Mixed Artist Online Catalogue - August 09

goldmark august 2009

Stop Press a date for your diary SUNDAY 27th SEPTEMBER 2009 A PIPER FEST AT GOLDMARK GALLERY • Launch of Frances Spalding’s new biography of John Piper, published by OUP • A chance to meet the author who will sign copies • Launch of the new Goldmark film on Piper • Selling exhibition of over 100 Piper prints

SPECIAL LAUNCH DAY DEAL buy both book and film at the gallery for only £30 and have your book signed Contact us for an invitation info@goldmarkart.com 01572 821424 ARTISTS INDEX Bellmer, Hans

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Frost, Sir Terry

Blake, Peter

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Grant, Alistair

Blow, Sandra Caulfield, Patrick Chapman, George Epstein, Jacob

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back cover

Sutton, Trevor

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Paolozzi, Eduardo

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Tillyer, William

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Hamilton Fraser, Donald 32

Pasmore, Victor

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Trevelyan, Julian

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Hemsworth, Gerard

Piper, Edward

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O’Connor, John

Mara, Tim

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Piper, John

Neville, Alison

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Scarfe, Gerald

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John Piper

1. Garn Fawr lithograph, 1981, ed 75, signed, 38.5 x 53.5 cm,

ÂŁ1850

John Piper first came to know Pembrokeshire in the 1930s through his wife Myfanwy but it was only in 1962 that they acquired Garn Fawr Cottage near Strumble Head. The cottage derives its name from the craggy rock outcrop beneath which it nestles and the single storey structure is built from local stone and roofed with Welsh slate. Piper used the cottage as a retreat and studio and usually returned there several times each year painting and drawing Garn Fawr and the surrounding landscape on many occasions.

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John Piper

The Garn Fawr Collage

Collage was an important constituent in Piper’s art and relating to his work in the early 1960s David Fraser Jenkins has written, in the collages … the drawing and colour lie in the angular and circular shapes of the cut papers, which are more rhythmical than in the pre-war collages, but are similarly on the surface … [this style] was extended further in abstract landscapes, that is abstract paintings taken from a landscape composition and so titled. These have remained one of the extremes of his style, but the application with separate black lines and colours, like Garn Fawr was not continued beyond 1963.

(Tate Gallery catalogue, 1983)

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This abstract image of Garn Fawr, in gouache and ink, is an interesting example of Piper’s use of the collage technique where, in this instance, he has stuck coloured paper cutouts onto the main background sheet of paper.

The collage is not dated but was probably painted around 1962/63 as it bears distinct similarities to Piper’s important oil painting of Garn Fawr (1962) which was included in his major retrospective exhibition at the Tate Gallery in 1983. It is of course possible that Piper used the collage Garn Fawr in order to work out ideas for the oil painting.

John Piper

2. Garn Fawr ink, gouache and collage, c1962/63, signed, 57.5 x 78.5 cm,

ÂŁ16,750

A rare chance to buy a superb abstract Piper original.

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Sir Terry Frost

Terry Frost, 1915-2003, began abstract painting in 1949, shortly before returning to St Ives where he worked as an assistant to Barbara Hepworth. Frost is notable for his use of primary colours and of shapes reflecting Cornish marine life, its bobbing boats and heaving water. Exhibited widely internationally with major retrospectives at RA and Tate St Ives. Elected RA in 1992 and was knighted in 1998.

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Sir Terry Frost

3. Sun Ships in the Cup of the Mountain ÂŁ12,000

gouache and collage, 1989, signed, 56.8 x 38.2 cm,

This wonderful gouache and collage was made to accompany a special set of Frost’s Lorca prints.

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George Chapman

4. Church and Houses, Swansea £6000

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 in one’s peripheral 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.

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George Chapman

5. Street Scene, Rhondda Valley ÂŁ4500

oil on canvas, c1960, 58 x 48.5 cm,

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William Tillyer

6. Untitled watercolour, signed, 28 x 38 cm,

ÂŁ950

William Tillyer, born 1938, attended the Slade 1960-62, studying painting with Coldstream and etching with Anthony Gross. Tillyer taught in British art schools until 1973 when he became visiting professor at Brown University in America.

He is widely represented in public galleries including the V&A, the Arts Council and the Tate as well as MOMA in New York.

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Julian Trevelyan

7. Hay Cart original steel etching plate, 1972, 35 x 47.5 cm,

ÂŁ950

The plate cancelled by the drilling of two holes.

The image to the left shows the finished etching produced using this plate.

The printing process reverses the image.

visit www.juliantrevelyan.com

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Alistair Grant

8. Untitled screenprint, AP aside from ed 20, signed, 56.5 x 77 cm,

ÂŁ975

for the pair

Alistair Grant, 1925-1997, painter, printmaker, artist and teacher. From 1955, for many years, Grant taught printmaking at the Royal College of Art eventually taking the Chair of Printmaking in 1984 until his retirement in 1990. Grant had a keen painterly sense of colour in pictures that were at first figurative and later abstract. His work is held in numerous major museums both in the UK and abroad.

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Alistair Grant

9. Untitled screenprint, ed 20, signed, 56.5 x 77 cm,

ÂŁ975

for the pair

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Victor Pasmore

10. Untitled screenprint, 1979, ed 20, signed, 80 x 107 cm,

ÂŁ2000

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Victor Pasmore

11. Quiet is the Island etching, 1974, AP aside from ed 60, signed, 40 x 48.7 cm,

ÂŁ1250

Since his death in 1998, the popularity of Pasmore's prints has grown immensely, with the earlier work becoming very scarce. He has now become one of the gallery’s best-selling artists. His work is held in most leading U.K. collections. Pasmore was made a Companion of Honour in 1981 and elected R.A. in 1984.

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Victor Pasmore

12. Points of Contact No 26 screenprint, 1974, ed 70, signed, 58.5 x 53.5 cm,

ÂŁ1600

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Victor Pasmore

13. Untitled screenprint, 1989, ed 20, signed, 70 x 101 cm,

ÂŁ2500

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Jacob Epstein

Jacob Epstein (1880-1959).

Recognised by many of his peers and art historians as one of the great sculptors of the 20th century, whose prices, as yet, do not reflect his status.

Lady Kathleen Epstein (née Garman, 1901 – 1979) was the third of seven sisters, high profile members of artistic circles in midtwentieth century London, renowned for their beauty and scandalousness.

She was the muse and long-time mistress of Epstein, and finally his second wife. They met in 1921 and immediately began a relationship that lasted until Epstein's death and produced three of Epstein's five children, Theo, Kitty and Esther.

It has a sultry summer afternoon quality…Lips parted, eyes half closed, Kathleen basks sensuously, full of honey.

Evelyn Silber

14. Second Portrait of Kathleen bronze, 1922, signed, 39 cm high,

£22,500

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There will be a major showing of Epstein’s sculpture at the Royal Academy from this October, when his work will sit alongside that of Eric Gill and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.

Jacob Epstein

From about 1910 to 1930 Jacob Epstein was the best artist working in England, and he defended most nobly the repeated assaults of philistinism. He started as a master of style; he ended as a master of truth.

Looking back on his work it is incredible that he was once insulted and abused.

Lord Clarke.

In the Girl from Baku Epstein found something of that ‘Nefertiti look’ he had descried in Dolores, in Kathleen and in Isobel. He modelled her with head held high, conscious of her beauty, a torrent of hair falling behind her shoulders: the naked torso, with arms at her sides, is cut off just above the navel.

Evelyn Silber

15. Girl From Baku bronze, 1944, signed, 56.5 cm high,

£25,000

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Sandra Blow

16. Squares in Orbit screenprint, ed 75, signed, 72.5 x 72.5 cm,

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ÂŁ1250

Sandra Blow

17. Colour Within screenprint with collage, studio proof ed 2, signed, 71 x 70.7 cm,

ÂŁ1250

We do not know if this print was ever editioned.

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Eduardo Paolozzi

18. Turing Suite 1 and 2 screenprint, 2000, printer’s proof, signed, 48.5 x 66.5 cm,

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ÂŁ750

Eduardo Paolozzi

19. Arunjuex screenprint, 1974, artist’s proof, signed, 84 x 61 cm,

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£950

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Gerard Hemsworth

20. Reflection digital print, 2002, artist’s proof (for Tony) aside from ed 50, signed, 61 x 61 cm,

£350

Gerard Hemsworth, born 1945, sculptor and painter. Studied at St. Martin’s School of Art 1963-67. Eventually became Professor of Fine Art at Goldsmith’s College. Has had numerous shows and won many awards.

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Gerard Hemsworth

21. Hide and Seek digital print, 2002, artist’s proof (for Tony) aside from ed 50, signed, 61 x 61 cm,

ÂŁ350

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Edward Piper

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Untitled Nudes screenprints, 1970, signed proofs, 70 x 55 cm,

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ÂŁ295

each

Edward Piper

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Edward Piper, 1938-1990. Painter, photographer and graphic designer, son of the artist John Piper. Studied at Corsham under Howard Hodgkin followed by four years at the Slade. For twenty years he worked on the Shell Guides with his father. In his later years he concentrated more on his painting; a delicate sense of colour and felicitous line especially employed on landscapes and female nudes.

Where would we be without David Buckman’s two volume Artist’s in Britain Since 1945 - indispensible.

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Tim Mara

26. Wire Glass and Carrier Bag lithograph and screenprint, 1996, ed 100, signed, 56.2 x 76.3 cm,

ÂŁ450

From Twelve Artists, the Royal College of Art Centenary Year Portfolio of Prints published by Royal College of Art.

Tim Mara, 1948-1997, Dublin-born printmaker and teacher.

Mara succeded Alistair Grant as Professor of Printmaking at the Royal College.

His work is held in the Tate Gallery, the V&A and countless other public collections.

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Patrick Caulfield

27. Plant Pot screenprint, 1979/80, printer’s proof aside from ed 100, signed, 84 x 59.5 cm,

ÂŁ1600

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Hans Bellmer

28. La CĂŠphalopode etching, c1965, signed HC, 24.5 x 22.3 cm,

ÂŁ350

Hans Bellmer, 1902-1975. Polish-French painter and graphic artist renowned for the erotic quality of his work. In 1923 he began to construct jointed and articulated dolls which he photographed in a variety of erotic postures. From these he was encouraged to join the Surrealist movement. He later settled in Paris and turned to etching, devoting his superb technique to his obsession with the female body.

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Trevor Sutton

29. V etching, 1998, printer’s proof ed 2, signed, 38.3 x 38.3 cm,

ÂŁ175

Trevor Sutton, born in Essex, 1948. Studied at Hornsey College of Art and Birmingham Polytechnic. Favours subtle, refined and apparently simple geometrical, abstract shapes. Exhibits widely and has won many prizes. Work is held by the Tate, the Arts Council and many other notable collections.

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Peter Blake

30. Demonstrations in a Department Store 1 screenprint, 1998, ed 70, signed, 50.5 x 69 cm

ÂŁ750

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Gerald Scarfe

31. The Ghost of Christmas Past offset lithographic print, ed 1000, signed in print, 42 x 29.5 cm

ÂŁ175

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Donald Hamilton Fraser

32. Dancer screenprint, 1996, printer’s proof ed 5, signed, 68.3 x 49 cm,

£450

Donald Hamilton Fraser, born 1929. Studied at St Martin’s School of Art from 1949 to 1952 and gained a French Government Scholarship to Paris in 1953 where he lived and worked for two years from 1953 to 1954. In 1957 he became Visiting Tutor at the Royal College of Art, where he remained until 1983. Is a Fellow of the Royal College of Art and was elected Royal Academician in 1985. Exhibits widely around the world and has work in the collections of H.M. The Queen, the RA, the Arts Council and the British Government Art Collection amonst many others.

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Alison Neville

33. The Mathematical Bridge, Cambridge etching, ed 50, signed, 47.5 x 65.6 cm, ÂŁ350

Alison Neville, born in Zimbabwe in 1945. Artist and printmaker. Studied in Gloucestershire, Portsmouth, London and Boston. Alison specialises in architectural subjects and has travelled widely to collect material for her etchings.

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John O’Connor

34. View to the Lake oil on board, signed, 74 x 100 cm,

ÂŁ1750

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