Ottocento Mixed Media

Euan Uglow (1932–2000) is regarded as one of the most important British figurative painters of the post-war period. Renowned for his rigorous approach to observation and measurement,...

An interesting and highly personal early work by celebrated modernist sculptor Inge King, Aboriginal Abstract I (1953) reveals the artist’s engagement with abstraction, symbolism, an...

An interesting and highly personal early work by celebrated modernist sculptor Inge King, Aboriginal Abstract I (1953) reveals the artist’s engagement with abstraction, symbolism, an...

A rare and expressive early work by pioneering modernist sculptor Inge King, Toreador (1953) captures the artist’s dynamic approach to form, movement, and abstraction at a formative ...

Jan Pienkowski (Polish / British, 1936 – 2022) ‘Winter Thing and The Mooncusser’s Daughter’ Mixed media Signed and dated ‘Jan Pienkowski 74’ (lower left), further signed with initial...

Duncan Grant (British, 1885–1978) Bathing Diana Mixed media on paper 27.5 x 16 in. (70 x 40.8 cm) Provenance: The Bloomsbury Workshop, London This elegant mixed-media composition by...

John Piper (British, 1903 – 1992) Warning to travellers, number 18 from India Love Poems’ Signed ‘John Piper’ (lower right) Mixed media pencil and watercolour and gouache 16 x 11.3/8...

William Russell Flint (British, 1880 – 1969) Ray mounted on Pegasus Mixed media Signed ‘W Russell Flint’ (lower right), further signed and titled on the reverse 10.1/2 x 14.1/2 in. (...

This large, vibrant work exemplifies Richard Smith’s mastery of early British Pop Art, showcasing his iconic interlocking red shapes and joyful use of color and abstract form. Richa...

ROMAIN DE TIRTOFF, CALLED ERTE (RUSSIAN/FRENCH, 1892-1990) THE LETTER V FROM THE ALPHABET SERIES Marquetry panel Signed `Erte’ (lower right) 29.3/4 x 20.1/4 in. (75.6 x 51.5 cm.) inc...

Jann Haworth (British / American, b. 1942) Sundance Signed, inscribed and dated ‘Jann Haworth / 2012 / Sundance’ (on the reverse) Mixed media collage 36 x 32 in. (91.5 x 81.3 cm.) P...

BRYAN INGHAM (BRITISH 1936-1997) COLLE VAL D'ELSA, 1991-92 oil and pencil on wood relief signed, titled and dated 'Bryan Ingham Colle Val d'Elsa 1991-1992 (relief)' (on the reverse)...

A very striking and stylish 1970s black and white collage work by the prominent St. Ives artist Trevor Bell. The details of the work are as followS: TREVOR BELL (BRITISH, 1930-2017...

A beautiful 3D abstract collage in different materials in muted colours by Cornish artist David Andrew. Andrew was born in Redruth, Cornwall, one of the few internationally recogn...

Patrick Hughes (British, b.1939) House Bricks Collage and oil on board Inscribed with title and dated ‘1966’ (on the reverse) 24 x 24 in. (61 x 61 cm.) Patrick Hughes is a British ...

Edmond Xavier Kapp (British, 1890 – 1978) Abstracted tiles Painted ceramic Signed and adated ‘Kapp 60’ (lower middle) 15.5/8 x 12in. (39.7 x 30.5 cm.) measured to slip edge Edmond Kapp was born in Islington, London, on 5 November 1890, of American and German Jewish parentage. He gave himself the middle initial ‘X’ – sometimes said to stand for Xavier – to distinguish himself from his father Emil Kapp, who was a wine merchant. However, his parents called him ‘Eddie’ while his wife and friends knew him as ‘Peter’. During his early years, Kapp was continually ill and, while convalescing, entertained himself by drawing at home. As his health improved, he attended Dame Alice Owen’s School, Islington (1903-10), with periods at Berlin University (1909) and L’Institut Français pour les Etrangers, Paris (1909). He then read Languages at Christ’s College, Cambridge (1910-13), though spent most of his time writing and drawing. Kapp took a studio in London, and worked intensively until the outbreak of the First World War, contributing to the Daily News, the Onlooker and other periodicals. During the war, he served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regiment on the Western Front, and then in Intelligence, rising to the position of Staff Captain on Haig’s Staff. Finally, he founded and directed the Neutral Press Counter-propaganda Section. In 1919, Kapp returned to London and, after abortive periods at three art schools, worked alone. In that year, he made his name with an exhibition of caricatures, held at Furst’s Gallery, London, and accompanied by a catalogue introduced by Max Beerbohm. This soon led to contracts with three London periodicals and a book of caricatures, Personalities, published by Martin Secker. Through the 1920s and 30s, his drawings of musicians...

Jann Haworth (British / American, b. 1942) Mickey Merz Signed, and dated ‘Jann Haworth 2010’ Mixed media collage 35.1/4 x 25.1/2 in. (89.5 x 65 cm.) Provenance: Private collection, Paris Piasa Paris Jann Haworth was born in Hollywood, USA. From 1959-61 she attended the University of California, Los Angeles before coming to England in 1961 to attend the Courtauld Institute and then the Slade School of Fine Art from 1962-3. In 1963, whilst a student at the Slade Haworth met Peter Blake at a party and they married in July of that year. Haworth moved into Blake’s Chiswick flat and she set up a studio alongside his where she produced her life-size textile figures. A pioneer of soft sculpture, she is best known as the co-creator of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover. Haworth is also an advocate for feminist rights, especially for women’s representation in the art world. Together with Pauline Boty...

Giorgia Siriaco (American, 21st Century) Gold granules on lines Mixed media on board Signed and dated `Georgia Siriaco 2015’ (on the reverse) 9.1/2 x 9...

Giorgia Siriaco (American, 21st Century) Cells and silver square Mixed media on board Signed and dated `Georgia Siriaco 2015’ (on the reverse) 9.1/2 x ...

Jean Fressinet (French, 1889-1972) A gondolier on the Grand Canal Mixed media Signed with studio stamp (lower right under the mount) 7.1/4 x 12.1/2 in. ...

Adrian Heath (British, 1920 - 1992) Golden Brown Mixed media signed ‘Heath 88’ (lower right) 73 x 54 cm. Adrian Heath (1920–1992) was a 20th-century British painter. Heath was born in Burma and attended Bryanston School in Dorset, southern England. In 1938, he studied art under Stanhope Forbes at Newlyn. In 1939 and 1945–47, he attended the Slade School of Art. He served in the RAF as a tail gunner in Lancaster bombers in World War II, but spent almost the entire war as a prisoner of war at Stalag 383. During this period he became friends with and taught fellow POW Terry Frost to paint. In 1949 and 1951, he visited St Ives, Cornwall, where he met Ben Nicholson. In the early 1950s, he was also associated with Victor Pasmore and Anthony Hill. As such he became the main link between the emerging St Ives School and British Constructivism. He was also influenced by D'Arcy Thompson. In 1953 Heath published 'Abstract Painting: its Origins and Meaning' a slim but perceptive volume appraising the development of abstraction by the early moderns. He exhibited at the Musée Carcassonne in 1948, and at the Redfern Gallery...

Sandra Blow (British, 1925 – 2006) A Sandy abstract Signed with atelier stamp ‘Sandra Blow estate, St. Ives’ (lower left) Mixed media including sand 9.3/4 x 6.3/8in. (24.8 x 16.1 cm.)

Terry Durham (British, 1936 – 2013) Golden Rocket Morning Acrylic and Mixed media Signed and dated ‘DURHAM.72.’ (lower left) 18 x 23.3/4 in. (45.8 x 60.3 cm.) The orange composition shows a rocket but there are heavy resemblances to a fish. Other foliate motifs, squares, circles and references to the moon and clouds...

Terry Frost (British, 1915 – 2003) Dancing figure Mixed media Collage 16.1/2 x 18.1/2 in. (42 x 47 cm.) to slip edge Provenance: Created for and donated to the St. Ives Theatrical Pr...

Pierre Jourda (French, 1931 – 2007) Joconfiture Collage on canvas Numbered 520 10.2/3 x 8.3/4in. (27 x 22cm.) Provenance: From the Pierre Jourda workshop This is an iconic Pop A...

Jiri Kolar (Czech, 1914 – 2002) Pears, 1977 Collage triptych Each panel measures 21.7 x 15.5 cm. All three are signed with initials and dated ‘J.K. 97, the latter 2 dated ‘96’ The collages are suspended between layers of glass. Aside from the collages, the image is see through up to the frame edge. Jiri Kolar was the son of a baker who became a writer around 1943. He became one of group of several artists amoung whom Vaclav Havel and others met and discussed issues in café Slavia during the period leading up to the Prague spring...