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Ink and watercolour Image size: 3 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches (9.5 x 14.5 cm) Contemporary frame Provenance Private family collection This painting was created in the early 1900's when the Decadent Movement...

Muriel Jackson At the Old Vic 1901-1977 Tempera and charcoal on board, unsigned Image size: 23 x 31 inches (58.5 x 79 cm) Contemporary-style hand-made frame At the Old Vic depicts t...

Herbert Ashwin Budd The Fortune Teller 1881-1950 Oil on canvas, signed 'H.A Budd' lower right Image size: 18 ½ x 14 ¾ inches (47 x 37.5cm) Original frame Rendered in an almost autumnal colour palette with Darnley Fine Art, Budd’s oil painting depicts a Romani Gypsy engaging in the practice of fortune-telling whilst an enraptured crowd watches on. Clasped in the fortune-teller’s hand is a crystal ball, whilst behind him is a wall on which a deck of cards is pinned. Crystallomancy and cartomancy are two ways in which fortunes have historically been told, and are two practices particularly associated with Roma communities.In communities where Romani people have historically been confined to the periphery, fortune-telling - or dukkering, as it is called in the Romani language - provided an opportunity to earn money whilst practicing their own culture. Budd was known for his paintings depicting scenes of life from London, so it is likely that the setting of this painting is an anonymous London street. It is easy to see a continuity between the performer depicted in this work from the early 20th century, and the variety of magicians and acrobats enticing crowds in today’s world. Herbert Ashwin Budd Herbert Ashwin Budd was born in Staffordshire in 1881. In his twenties, he was an apprentice lithographer at Allbut & Stanley, and was eventually elected a member of the Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Artists in 1901. Between 1903 and 1907, Budd studied at the Hanley School of Art before winning a scholarship to study at South Kensington’s Royal College of Art. Budd was an Associate of the Royal College of Arts and a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. His works were exhibited at the Royal Academy, the New English Art Club, and the Ipswich Art Club - he was also given an Honourable Mention at the 1927 Paris Salon. In the 1930s, he worked for London Transport and designed their travel posters, whilst also teaching at St Martin’s School of Art until 1949.Herbert Ashwin Budd passed away in 1950, leaving behind a wonderful artistic legacy with his striking oil paintings of London...

Louis Marie Jullien The Skaters 1904-1982 Watercolour on paper, signed middle left Image size: 25 3/4 x 19 1/2 inches (63 x 49 cm) Original frame In this watercolour we see two wome...

Decorative motifs is an original print by an anonymous artist. Chromolithograph. Good conditions. The artwork represents Decorative motifs in a well-balanced composition.

Art Deco style painted canvas depicting an elegant woman standing from behind and wearing an ivory-colored backless dress with a striped pattern and a train decorated with circles, h...

Patterns 150.0 x 100.0 x 1.0, 1.0 lbs Acrylic Hand signed by artist Artist's Commentary: "Patterns (2010) The collection reveals patterns that we select and follow, either consciously or subconsciously, in our life. patterns which may affect significant aspects of our life." About the Artist: "Leila Rezvani...

Patterns of the Italian Renaissance is a very beautiful chromolitograph depicting painted majolica by Modes & Mendel in the Central Library of Rome. It belongs to a series of 29 patterns representing some very important patterns of the Italian churchs, in particulary the church of Santa Maria Novella...