New  Acquisitions
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John Cecil Stephenson [1889-1965], 'E J Wheeler', 1919, oil on board, signed   £3,500

               Perhaps the best of Stephenson's early figurative paintings

Michael Kenny R.A. [1941-99], Upright Form', c.1962, bronze, 1/8, signed, 35 cm high   £1,800

                                This may be the only one of the edition cast ?

Frank Avray Wilson [1914-2009], 'Yellow Abstract', 1958, oil on board, signed, 25 x 18 cm   £ sold
  Richard Smith [b.1931], 'Untitled 3', 1996, oil on canvas, signed, 44 x 66 cm   £ sold

               Exhibited at the Jerwood Painting Prize in 1997 [sold at £6,000]
Smith was a major 1960s artist, same level as Brigit Riley, who had a major retrospective                                                  exhibition at the Tate Gallery
 
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          Hubert Dalwood [1924-76]  'Large Tree', 1957, bronze, ed.6, 90 cm high   £17,500
another cast was owned by Henry Moore, one of the very few sculptures by other artists he bought
Sir Jacob Epstein [1880-1959], 'John Gielgud', 1933, bronze, ed.2, 60 cm high   £28,000

  One of Epstein's finest male busts and very rare as only 2 casts of the full bust exist

               Lady Epstein cast up to 6 of a head only version in the 1960s

Fiona Rae R.A.  U/T, c.1996, oil, 11 x 9 cm    £950
William Johnstone [1897-1981], 'I Deamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls', 1973, oil on canvas, signed, 61 x 76 cm 

Exhib. 'William Johnstone', major retrospective exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, 1981, cat. p.42, illus. pl.88  
Eduardo Paolozzi [1924-2005], 'InBed', 1954, collage, gouache and ink, signed, 12 x 21 cm   £3,750
                                                   Prov. Mayor Gallery, London
Albert Reuss [1889-1976], 'Landscape with Forms', 1965, oil on canvas, signed, 72 x 92 cm   £1,850

      St Ives artist - originally born in Austria, but came to the UK in 1938 to escape the Nazis
John Cecil Stephenson [1889-1965], 'Abstract', c.1945, oil & gouache   £950

One of the first abstract expressionist painters [from the early 1940s], having
    started as a hard-edge abstractionist in the 1930s  -  very underrated


John Cecil Stephenson [1889-1965], 'Green Nude', 1945, gouache,                   signed and dated on reverse, 38 x 52 cm    £2,800
      Geoffrey Clarke, R.A. [b.1924], 'Man as Fortress', 1951, welded iron, unique, signed

One of the UK's greatest sculptors, who represented his country 3 times at the Venice Biennale


Sir Jacob Epstein [1880-1959], 'Sunita' [2nd portrait], 1926, bronze, ed.6, 57 cm high  £19,500

               One of Epstein's greatest female busts - Sunita was his favourite model
Elizabeth Frink [1930-93], 'Head', 1959, bronze, ed.6, signed, 34 cm long   £18,500
Alexander Mackenzie [1923-2002], 'Painting 63', 1963, oil on board, signed, 60 x 35 cm   £9,850
                                         Prov. Waddington Gallery, London
Bernard Meadows [1916-2005], ''Frightened Bird', 1960, watrcolour, signed   £1,950
Bernard Meadows [1916-2005], 'Head of Bird', 1956, bronze, ed.6, 40 cm high   £8,500
                          prov. private coll'n, UK - acquired direct from artist
Ralph Brown R.A. [b.1928], 'Figure/Head', 1963, bronze, ed.9, 46 cm high   £6,500
Jack Simcock [b.1929], 'Farmhouse and Head', oil on board, signed
The above are just a small number of recent acquisitions - we have many more
Naum Gabo  'Study', watercolour, 1973, signed twice and dedicated   £995
                            prov. Wills Lane Gallery, St.Ives
Bernard Meadows [1915-2005], 'Large Crab' [relief], 1978, bronze, ed.6 [only 3 were cast], 64 x 36 x 20 cm
                  prov. 'Bernard Meadows', one-man exhibition, Chappel Galleries, 1999    £18,000
                                          Probably the best of Meadow's late bronzes
Eduardo Paolozzi  'Head of Matta', 1979, bronze, 3/6, signed   £ sold
Robert Adams [1917-84], 'Brown Shell', 1980, bronze, 2/6, signed   £9,500
Clive Barker [b.1940]  'My Rabbit', 1997, aluminium, ed.9, 19 cm long   £950
Geoffrey Clarke R.A. [b.1924], 'Fish', 1951, weldediron & slate on boar unique, 31 x 53 cm   £9,500
Bernard Meadows [1915-2005], 'Head of Fallen Bird', 1959, bronze, ed.6, 28 cm long   £4,750
                prov. 'Bernard Meadows', one-man exhibition, Chappel Galleries, 1999
John Wragg R.A. [b.1937], 'She-Wolf', 1962, bronze, ed.3, 40 cm long   £4,500
                                 The artist thinks only 2 were cast
Geoffrey Clarke R.A. [b.1924], 'The Word', 1973, aluminium, unique, signed, 9 cm high   £950