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Fine Paintings & Works on Paper
Fine Paintings & Works on Paper
Date: 11th Dec, 2024 12:00
Catalogue: Online Page Turning Catalogue
Date: 11th Dec, 2024 12:00
Auction Location: London, UK
centuries. Works from two estates feature in the sale: the estate of Alexander Iolas which includes bright and playful works by Jean
Hugo and Nikki de Sainte Phalle (lots 44-52), and works from the estate of Karsten Schubert, led by a green revolver (gun) on a
vibrant red background by Michael Craig-Martin (lot 53) whose major retrospective is currently on view in the Royal Academy,
Piccadilly.
Colour is a shared feature of many of the post-War works. A painting by the leading Washington Colour Field artist Gene Davis
is one of the sale highlights. Other adherents to colour field painting were Mark Rothko and Helen Frankenthaler. Davis worked
alongside Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland also from D.C. in the 1950s and ‘60s perfecting his distinctive stripe paintings.
65-6 by Davis (lot 58) is one such remarkable example from a London collection. Painted in acrylic on canvas the stripes dance,
rhyme and resonate before the viewer’s eye. From the same collection and similarly optical in effect are the works by Joe Tilson
(lot 60) from 1965, and an important and rare painting by the wholly under-valued Justin Knowles (lot 59) also painted in 1965.
A further colourist in the sale is Howard Hodgkin represented by Here we are in Croydon from 1979 (lot 63)
Modern British art is led by a very attractive group of four watercolours by John Nash, one of which is the cover of the catalogue
(lots 34-37). All four works were acquired between the 1940s and the early 1960s by the present owner’s grandfather who lived
near the artist and knew him well. Other leading British figurative painters featured in the sale includes Alan Lowdnes with a
classic oil on canvas of a street scene in Altrincham near Manchester (lot 40), and a group of three sketches by the young
Michael Andrews (lots 41-43). Elsewhere there are works by John Piper and humorous illustrations by graphic artists Ronald
Searle and Quentin Blake (lots 71 & 72)
Further afield, early works in the sale include two fine Cuzco paintings from Peru and later there are good examples by Australian
artists from the late 19th to the mid-20th century. These include a delicate watercolour by John Russell of the Pont de Neuilly
crossing the Seine, and a highly atmospheric painting of a dust storm in the New South Wales out back by John Charles Goodhart
of 1907 capturing an actual event that took place that year (lots 31 & 38). 19th / early 20th century works in the sale from Europe
include two ‘en plein-air’-ists – the German landscape painter Otto Modersohn who co-founded the painting school at Worpswede
in Bavaria in the 1890s (lot 19) and the Scottish painter Gemmel Hutchinson who was greatly influenced by both the Barbizon
school of artists in France and the Hague School in Holland, and like them advocated painting outdoors. Gemmel Hutchinson is
represented in the sale by three delightful oils of children (lots 27, 28 & 30). Estimates across the sale range from £300 to £15,000.
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