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’3 Dogs’ By Tom Hammick Medium - Monoprinted lithograph Signed - Yes Edition - EV 11/15 Size - 505mm x 385mm Date - 2007 Condition - Excellent. 10 out of 10 Colour of print may not b...

’Untitled Abstract’ By Yves Corbassiére Medium - Acrylic on paper Signed - Yes Edition - Original Date - 1968 Size - 490mm x 625mm Condition - 9. Some slight wear to edges and marks ...

’Madron’ By Stanley Jones Medium - Lithograph Signed - Yes Edition - 13/65 Date - 1970 Published by - The Curwen Size - 505mm x 655mm Condition - 10 Colour of print may not be accura...

’The Dance’ By Paul Delvaux Medium - Lithograph Edition - 8/75 Signed - Yes Size - 360mm x 460mm Date - 1969 Condition - Excellent. 10 out of 10. Colour of print may not be accurate when viewed on a monitor. Paul Delvaux was a Belgian painter noted for his dream-like scenes of women, classical architecture, trains and train stations, and skeletons, often in combination. He is often considered a surrealist, although he only briefly identified with the Surrealist movement. He was influenced by the works of Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte, but developed his own fantastical subjects and hyper-realistic styling, combining the detailed classical beauty of academic painting with the bizarre juxtapositions of surrealism. Throughout his long career, Delvaux explored "Nude and skeleton, the clothed and the unclothed, male and female, desire and horror, eroticism and death – Delvaux's major anxieties in fact, and the greater themes of his later work. Delvaux was born on 23 September 1897 in Antheit (now part of Wanze) in the Belgian province of Liège. His parents lived in Brussels, but his mother went to her own mother's home to have her first child. The birthplace house would later be destroyed by fire, in 1940. The father was Jean Delvaux, a prosperous barrister at the Court of Appeal Brussels. The mother was the musician Laure Jamotte, who became a strong, dominant presence in his life, directing, controlling, and repressing his childhood and adolescent desires. The young Delvaux studied Greek and Latin, and absorbed the fiction of Jules Verne and the poetry of Homer's Odyssey. His artwork was to be greatly influenced by these readings, starting with his earliest drawings showing mythological scenes. His music lessons were conducted in the school's museum room, where a human skeleton in a glass cabinet was always present. From 1910 to 1916, he studied Classics at the Atheneum of Saint-Gilles, where he was a middling or average student. Upon his graduation, his parents got him an office job with a shipping company in Brussels. It was soon evident that he had no skills or interests in business or law, and he was grudgingly allowed to study architecture at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts despite his ambition to become a painter. In 1916, he started at the Académie, initially learning the basics of architecture and perspective drawing. He was then disqualified due to his weakness in mathematics, and dropped out after his first year Delvaux was worried about his future career, and passed the time by copying postcards. His mother advised him to paint from nature, and in 1919 he produced his first watercolors, some scenic vistas. On a family vacation in Zeebrugge in 1919, he met by chance the painter Franz Courtens...

’Folio of 6 etchings and engravings'. A portfolio of six etchings (Originally 7 but etching Number 1, Sef Portrait, is missing from this folio) and engravings produced by Merivale Editions in 1992. This portfolio has been printed from the original copper plates made by Edgar Holloway...

’Discrete’ By Harvey Daniels Medium - Lithograph Signed - Yes Edition - 4/70 Size - 890mm x 670mm Condition - 10 Colour of print may not be accurate when viewed on a monitor. Harve...

’Palace Pier’ Brighton By Bernard Brett Medium - Lithograph Edition - Studio proof Signed - No Published by - Curwen Press Size - 615mm x 435mm Date - C1975 Condition - Reasonable. 8 out of 10. Some small repaired tears to edge. Not affecting image. Colour of print may not be accurate when viewed on a monitor. Bernard Brett, a painter and lithographer, was born in Birmingham. He received his education at Brighton College of Art and later taught at Wolverhampton College of Art from 1951 to 1957. He held the position of Vice Principal at East Surrey College of Art from 1967 to 1975. Brett's artistic contributions included illustrating works published by Curwen Press, and he exhibited his works multiple times at the Royal Academy (RA). In the late 1970s, he is believed to have emigrated to the United States. Brett's talent extended beyond painting, as he also excelled as a printmaker. His prints, created primarily during the 1960s and 1970s, were known for their vibrant color schemes. His artistic style shared similarities with renowned British artists of his time, including Geoffrey Elliott...

’Cat, heart and lovers’ By Charles Blackman Medium - Lithograph Signed - Yes Edition - Proof Size - 625mm x 900mm Condition - 10 Colour of print may ...

’Untitled’ By Richard Bawden Medium - Watercolour Signed - Yes Size - 540mm x 500 Date - Unknown Condition - Fair 8 out of 10 Painter and printmaker, born in Braintree, Essex, the ...

’Formulation : Articulation’ By Josef Albers Medium - Serigraph on Mohawk Superfine Bristol paper. In Folio of 2 prints Signed - No Edition - 1000, Portfolio II, Folder 20 Size ...

’Favourite Flowers (Iris)’ By Elizabeth Blackadder A limited edition book of 100 copies specially bound for the Mercury Gallery. No 1 to 50 contain and original etching/aquatint 'Ir...

’Favourite Flowers (Salpiglossis)’ By Elizabeth Blackadder A limited edition book of 100 copies specially bound for the Mercury Gallery. No 1 to 50 contain and original etching/aqua...