October 09 Mixed Artist Catalogue

goldmark october 2009

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ARTISTS INDEX Ayrton, Michael

11-13

Bellany, John

36,37, bk cov

Blow, Sandra

17

Dali, Salvador

38,39

House, Gordon

22-25

Hoyland, John

Epstein, Jacob

1

King, Ron

18,19

Wilkinson, Ian

20,21

Picasso, Pablo

42-44

Winner, Gerd

30,31

28,29

Greaves, Derrick

Calder, Alexander

40,41

Gross, Anthony

15

Chapman, George

32,33

Hayter, William Stanley 26,27

7

Rosoman, Leonard Sugai, Kumi

5 45-47

Weight, Carel

34,35

3

Buffet, Bernard

16

Trevelyan, Julian

Davie, Alan

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Jacob Epstein

1. Blossom gouache, 1936, signed, 58 x 44 cm,

to order phone 01572 821 424

ÂŁ2650

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Alan Davie

A talented painter, printmaker and musician Alan Davie has a career which at present extends to almost seventy years. Amongst the many diverse interests which have infused Davie’s work are African sculpture, primitive art, American abstract expressionism, Zen Buddhism, gliding and Indian mythology. His first solo exhibition was held in Edinburgh in 1946 followed by his New York debut ten years later.

Davie has held many international retrospective exhibitions, including Amsterdam (1962), Glasgow (1992) and London (1993). His works are held by major museums worldwide.

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Alan Davie

2. Marks of the Blue Man oil on wood, 1967, signed verso, 29.5 x 47 cm,

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ÂŁ6,500

3

Leonard Rosoman

Leonard Rosoman was born in Hampstead in 1913 and has spent much of his life in London. He studied at Durham University, the Royal Academy and the Central School of Arts & Crafts where his tutors included Bernard Meninsky. During World War II he illustrated books for the War Office before being appointed an Official War Artist to the Admiralty in 1944.

After the war Rosoman held various teaching posts, latterly at the Royal College of Art, 195678, where his students included David Hockney and Peter Blake. In his diverse output he has illustrated many books by well known authors, including William Golding and Laurie Lee, and created murals for the Festival of Britain, 1951, and the Shakespeare Exhibition at Stratford, 1964.

His work is represented in many public collections including the Tate Gallery, the Imperial War Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Rosoman is a Royal Academician and was awarded the O.B.E. for his services to art.

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Leonard Rosoman

3. Birdcage with Flowers gouache, c1960, signed, 45.8 x 60.5 cm,

ÂŁ2,850

Rosoman is a quirky artist ‌ it is his taste for quirkiness both in subject matter and form which enables Rosoman to move from intimate watercolours to public murals without his hand betraying any loss of spirit or enjoyment.

John McEwen, art critic

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Anthony Gross

Anthony Gross spent much time in France and met his wife in Paris. In 1940, as the invading German army occupied France, Gross evacuated his family on one of the last ships to leave Bordeaux. He was appointed an Official War Artist and initially he painted scenes of the London Blitz, including the evocative Ludgate Circus (1940) offered here.

Gross covered campaigns in Africa, the Middle and Far East and landed in Normandy with the Allied troops on D-Day, apparently holding his artist’s materials above his head as he waded ashore. He was one of England’s most prolific war artists and the Imperial War Museum holds 365 of his paintings, more than those of any other artist. His wartime paintings rarely appear on the open market and are highly sought after.

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Anthony Gross

4. Ludgate Circus gouache, ink and watercolour, 1940, signed, 30.5 x 49.5 cm,

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ÂŁ6,000

7

Carel Weight

Carel Weight was born in London and studied at Hammersmith School of Art and Goldsmith’s College. He held the first of his many solo exhibitions in 1934 and was appointed an Official War Artist in 1945.

In 1951 Weight was commissioned to paint a mural for the Festival of Britain and later another one for Manchester Cathedral.

Weight taught at the Royal College of Art eventually becoming Professor of Painting for fifteen years. Amongst his pupils were David Hockney, John Bratby and R.B.Kitaj. Official recognition came with the C.B.E. in 1962 and being made a Companion of Honour in 1995. He had been appointed a Royal Academician in 1965 and was given a major retrospective exhibition there seventeen years later.

Weight’s painting has been likened to Stanley Spencer’s, with its use of rich colours, but his depictions of everyday scenes and commonplace events often have surprising undertones and unsettling, even threatening, atmospheres.

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Carel Weight

5. The Artist’s Garden, 33 Spencer Road, Wandsworth oil on board, c1952, signed, 40.5 x 49.5 cm, £3,650

My pictures are primarily a relationship of figures to a setting.

The narrative aspect of my painting is something that comes later, and in a way of its own accord.

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Michael Ayrton

Ayrton was born in London where he studied briefly before moving to Paris, 1937-39, where he shared a studio with John Minton. He returned to England at the outbreak of World War II and spent an unhappy period in the R.A.F. before being discharged. In 1942 he held his first exhibition, jointly with Minton, at the Leicester Galleries and also obtained a teaching post at the Camberwell School of Art. In the mid 1940s Ayrton’s landscapes increasingly took on a neo-romantic vein indicating the influence of slightly older contemporary artists such as John Piper and Graham Sutherland. In 1945 he had his first solo show at the Redfern Gallery and made the first of several painting trips to Pembrokeshire, sometimes meeting Sutherland.

From the mid 1950s onwards Ayrton used Greek mythology as his subject matter and recurring themes were the minotaur, the maze and legendary figures such as Daedalus and Icarus and they remain some of his best known works.

His work is widely represented in major public collections such as the National Portrait Gallery, the Tate Gallery and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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all prices include framing, vat and uk delivery

Michael Ayrton

6. Dancing Boys oil on canvas, 1947/48, signed, 52 x 72.5 cm,

ÂŁ7,950

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Michael Ayrton

7. Icarus charcoal, 1960, signed, 53.3 x 61 cm,

ÂŁ2,450

The Greek Legend of Icarus Icarus was the son of Daedalus, an Athenian craftsman who built the Labyrinth for King Minos of Crete. Father and son had fallen out with the king who imprisoned them on the island of Crete. In order to escape Daedalus built two pairs of wings fashioned from wax and feathers for himself and Icarus. Before setting off Daedalus warned his son not to fly too close to the sun as this would melt the wax. However Icarus, intoxicated by the power of flight, flew too near the sun, the wax melted and he plunged into the sea and was drowned.

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Michael Ayrton

8. Shore IX watercolour, 1960, signed, 20 x 44.5 cm,

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ÂŁ1750

13

Derrick Greaves

Derrick Greaves was born in Sheffield and apprenticed to a sign writer. At the age of twentyone he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art and in 1952 he was awarded the Abbey Major Scholarship which enabled him to study in Italy for three years.

In 1953 Greaves held his first solo exhibition at the Beaux Arts Gallery and three years later represented Britain at the Venice Biennale along with John Bratby, Edward Middleditch and Jack Smith. These artists, together with Greaves, have become known collectively as the Kitchen-Sink painters even though, in the opinion of the art critic James Hyman, [they] were grouped by expediency, not ideology … there was no shared aesthetic or common manifesto. If they shared anything it was a suspicion of elegance … and of polished drawing … their aesthetic was tougher, more robust …

Greaves taught at the Royal Academy Schools and at St. Martin’s School of Art. From 1983 he was Head of Printmaking at Norwich School of Art for eight years.

A retrospective exhibition was held in 1980 at the Graves Art Gallery in Sheffield and in 2007, Derrick Greaves: An Eightieth Birthday Tribute, was held at James Hyman Fine Art in London. Greaves’ work is held by several public collections, including the Tate Gallery, the British Museum, the National Portrait Gallery and the National Museum of Wales.

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Derrick Greaves

9. Negev 7. Flash Flood mixed media and collage, 1979/80, signed verso, 123.5 x 145 cm,

ÂŁ22,500

15

John Hoyland

10. Tree of Life screenprint, 1996, ed 100, signed, 61.5 x 46.5 cm,

16

ÂŁ750

Sandra Blow

11. Revolve etching, 2003, ed 75, signed, 54.6 x 55 cm,

ÂŁ950

17

Ron King

12. Alphabet II paper cutout, 2005, signed, 59.5 x 36 cm,

18

ÂŁ250

Ron King

13. Slate Lichen I screenprint, c1966, ed 50, signed, 86.7 x 57 cm,

ÂŁ375

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Ian Wilkinson

14. From Continental Drift Series screenprint and collage, 1999, unique print, signed, 50.5 x 50.5 cm,

ÂŁ450

Born in 1962, Ian Wilkinson studied art at the North Staffordshire Polytechnic, 1980-83, and during the next decade he exhibited his paintings and prints in several mixed and solo exhibitions. In 1993 he joined the renowned Curwen Studio where he worked alongside the master art printer Stanley Jones. Wilkinson then worked at the Gresham Press and, with his wife Jan, now runs the Goldmark Print Atelier at Uppingham in Rutland which he set up in 2006.

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Ian Wilkinson

15. Untitled screenprint and carborundum, 2009, edition of 4 only, signed, 51 x 47.5 cm,

ÂŁ375

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Gordon House

16. Hoist

17. School

18. Pallet

19. Trough Coloured etchings, edition of 30 only, 39 x 39 cm

Gordon House

20. Platform Examples of Gordon House’s work are to be found in museums and public collections worldwide. The Tate hold over 100 of his prints, yet he remains little known.

21. Accessory The suite shown here was made in a tiny edition and is offered at a very competitive price in comparison with those of many of his better known contemporaries.

Prints are available at £475 each.

A group of any 4 may be purchased for £1425.

We are also able to offer a few complete suites at £3450.

While stocks last.

These prices include a beautiful hand-crafted frame, vat and uk delivery.

Specification: Ten etchings, from zinc plates 39 x 39 cm, on Velin Arches 100% cotton white 300gsm paper, 59.7 x 55.9 cm. Each print is signed, numbered and titled by the artist in an edition of 30 only, with 5 artist’s proofs. The etchings are presented in white box frames or otherwise to suit. A copy of the signed justification page will accompany each print.

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Gordon House

22. Yonder

23. Chalice

24. Trowel

25. Site Coloured etchings, edition of 30 only, 39 x 39 cm

Gordon House He participated in the seminal Situation British Painting exhibition at the RBA Galleries (1960) which required that all the works were to be large scale and abstract. House also exhibited at the New London Situation show the following year and continued to be represented in important exhibitions until The Sixties Art Scene in London (1993).

As a designer, his client base was very diverse including leading contemporary London galleries, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Ashmolean Gallery, Oxford.

Gordon House was born in Pontardawe, South Wales, which had, in the early part of the 20th century, become an established thriving steel town, black with many smoking chimneys.

House called the area Tin-pan Valley, giving the name to this major suite of coloured etchings and to his book of memoirs.

House studied at Luton and St. Albans Schools of Art from 1947. During the 1950s he worked for an advertising agency, in various fields of design. He was a designer for ICI from 1952 to ’59 and from 1959 to ’61 for the Kynoch Press. He also worked for the Tate, the Arts Council and many Cork Street galleries. From 1961 onwards he was able to pursue his own artistic work, teaching part-time at the Central School of Art, St Albans and Hornsey Schools of Art.

The artist Sir Peter Blake, a friend for 50 years, who worked with House on several important commissions including the LP cover for Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, wrote: ...there were very few artists who were equally comfortable and talented at being both a painter and a graphic designer, and Gordon House was one such.

The Tate Gallery holds more than 100 of his prints and his work is also represented in many important public collections including the Arts Council, the British Council, the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

In 2004 House’s autobiographical memoir Tinpan Valley was published. He died in the same year. The following year a major retrospective celebrating House’s life and achievement was held at the Millinery Works.

Gordon House was a driven man, a workaholic who produced unique and unmistakable images, apparently abstract, but leaning heavily on visual sources.

David Buckman

Stanley William Hayter

26. Interference lithograph, 1966, trial proof, signed, 54.3 x 43.8 cm,

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ÂŁ550

Stanley William Hayter

27. White Horses engraving, 1967, ed 50, signed, 39.5 x 48.6 cm,

ÂŁ650

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Bernard Buffet

28. Les Deux Oiseaux lithograph, 1967, signed in plate, 31 x 24 cm,

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ÂŁ450

Bernard Buffet

29. Still Life with Bottle lithograph, 1967, signed in plate, 31 x 24 cm,

ÂŁ450

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Gerd Winner

30. 19 Aberdeen Road II screenprint, 1972, artist’s proof, signed, 69.8 x 51.8 cm,

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£450

Gerd Winner

31. Underground Holborn screenprint, 1972, artist’s proof, signed, 63.5 x 63.8 cm,

Born in 1936 at Brunswick in Germany Gerd Winner studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin, 1956-62.

In 1970 he came to London at the request of the British Council and he subsequently made many prints with Chris Prater at the Kelpra Studio. He also worked with Marlborough Graphics.

Winner has taken many photographs in London and these, allied with computer techniques, have been

ÂŁ450

worked on to produce hyper-realistic screenprints, often of architectural subjects. He has also used his photographs as the basis for large mural projects in Germany and extended his depictions of urban landscapes to New York, Saudi Arabia and Japan.

Winner teaches at the Academy of Applied Arts in Munich and his work has been exhibited in many countries. The Tate Gallery holds several of his works.

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George Chapman

32. Pontypridd etching with hand colour, late 1950s, signed, 53.9 x 64.5 cm,

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ÂŁ950

George Chapman

33. Pregnant Woman (Kate) etching and aquatint, ed 25, signed, 45.2 x 34.5 cm,

ÂŁ850

Kate was George Chapman’s wife.

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Julian Trevelyan

34. Buffaloes etching, 1968, ed 75, signed, 35 x 47 cm,

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ÂŁ950

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Julian Trevelyan

35. Etruria etching, 1976, ed 50, unsigned, 34.2 x 47.5 cm,

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ÂŁ600

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John Bellany

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36. Woman of the North Sea

37. Title Unknown

screenprint, printer’s proof, signed, 46 x 38 cm,

screenprint, printer’s proof, signed, 46 x 38 cm,

£375

£375

John Bellany

38. Mother and Child screenprint, 2000, printer’s proof, signed, 38 x 45 cm,

£375

39. Light Landscape screenprint, 2000, printer’s proof, signed, 38 x 43 cm,

£275

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Salvador Dali

Dali - Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel (Pantagruel’s Comical Dreams) As a leading Surrealist Dali was clearly attracted by the elements of fantasy, satire, subversion, eroticism and dreamlike material contained in Rabelais’ text for Pantagruel because of their similarity to basic Surrealist ideas. Some of Dali’s Pantagruel images were also influenced by the work of the Swiss painter and printmaker Urs Graf (1485-c.1529), for example the latter’s Soldier with a Lance (1514) and Two Prostitutes Beating a Monk (1521). Graf‘s work was often macabre and he depicted a wide range of social, erotic, military and criminal subject matter which Dali found appealing.

Pantagruel - François Rabelais Pantagruel (c.1532) was the first volume in a series of five connected books written by François Rabelais a French Benedictine monk, physician and humanist scholar. The work was given the overall title of The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel. It relates the story of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel, and is set in an imaginary medieval monastery where the strict, austere rules of monastic life are completely subverted. In Rabelais’ monastery, life is governed by free will and worldly pleasure is regarded as a legitimate need and aim of human nature. In addition to his satire of clerical education and monastic life the text contained much crude, earthy and scatological humour and the term Rabelaisian is often used to describe outrageous, bawdy behaviour.

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40.

Salvador Dali

41.

42.

Les Songs Drolatiques de Pantagruel lithographs, 1973, signed proof set aside from edition of 50, 64 x 47 cm,

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ÂŁ875

each

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Alexander Calder

43. Untitled lithograph, c1972, unsigned trial proof, 78.5 x 60.5 cm, We do not know if these were ever issued

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ÂŁ500

Alexander Calder

44. Untitled lithograph, c1972, unsigned trial proof, 58.2 x 78 cm,

ÂŁ500

We do not know if these were ever issued

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Pablo Picasso

45. Deux TĂŞtes I lithograph, 1949, 32 x 23.5 cm,

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ÂŁ850

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Pablo Picasso

46. Deux Têtes II lithograph, 1949, 32 x 23.5 cm,

£850

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Pablo Picasso

47. La Danse lithograph, 1955/56, 18 x 18.5 cm,

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£850

48. Fleurs dans un Verre No 6 £750

lithograph, 1947, 23 x 15 cm,

Kumi Sugai

Kumi Sugai (1919-1996) Sugai’s parents were Malaysian musicians but he learned Western painting methods and calligraphy at Osaka School of Fine Arts. He settled in Paris in 1952 where he depicted near abstract cityscapes and elongated figures, somewhat reminiscent of Giacometti’s style. During the next decades he developed his abstract style, sometimes incorporating Far Eastern symbols derived from pottery.

49. Nagasaki lithograph, 1956, ed 150, signed, 52 x 39.5 cm,

ÂŁ1250

Besides Paris he has held solo exhibitions in Brussels, London and New York and also exhibited at the Sao Paulo and Venice Biennales. He won several major prizes for his engravings including Zagreb, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and the main prize at the international triennale at Grenchen, Switzerland.

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Kumi Sugai

50. Aka lithograph, 1958, ed 150, signed, 54.5 x 44.5 cm,

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ÂŁ1250

Kumi Sugai

51. Samurai lithograph, 1958, ed 150, signed, 54.5 x 44.5 cm,

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ÂŁ1250

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John Bellany

52. From The Hope and Optimism Portfolio ÂŁ475

etching, 1990, ed 200, signed, 56 x 44.5 cm,

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