Cricket Bat Display by Gun and Moore

Curved early oak cricket bat. An unusual shaped, heavy weight, one piece cricket bat of the style used in the 1770s. The blade has an inward bow, convex surface, instead of being fl...

Williams & Powell Wooden Sporting Gun Case. A mahogany single gun case by Williams & Powell, Liverpool, the green baize lined case with dividers and fitted for a double barrel shotgu...

Very rare extra large champion cricket bat by N Cochrane, Trade Sign This is an unusual piece it is in remarkably good condition, it is made in ash by the manufacturer to be used as an advertising piece...

In their different mediums, Henry Moore (1898 1986) and Francis Bacon (1909 1992) created unforgettable images of the human figure. The distinctive visual languages that each artist developed over more than half a century were marked by a growing simplicity and monumentality of form. Their perspective differed: Moore clung to a belief in humanism, while Bacon espoused a post-humanist, nihilistic view of the world. In expressing their visions of humanity, the two artists had very different approaches: Bacon working from the outside in, disintegrating and dissolving form; Moore from the inside out, pushing anatomical structure to the surface. If Bacon s images suggest flux, chance, and the arbitrariness of existence, Moore s...