november 2011goldmark

John Piper

ARTISTS INDEX

Bacon, Francis 8

Benjamin, Anthony 33

Blake, Peter 17

Caulfield, Patrick 17

Christo 18,19

Delaunay, Sonia 14

Frink, Elisabeth back cover

Frost, Terry 12,13,17

Hockney, David 10

Hogarth, Paul 32

Hoyland, John 16

Hume, Gary 16

Irvin, Albert 16

Long, Richard 17

Magritte, René 15

Piper, John above, 20-25

Priseman, Robert 9

Quinn, Marc 16

Rothenstein, Michael 2,3

Sutherland, Graham 1

Thornton, Valerie 30,31

Tilson, Joe 4,5

Trevelyan, Julian 26-29

Warhol, Andy 11

Wootton, Olive 6,7

Many thanks to David Buckman, Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945

1. Houghton Hall, Norfolkpen and ink, 13.5 x 29.53 cm

£1250

Taken from a Piper sketchbook

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Graham Sutherland

2. Thorn Crosslithograph, 1955, signed, ed 100, 47.5 x 64 cm

Printed in Paris by Fernand Mourlot

£4500

Thorn Cross is considered to be Graham Sutherland’s mostimportant graphic work of the post-war era. Very scarce.

To order phone 01572 821424all prices include framing, vat and uk delivery

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Michael Rothenstein

3. Sun and Moonwood and metal construction, 1963, 133 x 98.5 cm

£12,500

Born into an influential artistic family in London MichaelRothenstein was the son of the artist Sir William Rothensteinand his brother John became Director of the Tate Gallery.Initially he studied art at the Chelsea Polytechnic followed bythe Central School of Arts, 1924-27.

In 1948 Rothenstein commenced printmaking, producinglithographs and monotypes, but four years later a profoundchange in his artistic style work started to evolve after heattended the avant-garde Atelier 17 print studio in Paris run byStanley Hayter. Rothenstein later said of the experience, . . . itabsolutely changed my life . . . it was all happening against thebackdrop of what Picasso was doing and what Braque andMatisse were doing, so it was heady stuff. To me it was anabsolute revelation . . . it was a most marvellous thing. Inentering this glittering world I felt I could discern huge tracts ofuntried country.

His work is held by many important public collections includingthe Tate Gallery, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the BritishMuseum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.Rothenstein was elected a Royal Academician in 1983.

The art critic Robin Garton has said of Rothenstein’s work, hiscreative imagination and the development of relief prints,especially in the direct use of found materials, have beeninternationally recognised, and have won him a string ofinternational prizes. Further praise came from Bryan Robinsonwho wrote, Rothenstein gave to British art a particularliveliness and joie de vivre, a relish for the physical world and asensual flair for colour and texture in both paintings and prints.

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Michael Rothenstein

Sun and Moon (1962)

Sun and Moon is a wood and metalconstruction measuring 52 x 39 ins.(133 x 98.5 cms). The work was shownat the New Vision Centre Gallery, Londonin 1963 in an exhibition entitled WoodMetal and Painted Reliefs which was thefirst show of Rothenstein’s constructedassemblages. Writing about the lattershow Mel Gooding called Rothenstein’swork . . .accomplished reliefconstructions, combining beaten copperand aluminium panels and foundfragments of wooden planking . . .Rothenstein characteristically exploitsthe intrinsic qualities of the materials fordramatic effect. The dull gleam of thecopper, the reflective brightness of thealuminium, the distinctive outlines andtextures of the wood, with its accidentsof knot and crack: all these features areenlisted into moody adumbrations oflandscape overhung by sun and moon.

Sun and Moon is illustrated, p.4, in MelGooding’s monograph MichaelRothenstein’s Boxes.

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Joe Tilson

Born in London in 1928. He studied at St. Martin’s Schoolof Art, where fellow students included Kossoff andAuerbach, followed by the Royal College of Art with PeterBlake. He won the Rome Prize in 1955 and from theearly 1960s became closely associated with the BritishPop Art movement when his work often involved the useof bold colours and schematized, emblematic imagerysometimes combined with grids as a structural device.These elements have occur in the work on offer hereDemeter (1990).

He has won several more prestigious awards includingthe Gulbenkian Foundation Prize (1960). He has hadmajor retrospectives in Vancouver (1979), Bristol (1984)and the Royal Academy (Tilson:Pop to Present, 2002). In1991 he was elected a Royal Academician and his work isheld by many important public collections.

The title refers to Demeterthe classical Greek goddessof the harvest, the fertilityof the earth, the seasons,fecundity etc. Tilson spellsout her name DEMETRA onthe canvas employingletters of the ancient Greekalphabet and depicts atleast two other of hersymbols, three ears ofwheat and a torch.

Demeter was exhibited at the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition,

Walker Art Gallery (1991) and Joe Tilson Works 1961-1991,

Waddington Galleries (1992). Reproduced Waddington Galleries

catalogue (p.19) and the monograph Tilson (p.162) published by

Thames & Hudson.

Tilson working in his studio at Christian Malford

4. Demeter (diptych)Oil on canvas on wood relief, 1990, 221 x 221 cm

The work is signed, inscribed and dated ‘DEMETER / Tilson

1990’ on the reverse.

£45,000

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Olive Wootton

5. Daphne

resin bonded bronze, 1990, 182 cm high, £11,750

bronze, ed 6, £35,000

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Olive Wootton was born in Lewisham and went on tostudy at Goldsmith’s College of Art where shegraduated with first class honours. In 1953 sheentered the Royal College of Art where her tutorsincluded the renowned sculptor John Skeaping andtwo years later she was represented in the YoungContemporaries exhibition in London. AlthoughWootton has exhibited throughout her life, it is sincethe untimely death of her painter husband, Gordon,that she has returned to sculpture with renewedenergy. She has exhibited with a number of galleries,societies and selected groups and has enjoyedconsiderable success with individual shows in Britainand overseas.

In 1992 she was elected an Associate Member of theRoyal Society of British Sculptors and in recent yearshas shown at the Royal Academy SummerExhibitions. She lives and works at her studio in anattractive area of rural Northamptonshire and herwork is represented in many public and privatecollections.

The artist Fred Cuming R.A. has described OliveWootton as being . . . the master of her medium. Thismastery requires years of dedication, a strong willand the discipline to put in the hours of work. Shehas acquired the techniques and now her ideas andvisions are in full flow.

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Metamorphosisof Daphne

Daphne was a river nymph in Greekmythology, being the daughter ofPeneus. She was the first and mostcelebrated of all Apollo’s loves, but hisattentions were not reciprocated. Hepursued her and she fled praying toMother Earth to save her – whereuponbranches sprouted from her arms androots from her feet. She wastransformed into a laurel tree. Toconsole himself Apollo made a laurelcrown.

Olive Wootton

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Francis Bacon

6. Portrait of John Edwardslithograph, c1989, proof aside from main edition, signed, 72 x 54 cm

£7500

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Robert Priseman

7. Two Doorsoil on canvas, 2004, 76.5 x 76.5 cm

was £5000, now £3500

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David Hockney

8. Dog Wall No 6etching, 1998, ed 35, signed, 30 x 35 cm

£7500

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This etching is from Hockney’s small,self-published series called Dog Wall,in which he pictured his two dogs,Stanley and Boodgie, resting while heworked in his studio. The etching issigned and dated in pencil byHockney and is also inscribed withthe letters B a T, short for Bon à Tirer,literally meaning good to pull.

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Andy Warhol

9. The Souper Dressscreenprint on cotton and cellulose dress, c1966, presented

in a purpose-made acrylic box, framed size 107.5 x 65 cm

£4750

To order phone 01572 821424all prices include framing, vat and uk delivery

Inspired by the work of Andy Warhol, TheSouper Dress was created in the 1960s byCampbell’s Soup for an advertising campaign.Paper dresses were fashionable at the time andthis is a classic example of fashion, art andindustry intersecting in one image.

We know of one example making an outrageous£24,000 at auction and last year a number soldat between £10,000 and £15,000. Most thathave sold for less money have been in very badcondition. Ours is near mint and we are pleasedto offer it at £4750.

The label reads:No Cleaning - No Washing - It's Carefree Fire Resistant Unless Washed or Cleaned

To Refreshen, Press Lightly with Warm Iron. 80% Cellulose, 20% Cotton

The dress is in The Metropolitan Museum of Artcollection, the Andy Warhol Museum, FIT, aswell as other museums and collections aroundthe world.

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Terry Frost

10. Thamar Y Amnon (Thamar and Amnon)etching and aquatint, 1989, ed 75, signed, 56.5 x 38.5 cm

£1450

From the late 1970s Frost began

incorporating Lorca's words and

ideas into his own work. The result

came in 1989 with the publication

of what is perhaps his most

important suite of prints: the LorcaPortfolio.

Dominic Kemp, author of Terry Frost Prints,

Lund Humphries, 2010,

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Terry Frost

11. Lilac and Red Tolcarnescreenprint, 1999, ed 75, signed, 87 x 48 cm

£2950

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Sonia Delaunay

12. Untitledlithograph, 1970, ed 75, signed, 54 x 39 cm

£1950

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René Magritte

13. Une Porte s'Ouvre sur la Nuit Veloutée . . .lithograph, 1968, ed 350, signed in plate, 27 x 47.5 cm

£1500

Magritte’s graphic work is scarce, with only five workscreated during his lifetime - two lithographs and threeetchings - where he personally worked the plates orstones. In addition there were another fifteen etchingsbut several of these were published posthumously.

This lithograph was from a work entitled the DomaineEnchanté, after a mural which he painted for the

Municipal Casino at Knokke-le-Zoute in Belgium. It wasexecuted by the renowned fine art printer FernandMourlot in Paris.

The suite was limited to a numbered edition of 350copies, of which this is number 302. Each lithograph issigned in pencil by Fernand Mourlot and in the stone byMagritte. They are printed on Vélin d’Arches art paper.

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Cultural Ties

14. Cultural Tiesed 300, signed in the cloth

£35 each

a. Albert Irvinsilk

b. Gary Humecotton and silk

c. John Hoylandsilk

d. Marc Quinnsilk

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Cultural Ties

e. Patrick Caulfieldsilk and cotton

f. Peter Blakesilk

g. Richard Longsilk

h. Terry Frostcotton and silk

Cultural Ties was a scheme devised and brought to fruitionbetween 1998 and 2000 by the independent arts curatorKapil Jariwala. Eighty artists from all over the world agreedto design ties for the scheme. The ties were produced insigned, limited editions of 300 each by the Italian firm ofRatti based at Como employing a variety of fabrics suchas silk, linen, velvet and taffeta.

We have a small number of each tie offered here.

Each tie comes in an acrylic presentation box which canbe easily wall mounted.

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Christo

15. The Umbrellas, Japanfour colour offset lithograph, 1991, signed, 50 x 99 cm

£450

At sunrise, on October 9, 1991, Christoand Jeanne-Claude's 1880 workers beganto open the 3100 umbrellas in Ibaraki andCalifornia, in the presence of the artists atboth sites. This Japan-USA temporary

work of art reflected the similarities anddifferences in the ways of life and the useof the land in two inland valleys, one 12miles long in Japan, and the other 18miles long in the USA.

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Christo

16. Wrapped Coast, Little Bay Australia four colour offset lithograph, 1969, 64.5 x 99 cm

£350

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John Piper

17. Nursery Frieze Ilithograph, 1936, 46 x 121.5 cm

£9000

We have just acquired these two extremely scarce John Piperprints, Nursery Frieze I & II. They were printed on very thin paperin 1937 and were intended to be pasted onto children's bedroomwalls. A fire destroyed most of the edition of Nursery Frieze I.These two are in great condition and Nursery Frieze II is signed.

Very scarce.

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John Piper

18. Nursery Frieze IIlithograph, 1936, signed, 46 x 121.5 cm

£6000

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John Piper

19. St Raphael, Dordogne screenprint, 1968, ed 70, signed, 57.5 x 78.5 cm

£2750

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John Piper

20. Capesthornescreenprint, 1977, ed 75, signed, 64 x 101 cm

£3450

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John Piper

21. Ottery St Maryscreenprint, 1987, ed 100, signed, 57 x 76 cm

£2750

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John Piper

22. St Germain-de-l’Ivretscreenprint, 1983, ed 75, signed, 45.7 x 66.8 cm

£2650

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Julian Trevelyan

23. Corpus College, Cambridgelithograph, 1959-62, ed 70, signed, 38.5 x 53.5 cm

£950

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Julian Trevelyan

24. St Catherine's College, Cambridgelithograph, 1959-62, artist’s proof, signed, 40 x 45.5 cm

£850

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Julian Trevelyan

25. Love and Friendshipetching with fabric pressed into soft ground from zinc plate

1932, signed, 18 x 23.5 cm

£750

26. Tuscanyetching and aquatint, 1964, ed 30, signed, 24.5 x 41.5 cm

£695

First published in 1932. Based on JaneAusten's Love and Friendship. This is oneof a small number of restrikes thatTrevelyan made for close friends after hisretrospective exhibition at Waterman's ArtCentre London, 1985.

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Julian Trevelyan

27. Hollandetching and aquatint, 1975, ed 52, signed, 48 x 35 cm

£1100

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Valerie Thornton

28. Suffolk Farmetching and aquatint, 1976, ed 150, signed, 36 x 59.5 cm

£650

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Valerie Thornton

29. The Bishop's Palace, St David'setching and aquatint, 1979, ed 79, signed, 42.5 x 61.5 cm

£850

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Paul Hogarth

30. The Harbour of Naousa. Greecelithograph, ed 200, signed, 42 x 59.5 cm

£275

Painter, illustrator, printmaker and teacher. Hogarthstudied at Manchester School of Art and obtained adoctorate at the Royal College of Art where he was asenior tutor in the faculty of graphic art. In 1981 he wascommissioned by the Imperial War Museum to depict theBerlin Wall. His work is held in the Fitzwilliam Museum,the V&A Museum and many other public galleries.

Paul Hogarth 1917-2001

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Anthony Benjamin

31. Gazeboetching, 1977, ed 100, signed, 41 x 59 cm

£450

To order phone 01572 821424all prices include framing, vat and uk delivery

Painter, printmaker, sculptor and teacher, Benjaminstudied drawing in Léger’s Paris Studio in 1951 and thenprintmaking with S. W. Hayter at Atelier 17 in Paris1958/9. He had an impressive series of internationalexhibitions including Gimpel Fils. His work is held in 60public collections including the Tate Gallery and MOMANew York.

Anthony Benjamin 1931-2002

Elisabeth Frink

32. Wood Pigeonlithograph, 1967, ed 50, signed, 39.5 x 68.5 cm

£2400

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