Auction Alert: The Affordable Art Sale – A Summer Show

This week’s auction that we’ve chosen to highlight is The Affordable Art Sale – A Summer Show taking place at Cheffins on 29 July 2021, beginning at 10am.

Don’t forget, you can leave a commission bid in advance or bid live online; there’s no need to be there in person.

Below are some of the lots that stand-out to us:

Lot 58: Patrick Caulfield CBE, RA (British 1936-2005), Oh! If one of Them, some fine evening, would try – from his series Some Poems of Jules Laforgue, edition of 200, 1973
Estimate: £200 – £300 + fees
Screenprint on Neobond synthetic paper, published by Petersburg Press, unframed 40.5 x 35.5cm

Lot 247: Edward Bawden CBE, RA (British 1903-1989), Billingsgate Fish Market
Estimate: £50 – £100 + fees
Printed posthumously by the Curwen Studio lithograph, unframed 56.5 x 76cm

Lot 249: Angela Harding, Early Nesters
Estimate: £40 – £60 + fees
Signed ‘Angela Harding II’ (lower right); numbered 56/75 (lower left) screenprint, unframed 54 x 59cm

Lot 267: Aubrey Beardsley (British 1872-1898) Two unframed prints
Estimate: £50 – £80 + fees
Aubrey Beardsley from Oscar Wilde’s Salome, to include: The Woman in the Moon, 19 x 14cm; and The Climax, 19 x 14cm

Auction Alert: Prints and Editions 1500-2021

Welcome to our brand new weekly Thursday series, Auction Alert, where we feature interesting lots from upcoming auctions.

We’ll be choosing auctions with online bidding facilities; so anyone, wherever they are in the world, will be able to bid on items.

This week’s auction is Prints and Editions 1500-2021 which takes place on 21 July 2021, starting at 1pm. Here are the stand-out lots for us:

Lot 93: Sybil Andrews (1898-1993) Mowers
Estimate: £4,000-£6,000
Linocut printed in colours, 1937, signed, titled and inscribed ‘4 EP’ in pencil, one of 6 experimental proofs aside from the edition of 50

Lot 128: Robert Indiana (1928-2018) Chosen Love Rug
Estimate: £1,000-£1,500
Hand tufted wool rug in colours, 1995, with the justification label verso, aside from the edition, overall size 600x600mm

Lot 195: Damien Hirst (b.1965) Spot Clock
Estimate: £1,500-£2,500
White-powdered-coated metal, 2009, with the Artist’s printed signature and studio stamp, published by Other Criteria, London, in the original brown cardboard box, 350mm in diameter

Lot 219: Yayoi Kusama (b.1929) Pumpkins
Estimate: £1,000-£1,500
Two painted cast resin multiples, 2016, each stamped with the artist’s name on the base, published by Benesse Holdings, Japan, both in the original printed, fitted, box, each 100x 80x80mm

Designer Desire: Julian Merrow-Smith

Julian Merrow-Smith is a British fine artist based in Provençal France. He paints landscapes and portraits however, it’s his still life works that we love the most.

These compositions often contain fruit & veg, bread, onions, garlic, kitchenalia, tumblers of whisky and bottles of wine and olive oil. I love his technique and confident style; his paintings are full of life and the way he captures light, shadow and reflection is just magical.

He was commissioned by Cunard to paint 8 paintings for the Queen Mary II ocean liner and was twice selected for the National Portrait Gallery BP Portrait Award (2017 [the self-portrait below] & 1999). His work has been bought by collectors from all around the world.

In 2005, Julian Merrow-Smith began his Postcard from Provence project whereby, each day, he creates a small painting which he then auctions off, on his own website, to registered users. Each work is usually around the To date (21^st May 2021) he has produced 3,244 oil on board works as part of the scheme.

I’ve now registered, in the hope that one day I’ll be the winning bidder of one of his beautiful still lifes.

Forthcoming Attractions: More for May 2021

Thursdays on our blog are usually given over to sharing a recipe. This week, we’ve been so busy with listing new stock in the H is for Home online shop that we’ve not had the time for much else!

Below, are just a few of the many vintage bits & bobs that we added yesterday and today. Simply click on each image to be taken to the individual item.