freeman)
Ducks paradise
Signed ‘Scottie’ (lower right), further signed and inscribed with title on th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Outsider Art Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Jean-Gabriel Domergue, early original oil painting of two lovers
By Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Jean Gabriel Domergue (French, 1889 – 1962)
‘Scene Gallante’
Oil on canvas
25 x 29in. (63.5 x 74cm.) (Octagonal shape)
Executed circa 1925
Provenance: Gallerie du Carlton, Cannes
Th...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Golden Rocket Morning, (20th century, British abstract painting, orange tones)
By Terry Durham
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Terry Durham (British, 1936 – 2013)
Golden Rocket Morning
Acrylic and Mixed media
Signed and dated ‘DURHAM.72.’ (lower left)
18 x 23.3/4 in. (45.8 x 60.3 cm.)
The orange composition shows a rocket but there are heavy resemblances to a fish. Other foliate motifs, squares, circles and references to the moon and clouds...
Category
20th Century Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
American Pop art artist, Richard Lindner exhibition poster
By Richard Lindner
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Richard Lindner (German-American, 1901-1978)
An Art exhibition poster for Lennox Hill Hospital and Skowhegan School of painting and sculpture, 1967
Artist’s proof
Signed in pencil ‘R...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
19th Century British landscape with haystacks by female artist Robinson
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Mabel Catherine Robinson (British, b.1875)
Harvesters
Watercolour on paper
Signed ‘M. Robsinson’ (lower right)
6.1/8 x 11in. (15.6 x 28cm.)
Category
19th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Pair of early 20th Century British Impressionist paintings of the beach
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Attributed to Rowland Wheelwright, 20th Century
'Bather's on the shore' and 'Sunbathing by the Cliffs'
Oil on canvas board
9 X 10. 1/4in. (22.8 X 2...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
William Heath Robinson original drawing, British early 20th Century
By William Heath Robinson
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
William Heath Robinson (British, 1872 - 1944)
'Boring The First Tunnel With An Early Type Of Rotary Excavator, And The Red Flag', circa 1935 (railway ribaldry was published in this year)
The former signed 'W. Heath Robinson (lower left) and inscribed with title (lower left and right)
The former to mount 14 X 10.1/4in. (35.5 X 26cm.)
The latter 1.1/2 X 8.1/2in. (3.8 X 21.6 cm.)
Literature: Railway Ribaldry, first published by the Great Western Railway, Paddington, 1935.
William Heath Robinson was an English cartoonist and illustrator best known for drawings of ridiculously complicated machines for achieving simple objectives.
During the First World War, he drew large numbers of cartoons, depicting ever-more unlikely secret weapons being used by the combatants. In the UK the term "Heath Robinson" entered popular language during this time as a description of any unnecessarily complex and implausible contrivance. Its continuing popularity was undoubtedly linked to Second World War Britain's shortages and the need to "make do and mend".
In the course of his work, Robinson also wrote and illustrated three childrens books including The Adventures of Uncle Lubin (1902) which is regarded as the genesis of his depiction of unlikely machines.
The inventions he drew were frequently powered by steam boilers or kettles, heated by candles or a spirit lamp and usually kept running by balding, bespectacled men in overalls. There would be complex pulley arrangements, threaded by lengths of knotted string.
One of his most famous series of illustrations accompanied the first Professor Branestawm book written by Norman Hunter. The stories provided a perfect backdrop for Robinson's drawings.
One of the automatic analysis machines built for Bletchley Park during the Second World War to assist in the decryption of German message traffic was named "Heath Robinson" in his honour.
He died in September 1944 during the Second World War and is buried in East Finchley Cemetery.
The Heath Robinson Museum in Pinner opened in October 2016 to house a collection of nearly 1,000 original artworks owned by The William Heath Robinson Trust.
In the Wallace and Gromit...
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
1931 French drawing by Cubist artist Leopold Survage of dancers
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Leopold Survage (French / Finnish 1879- 1968)
Les danseuses
Signed and dated ‘Survage / 31’ (lower right)
Pencil on paper
10.1/2 x 8.5/8 in. (27 x 22.2 cm...
Category
20th Century Cubist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Art Deco nude drawing 'Venus a la Coquille', circle of Raoul Dufy
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Circle of Raoul Dufy (French b. 1877 - 1953)
Venus a la Coquille
Gouache / watercolour on paper
Signed with monogram ‘OTS’ (lower left)
13.1/2 x 9.3/4 in. (34.3 x 24.5 cm.)
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Liguria, Italy, a figurative Impressionist painting of Peasants on a bridge
By Francois Charles Baude
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Francois Charles Baude (French, 1880-1953)
'Ligurian Peasants Crossing A Bridge’
Signed And Dated ‘Francois C. Baude 1934’ (Lower Right) And Inscribed ‘En Ligurie.’ (On The Reverse) ...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Leon Underwood, British 20th Century summer landscape
By Leon Underwood
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Leon Underwood (British, 1890 – 1975)
A River landscape in Italy
Signed, inscribed indistinctly and dated ’25.
Watercolour on paper
10.5/8 x 14.1/2 in. ...
Category
20th Century Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Max Beerbohm, 19th Century British caricature of Mr Harry Nichols
By Max Beerbohm
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Max Beerbohm (British, 1872 – 1956)
Mr Harry Nicholls (In a life of pleasure), 1893
Signed ‘MAX’ (lower right), inscribed with title in ink
Pencil on paper with evidence of some wate...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Old Master portrait of a lady musician by the master or portraiture
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Attributed to Pierre Paul Prud’hon (French, 1758-1823)
'La belle musicienne'
Oil on canvas, oval
Signed ‘P. P. Prudon’ (lower left)
28.3/4 x 23.1/2 in. (73 x 59.5 cm.)
Pierre Paul Prud'hon is considered a prime example of early French Romanticism. He was born as the seventh and last child of a master tailor. At the age of 16 he was a pupil of the painter and sculptor Francois Devosge. After finishing his studies he moved to Paris, where he first worked for an engraver and became friends with the Baron of Joursanvault, who became his patron. He also made a friendship with the "incorruptible", the politician and revolutionary Maximilien de Robespierre. Despite important friendships and the care of some cardinals, Prud'hon plunges into loneliness and melancholy. He has a good reputation and produces allegorical paintings, but his attachment to Robespierre forces him to leave the French capital. He now lives in the Free County of Burgundy, where he makes portraits and illustrations for Pierre Didot, the owner of the printing house. After a few years he moved back to Paris and his career received a new impetus.
In the Louvre, Prud'hon is provided with a studio in which he paints "La sagesse et la vérité descendant sur la terre" (Wisdom and Truth descend to earth) for one year, as well as some ceilings of the Louvre. The government assigns him a studio in the Sorbonne, where his wife Jeanne, whom he married at the age of 19, comes looking for him. To escape her, he asks the museum director for protection. In 1808 he wrote "La justice et la vengeance divine poursuivant le crime" (Justice and divine revenge pursue the crime). In the same year he is also named Knight of the Legion of Honour and is able to break with his grumpy wife once and for all. He soon reconnects with his student and painter of neoclassicism Constance Mayer. Pierre is commissioned to paint a portrait of the Empress and wife of Napoleon, Joséphine de Beauharnais, which can still be seen today in the Louvre. He also paints the small "Roi de Rome" (King of Rome). In 1816 the Academy of Fine Arts elected him a member, where he took over the armchair in the painting section of François-André Vincent.
A few years later his depressed wife commits suicide, and full of pain Prud'hon finishes her last work "Une famille malheureuse" (Engl. An Unhappy Family) and exhibits it. He himself dies soon afterwards and is buried in Paris.
Many renowned artists admire Prud'hon for his "clair-obscur", the chiaroscuro painting...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Milan at night, early 20th Century oil painting by Amerino Cagnoni
By Amerino Cagnoni
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Amerino Cagnoni (Italian, 1855-1923)
Luci della sera (Evening Lights), Milan
oil on panel
signed `ACagnoni/1916’ (lower right)
16.1/8 x 27.1/2 in. (41 x 70 cm.)
He initially studied classical education, but abandoned studies to take a job as director of a textile mill in Brianza, then moved to Asti as secretary of a wealthy family. At age 19 he enrolled as a student of Brera Academy, where he stayed for seven years. He painted The daughter of Curzio Pichena, a subject from the novel by Guerazzi. His Episode of the War of Italian Independence...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Giovanni Boldini drawing of a lady, Italian 19th Century
By Giovanni Boldini
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Giovanni Boldini (Italian, 1842-1931)
Etude de femme au ruban noir
Signed with atelier stamp (lower left), further inscribed, signed and dated by Emilia Boldini (the artist’s wife) `no 77 le_ atelier Boldini. Emilia Boldini Carbona 1931’ (on the reverse)
Black crayon on paper
11.7/8 x 8.7/8 in. (30 x 22.5 cm.)
Emilia’s inscription on the reverse from the year of his death.
Giovanni Boldini was an Italian genre and portrait painter who lived and worked in Paris for most of his career. According to Time magazine, he was known as the "Master of Swish" because of his flowing style, exemplified by the confident strokes in this fine example.
Boldini was born in Ferrara, the son of a painter of religious subjects, and in 1862 went to Florence for six years to study and pursue painting. He only infrequently attended classes at the Academy of Fine Arts, but in Florence, met other realist painters known as the Macchiaioli, who were Italian precursors to Impressionism. Their influence is seen in Boldini's landscapes which show his spontaneous response to nature, although it is for his portraits that he became best known.
Moving to London, Boldini attained success as a portraitist, painting notable members of society including Lady Holland and the Duchess of Westminster...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Pair of 18th Century watercolour drawings by Old Master Carle Vernet
By Carle Vernet (Antoine Charles Horace Vernet)
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Carle Vernet (French, 1758 – 1836)
‘La Marchande de Coco’; and ‘La Tour de Babbe d’un Charbonnier’
Ink, watercolour on paper
Both signed C Vernet and Carle Vernet (lower left and lower right respectively)
12.1/4 x 9 in. (31 x 22.8 cm.) A pair
Vernet was born in Bordeaux. At the age of five, he showed an extraordinary passion for drawing horses, but went through the regular academical course as a pupil of his father and of Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié. Strangely, after winning the grand prix (1782), he seemed to lose interest in the profession, and his father had to recall him back from Rome to France to prevent him from entering a monastery.
In his Triumph of Aemilius Paulus, he broke with tradition and drew the horse with the forms he had learnt from nature in stables and riding-schools. His hunting-pieces, races, landscapes, and work as a lithographer were also very popular.
Carle's sister was executed by the guillotine during the Revolution. After this, he gave up art.
When he again began to produce under the French Directory (1795–1799), his style had changed radically. He started drawing in minute detail battles and campaigns to glorify Napoleon. His drawings of Napoleon...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
British, St. Ives school collage by Sir Terry Frost, dancing figures on red back
By Sir Terry Frost
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Terry Frost (British, 1915 – 2003)
Dancing figure
Mixed media Collage
16.1/2 x 18.1/2 in. (42 x 47 cm.) to slip edge
Provenance: Created for and donated to the St. Ives Theatrical Pr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Paper
20th Century Belgian abstract oil painting with greys and browns
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Victor Noel (Belgian, 1916 – 2006)
Curved forms
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated ‘V. Noel 93’ (on the reverse)
23.3/4 x 23.3/4 in. (60 x 60 cm.)
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
