Modern British and 20th Century Art Tuesday 26 February 2019 at 10am FINE INTERIORS an auction of British and European Fine Art and Furniture, to include the Principal Contents of Holland House, Huntingfield, Suffolk Tuesday 12 and Wednesday 13 March at 10am Enquiries: Edward Seago (1910-1974) James Pickup SEPTEMBER MORNING, SUFFOLK Oil on canvas [email protected] £25,000 - 35,000 01279 817778 MODERN BRITISH AND 20TH CENTURY ART at the Stansted Mountfitchet Auction Rooms Tuesday 26 February 2019 at 10am LOTS 1 - 302 Modern British and 20th century prints, watercolours, paintings and sculpture VIEWING TIMES Friday 22 February 9am - 5pm Sunday 24 February 10am - 1pm Monday 25 February 9am - 5pm Tuesday 26 February From 9am ONLINE BIDDING Bid live at www.sworder.co.uk (3% surcharge) FURTHER INFORMATION: Contact: Amy Scanlon Telephone: 01279 817778 Email: [email protected] To obtain more images and condition reports for lots in this catalogue, please visit our website www.sworder.co.uk MODERN BRITISH AND 20TH CENTURY PRINTS, WATERCOLOURS, PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE 1-302 1 Lot 1 *Edward Bawden RA (1903-1989) CHRYSANTHEMUMS AND EMMA NELSON Signed l.r., pencil and watercolour 47 x 64cm £4,000 - 6,000 Exhibited: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 1989. Provenance: With the Fine Art Society, 1990. Each lot is subject to Buyer’s Premium at 27.6% inclusive of VAT @ 20% 4 Lots marked * will be subject to an additional fee - please see ARR details on pages 98-99 1-302 MODERN BRITISH AND 20TH CENTURY PRINTS, WATERCOLOURS, PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE 2 3 Lot 2 Lot 3 Lot 4 *Edward Bawden RA (1903-1989) *Edward Bawden RA (1903-1989) *Michael Rothenstein RA (1908-1993) ‘AESOP’S FABLES: FROG, MOUSE AND KITE’ ‘KEW PALACE’ ‘THE YELLOW WHEEL’ Linocut, signed, inscribed with title and Lithograph printed in colours, 1960, signed, Signed and dated 1942 u.r., pen and ink dated 1973 in pencil, artist’s proof 17/50 inscribed with title and numbered 5/160 in and watercolour image 43 x 58cm pencil 42.5 x 52.5cm £700 - 1,000 sheet 63.5 x 76.5cm £2,000 - 3,000 £300 - 500 Provenance: With the Redfern Gallery, London, 1997. 4 www.sworder.co.uk 5 MODERN BRITISH AND 20TH CENTURY PRINTS, WATERCOLOURS, PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE 1-302 5 Lot 5 *John Aldridge RA (1905-1983) ‘IRONBRIDGE, SEP. 1956’ Signed and dated ‘56 l.l., inscribed with title verso, oil on board 27 x 36cm £800 - 1,200 6 Provenance: Michael Cooke Studio Gallery, Coggeshall. Lot 6 *Tessa Newcomb (b.1955) LANDSCAPE WITH A CHURCH AND COWS Signed with initials and dated ‘04 l.r., oil on board 9 x 40cm £150 - 250 Lot 7 *Tessa Newcomb (b.1955) TWO WOMEN AND A SEAGULL Signed with initials and dated 2002 l.l., oil on board 15 x 20cm £200 - 300 7 Each lot is subject to Buyer’s Premium at 27.6% inclusive of VAT @ 20% 6 Lots marked * will be subject to an additional fee - please see ARR details on pages 98-99 1-302 MODERN BRITISH AND 20TH CENTURY PRINTS, WATERCOLOURS, PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE 8 9 Lot 8 Lot 9 Lot 10 *Colin Wilkin (b.1971) *Walter Hoyle (1922-2000) *Laurence Stephen Lowry RA (1887-1976) THE GARDEN ‘BLUE HEAD’ ‘THE FEVER VAN’ Indistinctly inscribed in Etching and aquatint, signed Offset lithograph printed in colours, signed in pencil, pencil, watercolour in pencil l.r. from an edition of 700, published in 1972 by Mainstone 21 x 23.5cm image 63.5 x 47.5cm Print, with the Fine Art Trade Guild blindstamp £150 - 200 £200 - 300 image 41 x 51.5cm £1,000 - 1,500 10 www.sworder.co.uk 7 MODERN BRITISH AND 20TH CENTURY PRINTS, WATERCOLOURS, PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE 1-302 11 12 Lot 11 Lot 12 Lot 13 Lot 14 *Dame Elizabeth Blackadder *Dame Elizabeth Blackadder *Dame Elizabeth Blackadder *Dame Elisabeth Frink RA RA RSA (b.1931) RA RSA (b.1931) RA RSA (b.1931) (1930-1993) BLACK CAT CAT AND ORCHID IRISES ‘WILD CAT’ Lithograph printed in colours, Lithograph printed in colours, Lithograph printed in colours, Lithograph printed in signed and numbered 61/75 signed and numbered 50/100 signed and numbered 38/50 colours, signed and in pencil in pencil in pencil numbered 33/70 in pencil 53 x 70cm sheet 60 x 43cm, unframed sheet 60 x 43cm, unframed sheet 52 x 66cm £300 - 400 £300 - 400 £300 - 500 £400 - 600 With an accompanying letter from the artist attached verso. 13 14 Each lot is subject to Buyer’s Premium at 27.6% inclusive of VAT @ 20% 8 Lots marked * will be subject to an additional fee - please see ARR details on pages 98-99 1-302 MODERN BRITISH AND 20TH CENTURY PRINTS, WATERCOLOURS, PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE Lot 15 *Julian Trevelyan RA (1910-1988) OWL (TURNER 218) Etching with aquatint printed in colours, signed, inscribed with title and numbered 70/100 in pencil, printed by Studio Prints, London sheet 52 x 63cm, unframed £400 - 600 Lot 16 *Valerie Thornton (1931-1991) ‘ARNO’ 15 16 Etching with aquatint, signed, inscribed with title and numbered 39/50 in pencil sheet 53 x 66cm £100 - 150 Lot 17 *John Piper CH (1903-1992) ‘EXTON RUTLAND: MONUMENT BY GRINLING GIBBONS’ (LEVINSON 126) Signed in pencil and numbered 13/70, lithograph printed in colours, from ‘A Retrospective of Churches’, printed by Curwen Studio, London, published by Marlborough Fine Art, London image 74 x 51cm £200 - 400 Lot 18 *Leon Kossoff (b.1926) ‘OUTSIDE KILBURN 17 19 UNDERGROUND’ Etching, signed, inscribed with title and numbered 8/15 in pencil plate mark 40.5 x 50.5cm £800 - 1,200 Lot 19 *Sophie Ryder (b.1963) MINOTAUR Aquatint, signed and dated ‘96 in pencil, numbered 23/50 plate mark 29 x 29cm £150 - 250 18 www.sworder.co.uk 9 MODERN BRITISH AND 20TH CENTURY PRINTS, WATERCOLOURS, PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE 1-302 Lot 20 Eric Gill (1882-1940) ‘THE ANGEL OF SAINT MATTHEW’; ‘THE LION OF SAINT MARK’; ‘THE BULL-CALF OF SAINT LUKE’; ‘THE EAGLE OF SAINT JOHN’ Four wood engravings, 1931, from ‘The Four Gospels’ published by The Golden Cockerel Press, on wove paper 25 x 19cm (4) £150 - 250 20 Lot 21 Eric Gill (1882-1940) ‘AND: THE RAISING OF LAZARUS’ Wood engraving, Faber Edition 1934 10 x 17cm and two others, one numbered 11/30 ST JOHN; ‘THERE’ (3) £100 - 200 Provenance: The first with Goldmark Gallery. 21 Each lot is subject to Buyer’s Premium at 27.6% inclusive of VAT @ 20% 10 Lots marked * will be subject to an additional fee - please see ARR details on pages 98-99 1-302 MODERN BRITISH AND 20TH CENTURY PRINTS, WATERCOLOURS, PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE 22 Lot 22 Lot 23 Lot 24 Lot 25 *William Scott RA (1913-1989) *Richard Smith (1931-2016) *Michael English *Michael English ‘SCALPAY’ ‘LOGO SUITE C’ (1941-2009) (1941-2009) Lithograph, 1963, signed and Vacuum forced screenprint relief, ‘SPOON’ ‘V8’ inscribed ‘Trial Proof’ and ‘Studio signed and dated 71 in pen l.l., Screenprint in colours, 1970, Screenprint in colours, 1970, Copy’, aside from the edition of 65, numbered 8/75 printed by The Shenval Press, printed by The Shenval Press, from Europäische Graphik I portfolio, 60 x 50cm, in a perspex box frame Harlow, published by Motif Harlow, published by Motif printed by Curwen Studio £400 - 600 Editions, on wove paper, the Editions, on wove paper, the image 50.5 x 63.5cm full sheet full sheet Provenance: Norton Gallery and £1,400 - 1,600 90 x 62cm, unframed 62 x 90cm, unframed School of Art, West £150 - 250 £150 - 250 Provenance: Belgrave, St Ives. Palm Beach, Florida. 23 24 25 www.sworder.co.uk 11 MODERN BRITISH AND 20TH CENTURY PRINTS, WATERCOLOURS, PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE 1-302 26 27 Lot 26 Lot 27 *Sir Peter Blake RA (b.1932) *Sir Peter Blake RA (b.1932) ‘FAG PACKETS (LA RONDE)’, 2004 ‘FAG PACKETS (BOULE)’, 2004 Screenprint in colours, signed and numbered 75/95 in pencil, Screenprint, signed and numbered 75/95 in pencil, published published by CCA Galleries London, on wove paper by CCA Galleries London, on wove paper sheet 101 x 76cm sheet 101 x 76cm £2,000 - 3,000 £2,000 - 3,000 Lots 28-29 Spare lots Each lot is subject to Buyer’s Premium at 27.6% inclusive of VAT @ 20% 12 Lots marked * will be subject to an additional fee - please see ARR details on pages 98-99 1-302 MODERN BRITISH AND 20TH CENTURY PRINTS, WATERCOLOURS, PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE 30 31 Lot 30 Lot 31 *Dorothea Sharp (1874-1955) Mikhail Zharov (Russian, b.1974) A STILL LIFE OF SUMMER FLOWERS IN A VASE A STILL LIFE OF A VASE OF IRISES, A VASE OF ROSES, A COFFEE Signed l.l., oil on board POT AND A JUG ON A TABLE 51 x 41cm Oil on canvas £2,000 - 3,000 89 x 58cm £800 - 1,000 www.sworder.co.uk 13 MODERN BRITISH AND 20TH CENTURY PRINTS, WATERCOLOURS, PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE 1-302 Lot 32 Oleg Stanichnov (Ukranian, contemporary) A STILL LIFE WITH A KETTLE, A JUG, CHILLIES, ONIONS AND GARLIC Signed l.l., inscribed and dated 2013 verso, oil on canvas 54 x 64cm £400 - 600 Lot 33 Emmanuel Gondouin (French, 1883-1934) A STILL LIFE OF FLOWERS IN A VASE Stamped l.r., pencil and watercolour 45 x 31cm £300 - 500 Lot 34 *Alma Wolfson (b.1942) A FLORAL ARRANGEMENT ON A CHAIR Signed l.r., inscribed on label verso, watercolour and bodycolour 37 x 32cm £150 - 250 32 33 34 Each lot is subject to Buyer’s Premium at 27.6% inclusive of VAT @ 20% 14 Lots marked * will be subject to an additional fee - please see ARR details on pages 98-99 1-302 MODERN BRITISH AND 20TH CENTURY PRINTS, WATERCOLOURS, PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE 35 37 36 Lot 35 Lot 37 Modern British School English School, 1930s MAGNOLIA BLOSSOM IN A GLASS A STILL LIFE OF TULIPS VASE Indistinctly signed l.l., oil on canvas Signed with monogram and 56 x 46cm dated ‘50 l.l., oil on canvas £200 - 300 40 x 50cm Provenance: With the New English £200 - 300 Art Club, label torn.