Gallery Exhibition

Sotherans: British Paintings, 1880-1980

This exhibition brings together 100 years of Modern British painting, sourced from private collections and artists’ estates. Working directly with artists’ families can bear extraordinary fruits, and pictures not seen for decades are here brought to light.

Examples of these include a rare Biblical painting by Gilbert Spencer – Gehazi and Namaan (illustrated above) – created early on in the artist’s career, or a group of pictures by the extraordinary Carline family, comprising works by Richard, Hilda, Sidney and George.

Many of the works featured are being offered for sale for the very first time. They have been passed down through successive generations without interruption, and have exceptional, unbroken provenance. This sense of intimacy is also reflected in Fyffe Christie’s tender portrait of his sculptor wife, Eleanor, John Moody’s earnest portrait of his grieving mother, Margaret, and in an altogether different sense in Leon Underwood’s portrait of Cecile in the artist’s Hammersmith studio.

The exhibition will be on display at Sotheran’s (2-5 Sackville Street, London, W1S 3DO) from Thursday 28th September – Friday 20th October.

Works FEATUREd in this Exhibition

Sold
Stephen Bone (1904 - 1958)
Gavin in his study at St John’s, early 1920s
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Allegory of Painting, c. 1935
£12,500
Sir Gerald Festus Kelly (1879 - 1972)
Still Life with Anenomes, circa 1930
£7,800
Hubert Arthur Finney (1905 - 1991)
Amy Ironing, circa 1953
£16,000
Reserved
Rudolf Sauter (1895 - 1977)
Never More…!
Sydney Carline (1888 - 1929)
Italian Valley, 1920
Peter Brook (1927 - 2009)
A Break in the Clouds, 1979
£7,950
Reserved
Richard Carline (1896 - 1980)
Nude
Richard Carline (1896 - 1980)
From the Foremast in the Mid-Atlantic on the Grace Harwar, 1930
Fyffe Christie (1918 - 1979)
Portrait of the Artist’s Wife Eleanor (Copy)
£4,950
Fyffe Christie (1918 - 1979)
The Artists Cat, Carmen, c.1955 (Copy)
£1,750
Reserved
Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956)
Landscape, South Africa, c.1891
Averil Mary Burleigh (1883 - 1949)
Rest by the Way
£14,500
Sold
Marion Adnams (1898 - 1995)
That Same Door, 1963
Sold
Augustus Lunn ((1905–1986))
Building Site, 1937
Kathleen Guthrie (1905 - 1981)
Wales III, circa 1960
£3,800
Reserved
Kathleen Guthrie (1905 - 1981)
Cat and Flowers, late 1950’s
Reserved
John Bulloch Souter (1890 - 1972)
Still Life of Fishing Nets and Floats by a Wall, c.1930
Stephen Bone (1904 - 1958)
Mary Adshead in Bed
Reserved
Duncan Grant (1885-1978)
Landscape near Settignano, Florence
Laura A Jewis (1896 -)
Scenes from the Life of Christ, 1937
£7,750
Reserved
Stephen Bone (1904 - 1958)
Land, Sea and Air – WW2
Reserved
Sir Thomas Monnington (1902 - 1976)
Study for Bristol Ceiling, circa 1952
Leon Underwood (1890 - 1975)
Cecile on the Sofa, 1920
£19,500
Sold
Ithell Colquhoun (1906 - 1988)
Highland Landscape, 1965
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Industry and Sloth, c.1932
£5,750
Reserved
Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956)
Three Men Sitting by a Brazier, circa 1891
Reserved
Seascape with sailing boat off the coast at sunset, c.1890
Reserved
Hilda Carline (1889 - 1950)
The Sitting Room at 3 Park Crescent, Oxford, circa 1910
Reserved
Hubert Arthur Finney (1905 - 1991)
Naples Bay at night. en route to Athens
Jack Smith (1928 - 2011)
Painted Relief, 1962
£12,000
Reserved
Margaret Gere (1878 - 1965)
The Baptism
John Cecil Stephenson (1889 - 1965)
Clarabella, 1950
£50,000
Reserved
John Cecil Stephenson (1889 - 1965)
Abstraction, 1934
Reserved
Charles Cundall (1890 - 1971)
The British Railways Carry On, 1941
Reserved
Barnett Freedman (1901 - 1958)
Claudia Writing by Lamplight
Reserved
John Banting (1902 - 1972)
Sylph Melody
Rachel Reckitt (1908 - 1995)
Matador, c. 1955
£14,000
Charles Cundall (1890 - 1971)
Porte St Cloud, Paris
£9,000
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Joseph in Prison, 1949-50
£22,000
Rudolf Sauter (1895 - 1977)
Searchlights along the Thames Estuary, October 1940
£9,500
Jack Smith (1928 - 2011)
13 Elements on Grey ( Sound + Silence), 1970
£12,000
Reserved
Leslie Carr (1885 - 1948)
Merchant Ships Tethered with Barrage Balloons, and a Dazzle Camouflage Destroyer
William Roberts (1895 - 1980)
Portrait of May Berry, 1933
£34,000
Edward Halliday (1902 - 1984)
Charlotte, 1951, (The Artist’s Daughter)
£16,500
William S Taylor (1920 - 2010)
Soldier’s kit, 1940
£3,400
John Moody (1906 - 1993)
Margaret Sewell, 1927
£9,500
Gilbert Spencer (1892 - 1979)
Gehazi and Naaman, c. 1930
Edward Halliday (1902 - 1984)
Roof-terrace of the British School at Rome, 1926
£14,500
Winifred Knights (1899 - 1947)
Study of Ophrys Bertolonii, commonly known as Bertoloni’s Bee Orchid, circa 1925
£24,500
Albert de Belleroche (1864 - 1944)
Lance at Dunain House
£16,750
Reserved
Douglas Percy Bliss (1900 - 1984)
Castlebay, Barra, (Barraigh), 1933
Douglas Percy Bliss (1900 - 1984)
Lovers sheltering from a storm, 1936
£24,000
Reserved
Sir Thomas Monnington (1902 - 1976)
Nocera Umbra, 1925
Allan Milner (1910 - 1984)
The match (K123)
£2,900
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Portrait of the artists mother, Florence, on a bentwood rocking chair, c.1930 [HMO 797]
Hubert Arthur Finney (1905 - 1991)
Dusk, 1966
£14,750
Kenneth Rowntree (1915 - 1997)
Putney Garden, 1960s
£7,500
Percy Horton (1897 - 1970)
Joan Jenner/Rhoades reading, circa 1925
£6,750
Kenneth Rowntree (1915 - 1997)
Falling Rain with Raised Flag
£6,550
Michael Canney (1923 - 1999)
Three quarter square, late 60’s
£4,400
Michael Canney (1923 - 1999)
System with Circles no. 1, mid 1980’s
£6,500
Sir Thomas Monnington (1902 - 1976)
Winter
Percy Horton (1897 - 1970)
Suburban Garden – 1921
£7,400
Percy Horton (1897 - 1970)
A Seated Model in the Studio, Three Quarter Rear View, c.1925
£16,750
Sir Thomas Monnington (1902 - 1976)
Design for Students Union, University of London, circa 1969
£25,000
Robert Arthur Wilson (1884 - 1979)
Colour Wheel, 1919
£18,750
Harold Dearden (1888 - 1962)
Model in Bathing Suit, Posing in the Artists Studio, c.1922
£14,000
Reserved
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Fleeing figures, mid 1920’s
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Children sleeping – illustration to a fable, mid 1920’s
£9,750
Percy Shakespeare (1906 - 1943)
View from the Artist’s Bedroom, Wren’s Nest, mid 1930’s