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Bright & Colorful French Impressionist Oil Painting- Champagne Picnic
Located in Cirencester, GB
Maggy Clarysse (1931-2011)
oil on canvas, unframed
21.5 x 18 inches
signed front and back
condition: excellent
provenance: all the paintings we have by this artist have come fro...
Category
20th Century Other Folk Art
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Other
French Modernist Cubist Painting Country Scene with Horses and Cart
Located in Cirencester, GB
Country Scene with Horses and Cart
by Maurice Mazeilie (French, 1924-2021)
watercolor painting on artist paper, unframed
unsigned
stamped verso
...
Category
Late 20th Century French Other Folk Art
Materials
Other
Bright & Colorful French Impressionist Oil Painting, Nude Lady in Pink Interior
Located in Cirencester, GB
Maggy Clarysse (1931-2011)
Oil on canvas, unframed
Measures: 21.5 x 18 inches
Signed front and back
Condition: excellent
Provenance: all the paintings we have by this artist hav...
Category
20th Century Other Folk Art
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Other
Mid 20th Century French Charcoal Drawing - Portrait of a Standing Nude Women
Located in Cirencester, GB
"The Portrait"
by Geneviève Zondervan (French 1922-2013)
pencil/ charcoal on thick paper, unframed
paper size: 24.5 x 19inches
Beautifully decorative, mid 20th century French...
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Mid-20th Century Other Folk Art
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Other
French Modernist Cubist Painting Storm Approaching Paris
Located in Cirencester, GB
Steps Into The Town, steep stone steps lead figures down amongst town buildings.
by Maurice Mazeilie (French, 1924-2021)
watercolor painting on artist paper, unframed
unsigned to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Other Folk Art
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Other
Traditional English Painting Chalk Church from Fulborough Marshes in Kent
Located in Cirencester, GB
Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), c.1990, signed to the front and inscribed verso
Title - Chalk Church from Fulborough Marshes near Gravesend, K...
Category
Late 20th Century English Other Folk Art
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Other
Large 1960's British Original Oil Painting, Woman Sat on Chair
Located in Cirencester, GB
Artist: Beryl Darton (British circa 1960's).
Period: mid 20th century/ 1960's.
Medium: oil painting on board, unframed.
Size: 24 x 24 inches.
Condition: overall very good...
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Mid-20th Century Other Folk Art
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Other
Ecole de Paris, Mid-20th Century, Parisian Scene River Seine Pont
Located in Cirencester, GB
Paris, France
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
Signed
Watercolour and gouache painting on artist's paper, unframed.
Sheet 9.5 x 12.5 inches.
Nicely executed study over the River ...
Category
1940s Vintage Other Folk Art
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Other
Arlette Martin Fine French Geometric Abstract Painting, Signed
Located in Cirencester, GB
"Geometric Abstract"
by Arlette Martin (French, b.1924)
signed lower right hand-side,
gouache painting on card, unframed
Painting: 3.5 x 8.5 inches
Finely painted original b...
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Late 20th Century Other Folk Art
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Other
Traditional English Painting Boys Fishing near Upnor in Kent
Located in Cirencester, GB
Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), 1992, signed to the front and inscribed verso
Title - Boys Fishing a Stream near Upnor in Kent. Lovely pastora...
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Late 20th Century English Other Folk Art
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Other
Traditional English Painting Working Horses Returning Home in Kent
Located in Cirencester, GB
Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), 1990, signed to the front and inscribed verso
Title - "The Ploughman's Return", a rural scene of English worki...
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Late 20th Century English Other Folk Art
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Other
19th Century Traditional English Painting of an Artist Sketching in Yorkshire
Located in Cirencester, GB
Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), 1995, signed to the front and inscribed verso
Title - "The Challenge", an Incident Occurring During a Sketching Tour at Farnham, Yorkshire in 1945. With a rather angry looking bull tethered in the pasture, below the artist, one can only imagine the incident!
Medium: watercolor with pen and ink on stiff watercolor paper, unframed
Painting : 9.5 x 13.5 inches
Provenance: all the paintings we have by this artist have come from a private UK collection of this artists work.
Condition: The painting is in overall very good and sound condition. We have measured to exclude the unpainted white edges.
Artist: Norman Arthur Olley was born in 1908 to a British Army family stationed in Lucknow, Bengal India. His mother died there in 1911, and his father in 1936.
Norman married in Gravesend Kent in 1937, and at the beginning of the war in 1939 he was an aircraft sheet metal worker.
He and his wife to Surrey in the late 1940's -early 1950's where he was a long term member of the Thames Valley Arts Club and where he regularly exhibited his work. In 1951 his painting "View from Richmond Park" was held in high regard at a very well attended exhibition in Esher, Surrey.
The East Molesey area was one of his favourite areas to paint, a 1953 Art...
Category
Late 20th Century English Other Folk Art
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Other
Leroy, French Contemporary Cubist Painting, Green Pink & Blues Landscape
Located in Cirencester, GB
Artist/ School: R. Leroy (French b. 1932)
Title: Abstract/ Cubist Composition
Medium: oil painting on canvas
Size: painting: 23.5 x 8 inches
Provenance: all the paintings...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Folk Art
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Other
French, Modernist Cubist Painting Bustling Paris Street Scene
Located in Cirencester, GB
Bustling Paris street scene, Paris.
By Maurice Mazeilie (French, 1924-2021).
Watercolor painting on artist paper, unframed.
unsigned.
Stamped verso.
Measures: painting: 9.8 in...
Category
Late 20th Century French Other Folk Art
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Other
20th Century French Modernist Painting, Figures and Geese, Labbe
Located in Cirencester, GB
Figures with Geese on Farmland
by Bernard Labbe (French, active mid-late 20th century)
original gouache, watercolor and ink on artist's heavy paper
size: 9.25 x 6.5 inches (sheet overall is 13.25 x 10.5 inches)
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed, the white margins surrounding the image have some minor marks
provenance: the artists atelier/ studio, France (stamped verso)
Bernard Labbe (French). The artist was based around the Laval and L'Huisserie, Mayenne, areas in the Pays de Loire. Many items in this collection bear...
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Late 20th Century French Other Folk Art
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Other
Rural River Countryside Landscape Original British Watercolour Painting
Located in Cirencester, GB
English Town
by Ronald Birch, British circa 1970's
watercolour on art paper, unframed
overall paper measures: 14 x 18.75 inches
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Late 20th Century Other Folk Art
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Other
Set of 4, Original 1970's French Abstract Black & White Paintings
Located in Cirencester, GB
Artist: Claude Lagouche (French 1943-2020).
Claude Lagouche was born January 2, 1943 in Naves, died January 16, 2020.
He quickly gained recognition for his talent and his work...
Category
Mid-20th Century Other Folk Art
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Other
1950's Modernist Painting, French Steps Up to The Church
Located in Cirencester, GB
Church Steps
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century), stamped verso
original watercolour/gouache painting on paper
overall size: 14 x 10 inches
condition: very good and ready...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Other Folk Art
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Other
Signed Large 1960's British Original Oil Painting, the Man in the Blue Suit
Located in Cirencester, GB
Artist: Beryl Darton (British circa 1960's).
Period: mid 20th century/ 1960's.
Medium: oil painting on board, unframed.
Size: 24 x 20 inches.
Condition: overall very good...
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Mid-20th Century Other Folk Art
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Other
20th Century French Modernist Painting, Farmworkers
Located in Cirencester, GB
Figures of Farmworkers, Female
by Bernard Labbe (French, active mid-late 20th century)
original gouache, watercolor and ink on artist's heavy paper
size: 9 x 7.5 inches (sheet overall is 15.75 x 13 inches)
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed, the white margins surrounding the image have some minor marks
provenance: the artists atelier/ studio, France (stamped verso)
Bernard Labbe (French). The artist was based around the Laval and L'Huisserie, Mayenne, areas in the Pays de Loire. Many items in this collection bear...
Category
Late 20th Century French Other Folk Art
Materials
Other
1900's English Impressionist Watercolor Painting Beautiful Sunset onto Blue Sea
Located in Cirencester, GB
Sunset on sea.
English School, early 1900's.
Original watercolor painting on artists paper, unframed.
Overall paper size: 7.75 x 11 inches.
From a large private collection of...
Category
Early 20th Century Other Folk Art
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Other
1900's English Impressionist Watercolor Painting Cliffs in the Distance
Located in Cirencester, GB
Cliffs
English School, early 1900's
original watercolor painting on artists paper, unframed
overall paper size: 7.75 x 11.5 inches.
From a large private collection of Engli...
Category
Early 20th Century Other Folk Art
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Other
Spinning Wheel, Walnut Wood, 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Spinning wheel. Walnut wood carved and turned. XIX century.
Vertical carved walnut wood spinning wheel, which has been decorated with fine lines in certain areas, and the use of b...
Category
19th Century European Neoclassical Antique Other Folk Art
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Other
French Modernist Cubist Painting Village Work
Located in Cirencester, GB
Village work
by Maurice Mazeilie (French, 1924-2021)
watercolor painting on artist paper, unframed
signed lower left
stamped verso
A figure works on the land by traditional vill...
Category
Late 20th Century French Other Folk Art
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Other
Maurice Mazeilie, French Impressionist Oil, Hazy Summer Green Meadow Pastures
Located in Cirencester, GB
"Green Meadows"
by Maurice Mazeilie (French)
Oil painting on card, unframed.
Painting: 6.5 x 8.5 inches.
A delightful original oil painting by the...
Category
20th Century Other Folk Art
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Other
Traditional English Painting Country Village Pack Horse Bridge Crossing River
Located in Cirencester, GB
Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), dated 1992, signed to the front and inscribed verso
Title - Country Village and Pack Horse Bridge, and Ford by...
Category
Late 20th Century English Victorian Other Folk Art
Materials
Other
Salisbury, Original British Watercolour Painting
Located in Cirencester, GB
Salisbury
by Ronald Birch, British circa 1970's
watercolour on art paper, unframed
overall paper measures: 15 x 22.25 inches
titled and dated 'Oct 1989'
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Category
Late 20th Century Other Folk Art
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Other
Traditional English Painting Cloister Garth at Rochester Cathedral, Kent
Located in Cirencester, GB
Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), 1989, signed to the front and inscribed verso
Title - Cloister Garth of Rochester Cathedral in Kent. This is p...
Category
Late 20th Century English Other Folk Art
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Other
1960's British Original Oil Painting, Portrait of a Lady in Pink
Located in Cirencester, GB
Artist: Beryl Darton (British circa 1960's)
Period: mid 20th century/ 1960's
Medium: oil painting on board, unframed
Size: 20 x 16 inches
Condition: overall very good, a ...
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Mid-20th Century Other Folk Art
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Other
1950's French Modernist / Cubist Painting Signed, French Landscape
Located in Cirencester, GB
Artist/ School:
Title: French Roof Tops
Medium: oil painting on board, unframed
Measures: board: 8.75 x 6.25 inches
Provenance: private collect...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Other Folk Art
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Other
1960's French Portrait Four Lady Caricatures
Located in Cirencester, GB
French character portrait
French school, mid 20th century
Gouache paint on unframed paper
stamped
Image : 25.5 x 19.5 inches
Superbly decorative 1960's French portrait pai...
Category
Mid-20th Century Other Folk Art
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Other
Original Fashion Design Illustration Watercolor Painting Laura Ashley Designer
Located in Cirencester, GB
Original Fashion Design Illustration
by Roz Jennings, British
watercolor and ink on card, unframed
size: 12 x 8.25 inches
condition: very good
A beautifully colorful and chara...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Folk Art
Materials
Other
1960's French Portrait Jaw Dropped Man Caricature
Located in Cirencester, GB
French Character Portrait
French school, Mid 20th Century
Gouache paint on unframed paper
signed lower corner
Image : 12.5 x 9.75 inches
Superbly decorative 1960's French...
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Mid-20th Century Other Folk Art
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Other
20th Century French Modernist Cubist Painting, En Grisaille French Landscape
Located in Cirencester, GB
Watercolor, gouache and ink French Hill Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolor, gouache and ink on paper
Size: 7.8 x 13.75 inches
Signed lower r...
Category
Late 20th Century French Other Folk Art
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Other
French Modernist Cubist Painting Summer Town Scene
Located in Cirencester, GB
Summer Town Scene
by Maurice Mazeilie (French, 1924-2021)
watercolor painting on artist paper, unframed
signed lower right
stamped verso
painting: 14.75 inches x 10.75 inches
A delightful original painting by the 20th century French Impressionist artist, Maurice Mazeilie. The painting has excellent provenance having come from the artists estate sale in Paris.
Mazeilie lived and worked in Montmartre, with a studio on the famous Place du Tertre. His love of the coast led him to also maintain a studio on the Brittany coastline.
Born in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, Paris in early 1924, Mazeilie painted coastal scenes in Brittany, Parisian landscapes...
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Late 20th Century French Other Folk Art
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Other
French Modernist Cubist Painting Boat Pulled Up on the Shore
Located in Cirencester, GB
Boat pulled up on the beach
by Maurice Mazeilie (French, 1924-2021)
watercolor painting on artist paper, unframed
signed lower right
stamped verso
painting: 14.7 inches x 10.8...
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Late 20th Century French Other Folk Art
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Other
Signed French Forest Landscape, Beautiful Rock Waterfall
Located in Cirencester, GB
Artist/ School: French school, 20th century, signed.
Title: Rock Waterfall.
Medium: watercolour painting on paper, unframed.
canvas: 12.5 x 16 inches.
Provenance: private...
Category
Mid-20th Century Other Folk Art
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Other
French Modernist Cubist Painting Figures in a Village
Located in Cirencester, GB
Figures in a Village
by Maurice Mazeilie (French, 1924-2021)
watercolor painting on artist paper, unframed
unsigned
stamped verso
Gentle composition of a rural village scene wit...
Category
Late 20th Century French Other Folk Art
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Other
French Modernist Cubist Painting Vibrant Street Scene
Located in Cirencester, GB
Vibrant street scene
by Maurice Mazeilie (French, 1924-2021)
watercolor painting on artist paper, unframed
signed lower right
stamped verso
A robustly coloured and lively scene ...
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Late 20th Century French Other Folk Art
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Other
Traditional English Painting Rochester Castle in Kent, View from Vicarage Garden
Located in Cirencester, GB
Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), undated, signed to the front and inscribed verso
Title - Rochester Castle from...
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Late 20th Century English Other Folk Art
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Other
French Modernist Cubist Painting a Summer Day's Sailing
Located in Cirencester, GB
A Summer Day's Sailing
by Maurice Mazeilie (French, 1924-2021)
watercolor painting on artist paper, unframed
unsigned
stamped verso
A summer feel to this sunny image by a small ...
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Late 20th Century French Other Folk Art
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Other
Maurice Mazeilie, French Impressionist Signed Oil, Paris View River Seine
Located in Cirencester, GB
"Paris"
by Maurice Mazeilie (French)
oil painting on card, unframed
signed with initials lower corner, stamped verso
painting: 5 x 6.5 inches
A delightful original oil paint...
Category
20th Century Other Folk Art
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Other
Fine Antique British Botannical Watercolour Painting, circa 1900's Beautiful
Located in Cirencester, GB
A very fine original antique English botanical watercolour painting depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came to us from a private collection in Surrey, En...
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Early 20th Century Victorian Other Folk Art
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Other
Arlette Martin French Geometric Abstract Painting
Located in Cirencester, GB
"Abstract Design"
by Arlette Martin (French, b.1924)
Stamped.
Gouache / watercolour painting on card, unframed.
Painting: 4.5 x 6 inches.
Stunning original painting b...
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Late 20th Century Other Folk Art
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Other
1950's Modernist Painting, Landscape of a French Town
Located in Cirencester, GB
French town.
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century), stamped verso.
Original watercolour/gouache painting on paper.
Overall size: 9.5 x 12.5 inches.
Condition: very good and ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Other Folk Art
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Other
Original Fashion Design Illustration Watercolor Painting Laura Ashley Designer
Located in Cirencester, GB
Original fashion design illustration
by Roz Jennings, British
watercolor and ink on card, unframed
size: 12 x 8.25 inches
condition: very good
A beautifully colorful and chara...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Folk Art
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Other
20th Century French Modernist Cubist Painting, Mona Lisa Study
Located in Cirencester, GB
Sepia ink and mixed media portrait, the artist's take on the Mona Lisa
by Bernard Labbe (French Mid-20th Century)
original sepia ink, pencil, gouache, watercolor on paper
image si...
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Late 20th Century French Other Folk Art
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Other
Large 1960's British Original Oil Painting, Abstract of Two Men
Located in Cirencester, GB
Artist: Beryl Darton (British circa 1960's).
Period: mid 20th century/ 1960's.
Medium: oil painting on board, unframed.
Size: 18 x 24 inches.
Condition: overall very good...
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Mid-20th Century Other Folk Art
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Other
French Modernist Cubist Painting Architectural Study
Located in Cirencester, GB
Architectural Study of a Grand Stone Archway
by Maurice Mazeilie (French, 1924-2021)
watercolor painting on artist paper, unframed
unsigned
sta...
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Late 20th Century French Other Folk Art
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Other
20th Century Traditional English Pastel Summer Evening by the Thames
Located in Cirencester, GB
Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley (British, 20th century, 1908-1996), 1993, signed to the front and inscribed verso
Title - "Summer Evening by the Thames near Hampton Middlesex", a colourful busy scene of people enjoying boating and fishing on the river near London.
Medium: pastel on thick layered card, unframed. A sheet of protective paper is attached to the upper edge, which we will leave in place to protect it until it is with its new owner for framing.
Measures: Painting : 15.5 x 10.5 inches
Provenance: all the paintings we have by this artist have come from a private UK collection of this artists work.
Condition: The painting is in overall very good and sound condition. We have measured to exclude the unpainted edges.
Artist: Norman Arthur Olley was born in 1908 to a British Army family stationed in Lucknow, Bengal India. His mother died there in 1911, and his father in 1936.
Norman married in Gravesend Kent in 1937, and at the beginning of the war in 1939 he was an aircraft sheet metal worker.
He and his wife to Surrey in the late 1940's -early 1950's where he was a long term member of the Thames Valley Arts Club and where he regularly exhibited his work. In 1951 his painting "View from Richmond Park" was held in high regard at a very well attended exhibition in Esher, Surrey.
The East Molesey area was one of his favourite areas to paint, a 1953 Art...
Category
Late 20th Century English Other Folk Art
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Other
4 x Early 1900s French Impressionist Signed Flower Watercolours by Marie Carreau
Located in Cirencester, GB
"Flowers"
by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century)
signed bottom
watercolor on paper, unframed
set of 4
Left to right:
1: 3.75 x 2.5 inches
2 3.75 x 2.5...
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Early 20th Century Other Folk Art
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Other
Unique Diorama Depicting a North-American River Scene with Natives and Settlers
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Unique diorama depicting a North American river-scene
United States of America, early 20th century
Measures: H 36 x W 68.5 x D 34 cm
The dioram...
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Early 20th Century American Other Folk Art
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Other
French Modernist Cubist Painting River Seine Paris
Located in Cirencester, GB
River Seine View, Paris
by Maurice Mazeilie (French, 1924-2021)
watercolor painting on artist paper, unframed
unsigned
stamped verso
A particularly well painted Parisian view by...
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Late 20th Century French Other Folk Art
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Other
French Modernist Cubist Painting Steps into the Town
Located in Cirencester, GB
Steps Into The Town, steep stone steps lead figures down amongst town buildings.
by Maurice Mazeilie (French, 1924-2021)
watercolor painting on artist paper, unframed
unsigned to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Other Folk Art
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Other
Summer Flowers Original British Watercolour Painting
Located in Cirencester, GB
Summer Flowers
by Ronald Birch, British circa 1970's
watercolour on art paper, unframed
overall paper measures: 15 x 22 inches
titled and dated 'May 1991'
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Late 20th Century Other Folk Art
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Other
1940's French Fashion Illustration, The Stylish Lady With The Green Features
Located in Cirencester, GB
Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas.
The painting, executed in gouache and pencil.
The sketch is original, vintage an...
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Mid-20th Century Other Folk Art
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Other
Traditional English Painting Constables Boatyard Thames Hampton, England
Located in Cirencester, GB
Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), dated 1996, signed to the front and inscribed verso
Title - Constable's Boatyard on the Thames at Hampton in Middlesex
A busy scene of riverside boat sheds...
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Late 20th Century English Other Folk Art
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Other
English Coastal Harbour Steps to the Sea, Original British Watercolour Painting
Located in Cirencester, GB
English town
by Ronald Birch, British circa 1970's.
Watercolour on art paper, unframed,
overall paper measures: 22 x 15 inches.
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Late 20th Century Other Folk Art
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20th Century French Modernist Cubist Painting, Mother and Child
Located in Cirencester, GB
Sepia ink and watercolor study of a mother holding a child against a backdrop of a town bridge
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original sepia ink and watercolor on paper...
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Late 20th Century French Other Folk Art
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Other
Jacques Pinon, French Expressionist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, GB
Artist/ School/ Date:
Jacques Pinon, French School, late 20th century, signed
Title:
Expressionist landscape composition
Medium & Size:
oil pain...
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Late 20th Century Other Folk Art
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