Modern British Gallery offers a large selection of affordable oils, watercolours and limited edition prints by major British artists.

CLIFFE, Henry

Henry Cliffe (1919-1983) was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire. When he was in Army in World War II met the painter William Scott in Wales, then in 1946 enrolled as student at Bath Academy of Art. His early works seemed derived from both Surrealism and the neo-romantic English landscape school of the 1940s. Throughout the late 40’s and 50s, Cliffe’s work became more concerned with the relationship between the human figure and the landscape and in 1959 a suite of lithographs on this theme was published by the St George’s Gallery, London.He was invited to join the staff and became an influential teacher. Married colleague, Valerie May. The work of Cliffe and his students was shown in a number of international exhibitions, such as Cincinnati International Lithography Exhibitions, 1954 and 1960, and at two Venice Biennales. Cliffe had first solo show of paintings at Redfern Gallery in 1956, and three years later his first one-man print show at St George’s Gallery. In 1960 Cliffe won first purchase prize at Philadelphia Print Club and in the following year gained a Ford Foundation Scholarship, Pratt Institute of Art, New York.

Artworks:

Abstract 1 £SOLD

Original pencil, circa 1964, measures 12cm x 14cm. Mounted. Provenance: Artist’s Studio Sale, Phillips.

Abstract 2 £45

Original pencil, circa 1964, measures 12cm x 14cm. Mounted. Provenance: Artist’s Studio Sale, Phillips.

Abstract 3 £50

Original pencil, circa 1964, measures 20cm x 22cm. Mounted. Provenance: Artist’s Studio Sale, Phillips.

Abstract 4 £50

Original pencil, circa 1964, measures 20cm x 22cm. Mounted. Provenance: Artist’s Studio Sale, Phillips.

Abstract 5 £45

Original pencil, circa 1964, measures 20cm x 22cm. Mounted. Provenance: Artist’s Studio Sale, Phillips.

Abstract 6 £50

Original pencil, circa 1964, measures 20cm x 23cm. Mounted. Provenance: Artist’s Studio Sale, Phillips.

Abstract 8 £55

Original pencil, circa 1964, measures 18cm x 20cm. Mounted. Provenance: Artist’s Studio Sale, Phillips.

Abstract 9 £55

Original pencil, circa 1964, measures 18cm x 20cm. Mounted. Provenance: Artist’s Studio Sale, Phillips.

Abstract 10 £60

Original pencil, circa 1964, measures 18cm x 25cm. Mounted. Provenance: Artist’s Studio Sale, Phillips.

Abstract 11 £55

Original pencil, circa 1964, measures 20cm x 23cm. Mounted. Provenance: Artist’s Studio Sale, Phillips.

Abstract 12 £50

Original pencil, circa 1964, measures 15cm x 19cm. Mounted. Provenance: Artist’s Studio Sale, Phillips.

Abstract 13 £45

Original pencil, circa 1964, measures 18cm x 25cm. Mounted. Provenance: Artist’s Studio Sale, Phillips.

Abstract 14 £45

Original pencil, circa 1964, measures 18cm x 19cm. Mounted. Provenance: Artist’s Studio Sale, Phillips.

Eight Heads SOLD

Original pencil, circa 1960, measures 10cm x 6.5cm. Mounted. Provenance: Artist’s Studio Sale, Phillips.

Reclining Figures £50

Original pencil, circa 1965, measures 29cm x 35cm. Mounted. Clean cut to right of image, presents well. Provenance: Artist’s Studio Sale, Phillips.

Figures 1 (1947) £60

Pencil studies on single sheet. Date 1947. Sheet measures 4.4″ x 11″. Mounted. Provenance: Artist Studio Sale, Phillips.

Figures 2 (1947) £50

Pencil studies on single sheet. Date 1947. Sheet measures 3.5″ x 5″. Mounted. Provenance: Artist Studio Sale, Phillips.

Figures 3 (1947) £50

Pencil studies on single sheet. Date 1947. Sheet measures 6″ x 3.5″. Mounted. Provenance: Artist Studio Sale, Phillips.

Figures 4 (ca. 1947) £60

Pencil studies on large single sheet. Date 1947. Sheet measures 14″ x 11.5″. Mounted. Provenance: Artist Studio Sale, Phillips.

Figures 6 (ca. 1947) £60

Pencil studies on large single sheet. Date 1947. Sheet measures 14″ x 9.5″. Mounted. Provenance: Artist Studio Sale, Phillips.

Figures 7 (ca. 1947) £60

Pencil and ink studies on large single sheet. Date 1947. Sheet measures 14″ x 11.5″. Mounted. Provenance: Artist Studio Sale, Phillips.

Figures 8 (ca. 1947) £50

Pencil studies on large single sheet. Date 1947. Sheet measures 12″ x 8.5″. Mounted. Provenance: Artist Studio Sale, Phillips.

Figures 10 (ca. 1947) £50

Pencil studies on large single sheet. Date 1947. Sheet measures 14″ x 10.5″. Mounted. Provenance: Artist Studio Sale, Phillips.

Figures 11 (ca. 1947) £50

Pencil and watercolour studies on large single sheet. Date 1947. Sheet measures 12″ x 11.5″. Ruckling from watercolour. Mounted. Provenance: Artist Studio Sale, Phillips.

Figures 12 (ca. 1947) £50

Pencil studies on large single sheet. Date 1947. Sheet measures 14″ x 11.5″. Mounted. Provenance: Artist Studio Sale, Phillips.

Figures 15 (ca. 1947) £50

Pencil studies on single sheet. Date 1947. Sheet measures 5″ x 10″. Mounted. Provenance: Artist Studio Sale, Phillips

Figures 16 (ca. 1947) £60

Pencil studies on large single sheet. Date 1947. Sheet measures 4.5″ x 5.5″. Mounted. Provenance: Artist Studio Sale, Phillips.

Figures 17 (1947) £60

Pencil studies on large single sheet. Date 1947. Sheet measures 11.5″ x 14″. Mounted. Provenance: Artist Studio Sale, Phillips.

Figures 18 (ca. 1947) £50

Pencil studies on single sheet. Date 1947. Sheet measures 10″ x 7.5″. Repaired sheet to right. Mounted. Provenance: Artist Studio Sale, Phillips