A selection of sold works from the collections of our private clients
The River Thurne | Edward Seago
(Norfolk 1910-1974 Norfolk)
Oil on board, signed, 10.75 x 14in
The River Thurne runs south-west from Hickling Broad passing about a mile from Ludham where Edward Seago lived and painted.
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Provenance | Marlborough Galleries, London 1968 | Private Collection UK | Estate of Joan Baker Deceased
A Norfolk Regatta [at Blakeney] | Edward Seago
(1910-1974)
Oil on board, signed, 16 x 20in
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Exhibited | Edward Seago – The Instinctive Artist, Holt Festival 2017
Provenance | Marlborough Galleries, London, 1968 | Private Collection, London/Cambridge | Estate of Joan Baker Deceased, 2019
Evening at Caserta 1945 | Edward Seago
(1910-1974)
Oil on board, signed with initial “S” and dated 1945
This small oil sketch was painted at Caserta in Italy where the Supreme Allied Commander (Mediterranean Forces) Field Marshall Alexander had based his headquarters and received the German surrender to the Allies on April 29th 1945.Seago, having been ill with heart problems in the autumn of 1944 was retired from the army by the medical board.
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Provenance | Derek Hamblen Collection | Private Collection
Primrose & Viola 1992 | Carolyn Sergeant
(1937-2018)
Oil on card, 20.3 x 29.2cm, framed, monogrammed and dated 1992
Carolyn Sergeant studied fine art at Wimbledon then the RA Schools. Highly regarded she had one man shows at many of London’s leading galleries including the Waterhouse and Waterman Galleries, Hazlett, Gooden & Fox, The Fine Art Society and with Sir Jack Baer at Colnaghi’s.
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Meadowsweet
c.1926 | Richard Sorrell (
b. 1948)
Oil on board, 40 x 30cm, signed and dated 1994, framed
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Street Scene, Dieppe 1951 | Edward Seago
(1910-1974)
Watercolour, 10.5 x 14.5in (27 × 37.5cm), signed and framed
In the years after the war Edward Seago sailed his studio-boat Capricorn across the Chanel to paint in Holland, Belgium, France & Italy. In 1951 he painted for a few days in the Normandy coastal town of Dieppe, before sailing west & up the Seine towards Paris.
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Provenance | Laing Galleries, Toronto, Canada (where purchased by Murray Bell, Toronto, Canada) | Private Collection, Norfolk, UK | Glennie’s – Impressionist & Modern Paintings – 6th April 1990 Lot 2 (where purchased by the present owner) | Private Collection, Norfolk, UK
Grand Rue, Petit Anderly 1951 | Edward Seago (1910-1974)
Oil on board, signed
Painted on one of his many painting trips on his studio-boat Capricorn, on this occasion sailing up the Seine towards Paris, he moored for a couple of days at the Normandy village of Petit Anderlys, below the ruin of Chateau Gaillard, built by Richard Coeur de Lion. Jean Goodman writes of this subject in her biography Edward Seago – The Other Side of the Canvas [pp 215-6], she recalls his words from his last book With Capricorn to Paris “…For Me, this glimpse of it was a wish come true Seago wrote, remembering the first time he had seen a painting of the Chateau. It was in the book by Sir Alfred East which, as a boy, had stirred his imagination and he had longed to visit it and other far-away places, instead of carrying his paints down to the familiar meadows behind his Norfolk home. On that trip up the Seine he painted the Chateau and the view from the top of its hill…”
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Provenance | Private Collection UK | Bonhams Modern Pictures & Sculpture 29th November 1995 Lot 104 (where bought by the present owner) | Private collection Norfolk, UK
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
The White Sunshade | Fred Dubery
(1926-2011)
Oil on canvas, 19 x 12.3cm, unframed
For sale on behalf of East Anglia Art Fund to raise funds to support great art in the region and scholarships for art & design students.
£380
Boats at Rye 1927 | Edward Seago (1910-1974)
Oil on board, signed with initials, 10.25 x 13in, framed
At the age of ten Edward Seago announced to his parents he intended to be a painter. Three years later he wrote to Bertram Priestman RA, who during the summers lived at Walberswick, not far from his prep school in Suffolk, who took him under his wing, giving him his first lessons. At sixteen in 1926, he had two paintings accepted for the Norwich Art Circle exhibition, shown alongside loans by the already important East Anglain artists Arnsby Brown and Munnings. A year later, encouraged by Priestman, he submitted his first painting to the Royal Academy. Still a teenager in 1929, his first one-man show in London was held at The Arlington Gallery in Old Bond Street, twenty-three paintings sold on the first day (some priced as highly as £150). This very charming early work was painted when he was only seventeen, in the same year as his first submission to the Royal Academy. The view across the estuary towards the town is much the same today.
£9,360
Provenance | Given by the artist to Dr Kirk Bryce, 112 All Saints Green, Norwich in lieu of payment. [Seago had suffered from heart & chest problems throughout his childhood, so Dr Bryce had played an important part in his life. The doctor’s practice at All Saints Green, also had Alfred Munnings as a patient.] | Sold on behalf of the estate of Dr Bryce by New Mill Gallery, Morton-on-the-Hill, Norwich in 1992 | Thereafter: Private Collection Norfolk, UK
Iris
1985 | Elizabeth Blackadder
(Falkirk 1931-2021 Edinburgh)
Watercolour
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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
It’s a Good Space 1998 | Sir Terry Frost RA
(Leamington Spa 1915-2003 Newlyn)
Six colour silkscreen, 48cm x 44.5cm, white mount in an oak frame overall framed size 80.5 x 75.5cm, signed in pencil and numbered 38/150
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Doctor Cat 1982 | Dame Paula Rego
(b. Portugal 1935)
Lithograph, 71 x 104cm, float mounted in original black frame, inscribed with title, numbered 16/50, signed and dated
Published by Edward Totah Gallery, London
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Provenance | Collection of Henry & Jane Burke until 2004 | Private collection, Norfolk
Eléments trop hétérogènes
c.1933 | Frantisek Kupka
(1871-1957)
Gouache, 11.5 x 11.5in, signed lower left and inscribed as title
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Vera Brittain Playing the Piano | Winifred Nicholson (British 1893-1981)
Immortalised in her memoir Testament of Youth
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Clown 1984 | Bruer Tidman
(b. Norfolk 1939)
Watercolour and pencil, 73 x 58cm, signed and dated 1984
This work is one of a series of Circus related paintings created by Bruer Tidman in 1984.
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Provenance | Collection of Richard G C Draycott (1948-2020) until 1994 | Private Collection, Norfolk