Open House Saturday - 27 July 2024; 11am - 5pm

Henry will be opening his home gallery again for an Open House on Saturday 27 July 2024. If you've never been to an Open House before, it is the best place to view Henry's collection. A large selection of works will be displayed over two floors within Henry’s own period home. We hope you'll be able to make it. Please RSVP below if you would like to attend.

Below is a small selection of works that will be on show. If you are unable to attend, or would like information about any of the works here or on the website, do not hesitate to get in contact with Henry.

George Cayford, (British b.1931), 'David', c.1980s, pastel on paper, signed and titled (lower right), 49cm x 76cm, (62cm x 89cm framed), £1,950

Cayford, now retired, was a graphic designer and illustrator working in London in the postwar period. His works of the male form were shown predominantly in London, and are in many private collections.

Keith Vaughan, (British 1912-1977), Seated Figure in Interior, c.1960s, Pencil on paper, studio stamp (verso), 11cm x 12cm, (33cm x 33cm framed), £2,750

Vaughan was a British artist, whose work is held in the collections of the Government Art Collection, National Galleries Scotland, National Portrait Gallery, Tate and Victoria and Albert Museum in the UK. In the 1940s, with his friend John Minton, he was one of the leading exponents of Neo-Romanticism, characteristic works of this time being coloured drawings of moonlit houses. His later work, in which he concentrated on his favourite theme of the male nude in a landscape setting, became grander and more simplified, moving towards abstraction.

David Hockney, (British b.1937), According to Prescriptions of Ancient Magicians (Illustrations for Fourteen Poems from C.P. Cavafy), 1966, etching, signed and dated (lower right) and marked 'A.P. (lower left), 35cm x 23cm (plate size), 47cm x 33cm (sheet size), (62cm x 45cm framed), £8,500

In 1966, Hockney created a series of delicate line drawings of intimate scenes between men, inspired by the writings of the Greek Egyptian poet Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933). “Of course Cavafy’s poems are about gay love, and I was quite boldly using that subject then. I was aware that it was illegal, but I didn’t really think much about that at the time. I was living in a bohemian world, were we just did what we pleased. I wasn’t speaking for anybody else. I was defending my way of living.” (David Hockney).

Glyn Warren Philpot, RA., (British 1884-1937), Figure Study, pen and ink on paper, 20cm x 16cm, (36cm x 31cm framed), £2,750. Provenance: from the collection of the artist Michael Leonard (British 1933-2023)

First exhibiting at the RA in 1904, Philpot was elected as an Academician in 1923. Like many artists of his generation, he enjoyed a comfortable income from portraiture, which enabled him to paint less commercially successful and perhaps more personal subjects. His interest in the male nude and portraits of young men – thought to be friends, models and lovers – portrays his gradual acceptance and expression of his own homosexuality. Some of these later works were considered controversial because of their homosexual imagery. He was the subject of major exhibition at the Pallant House Gallery in 2022.

Bror Hillgren, (Swedish 1881-1955), Male Nude in Landscape, c.1940s, oil on canvas, 100cm x 67cm (118cm x 86cm framed), £12,500

A Swedish artist who studied at the Swedish Art Academy and in Paris in the first part of the 20th century, he is better known for his more traditional paintings and his work as an illustrator. However, throughout his career, he also created a far more homoerotic series of pictures, featuring male nudes, often in landscapes or outside. Placing the male nude outside, enabled an artist to create an alibi that he was painting in the tradition of Romanticism, thereby lessening the impact the picture would have otherwise had, in more reserved times.

Open House Weekend: 23 & 24 March 2024.

Henry will be opening his home gallery again for an Open House Weekend on 23 & 24 March 2024. If you've never been to an Open House before, it is the best place to view Henry's collection. A large selection of works will be displayed over two floors within Henry’s own period home. We hope you'll be able to make it. Please RSVP below if you would like to attend.

Below is a small selection of works that will be on show during the weekend. If you are unable to attend, or would like information about any of the works here or on the website, do not hesitate to get in contact with Henry.

Ian Rank-Broadley, (British b.1952), The Shepherd of Hermas, 2005, bronze, numbered 5/10, 53cm x 23cm x 23cm (incl. base), £6,500.

Ian Rank-Broadley is one of the foremost sculptors working today. His effigy of the late Queen Elizabeth II appears on all UK and Commonwealth coinage from 1998. He has numerous other public works, including at the Armed Forces Memorial. Most recently, he created from life portraits of King Charles and the Queen.

Clive Hicks-Jenkins, RCA., (British b.1951), Furious Embrace, 2007, acrylic on panel, 82cm x 62cm (118cm x 98cm framed), £8,000

Born in Newport, south Wales, in 1951, the early part of his career was as a choreographer and stage director. Turning away from theatre in the 90s, to concentrate on painting, he has been praised by critics in The Independent, Modern Painters and Art Review. Simon Callow has called him ‘one of the most individual and complete artists of our time'. Galleries has described his work as ‘reflective, expressive painting of the highest order.’ His work is included in numerous private and public collections, including the National Museum of Wales and the Pallant House Gallery

This painting is part of a series, in which the artist was inspired by the legend of St Hervé; a blind “boy-saint”, revered in Breton popular mythology, whose dog, his loyal guide, was devoured by a wolf. Paradoxically, the marauding wolf thereafter became Hervé’s new pair of eyes.

Peter Behrens, (German 1868-1940), Deutsche Werkbund-Ausstellung, 1914, Deutsche Werkbund-Ausstellung, Kunst in Handwerk, Industrie und Handel Architektur (German Workers Union Exhibition Art in Handcrafts, Industry, Trade and Architecture), 1914 (printed), lithograph, initialled in the plate (middle left), 90cm x 63cm, (95cm x 65cm framed), £5,500

This poster advertises an exhibition held by the Deutsche Werkbund in Cologne in Germany in 1914. The artist Peter Behrens (1868-1940) was a pioneer of Modern design and was known for his work for AEG, the German electrical company. He was an admired designer at the time. He was asked to create this poster for the Deutsche Werkbund. The organisation was founded by artists, manufacturers and designers who were committed to improving the standard of German product design. A copy of this lithograph is in the Victoria & Albert Museum collection.

George Platt Lynes, (American 1907-1955), Study from George Balanchine's "Orpheus", 1950, silver print, studio stamp (verso), 19cm x 23cm, (34cm x 36cm framed), £2,500

A major force in American 20th century photography, he took his first photographs as a young artist living in New York and Paris in the 1920s. He maintained an interest in the male figure throughout his career and was part of a close-knit group of artists, including Paul Cadmus, Jared French, Margaret French, and George Tooker, who explored sexuality and the body in an age that increasingly favoured abstraction. This work is part of a series, in which he captured the celebrated ballet by George Ballanchine, with stage design by Isama Nogouchi, music by Stravinsky and performed by Francisco Moncion and Nicholas Magallanes of the New York City Ballet.

Ian Rank-Broadley, (British b.1952), Troilus at the Spring, 2003, bronze, numbered 2/10, 44cm x 9cm x 33cm (incl. base), £4,500

The young prince Troilius goes to water his horse at the spring unaware of the ambush, which Achilles has prepared for him. A moment of tranquillity before his untimely death.

Open House Weekend: 13 & 14 January 2024.

Henry will be opening his home gallery again for an Open House Weekend on 13 & 14 January 2024. If you've never been to an Open House before, it is the best place to view Henry's collection. A large selection of works will be displayed over two floors within Henry’s own period home. We hope you'll be able to make it. Please RSVP below if you would like to attend.

Below is a small selection of works that will be on show during the weekend. If you are unable to attend, or would like information about any of the works here or on the website, do not hesitate to get in contact with Henry.

Ian Rank-Broadley, (British b.1952), Taking Shirt Off, 1998, bronze, numbered 5/10, 53cm x 17cm x 23cm (incl. base), £8,000

Ian Rank-Broadley is one of the foremost sculptors working today. His effigy of the late Queen Elizabeth II appears on all UK and Commonwealth coinage from 1998. He has numerous other public works, including at the Armed Forces Memorial. Most recently, he created from life portraits of King Charles and the Queen Consort.

Marcel Delmotte, (Belgium 1901-1984), The Fall of Icarus, gouache on paper, signed (lower left) and titled (lower right), 88cm x 68cm, (108cm x 88cm framed), £4,000

A realist painter at first, Delmotte was influenced by Expressionism of the beginning of the century, before turning to the symbolic style and developing his great compositions with mysterious landscapes and futuristic architectures. Here he has drawn on Greek mythology, but painted the scene in his own unique style.

Arthur John Elsley, (British 1860-1952), Academic Study, 1878, charcoal on paper, signed (verso), and signed and dated ‘20th July 1878’, by R.A invigilator, E.B. Stephen A.R.A. (bottom left), 73cm x 46cm, (88cm x 60cm framed), £2,250

Elsley was an English painter of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods, famous for his idyllic genre scenes of playful children and their pets. He achieved great popularity during his life and much of his work appeared in calendars, magazines and books.

Edward Lucie-Smith, (British b.1933), Footballer - Foro Italia, 1998, C-Print, signed, titled and edition ‘3/15’ (recto), and certificate of authenticity (verso), 37cm x 56cm (image size), (59cm x 75cm framed), £1,250. (Provenance: in the collection of the artist Michael Leonard (British 1933-2023) until his death in 2023. The work had been given to him by Lucie-Smith.)

Edward Lucie-Smith, is a Jamaican-born English writer, poet, art critic, curator, broadcaster and photographer. He has been highly prolific in these fields, writing or editing over a hundred books, his subjects gradually shifting around the late 1960s from mostly literature to mostly art.

Harold Frederick Abbott, (Australian 1906-1986), Model in a Studio, c.1950s, oil on canvas, signed (lower left), 59cm x 49cm (72cm x 62cm framed), £7,500

An Australian artist, who studied at the Royal Academy in London in the 1930s, Abbott became highly accomplished in portraiture, still life, and genre paintings. After enlisting in the army during WWII, in 1943 he was appointed an official war artist. After the war, he dedicated himself to teaching at the National Art School in Sydney, where he later became the head and State Supervisor of Art. The style and composition of the painting, suggests it was painted in the 1950s; by the late 1960s Abbott abandoned narrative and figurative works in favour of bold abstract compositions. His work is in the collections of National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, as well as various regional art galleries across Australia.

Open House Saturday 2 December 2023; 12pm-6pm

Henry will be opening his home gallery again for an Open House on Saturday 2 December 2023. If you've never been to an Open House before, it is the best place to view Henry's collection. A large selection of works will be displayed over two floors within Henry’s own period home. We hope you'll be able to make it. Please RSVP below if you would like to attend.

Exhibition: Battersea Decorative Fair, 3-8 October 2023

Henry shall be taking a selection of paintings, works on paper and photography to the Battersea Decorative Fair from 3-8 October 2023. The fair is held at Evolution London, Battersea Park, London SW11 4NJ.

Henry will be exhibiting on Stand A26. Free tickets are available to attend the fair from 4-8 October 2023. (We do not have tickets for the Opening Day.) Please show the ticket below on your phone, or print off, to receive free entry to the fair.

Below is a small sample of the collection of works that Henry will have with him at the fair. Do not hesitate to get in contact, should you have any queries about any of the works in his collection.

Michael Leonard, (British 1933-2023), Alan, Bella, Brick and Slate, 1973, acrylic on Masonite board, signed and dated (lower middle), 70cm x 70cm (91cm x 91cm framed), price on request

Michael Leonard died in July this year. He leaves a body of outstanding work, which will be remembered for years to come. During his career, Michael produced a number of works, in which individuals are portrayed with their pets. Some were friends and some were commissions; the most famous of these being HM Queen Elizabeth II with her Corgi Spark in the NPG collection London. This work depicts Alan and his dog, Bella, on Michael’s balcony in his home in West London. The painting features in the book by Patrick Bade, Michael Leonard, Painter and Illustrator, 2021 (Peter Owen Publishers), at p.89.

Ian Rank-Broadley, (British b.1952), Helios, God of the Sun, 2021, bronze, numbered 4/10, 75cm x 15cm x 29cm (incl base), £7,500

Ian Rank-Broadley is one of the foremost sculptors working today. His effigy of the late Queen Elizabeth II appears on all UK and Commonwealth coinage from 1998. He has numerous other public works, including at the Armed Forces Memorial. Most recently, he created from life portraits of King Charles and the Queen Consort.

Herbert Arnould Olivier, (British 1861-1952), Academic Study, c.1882, charcoal on paper, 71cm x 51cm, (83cm x 61cm framed), £2,500

Olivier studied at the Royal Academy Schools from 1881, where this extraordinary display of drafting took place. Olivier exhibited extensively, including the Royal Academy starting in 1883, and the Paris Salon. He exhibited at the Fine Art Society in the 1880s and at the Grafton Galleries in 1908. An official war artist in the Great War, his work is included in the collection of the Imperial War Museum. It is also contained in many regional art galleries.

Roland Caillaux, (French 1905-1977), The Invitation, 1943, pencil on paper, signed with a ‘spider’s web’ (lower left), 31.5cm x 24cm, (47cm x 38cm framed), £5,500

Caillaux was a French actor and artist. He is known for acting in several French films in the 1920s and 1930s, and for producing and publishing homoerotic illustrations in the mid 20th century. He is best known for illustrating ‘20 lithographs for a Book I Read’ by Jean Genet, which included explicit sexual activity. The book was published in April 1945. The very few erotic drawings he produced circulated covertly and were sold, between 1940 and 1960, to his circle of friends, mainly artists and writers; Jean Cocteau, Jean Genet, Christian Bérard, Jean Marais, Raymond Voinquel, amongst others.

Herbert List, (German 1903-1975), Under the Temple of Poseidon/ Sounion, 1937, silver print (estate print), stamped (verso), 34.5cm, x 27.5cm (image size), (47cm x 40cm framed), £4,000

List was a German photographer, who worked for magazines, including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Life, and was associated with Magnum Photos. His austere, classically posed black-and-white compositions, particularly his homoerotic male nudes, taken in Italy and Greece being influential in modern photography and contemporary fashion photography. He was a titan of early 20th century photography, and his work remains highly collectible to this day. This work appears in Herbert List, Junge Manner, 1989, (Twinpalms Publishers), plate 3.

Open House Saturday 2 September 2023; 12pm-6pm

Henry will be opening his home gallery again for an Open House on Saturday 2 September 2023. If you've never been to an Open House before, it is the best place to view Henry's collection. A large selection of works will be displayed over two floors within Henry’s own period home. We hope you'll be able to make it. Please RSVP below if you would like to attend.

Below is a small sample of the collection of works that will be on show at the Open House. Do not hesitate to get in contact, should you have any queries about any of the works in the collection.

Ian Rank-Broadley, (British b.1952), Towards Another, 2000, bronze, numbered 3/10, 76cm x 28cm x 41cm (incl. base), £9,750

Ian Rank-Broadley is one of the foremost sculptors working today. His effigy of the late Queen Elizabeth II appears on all UK and Commonwealth coinage from 1998. He has numerous other public works, including at the Armed Forces Memorial. Most recently, he created from life portraits of King Charles and the Queen Consort.

Tom Bianchi, (American b.1945), Nude in the Studio, 1987, silver print, signed (lower right) and numbered '1/35' (lower left), 47cm x 31.5cm (print size), 51cm x 40.cm (sheet size), (66cm x 49cm framed), £4,250

Most famous for his Polaroids, particularly on Fire Island, Bianchi’s work was ground-breaking in his celebration of gay life from the late 70s onwards.

Radek J Husak, (Polish b.1984), St Sebastian, 2021-23, pigment transfer on sandblasted and painted aluminium, collage, carbon and colour pencils, signed with artist’s monogram (lower right), 112cm x 80cm, (116cm x 84cm framed), £9,500

Based in London, with a masters from the Royal College of Art, his work is sensitive, seductive and multi-layered; highlighting the beauty of the male form. This work is created in an edition of 3 unique colourways, making this a unique picture.

Johann Kluska, (German 1904-1973), An Allegory from Dante's Inferno, c.1935-1940, oil on board, signed (lower right), 46cm x 75cm, (54cm x 82cm framed), £4,000

Kluska was a German painter and illustrator born in Berlin. He studied from 1920 at the Berlin Academy under the artist Max Koch. In 1929, Kluska, a Protestant by birth, converted to Catholicism; which might explain his later fascination for Dante. He mainly painted nudes, male and female, but was heavily inspired by Christian motives; and from 1935, especially by Dante’s Divine Comedy. He produced numerous large format depictions of scenes of the Divine Comedy, in particular from the parts ‘Inferno’ and ‘Purgatorium’.

Sándor Bortnyik, (Hungarian 1893-1976), Self Portrait, 1917, charcoal on paper, signed and dated (lower right), 33cm x 24cm, (66cm x 56cm framed), £4,750

Bortnyik was a painter and graphic designer, whose work was greatly influenced by Cubism, Expressionism and Constructivism. In 1922 he moved to Weimar, Germany and became connected to the Bauhaus. When he moved back to Hungary he founded an art school in Budapest, where he followed Bauhaus principles. He was also the director of Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts (1949–1956).

Open House Sunday 16 July 2023; 12pm-6pm

Henry will be opening his home gallery again for an Open House on Sunday 16 July 2023. If you've never been to an Open House before, it is the best place to view Henry's collection. A large selection of works will be displayed over two floors within Henry’s own period home. We hope you'll be able to make it. Please RSVP below if you would like to attend.

Below is a small sample of the collection of works that will be on show at the Open House. Do not hesitate to get in contact, should you have any queries about any of the works in the collection.

Peter McClaren, (Scottish b.1964), Figure in a Hot Landscape, 1991, oil on board, signed and dated (lower right), 77cm x 55cm, (81cm x 64cm framed), £3,950

Born in Edinburgh McClaren studied at the Edinburgh College of Art. While there he won the John Kinross Scholarship, from the Royal Scottish Academy, which allowed him to study in Florence, and the Richard Ford Award, from the Royal Academy in London, to study the works in the Prado, Madrid. Early influences include the collection of Scottish Colourists and post war expressionist paintings found in his home town of Kirkcaldy's Museum. Post graduation, McClaren won an Andrew Grant Scholarship which introduced him first hand to American art. Wyeth, Pollock, Lichtenstein and Warhol. In 1989 he won the inaugural British Airways Most Promising Artist Award. He continues to live and work in Scotland.

John B. Lear, (American 1910-2008), Man on Dock, 1984, pencil on paper, signed and dated (lower right), 24cm x 33cm, (44cm x 51cm framed), £4,000

Throughout his long career, Lear primarily explored homoeroticism in a truly unique style. He is an artist who remained true to his style and genre, at a time when exploring the male form in art was truly unfashionable. His work is in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Woodmere Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts.

George Platt Lynes, (American 1907-1955), Tchelitchew Jonathan Tichenor, on the easel, Portrait of George Platt Lynes, c.1945, silver ferrotype print (printed late 1970s), 19.7cm x 20.3cm (image size), 20.3cm x 25.4cm (sheet size), (33cm x 34cm framed), provenance Glen Wescott and John Stevenson, £4,500

A major force in American 20th century photography, he took his first photographs as a young artist living in New York and Paris in the 1920s. He maintained an interest in the male figure throughout his career and was part of a close-knit group of artists, including Paul Cadmus, Jared French, Margaret French, and George Tooker.

This photo depicts the artist painting the photographer in his work from 1937. see also The Young and Evil, David Zwirmer Books, 2019, p.65

Wilhelm Albert Lefèbre, (German 1873-1974), Figure Study, 1926, oil on board, signed and dated (middle left), 30cm x 30cm, (36cm x 36cm framed), £1,500

Lefèbre initially studied at the Fine Arts Academies in Dusseldorf and Munich before enrolling in the Academie Julian in Paris, in 1898, under the tutelage of Ferrier, Jean-Paul Laurens and Bouguereau. He was master of landscapes and genre scenes.

Yves Paradis, (French b.1955 Trois Garçons au Bord du Lac, 1992, silver print, signed, titled and dated on mount and signed (verso), 40cm x 30cm, (50cm x 40cm in mount), unframed, £800

Paradis is noted for his soft, romantic, and tender approach to photography, visualizing an everyday gay lifestyle away from the glitz and glamour of the scene. In contrast with a lot of fantasy and fetishist gay photography of the time though, his pictures usually featured young men of the ‘boy-next-door’ and ‘bit-of-rough’ types, definitely sexy but not physically perfect, making them more realistic as well as more romantic.

Open House Saturday 17 June 2023; 12pm-6pm

Henry will be opening his home gallery again for an Open House on Saturday 17 June 2023. All are welcome and we very much hope you will be able to attend. Online booking is essential via the website and link below.

Below is a sample of the collection of works that will be on show at the Open House. Do not hesitate to get in contact, should you have any queries about any of the works in the collection.

Roger Shackelton, (Irish 1931-1987), Cretan Boatman, c.1962-63, oil on canvas laid on board, 78cm x 50cm, (100cm x 72cm framed), Price on request

Shackleton was undoubted talent, whose life was cut short at the age of 56. Teaching at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, at the time of his death, throughout his career he exhibited in galleries in Dublin and was a regular contributor to the RHA. This painting, exhibited at the Taylor Galleries, Dublin, (February 1992) in a posthumous retrospective of his work, evokes the early work of Lucien Freud, as well as that of John Craxton.

Luis Caballero, (Colombian 1943-1995), Male Nude, 1985, red chalk on paper, signed and dated (lower left), 27cm x 38cm, (53cm x 63cm framed), £4,000

Caballero's pictures are exclusively devoted to the human body. 'In my paintings,' he wrote 'one is dos not know whether the figures are dying or having an orgasm'. Very successful in his own lifetime, his life was cut short due to an aids-related illness.

Gian Paolo Barbieri, (Italian b.1938), Kneeling Man, Tahiti Tattoos, c.1998, silver print, 50cm x 40cm (sheet size), (60cm x 50cm in mount), unframed, £950

This work was acquired from the artist, by the previous owner. It also features in Gian Paolo Barbieri, Tahiti Tattoos, 1998, Taschen. Barbieri has worked from Italian, French, German and American editions of vogue, as well as many leading fashions houses. His work is held in many public collections.

Michael Leonard, (British b.1933), Undressing Studies, 1972, pencil on paper, dated (upper right), 22cm x 28cm, (33cm x 37cm framed), £3,500

The nude, particularly the male nude, has been a recurring theme in Leonard’s work. Here is an early example of Leonard repeated motif of men dressing and undressing.

Alejandro Canedo, (Mexican-American 1902-1978), The Discouri, 1934, watercolour, pencil and gouache on paper, signed (lower right), 33cm x 33cm, (55cm x 5cm framed), £9,500

Aged only 15, Canedo was sent by his parents to study at the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, subsequently continuing his studies in Rome in the 1920s. Successful throughout his life, after his first solo show in Rome in 1928, he returned to the US, for shows in New York in the 30s and 40s. After relocating to California in the 1950s, Cañedo also produced many overtly homoerotic artworks for private collectors which were too suggestive to be exhibited in galleries. His work is held in the collection of the Leslie Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York.

Exhibition: Battersea Decorative Fair, 9-14 May 2023

Henry shall be taking a selection of paintings, works on paper and photography to the Battersea Decorative Fair from 9-14 May 2023. The fair is held at Evolution London, Battersea Park, London SW11 4NJ.

Henry will be exhibiting on Stand A26. Free tickets are available to attend the fair from 10-14 May 2023. (We do not have tickets for the Opening Day.) Please print show the ticket below on your phone, or print off, to receive free entry to the fair.

We hope to see you there!

Exhibition: Battersea Decorative Fair, 24-29 January 2023

Henry shall be taking a selection of paintings, works on paper and photography to the Battersea Decorative Fair from 24-29 January 2023. The fair is held at Evolution London, Battersea Park, London SW11 4NJ.

Henry will be exhibiting on Stand A26. Free tickets are available to attend the fair from 25-29 January 2023. (We do not have tickets for the Opening Day.) Please click the link below, to request to obtain tickets for the fair.

Below is a sample of the collection of works that Henry will have with him at the fair. Do not hesitate to get in contact, should you have any queries about any of the works in his collection.

Charles Raphael Maréchal, (French 1825-1888), Young Man with a Sack of Potatoes, 1859, oil on board, signed and dated (lower right), 93cm x 99cm (99cm x 106cm framed), £2,500

Maréchal was the son of the artist Charles-Laurent Maréchal, and trained by his father from a young age. He exhibited several times at the Salon (the official art exhibition of the prestigious Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris), including in 1868. In 1872, the City of Metz bought the immense charcoal work Prayer In The Wilderness. This work, particularly the head, is clearly influenced by the work of William Blake.

David Hutter, (British 1930-1990), 'The Sexual Perspective', c.1986, watercolour, signed lower right (in pencil), 31cm x 43cm (49cm x 59cm framed), £2,500

Active within the Gay Liberation Front in London from its inception in 1970, Hutter showed at group exhibitions at the Royal Academy, the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours. He had numerous solo shows across London, and a retrospective at The Bloxham Galleries in 2000. The book pictured within the picture is ‘The Sexual Perspective. Homosexuality and Art in the Last 100 Years in the West’, by Emmanuel Cooper, first published in 1986.

Michael Leonard, (British b.1933), Dressing/Undressing Studies, c.1980s, pencil on tracing paper, 21cm x 25cm, (36cm x 39cm framed), £2,000

The nude, particularly the male nude, has been a recurring theme in his work. Figures are usually on the move or in a state of transition, and as here, with figures dressing or undressing.

Jean-Désiré Bascoules, (French 1886-1976), Figure Study, charcoal on paper, studio stamp (lower left), 99cm x 65cm, (107cm x 73cm framed), £1,250

A highly successful artist in his lifetime, Bascoules exhibited extensively in France and Algeria. This works are purported to be studies for a mural in Marseilles.

Friedrich Lossow, (German 1837-1872), Male Figure Study, 19th Century, pencil on paper, signed (lower left), 33cm x 38cm, (52cm x 57cm framed), £1,450

Lossow came from a family of artists. His father was a sculptor and his brother, Heinrich, a successful painter.

Exhibition: Battersea Decorative Fair, 4-9 October 2022

Henry shall be taking a selection of paintings, works on paper and photography to the Battersea Decorative Fair from 4-9 October 2022. The fair is held at Evolution London, Battersea Park, London SW11 4NJ.

Henry will be exhibiting on Stand A26. Free tickets are available to attend the fair from 5-9 October 2002. (We do not have tickets for the Opening Day.) Please click the link below, to request a ticket from Henry

Below is a sample of the collection of works that Henry will have with him at the fair. Do not hesitate to get in contact, should you have any queries about any of the works in his collection.

Michael Leonard, (British b.1933) Against the Glass, c.2008/9, alkyd-oil on Masonite board, 102cm x 83cm, (124cm x 104cm framed). Price on request

Although most famous for his portrait of HM Queen Elizabeth in the NPG, from the late 1970s up until his retirement from painting in 2009, Leonard created a series of paintings celebrating the male figure. The nude, particularly the male nude, has been a recurring theme in his work. “I am fascinated by the subtle interactions of muscle, bone and sinew that come into play as a body moves…”

Spanish School, Seated Male Nude, c.1900, oil on canvas, 69cm x 55cm, (81cm x 66cm framed), £7,500

This wonderfully painted study, not only demonstrates the artist’s extraordinary painterly skills, but also unusually for such a study, they have sensitively captured the character of the model.

Christian Bérard, (French 1902-1949), Etude de Dancer, pen and ink on paper, 27cm x 20cm, (54cm x 48cm framed), £2,000. Provenance: Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York.

Bérard was a French artist, designer and fashion illustrator. Alongside his artistic career, he played an important role in the development of theatrical design in the 1930s and 1940s. He also worked as a fashion illustrator for Coco Chanel, amonst others. Bérard also designed for Jean Cocteau's film La Belle et la Bête (1946). After his sudden death in 1949, Cocteau dedicated his film Orphée (1950) to him.

Yves Paradis, (French b.1955), Sieste dans le Grenier à Foin, 1986, silver print, signed, titled and dated on mount and signed (verso), 40cm x 30cm, (50cm x 40cm in mount), unframed.

Paradis is noted for his soft, romantic, and tender approach to photography, visualizing an everyday gay lifestyle away from the glitz and glamour of the scene.

Michael Leonard, (British b.1933), Stooping Bather (Collage), 1980, mixed media (acrylic and silver print), signed and dated (upper left), 20cm x 11cm (34cm x 26cm framed), £3,750

This work is a collage of the preparatory work for Leonard’s finished painting, Stooping Bather (1980). It includes a small painted study, reference photograph and colour chart.