Goldmark Art - Mixed Artist Catalogue - May 2010

goldmark may 2010

Sarah Raphael

Born in 1960, Sarah Raphael, daughter of novelist Frederic Raphael, showed a prodigious talent for painting and drawing.

Her portraits now hang in the National Portrait Gallery, London, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Tragically, Raphael died after a short illness in 2001.

1. Untitled (Woman) pencil, c1990s, initialled, 20 x 14 cm

ÂŁ795

ARTISTS INDEX Chapman, George

10,11

Herman, Josef

24,25

Kuhn, Andrzej

28,29

Oxtoby, David

18,19

4

House, Gordon

30,31

Lowry, L S

14,15

Piper, John

26,27

5

Nash, Paul

2

Raphael, Sarah

above

Newbolt, Thomas

1

Searle, Ronald

16,17

Wheatley, Grahame

12,13

Found, James Gentleman, David

22,23

Gross, Anthony Hammond Steel, George

6,7 3

Howard, Ken John, Augustus Jones, Allen

8,9 32,33

Orr, Chris

20,21

Thomas Newbolt

2. Mother and Child pencil and wash, 2002, 45 x 58 cm

ÂŁ875

Born in 1951 in London. Studied at Camberwell School of Art. One man shows at Browse and Darby, London and Tatistcheff, New York.

His work is held in many public collections worldwide, including Trinity College, Cambridge, Unilever, Bank of England, Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, USA and The Bank of America.

to order phone 01572 821 424

1

Paul Nash

3. Urne Buriall £1950,

pencil, 1932, 19.5 x 13 cm, was

now

£1250

Urne Buriall is a trial drawing for Paul Nash’s most famous and celebrated illustrated book.

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George Hammond Steel

4. King’s Parade, Cambridge pen, ink and watercolour, signed, 27.2 x 37.7 cm,

ÂŁ1750

George Hammond Steel was born in Sheffield the son of the artist G.T. Steel. He studied at Sheffield School of Art and later in Birmingham and London. His work was exhibited at several institutions such as the Royal Academy, the Royal Institute of Watercolour Painters and the Paris Salon and is represented in public collections including Sheffield.

For the most part Hammond Steel depicted landscapes including coastal scenes in Cornwall and East Anglia, cottage scenes in Essex where he lived and townscapes such as the atmospheric pen and ink drawing of Kings Parade, Cambridge offered here.

3

James Found

5. Untitled watercolour, 1942, signed, 28 x 36.6 cm,

ÂŁ850

We can find nothing about James Found. Any help would be appreciated.

4

to order phone 01572 821 424

Ken Howard

6. Train Terminal watercolour, signed, 13 x 18 cm was

ÂŁ1250,

Ken Howard, born 1932, studied at Hornsey School of Art and at the Royal College of Art. He won a British Council Scholarship to Florence in 1958. He has exhibited widely, including Plymouth, London and Johannesburg. He became the Official War Artist to Northern Ireland in 1973 and 1978 and between 1973 and 1980 travelled widely with the British Army.

He has won many awards including prize winner at the RWA and the NEAC Centenary Award. His work

now

ÂŁ950

is included in several key public collections such as Plymouth City Art Gallery, Sheffield Art Gallery, Imperial War Museum, Ulster Museum, National Army Museum and the Guildhall Art Gallery amongst others. He has been a member of the Royal Academy in London since 1984 and also became President of the NEAC in 1998. He has also served on the Council and several committees of the Royal Watercolour Society of which he is a member.

visit www.recentacquisitions.com

5

Anthony Gross

Aged only 18 Gross went to study at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He became and remained a Francophile spending much of the interwar period in France. Gross met his future wife in Paris and in 1940, as the invading German Army occupied France, he evacuated with his family on one of the last ships to leave Bordeaux.

As an Official War Artist he landed in Normandy on DDay apparently holding his artist’s materials above his head as he waded ashore at Arromanches. He painted prolifically as he followed the Allied troops across France, was present at the Liberation of Paris and subsequently went on into Germany.

7. Plain under Belaye No.1 etching, 1959, ed 50, signed, 45.5 x 25.5 cm

£850

Post-war Gross frequently visited France and in 1955 he purchased a house at Le Boulvé in the Lot Valley west of Cahors. He then settled into a lifelong pattern of living and working there during the summer but returning to London each winter.

Belaye, the subject of this fine oil painting by Gross, is a village some 5 miles from Le Boulvé. Gross obviously found this landscape stimulating as he made 2 etchings of the subject, one of which was replicated as a Christmas card.

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visit www.anthonygross.com

8. Belaye oil on canvas, 1958, signed 130 x 89.2 cm

ÂŁ8,750

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Augustus John The subject of this oil painting is Vivien John (19151994) the younger daughter of the artist Augustus John and his wife Dorelia. Vivien was never sent to school and seems to have spent an idyllic and bohemian childhood running barefoot around the countryside, riding ponies and spending time with gypsies. She became an artist and was allowed by her father to attend the Slade School upon the somewhat perverse condition that she received no instruction!

Michael Holroyd in his acclaimed biography of Augustus John commented, his greatest portraits are not generally of the great ... from commissioned portraits, with all their rules of vanity and forced politeness, he turned with relief back to the ranks of his family. However for Viven it was sometimes an ordeal as she was first portrayed at the age of two-and-a-half and, again quoting Holroyd, tears were stemmed with lumps of sugar : and the painting went remorselessly on.

At all times John insisted upon absolute immobility, the slightest movement of the head or body being corrected with the point of a brush used like a conductor’s baton. Nevertheless she continued to be regularly painted by her father and although Mannerist Nude is not dated it can safely be ascribed to the 1930s given her birth date in 1915.

9. Mannerist Nude (Vivien) charcoal and oil on canvas, c1935-40, 160.3 x 61 cm,

ÂŁ24,500 Provenance: A John Studio Sale Christie's 20.7.62 number 162.

Christie's 12.11.87.

Piccadilly Gallery July 1992, Bernard Silverman Esq.

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Augustus John

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9

George Chapman

10. Church and Houses, Swansea £5,750

oil on board, c1958, 37 x 80.5 cm,

This painting is part of Chapman’s peripheral vision series where figures in the foreground are painted as if they were being glimpsed at the edge of one’s vision.

George Chapman, 1908-1993, born in London, studied at Royal College of Art and Slade School of Art. After this he moved to Great Bardfield in Essex but found little to inspire him until his first visit to Wales in the 1950s. His love affair with the soulful landscape and communities of the Welsh valleys saw him eventually move across the border in 1960 (shortly after winning the Gold Medal for Fine Art at the National Eisteddfod in 1957). Influenced by Sickert and the Euston Road School of painters, he was the subject of a BBC Monitor programme in 1961. His work is held in many public collections including the V&A Museum.

opposite:

11. Washing Day in the Rhondda (Figure in a doorway) oil on board, c1961, signed, 93 x 93 cm, £8,500

10

Grahame Wheatley

12. A Passing Glance oil on canvas, 1988, signed, 74.5 x 49.5 cm,

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visit www.grahamewheatley.com

ÂŁ950

Grahame Wheatley

13. Adoration oil on canvas, 2005, signed, 66 x 45 cm,

ÂŁ950

Grahame Wheatley won 1st prize in a national portrait competition which was presented by Princess Anne.

13

L S Lowry

14. His Family offset lithograph, ed 575, signed, 53 x 70.9 cm,

14

to order phone 01572 821 424

ÂŁ1950

L S Lowry

15. Peel Park (Salford) offset lithograph, 1973, ed 850, signed, 38 x 75.7 cm,

ÂŁ1950

This area was a regular haunt for Lowry, and although many of the buildings were in existence at the time he painted this scene, Lowry would often move certain features in order to make a 'better' painting.

15

Ronald Searle

16. Untitled 1 50 x 65 cm, £750

17. Untitled 2 50 x 65 cm, £750

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Ronald Searle

Last month saw Ronald Searle celebrate his 90th birthday. Born in Cambridge, he was first inspired by the great cartoonists and satire masters of the past, James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson and George Cruikshank. On the outbreak of the Second World War he left his studies to serve in the Royal Engineers and in 1942 was captured by the Japanese at Singapore, then held by them for three and a half years. Best known in the UK for his St Trinian’s drawings and the film credits he drew for the cinema, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, and Monte Carlo or Bust, his caricatures have appeared in Punch, Le Monde and the Tribune. He, in turn, has influenced many cartoonists from Gerald Scarfe to Ralph Steadman.

18. Untitled 3 £750

To say he is an artist is no more than the truth, but he is more than that: he is our greatest living cartoonist with a lifelong dedication to his craft… His work is truly international, yet absolutely grounded in the English comic tradition. – Steve Bell, The Guardian.

44.5 x 59.5 cm,

Hommage to Toulouse Lautrec lithographs, 1969, ed 70, signed

17

David Oxtoby

19. Dylan Book etching, 1977, proof, signed images 24.8 x 20 and 25 x 20 cm, paper 42.4 x 59 cm

ÂŁ450

all prices include framing, vat and uk delivery

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David Oxtoby

20. S Wonderful (Stevie Wonder)

21. Highway Man

etching, 1974, colour proof, signed

etching, 1974, colour proof, signed,

image 16.5 x 13.5 cm, paper 58.2 x 39.5 cm

image 15 x 13 cm, paper 53 x 39.5 cm

ÂŁ450

ÂŁ450

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Chris Orr

22. The Needles etching, 1972, ed 75, signed, 27 x 41.5 cm

ÂŁ450

Chris Orr, Royal Academician and Professor and Head of Department of the Printmaking Department at the Royal College of Art London 1998 – 2008.

His work has been exhibited worldwide and in 2008 he was awarded an MBE.

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Chris Orr

23. Harvest Home! The Last Sheaf etching, 1971, proof, signed, 17 x 27.2 cm

£345

24. Drunken Bidford etching, 1971, proof, signed, 17 x 27 cm

£345

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David Gentleman SPECIAL OFFER all three for £550

26. Warehouses

25. Inclined Plane

Stoke Potteries Suite lithographs, 1971/72, ed 240, signed, 42 x 52.5 cm

£250

each

27. Coalport Ovens

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David Gentleman This much sought after lithograph of Ralph Allen’s Sham Castle, a remarkable folly overlooking the city of Bath, is offered today for the special price of £275 including frame, vat and uk delivery

28. Ralph Allen’s Sham Castle lithograph, 1975, ed 100, signed, 51 x 63.5 cm

Special Price £275

Born in London in 1930, artist, designer, author, illustrator and printmaker, son of the artist Tom Gentleman. Studied at Royal College of Art under Edward Bawden and John Nash. He illustrated and designed for many publishers and organisations, including stamps for Royal Mail, posters for London Transport and the National Trust and symbols for British Steel and Bodleian Library. In 2005, Tate Britain displayed Gentleman’s lithographs of Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire and Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, to commemorate his seventy fifth birthday. The Tate, V&A and the National Maritime Museum hold examples of his work.

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Josef Herman

30. The New Day

29. I, in Nature and Outside it

The Song of the Migrant Bird litrhographs, c1996, ed 50, signed, 20.5 x 13.8 cm

ÂŁ375

24

each

Josef Herman

31. In Search of Ones Path

32. The Strong Form

In 1999 the hand-printing and production of the tiny edition of lithographs for Song of the Migrant Bird was supervised by the master printer and lithographer Stanley Jones at the Curwen Press.

visit www.josefhermanprints.com

25

John Piper

33. Babingley, Sepia Variation screenprint, 1984, ed 50, signed, 44.5 x 59.5 cm,

ÂŁ1650

Scarce Norfolk print

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all prices include framing, vat and uk delivery

John Piper

34. Dorchester Abbey offset lithograph, open edition, signed in plate, 56.8 x 78 cm,

visit www.johnpiperprints.com

ÂŁ950

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Andrzej Kuhn

35. Night Stove

36. Lovers

ed 195, signed, 50 x 50 cm

ed 195, signed, 58 x 45 cm

ÂŁ390

ÂŁ390

On the day before his mother, his sister and he were transported (from Poland in 1940), ten-year-old Andrzej, possessed by foreboding, sought ease by sifting through the illustrations in his children’s books.

No doubt memories of them continued to console the child during the transports, during his 3 years in Russia, and in his further exile; a lesson in the power of art that he never forgot.

Thus it is that a Kuhn painting brings to the viewer an inward smile of pleasure. They are meant to be images that warm when one is depressed; that uplift with their humour, their wit and humanity.

Glyn Hughes, novelist and painter

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all prices include framing, vat and uk delivery

Andrzej Kuhn

37. Angel

38. King’s Chariot

ed 195, signed, 53.5 x 52 cm

ed 250, signed, 40 x 40 cm

£390

£295

These fantastic Andrzej Kuhn prints are proving incredibly popular.

Mixed media prints on 320gsm Somerset Enhanced paper, each individually signed and numbered.

Each print is embossed in the margin, bottom right, with the Goldmark Atelier blindstamp.

visit www.andrzejkuhn.com

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Gordon House

39. Directional Pink

40. Manuscript Red

etching, 1978-79, ed 40, signed, 41 x 30 cm

etching, 1978-79, ed 40, signed, 41 x 30 cm

ÂŁ450

ÂŁ450

Gordon House (1932-2004) born in South Wales. 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 and Albert Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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Gordon House

41. Manx Yellow

42. Gothic Green

etching, 1978-79, ed 40, signed, 41 x 30 cm

etching, 1978-79, ed 40, signed, 41 x 30 cm

ÂŁ450

ÂŁ450

visit www.gordonhouseprints.com

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Allen Jones

43. Improvisation lithograph, 1988, ed 60, signed, 75 x 106 cm was

ÂŁ1200,

now

ÂŁ875

Born 1937. Studied at Hornsey and Royal College of Art and quickly developed an international reputation, with exhibitions in Paris, London, Tokyo and Sao Paulo.

Jones was famous for his Pop Art images, his glossy female forms owing something to American advertising of the 1960s. In the early 1980s Jones created freer silhouette-like coloured images. His work is held by Tate Gallery and Arts Council.

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Allen Jones

44. The Tree lithograph, 1988, ed 60, signed, 75 x 106 cm was

ÂŁ1200,

now

ÂŁ875

to order phone 01572 821 424

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