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Startacollection.Com startacollection.com “An unmissable fixture”The Financial Times Preview Days: Tuesday 7th and Wednesday 8th August, 10am–6pm Thursday 9th August 8am–7pm Friday 10th August 10am–6pm Saturday 11th August 10am–5pm Coffee and croissants being served to eager buyers, prior to our 8am opening, 2015. “Start a collection was conceived by us 15 years ago to provide a platform on which a first- time buyer could make a purchase with confidence. That defining moment proved to be a building block for many now established collections and numerous new friendships. For that reason more than any other, Start a Collection remains an eagerly awaited event in our exhibition calendar both for our clients and for ourselves.” All works are subject to availability. You can reserve ahead of time but priority is given to buyers in the gallery for the first half-hour of the opening day. Works can be previewed in the gallery on Tuesday and Wednesday ahead of the exhibition opening. Prices are valid for the duration of the exhibition only. Delivery of purchased items can be arranged through the gallery. ENQUIRE / RESERVE / BUY ENQUIRE / RESERVE / BUY 28 Cork Street, London, W1S 3NG | Telephone: +44 (0)20 7437 5545 | Email: [email protected] To reserve ahead of time or arrange to view please click here startacollection 2018 Three-day only exhibition and sale Thursday 9th August 8am-7pm Friday 10th August 10am-6pm and Saturday 11th August 10am-5pm Preview Days: Tuesday 7th and Wednesday 8th August, 10am-6pm Edwin Alexander RSA RWS RSW 1870–1926 Jeremy Annear Edwin Alexander developed a fascination with birds and he dedicated Annear trained at the Exeter College of Art and has taught at art himself to wildlife painting. He found his subjects in the country around colleges in the South West. He was had several solo shows at Musselburgh, Kirkcudbright and the Western Isles, capturing seabirds Messum’s, in St Ives, and at major German galleries. In the early 1990s along the coast and estuaries. he was artist-in-residence at the Atelierhaus Verlag in Worpswede, and visits to Australia introduced him to Aboriginal art, elements of which has influenced his work. Edwin Alexander Seagulls on an Estuary Jeremy Annear watercolour and gouache Genius Loci XI on linen oil on board 36 x 43 cms 20 x 28 cms 7 14 x 17 ins 7 ⁄8 x 11 ins £12,850 – £9,500 £2,340 – £1,755 Jeremy Annear Genius Loci X David Andrew b.1934 oil on board Andrew trained at the Slade, where his main influences were Ben 20 x 29 cms 7 1 Nicholson, Piet Mondrian and the psychology of perception. He later 7 ⁄8 x 11 ⁄4 ins taught at Bournemouth and Portsmouth, and travelled throughout £2,340 – £1,755 the Mediterranean, the US and Canada, where he taught at Queens University before returning to his native Cornwall in 2004. Jeremy Annear Beta IV David Andrew oil on canvas Waves Around Rock 14 x 30 cms 3 3 oil on canvas 5 ⁄8 x 11 ⁄4 ins £1,305 51 x 61 cms £1,740 – 1 20 ⁄8 x 24 ins £8,220 – £2,500 Jeremy Annear Folding Form IV (Field Green) oil on canvas 70 x 90 cms 1 3 27 ⁄2 x 35 ⁄8 ins David Andrew £11,820 – £8,865 Seascape with Nude oil on canvas 137 x 176 cms 7 1 53 ⁄8 x 69 ⁄4 ins £10,200 – £6,500 Jeremy Annear Harbour Forms III (Blue Edge) oil on canvas 50 x 70 cms 5 1 19 ⁄8 x 27 ⁄2 ins £5,820 – £4,365 ENQUIRE / RESERVE / BUY (please remember to include the artist/s name and artwork title/s you are interested in.) You can reserve ahead of time but priority is given to buyers in the gallery for the first half-hour of the opening day. Messum’s, 28 Cork Street, London W1S 3NG Tel: 020 7437 5545 www.startacollection.com startacollection 2018 Three-day only exhibition and sale 3 Mia Arnesby Brown 1866–1931 David Blackburn 1939–2016 The wife of Sir John Alfred Arnesby Brown, Mia Edwards was born Constantly balanced between the macro and the microscopic, his in Monmouthshire and trained with Hubert von Herkomer at Bushey. glowing pastels express Blake’s “world in a grain of sand” and invert In 1894, She exhibited work at the Nottingham Castle Exhibition of the elemental hierarchies of land, sky, horizon and our own earth- Cornish Painters and like Marianne Stokes and Elizabeth Forbes she bound point of view. excelled at child subjects. She exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, the Goupil Gallery and with the Society of Women Artists. David Blackburn Industrial Lanscape - West Riding Mia Arnesby Brown pastel Child with Daisies 62 x 50 cms 3 3 oil on canvas 24 ⁄8 x 19 ⁄4 ins 62 x 51 cms £8,500 – £4,500 1 1 24 ⁄4 x 20 ⁄4 ins £18,500 – £9,500 Jake Attree b.1950 David Blackburn Desert Landscape One of the North’s most acclaimed figurative artists, Jake Attree pastel works out of his studio at Dean Clough in Halifax, an enormous mill 36 x 42 cms complex that once housed Crossley Carpets. Over the past 25 years 1 1 14 ⁄8 x 16 ⁄2 ins he has exhibited his work widely throughout the UK, The Netherlands, £7,500 – £5,625 Germany and the US. Jake Attree An Extensive View Across an Ancient City oil on panel 121 x 121 cms David Blackburn 3 3 47 ⁄4 x 47 ⁄4 in Up The Hill £11,400 – £8,500 collage 36 x 29 cms 1 3 14 ⁄8 x 11 ⁄8 ins £6,850 – £5,140 Jake Attree Trees on the Hill oil pastel on grey board 45 x 64 cms 3 1 17 ⁄4 x 25 ⁄4 ins £5,100 – £1,750 David Blackburn Collage With Symbols pastel and collage Arthur Berry 1925–1994 42 x 37 cms Born in North Staffordshire, Berry trained at Burslem and the RCA. 1 5 16 ⁄2 x 14 ⁄8 ins His earliest influences were Robert Colquhoun, Robert MacBryde, £7,500 – £5,625 and above all, social realism. Throughout his work an undercurrent of anger runs parallel with his sympathy for the plight of the working class and the reality of the pit villages he called home. Arthur Berry David Blackburn Eviction,1982 Desert Orange chalk and ink pastel and collage 75 x 115 cms 37 x 39 cms 1 1 5 3 29 ⁄2 x 45 ⁄4 ins 14 ⁄8 x 15 ⁄8 ins £3,850 – £1,850 £6,850 – £5,140 ENQUIRE / RESERVE / BUY (please remember to include the artist/s name and artwork title/s you are interested in.) You can reserve ahead of time but priority is given to buyers in the gallery for the first half-hour of the opening day. Messum’s, 28 Cork Street, London W1S 3NG Tel: 020 7437 5545 www.startacollection.com startacollection 2018 Three-day only exhibition and sale 4 Norman Blamey OBE RA ROI 1914–2000 John Bratby RA 1928–1992 Norman Blamey became best known as a religious painter, but saw John Randall Bratby was an English painter who founded the kitchen himself as a humanist, who specifically saw his sitters as a means to sink realism style of art that was influential in the late 1950s. He made express both the sacred and the mundane. He trained and taught at portraits of his family and celebrities. His works were seen in television Regent Street Polytechnic, both before and after WWII. This personal and film. study of his wife Margaret Kelly is posed in their North London flat, and she had earlier modeled for many of Blamey’s postwar social subjects. Norman Blamey John Bratby A Bay Window in West Nice Hampstead, No 2, 1980 oil on board oil on board 1 3 122 x 84 cms 32 8 4 ⁄ x 42 ⁄ ins 48 x 33 ins 82 x 109 cms £8,500 – £6,000 £14,850 – £7,500 William Bowyer RA PP NEAC RP RWS 1926–2015 A Royal Academician and a President of the NEAC for over 30 years, Bowyer began as a Staffordshire ‘Bevin Boy’. He trained at night school, before moving on to the RCA under Ruskin Spear and Arthur John Trevor Briscoe 1873–1943 Carel Weight, and his work was marked by a strong sense of place, Born in Birkenhead, within easy reach of the great port of Liverpool, specifically his homes in Chiswick and on the Suffolk coast. Briscoe had sea in his blood. He was educated at Shrewsbury school and trained under Brown at the Slade Schools in London. He also spent some time at the Académie Julian in Paris. William Bowyer St Peter’s Square Chiswick: The Gardens, 1996 Arthur John Trevor Briscoe oil on canvas The Tramp 71 x 91 cms watercolour 3 28 x 35 ⁄8 ins 35 x 53 cms £3,500 3 7 £9,850 – 13 ⁄4 x 20 ⁄8 ins £1,500 – £750 William Bowyer Still Life with Mixed Flowers on Peter Brook RBA 1927–2009 the Table, 1965 Brook’s work was informed largely by the farm life, weather and oil on canvas humour of his native Yorkshire. He trained to be a teacher at 71 x 101 cms 3 Goldsmith’s College, followed by a stint in the RAF. By the 1960s he 28 x 39 ⁄4 ins £11,500 – £6,500 had his first solo show at the Wakefield City Art Gallery and found representation with Agnew’s.
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