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Continental School, floral still-life
£3,200Continental School, floral still-life
Continental still-life of a vase of flowers on a stone ledge. Gilt Frame. Old repairs and slight loss on paint.£3,200 -
“Still-life with Apples and a Ginger Jar” by Gladys Marguerite Baker (1889-1959)
£950“Still-life with Apples and a Ginger Jar” by Gladys Marguerite Baker (1889-1959)
London artist, educated at Queen’s College, St John’s Wood Art School and Royal Academy Schools, winning a silver medal for composition there. Showed at RBA, RI, NPS, in the provinces and America and frequently at RA, finally in 1947.£950 -
Early nineteenth century nude study,
£750Early nineteenth century nude study,
An early nineteenth century framed charcoal life-study of a male figure. The figure is shown heroically nude, from the front, in a full length, slightly serpentina pose with the right arm radiating from the torso. The composition is depicted contraposto and leaning on a spear or staff. The pose depicted is shows a slightly adapted and altered rendering of the famous Doryphorus, or Spear-Barer of Polykleitos. Polykleitos was known as the best sculptor of men in the ancient world, with the primary subjects of his works being male athletes with idealised body proportions. He was interested most chiefly in the mathematical proportions of the human form, which led him to write an essay the famous Kanon, on the proportions of humans. The Doryphoros is an illustration of his writings in Kanon on the symmetry between the body parts£750 -
Early nineteenth century nude study,
£750Early nineteenth century nude study,
An early nineteenth century framed charcoal life-study of a female figure. The figure, shown side-on, models the Pudica pose, an affected posture of chaste virtue, inherited from classical art.£750 -
Early nineteenth century nude study,
£750Early nineteenth century nude study,
An early nineteenth century framed charcoal life-study of a male figure. The figure is shown heroically nude, from the front, in a full length, adlocutio pose, contraposto and grasping a shaft or baton. The pose is a famous one in Classical Art, said to embody power, control and leadership, and its most famous example is the Augusto di Prima Porta in the Vatican Museums in Rome.£750 -
Early nineteenth century nude study,
£750Early nineteenth century nude study,
An early nineteenth century framed charcoal life-study of a male figure. The figure is shown from behind in full length, contraposto, with developed musculature and a sinuous, dramatic, figura serpentina recollecting the Dancing Faun of the Uffizi, and the famous Farnese Hercules.£750 -
Still-life of Fruit
£450
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