John Yardley

Original French Cafe Scene Impressionist watercolour by John Yardley (1933-)

1995

ARTIST: Guy Roddon (1919-2006) British TITLE: "French Cafe Street Scene" SIGNED: lower left MEDIUM: oil on board SIZE: 80cm x 70cm inc frame CONDITION: excellent DETAIL: Painter and teacher, born in London. After Bryanston School he studied at Goldsmiths’ College School of Art with James Bateman and Clive Gardiner, 1937–9, then at the Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting, 1939–40, with Ernest Jackson, and drawing at La Grande Chaumière, Paris. During World War II he served in Royal Engineers before transferring to the Camouflage Unit, which included Frederick Gore, Oliver Messel, Roland Penrose and Claude Rogers. Roddon spent part of the war stationed in the Old Assembly Rooms, Norwich, as a camouflage instructor alongside Messel and Penrose. From 1948–50, he taught at Goldsmiths’; from 1960–1 was commissioned to paint The Stations of the Cross and Resurrrection for St Thomas More, Patcham; from 1960–3 moved to Paris; rented Edwin John’s studio in Tite Street for 10 years; and began a series of portraits, sitters including the novelist L P Hartley, composer John Ireland...

ARTIST: Sonia Mervyn (1893-1977) British TITLE: "Still Life of White Peonies" SIGNED: lower right MEDIUM: oil on board SIZE: 65cm x 55cm inc frame CONDITION: excellent DETAIL: Studied under Ralph Todd at Regent Street School Of Art London. Exhibited at all the leading London galleries, including Beaux Arts and Leicester Galleries, RA, NEAC and had pictures toured by AB and Arts Council GB. Her work drew admiring letters from Sir Alfred Munnings, Sir Stanley Spencer, Dame Ethel Walker...

ARTIST: Ginette Rapp (1928-1998) French TITLE: "Still Life Of Flowers" SIGNED: lower right MEDIUM: oil on canvas SIZE: 35cm x 30cm inclusive of frame CONDITION: very good DET...

ARTIST: Ginette Rapp (1928-1998) French TITLE: "Still Life Of Flowers" SIGNED: lower right MEDIUM: oil on canvas SIZE: 37cm x 32cm inclusive of frame CONDITION: very good DE...