1. Torso (Bronze) SOLD
Bronze sculpture measuring 34cm including granite base. The ‘Torso’ was a recurring form throughout Skelton’s career, cast in bronze and aluminium, as well as carved in wood. Provenance: The studio of John Skelton.
2. The Sower (1956) SOLD
Carving in Portland stone. Work retained by Skelton, although the family suggest it was possibly for a commission at Coventry or Norwich Cathedral. Measures 36cm including original stone base. Head repaired at neck level. The original ink standing cartoon is included with this piece. Provenance: The studio of John Skelton.
2(iv) The Sower (Ink Study) SOLD
The ink preparatory, backed onto hardboard, intended to visualise the eventual carving. Note in Skelton’s hand verso, dating the work to 1956. Ink preparatory measures 20cm including wooden stand. Included with the Portland stone sculpture. Provenance: The studio of John Skelton.
3. Madonna and Child (1) SOLD
Maquette in plaster with grey colour wash, measuring 37cm (including marble base which depicts example of Skelton’s letter carving). Incised defining scratches (sgraffito) in such areas as Christ’s blessing hand and swaddling. Possibly an initial idea for the composition of ‘Our Lady of Pity’ in Norwich Cathedral (1967-8). The spots on the composition are air […]
4. Torso (Alabaster) £175
Carving in alabaster. The ‘Torso’ was a recurring form throughout Skelton’s career, cast in bronze and aluminium, as well as carved in wood. Alabaster examples are scarcer. Carving measures 22cm including wooden base. Provenance: The studio of John Skelton.
5. Madonna with Sundial. £150
Maquette in plaster (modelled through addition and carving of plaster). Emulating a halo, a sundial (?…please clarify with further information if known) is assembled in card and pinned to had. Pencil measurements are written over the entire model, presumably calculating the casting process. Commission unknown. Measures 35cm including original wooden base. No damage or repairs. […]
6. Madonna and Child (2) SOLD
Carving in plaster (ie. the reduction through carving of a plaster block) Intentionally coloured. Possibly an initial idea for the composition of ‘Our Lady of Pity’ in Norwich Cathedral (1967-8) although the form and method would imply earlier (circa 1945 perhaps when Skelton was carving plaster by way of exploring technique). Measures 28cm high including […]
7. Madonna and Child (3) SOLD
Maquette in plaster, measuring 35cm (including slate base). Incised defining scratches (sgraffito) in such areas as Christ’s blessing hand and swaddling. Possibly an initial idea for the composition of ‘Our Lady of Pity’ in Norwich Cathedral (1967-8). The spots on the composition are air holes from the plaster casting. Provenance: The studio of John Skelton.
Ponte Pietra, Verona (1925) £150
Signed etching, plate measuring 13cm x 12cm plus full borders. Conservation mounted. Registered CD56. This etching is represented in the collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art, The British Museum and The Victoria & Albert Museum.
French Chateaux £75
Signed pastel. Measures 13cm x 22.5cm. Conservation mounted.
Merrion Square, Dublin (1958) £75
Signed pastel, inscribed with title and dated 6th May, 1958. Measures 13cm x 22.5cm. Conservation mounted.
Lac Aiguebelette (1956) £75
Pastel, inscribed with title and dated 8th July, 1956. Measures 13cm x 22.5cm. Conservation mounted.
Royal Palace, Stockholm (1936) £125
In the summer of 1936, Robin Darwin was invited by the British Legation in Sweden to make a visit to Stockholm. Darwin produced a number of atmospheric works to boost his exhibition at Agnew’s later the same year. Signed ink and watercolour, dated 1936, measuring 25cm x 35.5cm. Conservation mounted.
‘The Estuary’ £150
Pencil signed watercolour measuring 44cm x 59.5cm. Mounted.
‘The Solent’ £150
Pencil signed watercolour measuring 43cm x 58cm. Mounted.
‘The Loch’ £150
Pencil signed watercolour measuring 44cm x 59.5cm. Mounted.
Sir David Young Cameron SOLD
Watercolour and pencil measuring 54cm x 40cm. Condition: Presents well will light time staining to edges. Conservation mounted.
‘Kaietur Falls, Guyana’ (1991) £275
Oil on board measuring 22cm x 17.5cm. Provenance: Gillian Jason Fine Art. Presented in original frame.
Paul Synder ‘Eric Gill at Pigotts’ (1933) SOLD
A rare (no other examples found) original photograph of Eric Gill at his work unit at Pigotts, dated 1933. Little is known about Paul Synder, the photographer, other than his work from the 1930’s is well represented in The National Portrait Gallery. No other example featuring Eric Gill by Paul Synder has been found. The […]
‘Gordian Gill’ (1924) £200
Signed engraving on zinc, from numbered edition of 50 (numbered 35). Plate measures 20.2cm x 15cm plus full borders (as printed). Conservation mounted.
‘Hands’ (1978) £175
Signed watercolour, measuring 30cm x 39cm. Hands were a frequent compositional motif used in Greave’s screen prints, eg. ‘Vase and Flower’ (1968) and ‘Hand’ (1975). Conservation mounted.
‘Norfolk Farm’ £125
Signed lithograph, numbered edition of 240. Image measures 42cm x 64cm plus full borders. Conservation mounted.
‘Girl with Apples’ (1989) £175
Signed etching, dated 1989, numbered edition of 20. Plate measures 19cm x 15cm plus full borders. Conservation mounted.
‘Spring Clean’ (ca. 1933) £250
Completed signed pencil composition, ‘Spring Clean’ (precise title unknown), measuring 15cm x 14cm. Conservation mounted. The model closely resembles the artist’s mother.
‘Spring Clean Study 2’ (ca. 1933) £125
Preparatory pencil study for ‘Spring Clean’ (precise title unknown), measuring 33cm x 21cm. Conservation mounted. The model closely resembles the artist’s mother.
‘Landscape’ (ca. 1950) £275
Signed watercolour measuring 33cm x 40cm. Annotated to border as gifted in 1959. Conservation mounted.
I. ‘Mother and Child Landscape’ (ca. 1931) £75
Pencil signed etching on hand made paper, printed by artist. Titled by artist to border. Plate measures 8.5cm x 9.3cm plus full borders. Conservation mounted.
II. ‘The Singing Bird’ (ca. 1931) £75
Pencil signed etching on hand made paper, printed by artist. Titled by artist to border. Plate measures 7.5cm x 10.7cm plus full borders. Conservation mounted.
III. ‘Sunset near a River’ (ca. 1931) £75
Pencil signed etching on hand made paper, printed by artist. Titled by artist to border. Plate measures 7.5cm x 10.5cm plus full borders. Conservation mounted.
IV. ‘Six Nudes’ (ca. 1931) SOLD
Pencil signed etching on hand made paper, printed by artist. Titled by artist to border. Plate measures 5cm x 5.5cm plus full borders. Conservation mounted.
V. ‘Lovers near Mountain Lake’ (1932) £60
Etching on hand made paper, printed by artist. Signed in plate. Titled by artist to border. Plate measures 5cm x 7.5cm plus full borders. Conservation mounted.
VI. ‘Near a River’ (ca. 1931) SOLD
Pencil signed etching on hand made paper, printed by artist. Titled by artist to border. Plate measures 8.7cm x 12.7cm plus full borders. Conservation mounted.
VII. ‘Sunset near a River’ (ca. 1931) £75
Pencil signed etching on hand made paper, printed by artist. Titled by artist to border. Plate measures 7.5cm x 10.7cm plus full borders. Conservation mounted.
VIII. ‘Nudes in Cliff Landscape’ (ca. 1931) £75
Pencil signed etching on hand made paper, printed by artist. Titled by artist to border. Plate measures 7.5cm x 11.5cm plus full borders. Conservation mounted.
IX. ‘Six Nudes’ (ca. 1931) £75
Pencil signed etching on hand made paper, printed by artist. Titled by artist to border. Plate measures 5cm x 5.5cm plus full borders. Conservation mounted.
X. ‘Lovers near Mountain Lake’ (1932) £60
Etching on hand made paper, printed by artist. Signed in plate. Titled by artist to border. Plate measures 5cm x 7.5cm plus full borders. Conservation mounted.
1. Landscape above Poynings, Sussex (1933) SOLD
Signed watercolour on handmade paper. Image measures 26cm x 36.5cm. Conservation mounted. Condition: Laid down. Colours clear, unfaded.
2. Hyde Lane, towards Bedmond (1939) £250
Signed watercolour on handmade paper. Image measures 26cm x 36.5cm. Conservation mounted. Condition: Laid down. Colours clear, unfaded.
3. Landscape Study 1 (1938) £250
Signed watercolour on handmade paper. Image measures 26cm x 36.5cm. Conservation mounted. Condition: Laid down. Colours clear, unfaded.
4. Landscape 2 (1933) SOLD
Signed watercolour on handmade paper. Image measures 26cm x 36.5cm. Conservation mounted. Condition: Laid down. Colours clear, unfaded. Light time toning.
5. The Banks of The Adur (1936) £225
Signed watercolour on handmade paper. Image measures 26cm x 36.5cm. Conservation mounted. Condition: Laid down. Colours clear, unfaded. Light time toning.
6. Padfield Brook, Derbyshire (1934) £175
Signed watercolour on handmade paper. Image measures 26cm x 36.5cm. Conservation mounted. Condition: Laid down. Colours clear, unfaded. Light time toning.
7. Westwick Row (1940) £250
Signed watercolour on handmade paper. Image measures 26cm x 36.5cm. Conservation mounted. Condition: Laid down. Colours clear, unfaded.
8. Bedmond Hill, Hertfordshire (1938) £250
Signed watercolour on handmade paper. Image measures 26cm x 36.5cm. Conservation mounted. Condition: Laid down. Colours clear, unfaded.
9. Near Poynings (1932) £250
Signed watercolour on handmade paper. Image measures 26cm x 36.5cm. Conservation mounted. Condition: Laid down. Colours clear, unfaded. Light time toning.
10. Edbarton (1931) SOLD
Signed watercolour on handmade paper. Image measures 26cm x 36.5cm. Conservation mounted. Condition: Laid down. Colours clear, unfaded. Light time toning.
11. Harthall Lane (1938) SOLD
Signed watercolour on handmade paper. Image measures 26cm x 36.5cm. Conservation mounted. Condition: Laid down. Colours clear, unfaded.
12. Above Appsond (1940) £225
Signed watercolour on handmade paper. Image measures 26cm x 36.5cm. Conservation mounted. Condition: Laid down. Colours clear, unfaded.
13. Summer Evening (1939) SOLD
Signed watercolour on handmade paper. Image measures 26cm x 36.5cm. Conservation mounted. Condition: Laid down. Colours clear, unfaded. Light surface dirt.
14. Edge of The Wood (1939) £200
Signed watercolour on handmade paper. Image measures 26cm x 36.5cm. Conservation mounted. Condition: Laid down. Colours clear, unfaded.
15. Landscape with Gate (1935) £175
Signed watercolour on handmade paper. Image measures 26cm x 36.5cm. Conservation mounted. Condition: Laid down. Colours clear, unfaded.
16. Catsdell (1937) £250
Signed watercolour on handmade paper. Image measures 26cm x 36.5cm. Conservation mounted. Condition: Laid down. Colours clear, unfaded.
17. Edge of The Grove (1929) £175
Signed watercolour on handmade paper. Image measures 26cm x 36.5cm. Conservation mounted. Condition: Laid down. Colours clear, unfaded. Light time toning.
18. Wisten Park, Evening (1937) £225
Signed watercolour on handmade paper. Image measures 26cm x 36.5cm. Conservation mounted. Condition: Laid down. Colours clear, unfaded. Light time toning.
19. High Peak, Derbyshire (1934) £175
Signed watercolour on handmade paper. Image measures 26cm x 36.5cm. Conservation mounted. Condition: Laid down. Colours clear, unfaded. Light time toning.
20. Appspond (1938) £200
Signed watercolour on handmade paper. Image measures 26cm x 36.5cm. Conservation mounted. Condition: Laid down. Colours clear, unfaded. Light time toning.
21. Winter Landscape (1931) SOLD
Signed watercolour on handmade paper. Image measures 26cm x 36.5cm. Conservation mounted. Condition: Laid down. Colours clear, unfaded. Light foxing to sky.
India Love Poem 1 SOLD
Four colour lithograph, printed 1977 (1st edition) on Arches Velin. Limited edition of 200. Sheet size 56cm x 37cm (untrimmed and never been bound)
India Love Poem 3 SOLD
Four colour lithograph, printed 1977 (1st edition) on Arches Velin. Limited edition of 200. Sheet size 56cm x 37cm (untrimmed and never been bound)
India Love Poem 5 SOLD
Four colour lithograph, printed 1977 (1st edition) on Arches Velin. Limited edition of 200. Sheet size 56cm x 37cm (untrimmed and never been bound)
Dunkirk SOLD
Lithograph, signed and numbered from edition of 75. Printed by Curwen, 1986. Image measures 36.5cm x 58.3cm, full sheet 50.3cm x 69.5cm. Unmounted.
Malaga 1 £250
Watercolour measuring 26cm x 33cm. The watercolour is studio stamped verso and has the archival reference number of 135 (registered by the estate). Very very light time spotting. Conservation mounted.
Malaga 2 £200
Watercolour measuring 27cm x 33cm. The watercolour is studio stamped verso and has the archival reference number of 214 (registered by the estate). Very very light time spotting. Conservation mounted.
Malaga 3 £175
Watercolour measuring 37cm x 51cm. The watercolour is studio stamped verso and has the archival reference number of 333 (registered by the estate). Conservation mounted.
Malaga 4 SOLD
Watercolour measuring 32cm x 41cm. The watercolour is studio stamped verso and has the archival reference number of 319 (registered by the estate). Conservation mounted.
Malaga 5 £150
Watercolour measuring 23cm x 31.5cm. The watercolour is studio stamped verso and has the archival reference number of 271 (registered by the estate). Conservation mounted.
Recco (1930) SOLD
Signed wood engraving, printed from block, in numbered edition of 50. Block measures 18cm x 23cm plus borders. Printed on Japon. Conservation mounted.
Old Rapallo (1924) £150
Wood engraving, unsigned, a numbered proof (27/50) aside from the signed edition. Block measures 17.3 x 22.5cm, plus full borders. Printed on Japon. Conservation mounted.
Portofino (1924) £175
Wood engraving, a proof aside from the numbered edition. Block measures 17.3 x 22.5cm, plus full borders. Printed on Japon. Conservation mounted.
Etching (1996) SOLD
Signed etching, artist’s proof, plate measuring 10cm x 11.4cm plus full borders. Printed on handmade paper. Conservation mounted.
Ex Libris SOLD
Original pencil study contributing to the composition for the W. Ruhr ‘Ex Libris’ wood engraving (please see ‘BRANGWYN, Frank’ for illustration). Signed with initials. Fold to sheet but presents very well. 19.5cm x 13cm plus mount. Conservation mounted.
‘Conversation Piece’ (1939) £1950
Large signed oil on board measuring 19.5″ x 29.5″. Dated 1939. Framed.
Still Life (ca 1950) SOLD
Oil on board, signed with initials bottom right. Image measures 35cm x 23cm. Presented in original frame.
‘War and Peace 1’ £275
The original ink drawing for ‘War and Peace’, published 1971. Signed in pencil. Drawing measures 12cm x 39cm (irregular because shaped for publication). Mounted and framed. Please see ‘TOPOLSKI, Feliks’ under ‘OUR ARTISTS’ tab for more illustrations.
‘War and Peace 2’ £250
The original ink drawing for ‘War and Peace’, published 1971. Signed with initials in pencil. Drawing measures 18cm x 16cm (irregular because shaped for publication). Mounted and framed.
‘Autumn Song’ SOLD
Pencil signed screenprint measuring 54cm x 40.5cm plus full borders. Printed 1984. Numbered edition of 100. Unframed. Condition: Overall, presents well. Very light foxing points to white areas and very gentle ruckling to extreme left border.
‘Jesus College, Cambridge’ SOLD
Signed lithograph, image measuring 38.5cm x 53.5cm plus borders. Numbered edition of 70. Conservation mounted. Trevelyan attended Cambridge between 1928 and 1930.
Rare preparatory for Santa Sophia, Constantinople (1906) SOLD
Signed etching, plate measures 24cm x 17.3cm plus full borders. A rare engraving detailing the composition used in the bottom right corner of the published etching ‘Santa Sophia, Constantinople’. Conservation mounted.
Workers On The Pont Neuf Bridge SOLD
Signed photogravure, plate measuring 21cm x 23cm plus borders. Conservation mounted.
‘At the base of The Pyranees’ £300
Signed watercolour (also studio stamped verso’, measuring 30.5 x 41.5cm. Conservation mounted. Note: some light foxing.
‘Forest Pool’ £100
Unsigned wood engraving, printed from 1927 block by Fleece Press in 1992, in a limited edition of 200. Block size is 18cm x 23.5cm. Conservation mounted.
‘A Corner of The Forest’ £100
Unsigned wood engraving, printed from 1930 block by Fleece Press in 1992, in a limited edition of 200. Block size is 21.8cm x 17.5cm. Conservation mounted.
‘Italian Town’ £1950
Signed oil on canvas measuring 40cm x 60cm. Professionally cleaned. Framed. (Please se ‘BRILL, Reginald’ for more images)
‘Garden Pond ‘ £175
Wood engraving, printed from the block, 1st edition 1922, published in limited edition of 200. Block measures 10.2cm x 12.3cm plus borders. Text backed as published. Conservation mounted.
‘Dark Lake ‘ £175
Wood engraving, printed from the block, 1st edition 1922, published in limited edition of 200. Block measures 10.2cm x 12.7cm plus borders. Text backed as published. Conservation mounted.
‘Winter’ £175
Wood engraving, printed from the block, 1st edition 1922, published in limited edition of 200. Block measures 13.9cm x 11.2cm plus borders. Text backed as published. Conservation mounted.
‘Paths into the wood’ £175
Wood engraving, printed from the block, 1st edition 1922, published in limited edition of 200. Block measures 12.7cm x 10.3cm plus borders. Text backed as published. Conservation mounted.
‘Winter Wood’ £175
Wood engraving, printed from the block, 1st edition 1922, published in limited edition of 200. Block measures 14.6cm x 11.4cm plus borders. Second wood engraving verso. Text backed as published. Conservation mounted.
The Downs £125
Wood engraving printed from block. Limited edition of 75, printed on hand-made paper. Block measures 7.5cm x 9.5cm (blank verso). Mounted.
‘God on His Throne’ £100
1st edition wood engraving, published 1928 in edition of 400. Block measures 13.6cm x 9.5cm. Blank verso. Conservation mounted. *Clare Colvin in “Paul Nash Book Designs” marks them out: “(this suite of 4 prints) stylistically mark the climax of Nash’s representational wood engravings”
‘Boredom’ £100
1st edition wood engraving, published 1928 in edition of 400. Block measures 13.6cm x 9.5cm. Text verso. Conservation mounted. *Clare Colvin in “Paul Nash Book Designs” marks them out: “(this suite of 4 prints) stylistically mark the climax of Nash’s representational wood engravings”
‘The Two Angels’ £75
1st edition wood engraving, published 1928 in edition of 400. Block measures 7cm x 5cm. Blank verso. Conservation mounted. *Clare Colvin in “Paul Nash Book Designs” marks them out: “(this suite of 4 prints) stylistically mark the climax of Nash’s representational wood engravings”