This page lists artworks for sale from the 17th to 21st centuries and occasionally a few antiques and antiquities – from the collections of our private clients – priced from around one hundred, to tens of thousands of pounds and just occasionally hundreds of thousands of pounds.
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Relief painting 1964-5 | Richard Lin (1964-5)
Oil and aluminium on canvas, signed and dated verso, 50 x 40in, framed
£POA
Provenance | Marlborough Fine Art Ltd, London, Private collection by descent, Private collection since 2013
Enigma, 1983-2003 | Frank Pond (1924-2021)
Mixed media and collage, signed with initials, 22 x 17in, framed
£980 +ARR
Composition in Black, Yellow & Green 1959 | Hans Hartung
(Leipzig 1904-1989 Antibes)
Oil pastel, 37 x 27cm, signed and dated in a fine early gilt frame
Hartung lived and worked in France and he contributed to a renewal of abstract painting in France and was the primary figurehead of the School of Paris, developing gestural painting as early as the 1920s and 30s (ie before Pollock and Kline in the US). However, after substantial recognition in the 60s and 70s, interest in Hartung’s work waned and his work was relatively ignored until late into the second decade of this century. In 2018, after a successful retrospective at Perrotin’s New York gallery, his works were shown at the Kunstmuseum in Bonn, at Simon Lee in London, at Nahmad Contemporary in New York and at Brame & Lorenceau Gallery in Paris. Last year, marking the 30th anniversary of his death, the Museum of Modern Art, Paris organised a Hartung retrospective, including new acquisitions. These exhibitions have brought new momentum to the market of this essential artist, several of his major works have made in excess of £1m hammer price at auction.
Sold on behalf of a charitable arts foundation to fund art scholarships at The Royal College of Art, Royal College of Music and elsewhere
£PoA
Provenance | Exhibited with Gimpel Fils, London 1960 where bought by Mr & Mrs Lionel Fraser (Trustee of Tate Gallery) by family descent to Robert Fraser (Groovy Bob) | Estate of Robert Fraser 1986 by family descent thereafter
Hiroshima, only our shadows were left, 1989-2009 | Frank Pond (1924-2021)
Mixed media and collage, signed with initials, 28 x 18in, framed
£1,200 + ARR
Figures | John Kiki (b.1943)
Mixed media, 26 x 26in, framed
£5,000 + ARR
Anomalies Series 3 | Tracy Williams (contemporary)
Mixed media on canvas, 52 x 18in, unframed
£1,000 + ARR
7.IV.05 | Martin Battye (contemporary)
Oil on canvas, signed and inscribed verso, 22 x 22in, framed
£480
Abstract | Emrys Parry (contemporary)
Oil on canvas, signed verso, 9 x 9in, framed
£695
Old lookout, Orfordness 2004 | Peter Baldwin (contemporary)
Oil on canvas-board, signed with initials, 20 x 24in, framed
£1,850 + ARR
Female Torso | Herbert William Palliser
(Northallerton 1883-1963 London)
Charcoal, 40.5 x 30.5cm, signed
Herbert Palliser, best known for his sculpture, trained at Central School then The Slade. Among his public works are those in Vintner’s Place, Southampton Row and King William Street in central London.
£135
Southwold 1934 | Claude Muncaster
(1903-74)
Pen, ink and watercolour, 26.5 x 35.5cm, signed, inscribed and dated
Son of Royal Acadamician Oliver Hall, Claude changed his surname to Muncaster, to avoid the suggestion that he gained from his father’s name. Like his father he carreid on “the best traditions of English Painting”.
£390
On the Meuse, Holland | Luigi Mayer
(1755-1803)
Watercolour and gouache, 27.5 x 39cm, signed ‘Luigi Mayer, Roma, disegna’
Inscribed by the artist ‘Soborgo situate alle sponde della Mosa (Meuse) in Olanda. Copiato dal disegno originala del viaggio pittoresco del Sig Cav Robert Ainslie, fatto nel 1794.’ Mayer accompanied Sir Robert Ainslie (Ambassador to the Ottoman Porte from 1775-1791) on his return across Europe to Britain.
£1,200
Queenborough, Kent | Charles William Wyllie
(1853-1923)
Watercolour, 36 x 51cm, signed, in a gilt slip inscribed ‘C W WYLLIE’
Overall size 44.5cm x 58.5cm
Charles Wyllie was best known for his extensive maritime views particularly along the Thames. His works are in numerous British museums including the Tate, National Maritime Museum, Merseyside Maritime Museum and Portsmouth Museums.
£320
Whisper in my ear; What the birds and winds are singing; In your sunny atmosphere
~ Longfellow
Myles Birket Foster RWS
(North Shields 1825-1899 Weybridge)
Watercolour, 16.25 x 13.25cm, monogrammed
Mount inscribed with the title in an ormolu frame within a velvet lined mahogany box frame, overall size 44 x 41cm
Birket Foster illustrated several works for Longfellow (1807-92) including Evangeline and The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
£795
Chinese Armorial Porcelain 中国外销纹章瓷
A set of six Qianlong (1736-95) Chinese armorial plates | A chevron between three unicorns with couped heads, surmounted by a crest of a unicorn with a couped head, about which is a green and red floral surround all within a gilt floral swagged border. Very probably the arms of the Rutton family of Kent.
9.1in (23cm) diameter, unmarked, some paint losses particularly to the field of the arms and minor imperfections associated with the manufacture (6)
Chinese Armorial Porcelain has its focus on families having a direct connection to the East India Company as it was most frequently part of the ‘private trade’ carried to Europe in the personal cargo allowance of the captain. It was normally of a higher quality than the general chinaware that the East India Company imported for domestic use and usefully served as ballast for the cargo of tea. Orders were carried from Europe by the captains to Whampoa (the anchorage for Canton); the kilns were often over 500 miles away over the mountains in Jingdezhen and the ships returned with the goods often two or three years later. Dr Isaac Rutton is traditionally associated with Kentish silk and tobacco smuggling via the continent. He, one can speculate, might have had the contacts to secure such items. He lived behind a veil of propriety whilst discreetly operating the Seasalter Smuggling Company.
£285
Provenance | The property of an English noble family until 2018. It has not been established to whom or at what date the arms were granted: the earliest use yet found is on the gravestone of Rev. Mathias Rutton (c1613-1686)
Menton 1929 | Herbert William Palliser
(Northallerton 1883-1963 London)
Pen, ink, charcoal and wash, 35.5 x 24cm
Signed in ink, inscribed and dated in pencil
Herbert Palliser, best known for his sculpture, trained at Central School then The Slade. Among his public works are those in Vintner’s Place, Southampton Row and King William Street in central London.
£150
Off Goes the Groom Without his Dog | Mary Newcomb
(1922-2008)
Oil on board, 75 x 76cm, signed and dated, title inscribed verso, framed
£13,800 + ARR
Provenance | A gift from Mary Newcomb to her artist friends Tom & Bod Wright (who met at Benton End) | The Estate of Bod Wright 2015 | Private Collection, Norfolk
Nude circa 1928-30 | Fritz Josefovicz (1908-1967)
Waxed crayon on paper, framed
£1,200
Provenance | The artist’s estate and by familial descent
To be included in the forthcoming exhibition German Expressionists and the Third Reich, Holt Festival 13-27 July 2024
Seaside window I | Fred Dubery (1926-2011)
Relief panel, oil, 38 x 46in, framed,
£1,500 + ARR
Provenance | Private collection, London
The Game | Franz Borghese (1941-2005)
Oil on canvas, signed, 19 x 25in, framed
£4,750 + ARR