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Clifford Ellis (1907-1985)
Cadbury Castle, Wiltshire
Gouache, 1940s/1950s In a Nicholson butt-jointed frame Provenance: the family of the artist, by descent. Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. Clifford and Rosemary Ellis were famous as a husband and wife team for their fascination with nature and their vibrant and charming depictions of animals. They were the natural artists to be commissioned by Collins for their 'New Naturalists' series of books, which have become famous and highly collectable more for the dust jackets designed by the Ellises than for the - otherwise excellent - content. This painting is from a recently discovered series of paintings and drawings, never before seen by the general public, dating from the 1940s and 1950s. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
K Edmonds
Countryside Scene
Watercolour 24 x 35 cm Signed lower right. A blue- and green-hued landscape, where earth blends into sky. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Craigie Aitchison (1926 - 2009)
Yellow Crucifixion
Screenprint 76 x 63 cm Published by Advanced Graphics Limited (2000). Craigie Aitchison’s iteration of the crucifixion sees Christ upon a Cross with no patibulum (horizontal beam). Jesus becomes part of the stipes (vertical beam), a willing participant in his own martyrdom. The star above his head is the Star of Bethlehem, and the sheep or goat at his feet the Lamb of God. These symbols of divinity, set against the backdrop an empty yellow-soaked landscape, transform this picture of the crucifixion into an image of resurrection. Condition: excellent. Magnificently framed. -
D.L Hadden
Design for Coat of Arms for Council Chambers
Watercolour and pencil 52x74.5cm Signed and dated 1959 A traditional coat of arms design for the city council chambers with directions by the artist that it is to be carved in lime and coloured as depicted. One of the many works Hadden produced during his time as senior designer at Geo M Hammer. For biographical details and other works by the artist click here. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally good, some water staining as visible in image. -
D.L Hadden
Design for Executive Desks Geo.M.Hammer
Watercolour and pencil 41x51cm Signed and dated 1959 Two beautifully detailed executive desks designs with sketches front elevations. Hadden's flair with woodwork design is evident in this masterful drawing. For biographical details and other works by the artist click here. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Generally good, some soft creases round the margins. -
David Smith RE (1920-1999) Sulzer Engineering Works Switzerland Watercolour 26×36.5cm Please note we have two works in this series, click here for the other one. Here abstract, modernist figures filled with energy, hinting towards perhaps Epstein-like characteristics, are illuminated by the forge providing a splash of colour. Born in Lowestoft he served in Bomber Command during the war and was commissioned to sketch on bombing raids over Germany. After the war, he taught at Chelsea School of Art and Camden Arts Centre. His biggest commissions were for Trinity House, recording Lighthouses, and Sulzer Engineering in Switzerland. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
David Smith RE (1920-1999)
Sulzer Engineering Works Switzerland II
Mixed media 40x33cm Please note we have two works in this series which are available, click here for the other. Framed in a grey wood frame. Born in Lowestoft he served in Bomber Command during the war and was commissioned to sketch on bombing raids over Germany. After the war, he taught at Chelsea School of Art and Camden Arts Centre. His biggest commissions were for Trinity House, recording Lighthouses, and Sulzer Engineering in Switzerland. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Derrick Latimer Sayer (British: 1917-1992) Ducks for Beverly Nichols' Cats' ABC
30x21cm Pen and ink Dated 8 vi 1982 Sayer illustrated Beverley Nichols' 'Cats' A.B.C.' and we are delighted to present some of his preparatory drawings here. Search for 'Sayer' in our stock to see more of these utterly charming illustrations - mostly of cats. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. Two punched holes. For biographical details and other works by the artist please click here. -
Derrick Latimer Sayer (British: 1917-1992) Rabbits for Beverly Nichols' Cats' ABC
30x21cm Pen and ink Dated 8 vi 1982 Sayer illustrated Beverley Nichols' 'Cats' A.B.C.' and we are delighted to present some of his preparatory drawings here. Search for 'Sayer' in our stock to see more of these utterly charming illustrations - mostly of cats. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. For biographical details and other works by the artist please click here. -
Derrick Latimer Sayer (British: 1917-1992) Tree for Beverly Nichols' Cats' ABC
30x21cm Pen and ink Dated 26 vii 1982 Sayer illustrated Beverley Nichols' 'Cats' A.B.C.' and we are delighted to present some of his preparatory drawings here. Search for 'Sayer' in our stock to see more of these utterly charming illustrations - mostly of cats. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. For biographical details and other works by the artist please click here. -
Hilary Hennes (née Hilary Miller) (1919 - 1993)
Design for fruit bowls
Watercolour and pencil 38 x 56 cm Provenance: the artist's studio sale. With notes by the artist in pencil upper right. Two richly-coloured fruit bowl designs by Hennes in watercolour, surrounded by various other bowl designs sketched in pencil. Hilary Miller was born in London, where her father was a curator at the South London Art Gallery. She attended Blackheath High School and, from 1936 to 1940, studied at the Blackheath School of Art, and then for a further three years at the Royal College of Art. After graduating, she taught at the South East Sussex Technical College and in 1946 married the artist Hubert Hennes. The couple lived in Oxford, where they both held teaching posts at the Oxford School of Art. Between 1948 and 1967 Miller frequently exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy in London, and also illustrated a number of books on gardening and natural history, such as 'The Living World' and 'Boff's Book of Gardening'. Condition: generally good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works by the artist. -
Richard Beer (1928 - 2017)
Dieppe Cathedral
Oil on canvas 66 x 76 cm A mountaintop cathedral and surrounding houses; broad blue sky fills the rest of the canvas. This oil painting is a fantastic example of Beer's focus on architecture, the central and recurring theme of his pictorial idiom. Born in London in 1928, just too late to serve in the Second World War, Richard Beer studied between 1945 - 1950 at the Slade School. Subsequently, a French Government scholarship allowed him to spend time in Paris at Atelier 17, working under Stanley William Hayter (1901 - 1988), one of the most significant print makers of the 20th Century – having spent the War in New York, advising as a camofleur, Hayter only returned to Paris in 1950. Subsequently Beer studied at the École des Beaux Arts, Paris. Working for John Cranko, choreographer for the Royal Ballet, Beer designed the sets and costumes for his The Lady and the Fool at Covent Garden, subsequently working for him following his move in 1961 to Stuttgart Ballet. Additionally he produced book illustrations and designed book jackets. Beer later taught print-making at the Chelsea School of Art, where he was a popular teacher. Probably his greatest work was a collaboration with John Betjeman to produce a portfolio of prints of ten Wren Churches in the City for Editions Alecto, copies of which are in The Government Art Collection. That collection contains a total of 54 prints by Beer, and the Tate Gallery’s collection holds seven. His Oxford series was also produced for Editions Alecto as was a series of predominantly architectural views in Southern Europe. Most of his prints are of architectural subjects. Condition: excellent. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views by Richard Beer. -
Douglas L Hadden (British, 20th century) Design for a Marquetry Panels for furniture for Geo. M Hammer with castle
25x18cm Watercolour signed and dated 1927 Hadden was a senior designer for Geo M Hammer, designers and retailers of school and ecclesiastical furniture. Their lift-top school desks are particularly well regarded, and always carried their brass name plate. Hammer were renowned for their interior woodwork, they were commissioned to undertake the choir stalls in Sir Basil Spence’s ground-breaking Coventry Cathedral. Dick Russell (brother of Gordon Russell and who worked for his brother before World War Two) famously designed the chairs to be used by the congregation; as all-wood stacking chairs they were innovative at the time. As senior designer, Hadden was at the heart of the Coventry project. Hadden was educated at the Wycombe School of Art and quickly rose to the position of chief designer at Burkles, early in his career. During the World War Two he worked as an air warden in Cowley and later within the Royal Artillery, before returning to work for the Italian firm BIANOS, helping to shift its production of spitfires propellers back to peace-time wood-work. For his 7th and finale job he worked as chief designer for one of the largest and oldest firms in Britain, Geo. M Hammer. With a wide experience of designing furniture to a high standard, Hadden worked for colleges, universities, schools, libraries, monasteries and nunneries, churches and abbeys, cathedrals, synagogues and private houses. In addition to furnishings, Hadden took pride in producing fine pianos for many of these residences. Through Geo M Hammer, Hadden's designs can be found across the British Isles today, with many further appearing in America. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition : Good. Wrapped in transparent sleeve for protection. -
Edward Bawden (1903-1989)
Captain of the Team Cat
Pen and ink 38 x 27 cm Signed and inscribed lower right. Bawden developed a love of cats at a young age, copying Louis Wain's cat pictures. In his later years, his drawings of cats became yet more frequent; his cat Emma featured in much of his work. In an interview with House and Garden in 1987 he said: "No cat will suffer being lifted up and dropped into an empty space intended for her to occupy; that procedure led inevitably to Emma, tail up, walking away at once, so I had to wait patiently until Emma had enjoyed a good meal of Coley and was ready to choose her daily sleeping place, wherever it might be. I would then spring into action." Doubtless he found it easier to draw an imaginary cat, such as this one. For other cats - and other works - by Bawden, please click here. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Edward Bawden (1903-1989)
Dandy Boy Cat
Pen and ink 38 x 27 cm Signed and inscribed lower right. Bawden developed a love of cats at a young age, copying Louis Wain's cat pictures. In his later years, his drawings of cats became yet more frequent; his cat Emma featured in much of his work. In an interview with House and Garden in 1987 he said: "No cat will suffer being lifted up and dropped into an empty space intended for her to occupy; that procedure led inevitably to Emma, tail up, walking away at once, so I had to wait patiently until Emma had enjoyed a good meal of Coley and was ready to choose her daily sleeping place, wherever it might be. I would then spring into action." Doubtless he found it easier to draw an imaginary cat, such as this one. For other cats - and other works - by Bawden, please click here. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Edward Bawden (1903-1989)
Hot Cat
Pen and ink 38 x 27 cm Signed and inscribed lower right. Bawden developed a love of cats at a young age, copying Louis Wain's cat pictures. In his later years, his drawings of cats became yet more frequent; his cat Emma featured in much of his work. In an interview with House and Garden in 1987 he said: "No cat will suffer being lifted up and dropped into an empty space intended for her to occupy; that procedure led inevitably to Emma, tail up, walking away at once, so I had to wait patiently until Emma had enjoyed a good meal of Coley and was ready to choose her daily sleeping place, wherever it might be. I would then spring into action." Doubtless he found it easier to draw an imaginary cat, such as this one. For other cats - and other works - by Bawden, please click here. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Edward Bawden (1903-1989)
House Proud Mum Cat
Pen and ink 38 x 27 cm Signed and inscribed lower right. Bawden developed a love of cats at a young age, copying Louis Wain's cat pictures. In his later years, his drawings of cats became yet more frequent; his cat Emma featured in much of his work. In an interview with House and Garden in 1987 he said: "No cat will suffer being lifted up and dropped into an empty space intended for her to occupy; that procedure led inevitably to Emma, tail up, walking away at once, so I had to wait patiently until Emma had enjoyed a good meal of Coley and was ready to choose her daily sleeping place, wherever it might be. I would then spring into action." Doubtless he found it easier to draw an imaginary cat, such as this one. For other cats - and other works - by Bawden, please click here. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Edward Bawden (1903-1989)
Mum Cat with Nine Lives
Pen and ink 38 x 27 cm Signed and inscribed lower right. Bawden developed a love of cats at a young age, copying Louis Wain's cat pictures. In his later years, his drawings of cats became yet more frequent; his cat Emma featured in much of his work. In an interview with House and Garden in 1987 he said: "No cat will suffer being lifted up and dropped into an empty space intended for her to occupy; that procedure led inevitably to Emma, tail up, walking away at once, so I had to wait patiently until Emma had enjoyed a good meal of Coley and was ready to choose her daily sleeping place, wherever it might be. I would then spring into action." Doubtless he found it easier to draw an imaginary cat, such as this one. For other cats - and other works - by Bawden, please click here. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Edward Bawden (1903-1989)
Nurse Cat with Nine Lives
Pen and ink 38 x 27 cm Signed and inscribed lower right. Bawden developed a love of cats at a young age, copying Louis Wain's cat pictures. In his later years, his drawings of cats became yet more frequent; his cat Emma featured in much of his work. In an interview with House and Garden in 1987 he said: "No cat will suffer being lifted up and dropped into an empty space intended for her to occupy; that procedure led inevitably to Emma, tail up, walking away at once, so I had to wait patiently until Emma had enjoyed a good meal of Coley and was ready to choose her daily sleeping place, wherever it might be. I would then spring into action." Doubtless he found it easier to draw an imaginary cat, such as this one. For other cats - and other works - by Bawden, please click here. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
