Harman Sumray, British 1920-2006 - Stretching Figure V (Lazarus), 1963

Patrick Procktor RA RE RWS, British (1936-2003 ) Bali, Watercolour on paper, signed lower right 'Patrick Procktor', indistinctly titled lower right 'Bali', 30.9 x 23.4 cm (sheet siz...

As an Important Mid 20th Century British Artist Humphrey Spender's work is held in numerous public collections including the Tate Gallery , London, N...

Michael Upton, British 1938-2002, oil on card, Cornish landscape with helicopter is a great example of Upton's work painted in the last couple of decades...

Stylistic depiction of a figure indistinctly signed . Made from ceramic and glazed in rich wonderful colour. and set into an iron stand with a plywood back .

Oil on canvas, Villa Albrizzi - Veneto, 1963 Teddy Millington-Drake (1932-1994) was a nomad, linguist, bon viveur, aesthete and master gardener, but above all an artist. Discharged from service and in part inspired by his sister's anecdotes of her travels abroad, Millington-Drake embarked on a painting tour that took him to Lebanon, Iran, Iraq and Syria. He then rented a house, the Villa Albrizzi at Este, Veneto in Italy, and became a more frequent painter, particularly now of abstract murals. He befriended Freya Stark, a writer and traveler who lived nearby, and in Venice he became friends with Daisy Fellowes, Peggy Guggenheim, Barbara Hutton and Elsa Maxwell. In Este, he painted continually and more boldly, turning his hand to abstract murals. He later transformed a neglected Tuscan farmhouse in the village of Poggio which was co-decorated by his friend the designer John Stefanidis. There were vine-hung terraces and a skillfully landscaped garden. A swimming-pool was built on a shelf cut into the hillside, so that you felt yourself gliding towards the horizon, suspended in space as you swam. There Millington-Drake worked passionately at all forms of painting. There are haunting large abstracts inspired by Jung, hard-edged acrylic wave paintings and some intriguing semi-calligraphic works on paper based on phrases taken from the works of poets such as Cavafy, Mandelstam and Elizabeth Bishop...

Watercolor depicting a group of women, presumably prostitutes, with colorful clothing. The women all portrayed with poignant and soulful eyes in what could be an outdoor setting visi...

Antique British Impressionist watercolor painting - featuring a thatched cottage, flower decorated garden and path with a landscape in the distance - single bevel edged matte board u...

Fabulous, fantastic 1963 oil on canvas painting of a Marilynesque Figure by a pool. Colorful and stylish depiction of the famed and tragic Marilyn Monroe sitting in a pool setting po...