Description This vibrant French Art Deco floral oil painting is by noted French artist Jacques Emile Blanche. Painted circa 1930, the palette is of wonderful tones of yellow and orange with splashes of green and typical Blanche heavy impasto. The composition is a floral bouquet consisting of sunflowers, red hot pokers and dahlias against an orange and gold background and in a stunning black and gold vase. This is an excellent radiant example of Blanche's work and a good size.
This stunning, large British Edwardian Newlyn School interior portrait oil painting is by much noted and exhibited artist Walter Langley. Originally from Birmingham, Langley and his family moved to St Ives in 1881. He was one of the first artists to settle and painted the local fishermen and their families. Painted in 1906 and entitled The Evening of Life, the painting is a full length seated portrait of an elderly lady in a cottage interior. She is sat by a table on which she has a bible, jug of flowers and her sewing equipment. Across her lap she has a large patchwork quilt to mend but is lost in thought. In fact the same sitter and quilt can be seen in Memories, also painted in 1906 and in the Ferens Art Gallery, Hull. Memories includes more of the cottage interior but the sitter's head is bowed towards her hands. The Evening of Life is more vibrant and the sitters face is much more visible as are the lovely colours of the quilt. The painting has fantastic detail, great brushwork and the Newlyn school palette of colours. The provenance is excellent, having been kept in the same family ownership so fresh to market. The painting appeared in the artist's catalogue Raisonne and was also in 1997 biography by Langely's grandson, Roger Langley, entitled Walter Langley: Pioneer of the Newlyn Art Colony. This a superb example of Langley's work, a good size and composition and a pleasure to gaze upon.
Signed lower left and dated (19)06.
Provenance Ford, 1906 (£63).
Long in the previous family ownership and sold by the executors of the estate.
Thomas Wood and Sons label vereso.
Literature: Langley (R) - Walter Langley Pioneer of the Newlyn Art Colony 1997, catalogue raisonne p.170 (under 1906).
This stunning Scottish Victorian portrait oil painting is by noted artist Robert Fowler. Painted circa 1893 the composition is of a blonde haired maiden in the foreground, dressed in a flimsy robe, sitting on grass and leaning against a tree. Beyond her is a vibrant coastal landscape on a summer's day. One can see the influence of Frederick Leighton in his work and also mythology. There is tremendous brushwork and the vivid blues and greens against the soft white of her robe and the clouds is superb. This is an excellent example of Fowler's work and of Scottish Victorian art. He painted many landscape and scenes arround North Wales and Liverpool and the landscape and sitter depict a Welsh Classical Maiden.
This lovely British Post Impressionist Wiltshire landscape oil painting is from a collection of Peter L Field paintings acquired from the family. Painted circa 1950 the composition is fields with farm dwellings to the left and some towering trees to the right in the middle ground. The vibrant yellow and green palette and strong Post Impressionist brushwork are superb. A really stunning oil painting and an excellent example of Peter Field’s work.
We're all struggling to keep cool this week with temperatures in the thirties in the UK and Europe, animal too. These two friends look ok though.
George Thomas Paice (1854-1925)
Portrait of Dog and Rabbit Friends
This lovely British Victorian animal art oil painting is by noted animal artist George Paice. It was painted in 1898 and is signed and dated lower right. The composition is a black and white wire haired terrier sat beside a ginger and white rabbit in its hutch. Both animals look relaxed in each others company, but one free the other caged. There is great brushwork detailing the different textures of the dog's stiff hair, the rabbit's fur, the straw on the floor and light catching the chicken wire. It's a very sweet painting of animal friendship and a lovely British Victorian oil painting.
Signed and dated (18)98 lower right.
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