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Olive, Mallorca, Chalk Pastel Work by David Nash, 1995
By David Nash
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Olive, Mallorca, Chalk Pastel Painting by David Nash, 1995 Additional information: Medium: Chalk pastel 11 x 15 cm 4 3/8 x 5 7/8 in Signed, titled and dated
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Pastel

Spots I, Acrylic on Paper Painting by Breon O Casey, 2000
By Breon O Casey
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Spots I, Acrylic on Paper Painting by Breon O'Casey 1928-2011, 2000 Additional information: Medium: Acrylic on paper 9 7/8 x 12 7/8 1 1 Born in London 1928, Breon O’Casey was the s...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Paper

Deux Personnages, Ink Painting by Wolfgang Paalen 1936
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Deux Personnages, Ink Painting by Wolfgang Paalen 1936 Additional information: Medium: Ink 24 x 16.5 cm 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 in Signed, dated and titled; further signed, and inscribed vers...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Ink

Kirby Hall, Northamptonshire, Gouache with Ink and Wash Painting, 1940-42 circa
By John Piper
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Kirby Hall, Northamptonshire, Gouache with Ink and Wash Painting, 1940-42 circa Additional information: Medium: Gouache with ink and wash 15.2 x 18.5 cm 6 x 7 1/4 in As part of an eight-page pamphlet for The Colour of English Country Houses in 1944, Piper included a lovely auto-lithograph of Kirby Hall in Northamptonshire. This work was most likely sketched on the occasion of his visit to the Hall at this time and is of a slightly different angle. It is a working version of the cover of C Aspinall-Oglander's 'Admiral’s Widow’, 1942 (Hogarth Press). The print is cat. no.51.\\\ Piper gives a lovely description of this Elizabethan country house in the introduction to the pamphlet as follows: ‘A yellow stone house of the seventeenth century, in rolling green hunting-country. It gleams in the sun, forms a warm eye-catcher in dull weather and glimmers whitely in moonlight. It is another ruin, partly roofless, and has recently taken over by the Office of Works to be preserved as a show-place.’ (John Piper). Here, Piper, painting at night in the light of the moon, depicts the north front from the inner courtyard, capturing the brilliance of the moonlit night as it dances over the ruins making it in Piper’s own words ‘glimmer whitely’ whilst the dramatic shadows darken the archways and windows. John Piper was a painter of architecture, landscape and abstract compositions, a designer for the theatre and of stained-glass windows, and a writer on the arts. Piper was born in 1903 in Epsom, Surrey, the son of a solicitor. Throughout his childhood, he regularly visited Italy, and by 1924 he had published a book of poems and his own illustrations. He worked in his father's office in Westminster until 1928 when he began studying at the Richmond and Kingston Schools of Art. This was followed by two years study at the Royal College of Art. In 1927 he exhibited with David Birch at the Arlington gallery, and in 1931 with Clarice Moffat, P. F. Millard, and his first wife Eileen Holding...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Gouache

Harbour Scene, Cornwall, Black and Grey, by Peter Potworowski
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Harbour Scene, Cornwall, Black and Grey, Gouache Painting, 1953-1955 Additional information: Medium: Gouache 22 x 26.5 cm 8 5/8 x 10 3/8 in Tadeusz Piotr (Peter) Potworowski was a ...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Gouache

Projets(?) de Tableaux, Ink Painting by Wolfgang Paalen, 1936
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Projets(?) de Tableaux, Ink Painting by Wolfgang Paalen, 1936 Additional information: Medium: Ink 22 x 16 cm 8 5/8 x 6 1/4 in Signed, dated and titled; inscribed '5/ top / line bloc...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Ink

Small Mound, Chalk Pastel Work by David Nash, 1992
By David Nash
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Small Mound, Chalk Pastel Painting by David Nash, 1992 Additional information: Medium: Chalk pastel 15 x 11 cm 5 7/8 x 4 3/8 in Signed and dated
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Pastel

Untitled (Blues and Browns), Oil on Board Painting by Wendy Pasmore, 1961
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Untitled (Blues and Browns), Oil on Board Painting by Wendy Pasmore, 1961 Additional information: Medium: Oil on board 12 3/4 x 17 3/4 in 32.5 x 45 cm Signed, dated and inscribed ve...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Board

Cheltenham (Fantasia/Panorama), Pen and Ink Painting by John Piper, 1939 circa
By John Piper
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Cheltenham (Fantasia/Panorama), Pen and Ink Painting by John Piper, 1939 circa Additional information: Medium: Pen and ink 19 x 26.5 cm 7 1/2 x 10 3/8 in Inscribed extensively The upper image closely resembles a 1940 painting, Cheltenham Fantasia, which was sold to a Mr Anderson at the Leicester Galleries in March of that year. The lower image is a study for Piper's 1940 Curwen Press auto-lithograph 'Cheltenham', produced while he was also working on illustrations for the Shell and BP Shilling Guide to Gloucestershire (1939; not used in the project). Betjeman, then head of the project, also used the image to illustrate his article "Book Illustration Can Colour a Whole Town or City" in 'Signature' in 1940. The Cheltenham design is covered and reproduced in Hugh Fowler-Wright's book on Piper. John Piper was a painter of architecture, landscape and abstract compositions, a designer for the theatre and of stained-glass windows, and a writer on the arts. Piper was born in 1903 in Epsom, Surrey, the son of a solicitor. Throughout his childhood, he regularly visited Italy, and by 1924 he had published a book of poems and his own illustrations. He worked in his father's office in Westminster until 1928 when he began studying at the Richmond and Kingston Schools of Art. This was followed by two years study at the Royal College of Art. In 1927 he exhibited with David Birch at the Arlington gallery, and in 1931 with Clarice Moffat, P. F. Millard, and his first wife Eileen Holding...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Ink

Line on Turquoise, No.25 - July, Oil on Canvas Painting by Paul Huxley, 1963
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Line on Turquoise, No.25 - July, Oil on Canvas Painting by Paul Huxley B. 1938, 19632 Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas 127 x 127 cm 50 x 50 i...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas

Painting, Oil on Canvas Board by Arthur Jackson, 1937
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Painting, Oil on Canvas Board by Arthur Jackson 1911-2003, 1937 Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas board 49 x 70 cm 19 1/4 x 27 1/2 in Signed, titled, dated and inscribed...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas

Foot of Pistyll Rhaeadr, Ink and Wash Painting by John Piper, circa 1939-1941
By John Piper
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Foot of Pistyll Rhaeadr, Ink and Wash Painting by John Piper, circa 1939-1941 Additional information: Medium: Ink and wash 12.5 x 17.7 cm 4 7/8 x 7 in Titled under the mount John Piper was a painter of architecture, landscape and abstract compositions, a designer for the theatre and of stained-glass windows, and a writer on the arts. Piper was born in 1903 in Epsom, Surrey, the son of a solicitor. Throughout his childhood, he regularly visited Italy, and by 1924 he had published a book of poems and his own illustrations. He worked in his father's office in Westminster until 1928 when he began studying at the Richmond and Kingston Schools of Art. This was followed by two years study at the Royal College of Art. In 1927 he exhibited with David Birch at the Arlington gallery, and in 1931 with Clarice Moffat, P. F. Millard, and his first wife Eileen Holding...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Ink

Exposed Painting, Paynes Grey/Cobalt, Oil on Canvas Painting by Callum Innes
By Callum Innes
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Exposed Painting, Paynes Grey/Cobalt, Oil on Canvas Painting by Callum Innes B. 1962 Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas 175 x 165 cm 68 7/8 x 65 in Signed, dated and insc...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas

Still life with Chair, Oil on Canvas Painting by John Hubbard, 1958
By John Hubbard
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Still life with Chair, Oil on Canvas Painting by John Hubbard 1931-2017, 1958 Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas 38 x 36 in 96.5 x 91.4 cm Signed and dated "John E Hubbar...
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Bajazet Encag d, Oil on Canvas Painting by Jack Knox, circa 1965
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Bajazet Encag'd, Oil on Canvas Painting by Jack Knox 1936-2015, circa 1965 Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas 122 x 153 cm 48 1/8 x 60 1/4 in Signed; with title and Artist's address verso Provenance Acquired from the below by a private collector Exhibitions Royal Scottish Academy, 1965, cat. no.219 Jack Knox was a Scottish painter and teacher. Born in Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire in 1936, Knox studied at Glasgow School of Art 1953-57, with teachers such William Armour and David Donaldson, before spending a year at the Paris atelier of the French painter André L'hote. Combining what he took from this experience with the impact of seeing the first show of American Abstract Expressionists in Europe in 1959, he began a diverse career which saw constantly changing styles, from gestural abstraction to still lifes and portraits. In 1965 he was appointed lecturer at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art where he worked alongside fellow artists such as Alberto Morrocco...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas

Transcend, Oil on Canvas Painting by Albert Irvin, 1973
By Albert Irvin
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Transcend, Oil on Canvas Painting by Albert Irvin B. 1922, 1973 Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas 177 x 202.9 cm 69 3/4 x 79 7/8 in Signed, titled and dated on the reverse Provenance Sale, Christie's South Kensington, where acquired by the present owner Albert Irvin was an English painter born in 1922. As a student he painted in an Impressionist style, but during the 1950s his style turned towards Realism, after he was heavily influences by the Kitchen Sink painters (Walter Richard Sickert, Jack Smith, Edward Middleditch...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas

Vase Fragment Banjul, Oil on Board Painting by Philip Jones, 2004
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Vase Fragment Banjul, Oil on Board Painting by Philip Jones 1933-2008, 2004 Additional information: Medium: Oil on board 15 x 19 in 38.1 x 48.3 cm Signed and dated Philip Jones was...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Board

Only Under a Dark Sky, Oil on Canvas Painting by Tess Jaray, 2003
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Only Under a Dark Sky, Oil on Canvas Painting by Tess Jaray B. 1937, 2003 Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas 115.5 x 111.5 cm 45 1/2 x 43 7/8 in Signed; further signed an...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas

Swimming Pool, Oil on Board Painting by Philip Jones, 1992
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Swimming Pool, Oil on Board Painting by Philip Jones 1933-2008, 1992 Additional information: Medium: Oil on board 7 1/2 x 12 1/2 in 19.1 x 31.8 cm Signed and dated verso Philip Jon...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Board

Acrylic Painting by Paul Jenkins, Phenomena High Octave, 1970s Abstract, Bold
By Paul Jenkins
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Phenomena High Octave, Acrylic on Canvas Painting by Paul Jenkins 1923-2012, 1979 Additional information: Medium: Acrylic on canvas 89 x 134.5 cm 35 x 53 in Signed; further signed, ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Canvas

Figures Talking, Oil on Paper Painting by Philip Jones, 1973
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Figures Talking, Oil on Paper Painting by Philip Jones 1933-2008, 1973 Additional information: Medium: Oil on paper 55.9 x 76.2 cm 22 x 30 in Signed, dated and titled Philip Jones ...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Oil

Golfers in the Rain I (The Fourteenth Hole), Oil on Canvas Painting, 1956 circa
By Mary Potter
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Golfers in the Rain I (The Fourteenth Hole), Oil on Canvas Painting, 1956 circa Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas 50.8 x 63.5 cm 20 x 25 in A similar composition, Trees...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas

Painting, November, Oil on Board Painting by Robert Sadler, 1957
By Robert Sadler
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Painting, November, Oil on Board Painting by Robert Sadler, 1957 Additional information: Medium: Oil on board 48 x 61 in 121.9 x 154.9 cm Signed; titled on support bars (William) Robert Sadler produced abstract works in varying sizes with a spare poise and strong use of colour. The son of a noted racehorse trainer, Sadler was born at Falmouth House (now demolished) at the northern edge of Newmarket, Suffolk. By the age of fourteen he was drawing and painting aeroplanes, horses, houses and landscapes. After studying at Eastbourne College and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he read Mechanical Engineering, in 1930 he joined the Royal Air Force as a pilot. In 1942, whilst posted to the Air Ministry as Director of Plans, he attended art school in London and spent the following year in Turkey on special duties where he lectured at the Turkish Air Staff College and painted and rode race horses. At the end of the war he returned to the UK and took up the post of Station Commander at RAF Binbrook in Lincolnshire. In 1947 he moved to Denmark as Air Attache to the British Embassy in Copenhagen where he attended art school and two years later, whilst Vice-President of the RAF Officers' Selection Board, set-up a studio in Stockbridge whilst attending art school in Winchester. In 1953 he moved to the USA to take up the post as representative on the NATO Joint Chiefs of Staff Intelligence Committee during which period he attended the Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC where he first encountered the work of the American Abstract Expressionists. Returning to the UK in 1955 he moved back to Newmarket, having retired from the RAF 'to devote the rest of my life to painting.' He attended Heatherley's School of Fine Art in London, Cambridge Technical College and became a member of the Winchester Art Society and the Cambridge Society of Painters & Sculptors. His first one-man show was at Swaffham Prior, Cambridge and from then until 1963 he lived and painted in a largely abstract expressionist style influenced by the Ecole de Paris Tachisme of Poliakoff and de Stael and by the contemporary British work of Peter Lanyon, William Scott, Bryan Wynter...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Board

Bergamasque (Mini), Abstract Painting by Alan Reynolds, 1972
By Alan Reynolds
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Bergamasque (Mini), Abstract Painting by Alan Reynolds, 1972 Additional information: Medium: Emulsion on cut-out board on wood, with relief; in the Arti...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Emulsion

Ascending Blue, Oil on Board, Relief Painting by Alan Reynolds, 1971
By Alan Reynolds
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Ascending Blue, Oil on Board, Relief Painting by Alan Reynolds, 1971 Additional information: Medium: Oil on board, relief 101.6 x 121.9 cm 40 x 48 in Si...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Board

A Rough Sea, Aldeburgh, Oil on Canvas Painting by Mary Potter, 1958 circa
By Mary Potter
Located in Kingsclere, GB
A Rough Sea, Aldeburgh, Oil on Canvas Painting by Mary Potter, 1958 circa Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas 61 x 50.8 cm 24 x 20 in Signed verso This view is of the shi...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas

Gate, Corsham Court (Blue Sky), Gouache Painting by Peter Potworowski, 1953/55
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Gate, Corsham Court (Blue Sky), Gouache Painting by Peter Potworowski, 1953/55 Additional information: Medium: Gouache 23.5 x 33 cm 9 1/4 x 13 in Tadeusz Piotr (Peter) Potworowski ...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Gouache

Wagons in the Field, Poland, Watercolour and Charcoal Painting, 1958
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Wagons in the Field, Poland, Watercolour and Charcoal Painting, 1958 Additional information: Medium: Watercolour and charcoal 20.6 x 32.3 cm 8 1/8 x 12 3/4 in Tadeusz Piotr (Peter)...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Watercolor

Christmas Card (Dark Grey with Four Painted Cut Outs) Painting by Breon O casey
By Breon O Casey
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Christmas Card (Dark Grey with Four Painted Cut Outs) Painting by Breon O'casey Additional information: Medium: Gouache and collage 10.2 x 14.2 cm 4 x 5 5/8 in Born in London 1928, Breon O’Casey was the son of the actor Eileen Reynolds and the playwright Sean O'Casey. In 1937 the family moved to Totnes where Breon O'Casey thrived at Dartington Hall School. Dartington was founded by Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst, who had a vision of a Utopian community which combined the working of the land with the life of the spirit through the arts. The emphasis the school placed on physical activities and skills, considering them equally important to academic skills, was crucial to him. At Dartington O’Casey learnt “to think with my hands as well as my head.” After National Service he attended the Anglo-French Art Centre in St John’s Wood...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Gouache

Structures, Group II (Y), Pencil on Card Painting by Alan Reynolds, 1983
By Alan Reynolds
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Structures, Group II (Y), Pencil on Card Painting by Alan Reynolds, 1983 Additional information: Medium: Construction, primer, emulsion and pencil on ca...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Pencil

Reflections II (Light Through Leaves), Oil on Canvas Painting, 1965-69 circa
By Mary Potter
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Reflections II (Light Through Leaves), Oil on Canvas Painting, 1965-69 circa Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas 16 1/8 x 20 in 41 x 51 cm Living in the grounds of the Re...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas

Still Life, Flowers and Bowl, Gouache Painting by Peter Potworowski, 1950s
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Still Life, Flowers and Bowl, Gouache Painting by Peter Potworowski, 1950s Additional information: Medium: Gouache 33.3 x 23.6 cm 13 1/8 x 9 1/4 in Tadeusz Piotr (Peter) Potworowsk...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Gouache

Still Life on a Table, Gouache Painting by Peter Potworowski, 1954
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Still Life on a Table, Gouache Painting by Peter Potworowski, 1954 Additional information: Medium: Gouache 23.6 x 33.3 cm 9 1/4 x 13 1/8 in Tadeusz Piotr (Peter) Potworowski was a Polish abstract and figurative painter who lived and exhibited in Paris, Poland, Sweden and England. Potworowski was born in Warsaw in 1898. After serving in the First World War, Potworowski enrolled at the Warsaw University of Technology to study architecture, though his studies were halted by the Bolshevik campaign. After the end of the Polish-Soviet War in 1921, Potworowski returned to Warsaw and began to study art at the school of Konrad Krzyżanowski. By the following year, he had taken a place at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, where he studied under Józef Pankiewicz. It was Pankiewicz who incorporated Potworowski into the Paris Commute, or Kapists, a group of Polish artists who travelled to the French capital in 1924. During his seven years in Paris he became personally acquainted with Pablo Picasso, Pierre Bonnard, Jean Cocteau, Constantin Brancusi and attended for a short time Fernand Léger's studio. It was through this job that he met his first wife Magdalena Mańkowska, a student of anthropology in Paris. After marrying in France, and visiting Britain in 1928, the couple returned to Poland in 1930, where their first son John was born. In 1931, Warsaw was the locale of the first Kapists exhibition, entitled New Generation, which took place at the Artist's Club, Hotel Polonia, and the Institute of Art Propaganda. Here, Potworowski received a prize for his painting Three Women in the Interior. The following year, he held his first solo exhibition at the Makowski Salon in Poznań. This success was sustained through 1937 when the artist received a silver medal at the International Exhibition of Art and Technology in Paris, as well as the award from the Minister of Foreign Affairs. After this strong development, Potworowski had a travelling solo exhibition arranged, held in 1938 at the Institute of Propaganda of Art in Warsaw and then in Lviv. Following the invasion of Poland in 1939, Potworowski escaped to Sweden via Lithuania. It was from here that the artist, with his wife and two young children, made his way to Britain, arriving in 1943. After serving in Scotland, Potworowski settled in London, and in January 1946, an exhibition of 33 of his works was held at the Redfern Gallery. This was followed by regular exhibitions with the Redfern, Gimpel Fils (1948 onwards) and The London Group, to which he was elected a member in 1949. He was also the president of the Association of Polish Artists and published regularly in the monthly magazine "Nowa Polska". Potworowski's teaching career included eight years as Professor of Painting at the Bath Academy of Art, Corsham (1949-57), where he had considerable European influence, specifically on abstraction, and was acknowledged by contemporaries including Peter Lanyon, Bryan Wynter...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Gouache

Still Life, Red Yellow Flowers, Gouache Painting by Peter Potworowski, c 1955
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Still Life, Red & Yellow Flowers, Gouache Painting by Peter Potworowski, c 1955 Additional information: Medium: Gouache 23.6 x 33.3 cm 9 1/4 x 13 1/8 in Tadeusz Piotr (Peter) Potworowski was a Polish abstract and figurative painter who lived and exhibited in Paris, Poland, Sweden and England. Potworowski was born in Warsaw in 1898. After serving in the First World War, Potworowski enrolled at the Warsaw University of Technology to study architecture, though his studies were halted by the Bolshevik campaign. After the end of the Polish-Soviet War in 1921, Potworowski returned to Warsaw and began to study art at the school of Konrad Krzyżanowski. By the following year, he had taken a place at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, where he studied under Józef Pankiewicz. It was Pankiewicz who incorporated Potworowski into the Paris Commute, or Kapists, a group of Polish artists who travelled to the French capital in 1924. During his seven years in Paris he became personally acquainted with Pablo Picasso, Pierre Bonnard, Jean Cocteau, Constantin Brancusi and attended for a short time Fernand Léger's studio. It was through this job that he met his first wife Magdalena Mańkowska, a student of anthropology in Paris. After marrying in France, and visiting Britain in 1928, the couple returned to Poland in 1930, where their first son John was born. In 1931, Warsaw was the locale of the first Kapists exhibition, entitled New Generation, which took place at the Artist's Club, Hotel Polonia, and the Institute of Art Propaganda. Here, Potworowski received a prize for his painting Three Women in the Interior. The following year, he held his first solo exhibition at the Makowski Salon in Poznań. This success was sustained through 1937 when the artist received a silver medal at the International Exhibition of Art and Technology in Paris, as well as the award from the Minister of Foreign Affairs. After this strong development, Potworowski had a travelling solo exhibition arranged, held in 1938 at the Institute of Propaganda of Art in Warsaw and then in Lviv. Following the invasion of Poland in 1939, Potworowski escaped to Sweden via Lithuania. It was from here that the artist, with his wife and two young children, made his way to Britain, arriving in 1943. After serving in Scotland, Potworowski settled in London, and in January 1946, an exhibition of 33 of his works was held at the Redfern Gallery. This was followed by regular exhibitions with the Redfern, Gimpel Fils (1948 onwards) and The London Group, to which he was elected a member in 1949. He was also the president of the Association of Polish Artists and published regularly in the monthly magazine "Nowa Polska". Potworowski's teaching career included eight years as Professor of Painting at the Bath Academy of Art, Corsham (1949-57), where he had considerable European influence, specifically on abstraction, and was acknowledged by contemporaries including Peter Lanyon, Bryan Wynter...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Ascending, Oil on Board, Relief Painting by Alan Reynolds, 1970
By Alan Reynolds
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Ascending, Oil on Board, Relief Painting by Alan Reynolds, 1970 Additional information: Medium: Oil on board, relief 9 7/8 x 11 3/8 in 25 x 29 cm Signed...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Board

Christmas Card (Dark Grey with Three Painted Cut Outs) Painting by Breon O casey
By Breon O Casey
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Christmas Card (Dark Grey with Three Painted Cut Outs) Painting by Breon O'casey Additional information: Medium: Gouache and collage 10.2 x 14.2 cm 4 x 5 5/8 in Born in London 1928, Breon O’Casey was the son of the actor Eileen Reynolds and the playwright Sean O'Casey. In 1937 the family moved to Totnes where Breon O'Casey thrived at Dartington Hall School. Dartington was founded by Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst, who had a vision of a Utopian community which combined the working of the land with the life of the spirit through the arts. The emphasis the school placed on physical activities and skills, considering them equally important to academic skills, was crucial to him. At Dartington O’Casey learnt “to think with my hands as well as my head.” After National Service he attended the Anglo-French Art Centre in St John’s Wood...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Gouache

Coastal Scene, Gouache Painting by Peter Potworowski, 1950s circa
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Coastal Scene, Gouache Painting by Peter Potworowski, 1950s circa Additional information: Medium: Gouache 17 x 21.5 cm 6 3/4 x 8 1/2 in Tadeusz Piotr (Peter) Potworowski was a Polish abstract and figurative painter who lived and exhibited in Paris, Poland, Sweden and England. Potworowski was born in Warsaw in 1898. After serving in the First World War, Potworowski enrolled at the Warsaw University of Technology to study architecture, though his studies were halted by the Bolshevik campaign. After the end of the Polish-Soviet War in 1921, Potworowski returned to Warsaw and began to study art at the school of Konrad Krzyżanowski. By the following year, he had taken a place at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, where he studied under Józef Pankiewicz. It was Pankiewicz who incorporated Potworowski into the Paris Commute, or Kapists, a group of Polish artists who travelled to the French capital in 1924. During his seven years in Paris he became personally acquainted with Pablo Picasso, Pierre Bonnard, Jean Cocteau, Constantin Brancusi and attended for a short time Fernand Léger's studio. It was through this job that he met his first wife Magdalena Mańkowska, a student of anthropology in Paris. After marrying in France, and visiting Britain in 1928, the couple returned to Poland in 1930, where their first son John was born. In 1931, Warsaw was the locale of the first Kapists exhibition, entitled New Generation, which took place at the Artist's Club, Hotel Polonia, and the Institute of Art Propaganda. Here, Potworowski received a prize for his painting Three Women in the Interior. The following year, he held his first solo exhibition at the Makowski Salon in Poznań. This success was sustained through 1937 when the artist received a silver medal at the International Exhibition of Art and Technology in Paris, as well as the award from the Minister of Foreign Affairs. After this strong development, Potworowski had a travelling solo exhibition arranged, held in 1938 at the Institute of Propaganda of Art in Warsaw and then in Lviv. Following the invasion of Poland in 1939, Potworowski escaped to Sweden via Lithuania. It was from here that the artist, with his wife and two young children, made his way to Britain, arriving in 1943. After serving in Scotland, Potworowski settled in London, and in January 1946, an exhibition of 33 of his works was held at the Redfern Gallery. This was followed by regular exhibitions with the Redfern, Gimpel Fils (1948 onwards) and The London Group, to which he was elected a member in 1949. He was also the president of the Association of Polish Artists and published regularly in the monthly magazine "Nowa Polska". Potworowski's teaching career included eight years as Professor of Painting at the Bath Academy of Art, Corsham (1949-57), where he had considerable European influence, specifically on abstraction, and was acknowledged by contemporaries including Peter Lanyon, Bryan Wynter...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Gouache

Cornish Coast, Gouache Painting by Peter Potworowski, 1952/3
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Cornish Coast, Gouache Painting by Peter Potworowski, 1952/3 Additional information: Medium: Gouache 20.3 x 33 cm 8 x 13 in Tadeusz Piotr (Peter) Potworowski was a Polish abstract and figurative painter who lived and exhibited in Paris, Poland, Sweden and England. Potworowski was born in Warsaw in 1898. After serving in the First World War, Potworowski enrolled at the Warsaw University of Technology to study architecture, though his studies were halted by the Bolshevik campaign. After the end of the Polish-Soviet War in 1921, Potworowski returned to Warsaw and began to study art at the school of Konrad Krzyżanowski. By the following year, he had taken a place at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, where he studied under Józef Pankiewicz. It was Pankiewicz who incorporated Potworowski into the Paris Commute, or Kapists, a group of Polish artists who travelled to the French capital in 1924. During his seven years in Paris he became personally acquainted with Pablo Picasso, Pierre Bonnard, Jean Cocteau, Constantin Brancusi and attended for a short time Fernand Léger's studio. It was through this job that he met his first wife Magdalena Mańkowska, a student of anthropology in Paris. After marrying in France, and visiting Britain in 1928, the couple returned to Poland in 1930, where their first son John was born. In 1931, Warsaw was the locale of the first Kapists exhibition, entitled New Generation, which took place at the Artist's Club, Hotel Polonia, and the Institute of Art Propaganda. Here, Potworowski received a prize for his painting Three Women in the Interior. The following year, he held his first solo exhibition at the Makowski Salon in Poznań. This success was sustained through 1937 when the artist received a silver medal at the International Exhibition of Art and Technology in Paris, as well as the award from the Minister of Foreign Affairs. After this strong development, Potworowski had a travelling solo exhibition arranged, held in 1938 at the Institute of Propaganda of Art in Warsaw and then in Lviv. Following the invasion of Poland in 1939, Potworowski escaped to Sweden via Lithuania. It was from here that the artist, with his wife and two young children, made his way to Britain, arriving in 1943. After serving in Scotland, Potworowski settled in London, and in January 1946, an exhibition of 33 of his works was held at the Redfern Gallery. This was followed by regular exhibitions with the Redfern, Gimpel Fils (1948 onwards) and The London Group, to which he was elected a member in 1949. He was also the president of the Association of Polish Artists and published regularly in the monthly magazine "Nowa Polska". Potworowski's teaching career included eight years as Professor of Painting at the Bath Academy of Art, Corsham (1949-57), where he had considerable European influence, specifically on abstraction, and was acknowledged by contemporaries including Peter Lanyon, Bryan Wynter...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Gouache

The Edge of Myths, 2006 - Contemporary Pale Grey Oil on Canvas Abstract Painting
Located in Kingsclere, GB
The Edge of Myths, Oil on Canvas Painting by Padraig Macmiadhachain 1929-2017, 2006 Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas 51 x 61 cm 20...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

I See a Fishing Boat Leaving Cornwall, Oil on Canvas, by Padraig Macmiadhachain
Located in Kingsclere, GB
I See a Fishing Boat Leaving Cornwall, Oil on Canvas Painting by Padraig Macmiadhachain 1929-2017 Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas

Study for Cambridge, Liqutex on Canvas Painting by Mark Lancaster, 1968
By Mark Lancaster
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Study for Cambridge, Liqutex on Canvas Painting by Mark Lancaster 1938-2021, 1968 Additional information: Medium: Liqutex on canvas 36 x 36 cm 14 1/8 x 14 1/8 in Signed Mark Lancas...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas

Vanessa Bell II, Oil on Canvas Painting by Mark Lancaster, 1980
By Mark Lancaster
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Vanessa Bell II, Oil on Canvas Painting by Mark Lancaster 1938-2021, 1980 Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas 91.5 x 61 cm 36 x 24 in Signed Mark Lancaster was born Chris...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas

Intervals (Yellow), Silkscreen Painting by Kim Lim, 1972
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Intervals (Yellow), Silkscreen Painting by Kim Lim 1936-1997, 1972 Additional information: Medium: Silkscreen on plastic, framed in a perspex box 45 x 45 cm 17 3/4 x 17 3/4 in Signed, dated and numbered Provenance Private Collection, UK Exhibitions London, Pace Gallery, 'Creating Abstraction', Feb 3 - Mar 12 2022 (another ed.) Wakefield, Hepworth, 'Kim Lim', 2023 (another ed.) Kim Lim was born in Singapore and spent much of her early childhood in Penang and Malacca. After her schooling in Singapore, Lim knew that she wanted to become an artist, and at eighteen, she enrolled at St. Martin's in London, where she spent two years concentrating mainly on wood carving. She then transferred to the Slade, where taught by the etcher Anthony Gross and lithographer Stanley Jones, she developed a strong commitment to print making. On journeys back to Singapore she stopped off in Europe and India, soaking up the art 'like a sponge'. These were the experiences that confirmed in her a lifelong predilection for things archaic, and for the flow and rhythm of Indian and South East Asian sculpture: " I found that I always responded to things that were done in earlier civilizations that seemed to have less elaboration and more strength." In Greece she was entranced by Cycladic sculpture. Of Chinese art she was moved most by early Shang bronzes, Han sculpture, Sung pottery...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Plastic

White, Oil on Canvas Painting by Mark Lancaster, 1974
By Mark Lancaster
Located in Kingsclere, GB
White, Oil on Canvas Painting by Mark Lancaster 1938-2021, 1974 Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas 185.5 x 122 cm 73 x 48 in Signed Mark Lancaster was born Christopher R...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas

Study for 22 Forsyth St. No.1, Chalk Pastel Painting by Mark Lancaster, 1972
By Mark Lancaster
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Study for 22 Forsyth St. No.1, Chalk Pastel Painting by Mark Lancaster 1938-2021, 1972 Additional information: Medium: Chalk pastel 22.9 x 30.5 cm 9 x 12 in Mark Lancaster was born...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Pastel

Standing Figure, Oil Painting by Peter Kinley, circa 1960s
By Peter Kinley
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Standing Figure, Oil Painting by Peter Kinley 1926-1988, circa 1960s Additional information: Medium: Oil and pencil 24 x 18 cm 9 1/2 x 7 1/8 in Provenance Estate of the Artist Pete...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Pencil

Composition, White and Yellow, Oil on Canvas Painting by Adrian Heath, 1953
By Adrian Heath
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Composition, White and Yellow, Oil on Canvas Painting by Adrian Heath 1920-1992, 1953 Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas 86.2 x 61.1 cm 34 x 24 in Signed and dated; furth...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas

Il Pleut Le Dimanche (It Rains on Sunday) Oil on Canvas Painting, 1960
By Martin Bradley
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Il Pleut Le Dimanche (It Rains on Sunday) Oil on Canvas Painting, 1960 Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas 55.9 x 45.7 cm 22 x 18 in Signed and dated; further signed and t...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas

Banon, Provence, Oil on Canvas Painting by William Crozier, 2002
By William Crozier
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Banon, Provence, Oil on Canvas Painting by William Crozier, 2002 Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas 40 x 49.5 cm 15 3/4 x 19 1/2 in Signed, dated and titled verso
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Canvas

Gardens at Night, Greenwich, Oil on Board Painting by John Christopherson, 1972
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Gardens at Night, Greenwich, Oil on Board Painting by John Christopherson, 1972 Additional information: Medium: Oil on board 32 x 27.5 cm 12 5/8 x 10 7/8 in Signed with initials, signed again verso, further signed on the Artist's label John Christopherson was a painter of small dreamlike townscapes and abstract paintings that combine an almost naïve intensity with great sophistication. Born in Blackheath, London in 1921, Christopherson began his working life at Shell-Mex House in 1938, the period when Jack Beddington, the manager of the publicity department was pioneering the use of modern art in advertising. After a wartime illness, Christopherson worked at County Hall in London, choosing for his office wall a print of Paul Nash's Wood on the Downs and Nash's primeval landscapes and magical moons were later to have a lasting influence on Christopherson's own paintings. In 1950, while working as a civil servant at the Geological Museum in South Kensington, he became interested in the French Art Brut movement and corresponded with Jean Dubuffet, who offered encouragement when Christopherson himself began to paint. John Christopherson felt that his life in art did not really begin until 1950, when he met Jacob Epstein and started to visit West End galleries - he said that it was a revelation that 'such a magical world co-existed on the same level and at the same time as the boring, prosaic one of rationing, coupons and the civil service', and he determined to enter it. He said that his annus mirabilis was 1951, the year of the Festival of Britain. This was the time when his tastes and interests were moulded and when he found his vocation. In 1959, he resigned from his appointment in the civil service at the Geological Museum and became a full-time painter. From boyhood he was fascinated by the idea of antiquity. He was always interested in ancient stones, pavements, mosaics, archaeological sites, walls and buildings which had gradually changed and been eroded by time. Walls with faded posters and graffiti particularly attracted him - he treasured and identified himself with what he described as the 'forlorn poetry of the unregarded'. Christopherson's pictures linger in the memory. His image world is a distillation of cultural debris sifted with poetic intensity. His pictures are a microcosm of his tastes and obsessions. Each small painting is haunted by a sense of déjà vu, the ordinary becomes extraordinary. The subtle depths of layers of glazes are incised with the mysterious markings of a private language. Terence Mullaly once described how his works 'convey the impression of a world frozen in a dream'. George Melly...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Board

Quiet Waters, Oil on Panel Painting by William Alfred Gibson, 1919
By William Alfred Gibson
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Quiet Waters, Oil on Panel Painting by William Alfred Gibson, 1919 Additional information: Medium: Oil on panel 33 x 25 cm 13 x 9 7/8 in Signed and dated ‘1-1’
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Panel

Bouquet Red-Black on White, Oil on Canvas Painting by Derrick Greaves, 1960
By Derrick Greaves
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Bouquet Red-Black on White, Oil on Canvas Painting by Derrick Greaves, 1960 Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas 71 x 95.5 cm 28 x 37 5/8 in Signed and dated 'derrick Greav...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas

White Painting (Large Square) Oil on Canvas by Richard Allen
By Richard Allen
Located in Kingsclere, GB
White Painting (Large Square) Oil on Canvas by Richard Allen Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas 105 x 105 cm 41 3/8 x 41 3/8 in Richard Allen was an Abstract artist of t...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas

VIII (White Painting ENW17), Oil on Canvas by Richard Allen, 1995 circa
By Richard Allen
Located in Kingsclere, GB
VIII (White Painting ENW17), Oil on Canvas by Richard Allen, 1995 circa Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas 24 1/8 x 24 1/8 in 61 x 61 cm With Estate stamp on overlap Richard Allen was an Abstract artist of the 20th century who worked across painting, graphic and technological media. Allen was born in Worcester in 1933. Influenced by his father, he attended Shropshire Institute of Agriculture where he studied for a National Diploma. From there he became aware of what he considered his “irrational” yet unshakeable interest in art, since the College shared buildings with Worcester School of Art. Upon the advice of his window-cleaner Bob, Allen decided to apply to the School. Whilst in Worcester he attended Geoffrey Whiting’s pottery course. Allen took national service in 1952 during the Korean War, serving as an engineer. He returned to Worcester in 1954 to study for his A levels and NDD, after which he attended Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, in 1957. He embraced Bath's unconventional teaching of that time and developed a keen interest in abstract painting. In 1959, his last year at Bath, he was commissioned to make a 15 x 9 foot abstract mosaic for a Wiltshire college, in which the first signs of Allen's grid construction, and blocks of colour within a grid, are seen to appear. In 1960 he won an Italian Government Scholarship in Art to study in Ravenna. After only three months in Ravenna, working on restoration of Byzantine mosaics, he moved to the more lively city of Milan in which he worked with large-scale mosaic production. These commercialised mosaics informed his later works, and Allen considers his time in Milan to be one of fruitful cultural interaction. He married fellow Bath Academy of Art student Eve Laurens the next year, and began teaching part time. He taught at Croydon College of Art for eight years, during which time he began working on his Op Art paintings and was awarded the title of Commonwealth Scholar in Art and Architecture. The scholarship gave him the opportunity to study in the Indian Institute for Advanced Studies in Shimla for a year, during which he was able to travel India extensively. During his time in London Allen worked alongside such figures as Bridget Riley and Bruce McLean, their commitment to artistic professionalism informing his own identity as an artist. Allen started experimenting with line, colour, optical effects and the relationship between art and science. His Op Art works relied upon Interferometry, allowing him to lay grid lines over paintings to create visual manipulations. In 1967 he had his first solo exhibition at the University of Sussex. In 1971 he was invited by Malcolm Hughes to join the Matrix group of artists, whose exhibition opened at the Arnolfini Gallery that year which led to a further exhibition at the Whitechapel gallery the following year. The Matrix group was concerned with Systematic painting, which worked to create images that consciously reveal their own methods of construction. This led to his involvement with the Systems movement in music, with performances often accompanying the openings of System exhibitions. Concern with systems informed Allen’s work throughout his life. In 1972 Allen returned to graphic works, namely making large-scale charcoal pieces on canvas. His work at this time was still very much based on the grid and cross. His work was included in the Hayward gallery British painting Exhibition in the mid 1970s, and was also displayed in a solo exhibition at the London Institute of Contemporary Arts. Allen moved to Jersey in 1977, where he continued working with charcoal and exhibiting internationally. The minimalist exhibition ‘Fundamental Painting’ in Amsterdam, 1975, inspired Allen to put together a similar English exhibition. His position on the Committee of the Art Information Registry/Air and Space, enabled him to work on this. The exhibition was held in the Air Gallery in Charing Cross and led to his curation of Fundamental Painting exhibitions in Holland, Belgium, France and Italy. In 1991 he returned to England and began working on his "white paintings", having not worked with colour for twenty years, which were to be his last works. Shortly after his wife Eve died in 1997 he was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease. Allen began working with specially adapted computer software...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas

L.P. IV (Blue on Red + Green), Oil Cryla on Board Painting, 1968
By Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Located in Kingsclere, GB
L.P. IV (Blue on Red + Green), Oil & Cryla on Board Painting by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, 1968 Additional information: Medium: Oil and cryla on board 40.4 x 40.4 cm 15 7/8 x 15 7/8 i...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Board

Coastal Composition, Gouache and Ink Painting, by Trevor Bell, 1955
By Trevor Bell
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Coastal Composition, Gouache and Ink Painting, by Trevor Bell, 1955 Additional information: Medium: Gouache and ink 18.5 x 9 cm 7 1/4 x 3 1/2 in Trevor Bell was an abstract painter...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Gouache

Ladder Series I, Oil Stick on Paper Painting by Basil Beattie, 2017
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Ladder Series I, Oil Stick on Paper Painting by Basil Beattie, 2017 Additional information: Medium: Oil stick on paper 36 x 28 cm 14 1/8 x 11 1/8 in Beattie is best known for his e...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Paper

ENMXI (White Painting), Oil on Canvas by Richard Allen, 1995 circa
By Richard Allen
Located in Kingsclere, GB
ENMXI (White Painting), Oil on Canvas by Richard Allen, 1995 circa Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas 61 x 61 cm 24 x 24 in With Estate stamp on the overlap Richard Allen was an Abstract artist of the 20th century who worked across painting, graphic and technological media. Allen was born in Worcester in 1933. Influenced by his father, he attended Shropshire Institute of Agriculture where he studied for a National Diploma. From there he became aware of what he considered his “irrational” yet unshakeable interest in art, since the College shared buildings with Worcester School of Art. Upon the advice of his window-cleaner Bob, Allen decided to apply to the School. Whilst in Worcester he attended Geoffrey Whiting...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas

Di-symo, Pen and Ink on Paper, Laid on Paper Painting by Richard Allen, 1970
By Richard Allen
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Di-symo, Pen and Ink on Paper, Laid on Paper Painting by Richard Allen, 1970 Additional information: Medium: Pen and ink on paper, laid on paper 56.5 x 56.5 cm 22 1/4 x 22 1/4 in Signed, dated and titled Richard Allen was an Abstract artist of the 20th century who worked across painting, graphic and technological media. Allen was born in Worcester in 1933. Influenced by his father, he attended Shropshire Institute of Agriculture where he studied for a National Diploma. From there he became aware of what he considered his “irrational” yet unshakeable interest in art, since the College shared buildings with Worcester School of Art. Upon the advice of his window-cleaner Bob, Allen decided to apply to the School. Whilst in Worcester he attended Geoffrey Whiting’s pottery course. Allen took national service in 1952 during the Korean War, serving as an engineer. He returned to Worcester in 1954 to study for his A levels and NDD, after which he attended Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, in 1957. He embraced Bath's unconventional teaching of that time and developed a keen interest in abstract painting. In 1959, his last year at Bath, he was commissioned to make a 15 x 9 foot abstract mosaic for a Wiltshire college, in which the first signs of Allen's grid construction, and blocks of colour within a grid, are seen to appear. In 1960 he won an Italian Government Scholarship in Art to study in Ravenna. After only three months in Ravenna, working on restoration of Byzantine mosaics, he moved to the more lively city of Milan in which he worked with large-scale mosaic production. These commercialised mosaics informed his later works, and Allen considers his time in Milan to be one of fruitful cultural interaction. He married fellow Bath Academy of Art student Eve Laurens the next year, and began teaching part time. He taught at Croydon College of Art for eight years, during which time he began working on his Op Art paintings and was awarded the title of Commonwealth Scholar in Art and Architecture. The scholarship gave him the opportunity to study in the Indian Institute for Advanced Studies in Shimla for a year, during which he was able to travel India extensively. During his time in London Allen worked alongside such figures as Bridget Riley and Bruce McLean, their commitment to artistic professionalism informing his own identity as an artist. Allen started experimenting with line, colour, optical effects and the relationship between art and science. His Op Art works relied upon Interferometry, allowing him to lay grid lines over paintings to create visual manipulations. In 1967 he had his first solo exhibition at the University of Sussex. In 1971 he was invited by Malcolm Hughes to join the Matrix group of artists, whose exhibition opened at the Arnolfini Gallery that year which led to a further exhibition at the Whitechapel gallery the following year. The Matrix group was concerned with Systematic painting, which worked to create images that consciously reveal their own methods of construction. This led to his involvement with the Systems movement in music, with performances often accompanying the openings of System exhibitions. Concern with systems informed Allen’s work throughout his life. In 1972 Allen returned to graphic works, namely making large-scale charcoal pieces on canvas. His work at this time was still very much based on the grid and cross. His work was included in the Hayward gallery British painting Exhibition in the mid 1970s, and was also displayed in a solo exhibition at the London Institute of Contemporary Arts. Allen moved to Jersey in 1977, where he continued working with charcoal and exhibiting internationally. The minimalist exhibition ‘Fundamental Painting’ in Amsterdam, 1975, inspired Allen to put together a similar English exhibition. His position on the Committee of the Art Information Registry/Air and Space, enabled him to work on this. The exhibition was held in the Air Gallery in Charing Cross and led to his curation of Fundamental Painting exhibitions in Holland, Belgium, France and Italy. In 1991 he returned to England and began working on his "white paintings", having not worked with colour for twenty years, which were to be his last works. Shortly after his wife Eve died in 1997 he was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease. Allen began working with specially adapted computer software...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Pen

Bound Up, Oil and Wax on Canvas Painting by Basil Beattie, 2000
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Bound Up, Oil and Wax on Canvas Painting by Basil Beattie, 2000 Additional information: Medium: Oil and wax on canvas 84 1/8 x 78 1/8 in 213.7 x 198.4 cm Signed, titled and dated; i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Wax