O ur 21/22 November sale of 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Modern & Post-War British Art celebrates the very best of the British art scene over the past century, and as part of the sale we are extremely excited to be hosting a special seri🉐es of free Sunday talks on Sunday 19 November with leading historians of some of the artists a🍸nd artworks featured.
L.S. LOWRY, 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:THE RUSH HOUR, 1964. ESTIMATE £800,000–1,200,000.
1pm
L.S. Lowry: Painter of Modern Life
Gallery Talk with Michael Howard, author of
An artist that needs no introduction, L.S. Lowry is one of the most popular and beloved artists of the past century, capturing the industrial scene and everyday lives of those that he saw during his ♚daily rounds as a rent collector in the city.
L.S. LOWRY, 1964. PHOTOGRAPH BY JORGE LEWINSKI
© THE LEWINSKI ARCHIVE AT CHATSWORTH
The sale features three masterworks by L.S. Lowry from a Private European Collection. Historian and author Michael Howard guides us through Lowry’s early life, and explains just what drove him to create some of the most celebr💞ated and recognisable images everyday British life.
ERIC RAVILIOUS, 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:NEWHAVEN HARBOUR, 1935. ESTIMATE £80,000–120,000.
2pm
Painted Ships on Painted Oceans
Gallery Talk with Alan Powers, author of
The subject of a recent reappraisal, including several exciting museum exhibitions and publications, Eric Ravilious holds a position as one of the most interesting British artists of the past century, and arguably one of the best watercolourists. Author Alan Powers leads us through the artist’s inter-war years, including one of his most celebrated subjects Newhaven Harbour. Alan will also be discussing Ravilious’ close contemporary Edward Wadsworth, whose Convoy (1941) is also to be included in the sale.
C.R.W. NEVINSON, A DAWN, 1914. EXECUTED IN 1916. ESTIMATE £700,000–1,000,000.
3pm
Nevinson: The Great War and After
Gallery Talk with Jonathan Black, author of
Rounding off the afternoon we’re delighted to have Jonathan Black in the galleries to talk about Nevinson’s masterpiece A Dawn, 1914 – largely unseen for over 30 years, it is one of the last remaining oil paintings from the First World War period to remain in private ownership. The work was included in his seminal 1916 Leicester Galleries exhibition, alongside many of the greatest works by the artist to appear in public collections all around the world – including in the Tate; from the National Gallery of Canada and in the Imperial War Museum, London.
C.R.W. NEVINSON IN UNIFORM, LATE 1914.
PHOTOGRAPHER UNKNOWN.
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