• Clifford Charman (1910-1993)

    Brewery and Ruined Castle, Cockermouth

    Oil on canvas 38 x 55 cm Signed and dated lower left. Provenance: The Artist's Studio Sale, Bonhams, London (18 March 1993); Peter Constant Fine Art. Born in Bexleyheath in Kent, Charman studied at Regent Street Polytechnic just before, and just after, the Second World War. He exhibited widely, including at the Royal Academy, the RBA, Chelsea Arts Society, and abroad. Elected in 1954 to the ROI, he also won the James Bourlet Prize in 1982. His work is in collections including that of the Guildhall. If you'd like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally very good. Signed lower left.
  • Clifford Charman (1910-1993)

    Landscape with Farmhouses

    Oil on canvas 38 x 55 cm Provenance: the artist's studio sale, Bonhams, London 1993. Born in Bexleyheath in Kent, Charman studied at Regent Street Polytechnic just before, and just after, the Second World War. He exhibited widely, including at the Royal Academy, the RBA, Chelsea Arts Society, and abroad. Elected in 1954 to the ROI, he also won the James Bourlet Prize in 1982. His work is in collections including that of the Guildhall. If you'd like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally very good.
  • Clifford Charman (1910-1993)

    Temple Church, London, after Bombing

    Oil on canvas 39 x 49 cm Provenance: The Artist's Studio Sale, Bonhams, London (18 March 1993); Peter Constant Fine Art. Born in Bexleyheath in Kent, Charman studied at Regent Street Polytechnic just before, and just after, the Second World War. He exhibited widely, including at the Royal Academy, the RBA, Chelsea Arts Society, and abroad. Elected in 1954 to the ROI, he also won the James Bourlet Prize in 1982. His work is in collections including that of the Guildhall. If you'd like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally very good.
  • Bryan Ingham (1936-1997)

    Upright Jug (1993-95)

    Pencil and oil on board 64 x 19 cm Provenance: Bohun Galleries, Paintings in Hospitals. Signed, titled and dated 1993-95 (on backboard). Bryan Ingham was born in Yorkshire. For his National Service he joined the RAF, and spent his time in Germany as an airman. After demobilisation, his final report included the statement that "Ingham is an artistic sort of airman." In his spare time he had started painting in oils, and by the time he left the RAF he had completed a large number of paintings. He studied at St Martin's School of Art in London, where he had the tuition of a fine post-war generation of teachers who helped him to hone his draughtsmanship and other skills, and he swiftly showed a capacity for painting that drew the attention of his tutors and peers. On graduating he was offered and accepted a post-graduate place at the Royal College of Art, where in his second year he was awarded a Royal Scholarship and was a contemporary of a number of now better-known names including David Hockney. Ingham applied for and received a Leverhulme travel award to explore the sites of the great Renaissance painters, and spent many happy months engaged in this expedition. He spent time at the English Art school in Rome, where he lived well and busied himself the same studio that Barbara Hepworth had used. At this stage of his career, Ingham consciously rejected the prospect of pursuing a career as an establishment artist, although the RA was open to him, and he went to live in remote cottage in Cornwall. The subsequent years were varied and highly productive, and Ingham's personal artistic voice emerged in his oeuvre in the form of an always-developing dialogue with influences both of landscape and other artists of every age. His preoccupation with etching resulted in several hundred plates, some very large, and the results are as unmistakable as they are varied, but invariably of outstanding quality. He produced a number of sculptures in bronze and in plaster, while his lifelong output of paintings remained small but again of very high quality. He taught etching regularly until about 5 years before his death, latterly at Falmouth Art School, and also at Farnham Art College. During the late eighties he established a relationship with the art dealer Francis Graham-Dixon, who had a London gallery. This meant that his paintings were professionally marketed for the first time, and prices for his work rose steadily in the last ten years of his life, and subsequently. He was able to purchase a cottage in Helston for his parents, who lived there until their deaths. He then moved into a fine set of converted-barn studios with a patch of garden, quietly situated off the High St in Helston, and it was here, on 22 September 1997, that he died, having quietly suffered from cancer for nearly a year. If you'd like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally excellent; framed.
  • John Piper (1903-1992)

    Reims Cathedral (c. 1960)

    Ink, watercolour and gouache 21x35cm Inscribed 'Reims' lower left and signed 'John Piper' lower right. Piper loved all things France, and all things Cathedral; in this work, he brings the cathedral of Reims, where France's monarchs were crowned, to life. Piper also produced an aquatint of Reims which was published in 1972. For other works by the artist and biographical details, click here. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally excellent; framed.
  • John Piper (1903-1992)

    Study for the Piper Building mural

    Gouache 14.5x11.5cm Provenance: P Manzareli (who built the fibreglass murals for Piper), gift from the artist; Milne & Moller Fine Art; Katharine House Gallery; private collection, Scotland. This study is a fascinating part of London's architectural history. The Piper Building is a mid-century architectural icon in Fulham. Built in the 1950s as 'Watson House', it was a laboratory complex for the North Thames Gas Board and has an innovative concrete structure. Piper was commissioned to produce the murals surrounding the building. The Gas Board moved out in the mid 1980s. Scheduled for demolition in the 1990s, the building was instead converted into seventy apartments and renamed the Piper Building. With double-height ceilings, the apartments were sold as shells, and purchasers were free to commission their own architects and builders. Condition: Generally excellent; framed. For other works by the artist and biographical details, click here. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • John Aldridge RA (1905 - 1983)

    Still Life Painted at El Porche, Deja, Majorca 1932

    Oil on Board 74 x 62 cm Signed ‘John Aldridge’ lower right and titled to reverse. Aldridge read Greats at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and then moved to London in 1928 and taught himself to paint. From 1931 to 1933 he exhibited with the Seven and Five Society at the Leicester Galleries and in 1934 he exhibited at the Venice Biennale. At this time he began his life-long association with the poet Robert Graves and the poets and artists who centred themselves on him in the village of Deia in Majorca. In 1933 he moved to Place House in Great Bardfield with his cats. He became a friend of his neighbour Edward Bawden, and the two collaborated during the 1930s on Bardfield wallpapers, distributed by Cole & Sons. During the War, Aldridge served in the Intelligence Corps, interpreting aerial photographs. Following the war he returned to Great Bardfield and painted scenes of the Essex countryside, and also of Majorca. By this period, his early association with the avant garde of British art had been lost; today, his rural scenes are very popular but arguably lack the complexity of his earlier works, such as this contemplative still life. His art is in major public collections such as the Tate, the British Council, the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Academy and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The Fry Art Gallery in Saffron Walden, which specialises in East Anglian pictures, has a significant holding of his work. Condition: generally very good. Distressed frame with occasional loss, and hardboard substrate bowed.
  • Tom Roche (b. 1940) Penal Cross

    Screenprint 24x19cm Signed in pencil and numbered 11/40 Roche trained at the Irish National College of Art and Design, then studying etching and lithography at Chelsea College of Art. After working as a graphic designer in advertising, he became a full-time painter in 1972 based in Dingle in Co. Kerry. After operating from a gallery in Dingle he returned in the 1980s to Dublin, working as part0time lecturer at the Dun Laoghaire School of Art and Design and as creative director for Emerald City Productions Ltd. He is renowned for his soft, atmospheric paintings of Irisih landscape and interiors as well as for his prints such as this. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • Charles Pulsford ARSA (1912 - 1989)

    Abstract Figure in Yellow and Blue

    Watercolour and ink 56 x 38 cm Signed lower right. An abstract figure in arresting colours. The artist plays with the intersection of round and lateral mark-making to form a human figure, perhaps reminiscent of a crucifixion. Pulsford's skill as an abstract landscape artist is also evident here, with the form suggestive of natural and industrial topography like fields, rivers, railway tracks, and electric pylons. Pulsford was born in Staffordshire to Scottish parents. His family returned to Dunfermline when he was a child, and he subsequently attended Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) between 1933 and 1937. He, along with other prominent Scottish artists, embraced modernism and abstraction following the end of the war. Alan Davie, William Turnbull, William Gear and Eduardo Paolozzi are the key artists of the group with which he was association, and the National Galleries of Scotland regard Pulsford as the 'fifth man' of the group. Between 1952 and 1960 he taught at ECA and then at Canterbury College of Art. Condition: generally very good, old tape stains to extreme margins. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Provenance: the artist, the residual stock of William Hardie.
  • Margaret Macadam (1902-1991)

    Juggler

    Watercolour drawing, signed lower right 26cm x 18cm   In The Barbarians (1935), set in Paris and on the Riviera in 1922, Virginia Faulkner sets out her account of the Bohemian life of expats and war veterans. The Barbarians, a loose cluster of creative types, comprised painters, a sculptor, a writer, a pianist, and a gigolo. Faulker was only 22 when she wrote the book. Margaret Macadam was a British illustrator active in the 1920s and 1930s. She won a scholarship to the Royal Academy schoos in 1925. Amongst her commercial works are several dust wrapper designs for London-based publishers, including the dust-jacket design for the first edition of Agatha Christie’s first straight novel ‘Giant’s Bread’. Following the discovery of an archive of Macadam’s work in 2016, it was possible to connect her work on Giant’s Bread to other known designs. Condition: Excellent. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • Falmouth, 1944 (unknown Modern British Artist)

    Watercolour 46 x 30cm An evocative painting of Falmouth, the Cornish town shaped by its relationship to the sea. The artist leads us from the warm tones of the stone flags and empty buildings down towards a grey sea and a gently smouldering sky. Ships move in to the port, and a unit of pylons, starkly silhouetted, looks out over the bay. Condition: excellent. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • Roy Carnon (1911-2002)

    All Hallows Church, Tillington, near Petworth

    Oil on board 31 x 42cm Signed; in the artist's original frame Condition: excellent. Click to view biographical details and other works by the artist. Carnon attended Chiswick Art School becoming an illustrator. In 1965 he was responsible for visualising spacecraft for "2001: A Space Odyssey", being designer of the iconic 'wheel' spacestation. These drawings are now in the Kubrick archives at UAL.
  • Fredda Brilliant (1903-1999)

    The Young Atlas

    Patinated bronze 52.5 x 41.5 x 27.5 cm ; 16kg. On wooden base   Fredda Brilliant was a Polish sculptor and actress, born in Łódź, Poland. She worked in a variety of media and is recognized as an accomplished sculptor, writer, actor, singer and script writer. Throughout her career she traveled extensively working in England, USA, Australia, India, Poland and Russia. Brilliant sculpted some of the greatest figures of her time including Jawaharlal Nehru, V.K. Krishna Menon, Indira Gandhi, U.S. President John F Kennedy, and Buckminster Fuller. She also sculpted her husband, the writer Herbert Marshall. Brilliant's most famous work is a bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi which is the centerpiece of the park in Tavistock Square, London, UK. Condition: excellent.
  • John Piper (1903-1992)

    Bullslaughter Bay

    Watercolour, gouache and pastel on paper 27.5 x 35.5cm John Piper CH was an English painter, printmaker, and designer of stained-glass windows. His work often focused on the British landscape, especially churches and monuments, and included tapestry designs, book jackets, screen-prints, photography, fabrics and ceramics. Piper spent a considerable amount of time in Pembrokeshire, frequently returning to the landscape of Bullslaughter Bay; this painting was probably produced there in the mid-1950s. The artist captures an animated, capricious bay, characterised by a distinctive colour palette and stamped with irregular rock formations. Condition: generally excellent. For other works by the artist and biographical details, click here. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • Michael Ayrton (1921-1975) Girl Wringing out her Hair Patinated bronze, 1962 26cm in height Michael Ayrton was a British artist and writer, renowned as a painter, printmaker, sculptor and designer, and also as a critic, broadcaster and novelist. This sculpture, rendered in patinated bronze, is a portrayal of an unposed nude, one of Ayrton's favourite subjects. In his book "Drawings and Sculpture", Ayrton muses on his studies of bathers: 'I like to study the nude when he or she is untroubled by my observation, and bathers in general are the only nudes, or semi-nudes, who are not particularly interested in the onlooker.' Provenance: Acquired directly from the Artist by Nigel Balchin, a close friend of Ayrton's, thence by descent to the previous owner. Sotheby's, Lot 128, 11 July 2013. Literature: Michael Ayrton, Drawings and Sculpture, with a Forward by C. P. Snow, Cory, Adams & Mackay, London, 1962, illustrated pl.73 (another cast). If you'd ike to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
  • Sir Terry Frost (1915-2003) Bottle and Statue Oil on board c. 1947 38 x 46cm   A distinctive still life featuring bottle, statue, and drapery. Terry Frost was a prominent British abstract artist. Frost is most noted for his simplistic abstract forms and unusual colour; he worked alongside the St Ives group and as Barbara Hepworth's assistant for several years, his artistic style being heavily influenced by them. In 1992 he became a Royal Academician, and he was made Sir Terry Frost in 1998. Bottle and Statue highlights Frost's unique compositional skill. His brushwork makes the statue seem like a real nude, who, framed by turquoise and ochre draperies, examines the still life in the foreground. An early work, painted shortly after the War and prior to his adoption of abstraction. For other works by Frost and biographical details please click here. Condition: A little craquelure in the oil above the statue's head.

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