Ottocento Art

Max Andrews (British, b. 1969) Moonlit horses Signed and dated ‘Max Andrews 19’ (lower right) Oil on board 12.1/5 x 12.1/5 in. (32 x 31.8 cm.)

Max Andrews (British, b. 1969) Booze bubbles Signed and dated ‘Max Andrews 19’ (lower right) Oil on board 12.1/5 x 10.3/8 in. (32 x 26.5 cm.)

Max Andrews (British, b. 1969) Fruit and wine Signed and dated ‘Max Andrews 19’ (lower right) Oil on board 12.1/2 x 12.1/2 in. (32 x 32 cm.)

Max Andrews (British, b. 1969) Eggs and pans I Signed and dated ‘Max Andrews 19’ (lower right) Oil on board 11.3/4 x 11.3/4in. (30 x 30 cm.)

Jiri Kolar (Czech, 1914 – 2002) Pears, 1977 Collage triptych Each panel measures 21.7 x 15.5 cm. All three are signed with initials and dated ‘J.K. 97, the latter 2 dated ‘96’ The collages are suspended between layers of glass. Aside from the collages, the image is see through up to the frame edge. Jiri Kolar was the son of a baker who became a writer around 1943. He became one of group of several artists amoung whom Vaclav Havel and others met and discussed issues in café Slavia during the period leading up to the Prague spring...

Gerard Morot-Sir (French, 1931 – 2003) Graphica Ink on paper Signed and dated ‘ Morot-Sir, 59’ (lower left) 12.1/2 x 9.5/8in. (31.7 x 24.5cm.) Newly framed in a limed wood frame in a...

Marcus Behmer (German, 1879 – 1958) Die Geravbte orchidee (The robbed orchid), 1903 Signed ‘Marcus Behmer’ (lower right in pencil) Lithograph on paper 16.1/8 x 12in. (40.8 x 30.5cm.) It is apparent Behmer is influenced by the work of Aubrey Beardsley, though this work is no less beautiful in its execution. Little is known regarding his connections to Oscar Wilde though he is obviously an admirer and has many similarities with his private life and incarceration in prison. These works were a personal gift to Baron Detlev von Hadeln, the aristocrat and prominent art historian of the age. Behmer is known to be, since 1903, a member in the first ever homosexual organization in Berlin and was thus probably a part of Adolf Brand’s circle, and may have contributed to Brand’s publication Der Eigene. Until now, few know that Behmer was sentenced in April 1937 by a court in Konstanz to imprisonment for two years, being arrested in Freiburg and at other locations in southern Germany for being a homosexual. At times he was given the opportunity to work as an artist in prison. The works produced in this period are mostly calligraphic designed tablets with Greek text (prayers and Bible quotes...

Albert Lynch (Peruvian 1851 – 1912) The maiden of spring Signed ‘A Lynch’ on reverse Oil on canvas laid down on board 26.5 x 11.5cm. Born in Lima in 1851, Albert Lynch studied art at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris and in the studios of the figure painters Gabriel Ferrier and Henri Lehmann and the landscape painter Jules Nšel. He exhibited at the Salon from 1890 and was awarded a third class medal in that year, a first class medal in 1892, and a gold medal in 1900 at the Exposition Universelle. Lynch specialised in painting female subjects to which he brought a charming elegance and sophistication typical of such belle epoque paintings...

English school, 18th Century Figures at a mill Gouache on paper 4.5/8 x 7.1/2 in. (11.8 x 19 cm.)

Gilliam M Hobbs (British, 20th Century) Padstow from Rock at Dusk Pastel on paper Signed ‘Gillian M Hobbs’ (lower right) 7.1/4 x 10.3/4 in. (18.4 x 27....

Evelyn De Morgan (British, 1855 – 1919) Narcissi Pencil on paper 5.1/2 x 15 in. (14 x 38 cm.) Provenance: The Clayton-Stamm Collection. Dominic Wint...

William Heath Robinson (British, 1872-1944) 'The Friendly Dog' Signed 'W. Heath Robinson.' (lower right) Pen and ink on paper 11 X 8.1/2in. (28 X 21.7cm.) (excluding frame) 46 x 38cm. (18.1/4 x 15in. (including frame) Literature: 'Old Time Stories', Constable and Co. 1921, P. 143 William Heath Robinson was an artist and illustrator mainly associated with his gloriously complicated inventions for simple objectives. The name Heath Robinson has become commonplace in the English language as a result to describe anything mechanical that is eccentric, ridiculously complex and ingenious at the same time . Interestingly one of the automatic analysis machines built for Bletchley Park...

Georg Lemberger (German, c. 1490 – 1540) Matthew the Evangelist Woodcut on paper 5.3/4 x 3.3/4in. (14.5 x 9.6 cm. ) Hollstein, 7. This is from the New German bible...