British & French Paintings, Drawings, Prints & Sculpture 2015

Browse & Darby

39th Annual Exhibition

British & French paintings, drawings, prints & sculpture

10 June - 15 July 2015

Monday - Friday 10 - 5.30 Saturday 11 - 2

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19 Cork Street . London W1S 3LP Tel: 020 7734 7984 Fax: 020 7851 6650 e-mail: art@browseanddarby.co.uk www.browseanddarby.co.uk

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Catalogue CRAIGIE AITCHISON (1926-2009) 1. Garden at Tulliallan, circa 1958-63 oil on canvas 9 x 6 inches Provenance Gifted from the artist to the present owner 2. Dove & Candle, 1977 oil on canvas 11 3/4 x 16 inches MAURICE BRIANCHON (1899-1979) 3. Nature morte aux pensées, 1964 oil on canvas 8 5/8 x 6 1/4 inches 4. Plage Normande, 1938 oil on canvas 18 1/4 x 25 5/8 inches Provenance Richard Heyd, Neuchâtel Private collection, London Literature Richard Heyd, Brianchon, ides et Caledes, Neuchâtel, 1954, no.35 Brianchon & Daulte, Maurice Brianchon. Catalogue de l’oeuvre peint, La Biliotheque des Arts, 2008, p.114, no.168 5. Villas et Tentes watercolour 9 x 12 1/4 inches EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917) 6. Danseuse se frottant le genou (or Etude pour danseuse en arlequin),1939 bronze, stamped with the signature ‘Degas’ (Lugt 658), numbered and stamped with the foundry mark ‘39/O CIRE PERDUE A.A.HÉBRARD’ (on the top of the base) height: 11 3/8 inches This bronze cast between 1919 and 1937, in an edition of 20 numbered A-T, plus two casts reserved for the Degas heirs and the founder Hébrard.

Provenance Galerie Blanche, Stockholm Hans Mott, Lidingö (Sweden) by the early 1950s Private collection, Switzerland, by descent from the above in 1986 Literature J. Rewald, Degas Sculpture, The Complete Works, London 1957, no. XLVIII (another cast illustrated pl.

62).

F. Russoli and F, Minervino, L’opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, p. 141, no. S27 (another cast illustrated p.

142) C.W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976 (another cast illustrated pl. 76).

J. Rewald, The complete sculptures of Degas, London, 1976, no. 27, p. 12 (another cast illustrated p. 46).

A. Pingeot & F. Horvat, Degas Sculpture, Paris, 1991, p.

165, no. 27 (another cast illustrated, pp. 142-143 & 165) S. Campbell, ‘Degas, The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné’, Apollo, vol. CXLII, no. 402, August 1995, pp. 29-30, no. 39 (another cast illustrated p.29).

M. Guillard, Degas, Form and space, Paris 1984, no. 36 (aother cast illustrated fig. 161).

J.S. Czestochowski & A. Pingeot, Degas, Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no.

39, p. 197 (another cast illustrated pp. 196 & 197).

7. Danseuse, Grande Arabesque, premier temps bronze, stamped with signature and foundry mark, AA Hébrard cire perdue, numbered 18/HER.D height: 19 1/4 inches This bronze cast between 1919 and 1937, in an edition of 20 numbered A-T, plus two casts reserved for the Degas heirs and the founder Hébrard. This cast reserved for the Degas heirs Provenance Galerie de L’Elysée, Paris, 1962 Private Collection, USA (acquired from the above) and thence by descent Exhibited London, Browse & Darby, Edgar Degas (1834-1917), Bronzes, May – June 1999, no 6.

Literature J. Rewald, ‘Degas Sculpture, The Complete Works’, New York, 1956, no. 35 S. Campbell, ‘Degas, The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonne’ in ‘Apollo’, vol. CXLII, Aug 1995, no. 18 J. S. Czestochowski & A. Pingeot, ‘Degas Sculptures, Catalogue raisonné of the Bronzes’, Memphis, 2002, no.18 (another cast ill. pp. 156-157)

RAOUL DUFY (1877-1953) 8. Le Vase aux Anémones, 1937 gouache and watercolour signed ‘Raoul Dufy’ lower left 24 x 19 inches Provenance Private Collection, USA LUCIAN FREUD (1922-2011) 9. Girl Sitting, 1987 etching, signed and dated in pencil, edition of 50 27 x 32 1/4 inches (sheet) 10. Blond Girl, 1985 etching, signed with initials, edition of 50 34 3/8 x 28 inches (sheet) 11. Head and Shoulders of a Girl,1990 etching signed with initials, edition of 50 30 3/4 x 24 3/4 inches (sheet) ARMAND GUILLAUMIN (1841-1927) 12. Le Puy Barriou, Paysage de la Creuse, circa 1910 pastel on paper, signed ‘Guillaumin’ 18 5/16 x 24 1/2 inches Provenance Madame Rousso, Paris, FR Eardley Knollys, April 1954 for £120 Literature To be included in the Comité Guillaumin’s (Dominique Fabiani, Jacques de La Béraudière and Stéphanie Chardeau-Botteri) forthcoming second volume of the catalogue raisonné.

AUGUSTUS JOHN (1878-1961) 13. Portrait of a young woman, circa 1910-13 charcoal on paper, signed and inscribed ‘to Dr Jerome Martin/Ziegler/1923 14 x 10 inches Provenance The Artist, gifted to Dr Jerome Ziegler Thence by descent to the previous owner Literature Martin Birnbaum, The Last Romantic, The Story of More Than a Half Century in the World of Art, (Twayne, 1960) GWEN JOHN (1876-1939) 14.Hatted woman in church gouache and watercolour 2 7/8 x 2 1/8 inches Provenance Private Collection, South Africa 15. Hatted women in church I gouache and watercolour 2 7/8 x 2 1/8 inches Provenance Private Collection, South Africa 16. Hatted women in church II gouache and watercolour 2 7/8 x 2 1/8 inches Provenance Private Collection, South Africa 17. Flowers in a pink jug gouache and pencil on paper 7 5/8 x 5 3/4 inches Provenance Private collection, UK 18. Rear View of Nun and Orphans gouache and watercolour 7 x 5 1/2 inches Provenance Estate of the artist until 1966 Faerber & Maison Véra Oumançoff Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1970, No. 31642

Exhibited Arts Council Tour 1968: London, Tate Gallery, January - March; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, March - April; National Museums of Wales, Cardiff, April - May Gwen John: A Retrospective Exhibition (no. 109), London, Barbican Art Gallery, 12 September - 3 November 1985, Manchester City Art Gallery, 28 November 1985 - 26 January 1986; New Haven, Yale Centre for British Art, 26 February 1986 - 20 April 1986.

Literature Cecily Langdale and David Fraser Jenkins, Gwen John: An Interior Life (London: Phaidon Press & Barbican Art Gallery) no. 116, colour plate 62 19. Two Cottages behind a Wall gouache and watercolour, stamped signature 6 3/8 x 6 1/4 inches Provenance Ex collection: the Artist Private collection, UK 20. Rear View of Nun and Orphan, Seated in Church, circa 1920s gouache and watercolour on paper 5 5/8 x 5 7/16 inches Provenance Ex collection: the estate of the Artist PAUL MAZE (1887-1979) 21. The Cavendish Hotel pastel 15 x 22 inches Provenance Private Collection, UK BERTHE MORISOT (1841-1895) 22. Femme et enfant au bois pencil on paper laid on card stamped with the artist’s initials ‘B.M’ and numbered no. 25 (lower right); further inscribed ‘For my granddaughter 23.10.1970./Suzanne Eisendieck (on reverse) 21 x 15 15/16 inches Provenance Gifted by Mrs Suzanne Eisendieck to her grand-daughter

Exhibited Paris, Musee Jacquemart-Andre, Exposition Berthe Morisot.

It is suggested that this drawing is a study for the painting Femme et fillette au bord du lac (1894) as listed in the catalogue raisonné by Alain Clairet, Delphine Montalant and Yves Rouart: Berthe Morisot, 1841-1895 (Paris: 1997), no. 418

27. Flower girl (Any Corner), 1898 hand coloured woodcut, from London Types 10 x 9 inches

JOHN NASH (1893-1977) 23. Autumn Flowers, circa 1948 oil on board 21 1/2 x 16 1/8 inches Provenance New Grafton Gallery, London, 1987 Private Collection, UK

ANNE REDPATH (1895-1965) 29. Still life of Tulips, late 1940s oil on board 24 x 20 inches Provenance Private Collection, UK Duncan Miller Fine Art

BEN NICHOLSON (1894-1982) 24. George and Rufus, 1938 screenprint in colours on rayon 17 x 22 3/4 inches

GILBERT SPENCER (1892-1979) 30. Early Spring, Basildon, Berkshire oil on canvas, signed 20 x 30 inches

SIR WILLIAM NICHOLSON (1872-1949) 25. The Castle, Malaga, 1935 oil on canvasboard 13 x 16 inches signed with initials, titled and dated Jan 1935 on the reverse Provenance Acquired directly from the Artist by Winston and Clementine Churchill, and thence by descent to their daughter Mary Exhibited London, National Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings by Sir William Nicholson and Jack B. Yeats, 1st January - 15th March 1942, cat. no.74.

Literature Lillian Browse, William Nicholson, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1956, cat. no.448, p.104 Patricia Reed, William Nicholson, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Modern Art Press/Yale University Press, London, 2011, cat. no.737, illustrated p.565 26. Racing, 1897 hand coloured woodcut 7 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches

28. Shire horse, 1904 hand coloured woodcut 8 x 8 1/2 inches

AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917) 31. Nu féminin debout bronze height: 14 1/2 inches Probably conceived in the 1890s, cast by George Rudier, no. 3 of 12, plus one for the Musée Rodin, between 1953 and 1961 Provenance Purchased Reid & Lefevre 22 March 1962, stock no.

192/58 Literature Antoinette le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, no. S100, p558 (Lund Humphries, 2007)

GEORGES ROUAULT (1871-1958) 32. Portrait Head, 1930 watercolour on paper 10 1/4 x 7 7/8 inches Provenance Private collection, UK, acquired prior to 1938 Exhibited Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, 1938 National Art Gallery of Canada, 1941 & 1944 (illustrated in hanging photographs for the 1944 exhibition) EUAN UGLOW (1932-2000) 33. Nude with Arm on Box, circa 1965 oil on board 23 3/4 x 21 3/4 inches Literature Lampert, C, Euan Uglow: The Complete Paintings (Yale University Press, 2007), no. 192 34. Reclining nude pencil on paper 9 1/16 x 13 inches 35. Hare, 1961 etching, signed, edition of 15 6 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches

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