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Adrian Heath Abstract Study I (1970)
Gouache & ink 35x33cm Heath was born in Burma in 1920 and arrived in England aged five. In 1938 he studied art under Stanhope Forbes at Newlyn and later at the Slade School of Art. While serving in WWII, he was captured and placed in a prisoner-of-war camp in Bavaria. Heath attempted to escape from the camp but was recaptured and placed in solitary confinement; this isolation proved crucial to the development of his artistic style, as he spent much of his time there experimenting with abstract forms. When released from confinement, Heath befriended a fellow prisoner of war: Terry Frost. Together they explored the methods of painting which they had developed during their time in the camps, and following the war both became celebrated artists. We have several Terry Frost pieces available too. In 1949 and 1951, Heath returned to Cornwall. He spent time with artists like Ben Nicholson, Victor Pasmore, and Anthony Hill, and became the main link between the emerging St Ives School of artists and the British Constructivist movement back in London. He is further credited with promoting British abstract art through informal exhibitions in his studio on Fitzroy Street, as well as his manifesto-like text entitled 'Abstract Art: Its Origins and Meaning', which was published in 1953. Over time, Heath's paintings of abstract geometry and symmetry became increasingly dynamic and heavily textured, the result of layering paint on paint over the course of several days. Here, his colour palette surrenders to the compelling geometry of the painting's abstract forms. If you'd like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
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. -
Roy Carnon (1911-2002) Derelict Catalina Redhills Lake near Madras
'Used in Stocks for Gunnery Practice' Oil on board, artist's painted frame Signed and dated 1946 and inscribed with title to reverse Click here for other works by Carnon. This 1946 painting of a derelict Second World War aircraft is a portrait of postwar disillusionment. The battered Catalinas which had survived the war became useful only as ground-based objects for target practice. Carnon's brooding colours and impasto application of paint illustrate how the technologies which helped the Allies to win the war became, overnight, unnecessary. The airmen based in India similarly became unnecessary, but unable to be demobilised they initiated the so-called RAF Mutiny in January 1946. 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. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent, recently cleaned and in artist's original frame. -
Ethel Louise Rawlins (1880 – 1940)
A Garden Below the South Downs
Oil on canvas51 x 61 cmSigned lower right.Rawlins was a painter who studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and in Newlyn, Cornwall. She settled in Sussex in the early 1920s, and often painted the rolling hills of the Sussex landscape. Here, blue hills and a grey sky serve as the background for an extensive garden complete with stone urns, flowers, and slanting shadows created by the late afternoon sun. -
Alfred Daniels RBA RWS (1924-2015) All Souls, Oxford Acrylic on paper In a hand-finished white frame. 22x29.5cm (8.6x11.6 inches) Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Claude Muncaster Moor above Llangollen
Oil on canvas 36 x 51 cm Condition: Excellent, recently cleaned and revarnished. Signed lower right. Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. If you are interested, email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
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. -
Adrian Heath Abstract Study III (1975)
Acrylic and pencil on paper 22 x 22cm Heath was born in Burma in 1920 and arrived in England aged five. In 1938 he studied art under Stanhope Forbes at Newlyn and later at the Slade School of Art. While serving in WWII, he was captured and placed in a prisoner-of-war camp in Bavaria. Heath attempted to escape from the camp but was recaptured and placed in solitary confinement; this isolation proved crucial to the development of his artistic style, as he spent much of his time there experimenting with abstract forms. When released from confinement, Heath befriended a fellow prisoner of war: Terry Frost. Together they explored the methods of painting which they had developed during their time in the camps, and following the war both became celebrated artists. We have several Terry Frost pieces available too. In 1949 and 1951, Heath returned to Cornwall. He spent time with artists like Ben Nicholson, Victor Pasmore, and Anthony Hill, and became the main link between the emerging St Ives School of artists and the British Constructivist movement back in London. He is further credited with promoting British abstract art through informal exhibitions in his studio on Fitzroy Street, as well as his manifesto-like text entitled 'Abstract Art: Its Origins and Meaning', which was published in 1953. Over time, Heath's paintings of abstract geometry and symmetry became increasingly dynamic and heavily textured, the result of layering paint on paint over the course of several days. This study features a muted colour palette and abstract asymmetric form. If you'd like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. Signed lower right. -
Ken Moroney (British, 1948-) The Fens, Norfolk (c. 1990)
Oil on canvas board 48 x 58 cm Provenance: Bonhams (2003) Of Anglo-Irish parentage, Moroney was born in South London, and showed early artistic talent. His Irish father, finding it unmanly, encouraged him to box, and whilst a teenager Moroney won a gold medal. However this did not distract him from art, and once his boxing hobby came to an end the paints continued to show his flair. Self-taught, his impressionistic style, with bold use of colour, has found widespread favour and his works now hang in many important collections. Here he captures the many colours often visible in a fenland sky, where the flat landscape makes for huge skies. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Excellent. -
Rowland Suddaby (1912-1972) English Roses - Still Life
Oil on board 39x29cm (frame 58x46cm) c. 1950s Artist's label to reverse In a fine hand-finished frame Born in Kimberworth, Yorkshire, Suddaby commenced study in 1926 at the Sheffield College of Art on a scholarship, coming to London at nineteen in 1931. Following an early marriage and an initial struggle as an artist his first successful show was at the Wertheim Gallery in London in 1935, followed by a series of shows at the Redfern Gallery from 1936. For the latter he was their replacement for Christopher Wood (who had sadly killed himself in 1930 by jumping under a train) and he painted assured oils and watercolours - some showing Wood influences - in London and Cornwall. Popular with both art critics and the buying public he had great success. Early in World War Two, Suddaby moved - with his family - to the Suffolk countryside near Sudbury to become curator of the Gainsborough's House Museum, East Anglia providing him with the foundations for the pictures for which he is now well known. In 1940 he was chosen for the 'Recording Britain' project. Showing something of the influence of John Nash, his distinctive depiction of the East Anglian countryside, with its hedges and fences is instantly recognisable. His still life paintings which he also painted in the 1940s and 50s were exhibited at the Leger Galleries and at the Colchester Art Society of which he was a founder member. By the 1960s he had evolved his style towards abstraction. He was also a noted designer, producing textiles and furnishings and designing posters for Shell. His work is in many major collections such as the V&A Museum and the Government Art Collection If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: Good. -
Nancy Weir Huntly (1890-1963)
St John's College Bridge of Sighs Cambridge
Oil on canvas; framed. Signed 'Huntly' 50x61cm Born in India, in Nusserabad, she studied art at the Royal Academy Schools in Dusseldorf. She lived in Welwyn Garden City, in Hertfordshire, with her daughter, Faith Sheppard, also a painter. She also painted under the name Nancy Sheppard. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Nancy Weir Huntly (1890-1963)
Trinity College Bridge Cambridge
Oil on canvas; framed in an antique-white-finished frame with gilt slip. Signed 'Huntly' 50x61cm Born in India, in Nusserabad, she studied art at the Royal Academy Schools in Dusseldorf. She lived in Welwyn Garden City, in Hertfordshire, with her daughter, Faith Sheppard, also a painter. She also painted under the name Nancy Sheppard. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Edward Bawden (1903-1989)
White Collar Worker Cat
Pen and ink 27 x 23 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)
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)
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)
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)
Secretary 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. -
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. -
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. -
Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954)
Original artwork ‘BP Ethyl for Snappy Engines' (1934)
Signed Pen, ink and collage 27x17cm (16.6×6.6 inches) Framed in a hand-finished black frame. Provenance: Sotheby's, sale of the Shell Archive 10 September 2003 lot 49. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.ukor call us on 07929 749056. -
Piero Sansalvadore (1892-1955)
Queens’ College Cambridge
Signed Sansalvadore. Titled to verso. Oil on wood panel 21.5 x 28cm (8.5 x 11 in) £1850 Provenance: Stacy-Marks Gallery, Eastbourne, c. late 1940s An Italian who arrived in London around 1930, the Museum of London and City of London have a series of pictures Sansalvadore painted of war-damaged London. Click here for other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Alfred Daniels RBA RWS (1924-2015) All Souls, Oxford Signed and dated 1998. Watercolour 18 x 24 cm (7 x 9.5 in.) Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
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. -
Horace Mann Livens (1862-1936)
Hanover Square London (1920)
Gouache on paper 37x27 cm For biographical details and other works by Livens click here. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Bernard Myers (1925 - 2007)
Chiswick Reach
Oil on paper 50 x 72 cm Myers' impressionist view of Chiswick Reach (likely painted from his studio, which overlooked the Thames) depicts a hazy morning mist making its way down the river. The artist's sparse and muted palette renders the sky barely discernible from the water; chevron brushstrokes make up trees which cast their shadows over the Thames. A flotilla of boats, ghost-like with their white sails, appear from the blue mist. Bernard Myers was a painter and printmaker who trained at St Martin’s School of Art, the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, and the Royal College of Art in the 1940s and 1950s. This painting won the David Murray Landscape Scholarship and was painted while Myers was a student at the RCA. He went on to teach there before moving into a studio in Hammersmith. He lived and painted at 5 Durham Wharf, just off Chiswick Mall and with a view of the Thames, from the 1980s until his death in 2007. Provenance: New Grafton Gallery. Condition: excellent. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of London. -
Richard Beer (1928-2017)
Hotel du Commerce, France
Oil painting 51x60 cm Click here for biography and other works by this artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Claude Muncaster (1903-1974)
View of the Clyde from Lyle Hill
Monochrome watercolour with ink Signed and dated 1952, and inscribed 'Sphere' 18x50cm DRAWN FOR 'THE SPHERE' ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056.
