This month, Henry Miller Fine Art has compiled a catalogue of over 60 works in the collection, all of which are £500 or less, and include drawings, paintings, etchings, prints and photographs, spanning over 100 years of art history. Here’s a small selection to whet your appetite…
The full catalogue is available HERE
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The price of all unframed works includes UK domestic shipping, with international postage at cost. Regrettably, for framed works, the additional cost of shipping will have to be charged, but again at cost. (Delivery in the London area may be possible for free.) All unframed works are displayed within mounts, unless specified otherwise.
French School, Academic Study, 19th Century, Red chalk on paper, 60cm x 48cm, (73cm x 52cm framed), £500
French School, Academic Study, 19th Century: Drawings and paintings of the nude were central to academic art training in France from the 16th century onwards. This red chalk drawing (and the others of the same ilk in the collection) would have be completed in one of the many art schools in Paris. Only after acquiring enough skill were artists permitted to draw a posed live model. Although this beautifully rendered study would not have meant to be sold and seen as a ‘works of art’ at the time, it can certainly be appreciated as such now.
Louis Jean-Baptiste Igout, (French 1837-1881), 16 Academic Studies, c.1870s, Albumen prints mounted on card, 21.5cm x 14cm (40cm x 30cm in mount), unframed, £450
Louis Jean-Baptiste Igout, (French 1837-1881), 16 Academic Studies, c.1870s: With the arrival of photography, it didn’t take long for the nude to be a regular subject of choice for Victorian amateurs, but while there certainly was a market for early erotic and pornographic images, these academic studies of male nudes would have been taken to be sold as an artist’s teaching aid for life drawing classes. The classical poses are identical to those created by life models from the 16th century onwards.
Eric Kahn, (German 1904-1979), Figure Study, 1955, Sanguine (red chalk) on paper, 38cm x 24cm (50cm x 40cm in mount), unframed, £500
Eric Kahn, (German 1904-1979), Figure Study, 1955: Kahn was a German Expressionist painter whose career was cut short by the rise of Nazism and his imprisonment at Welzheim concentration camp. After the war, he moved to England where he was able to continue drawing and painting, exhibiting extensively throughout his life. As one of the forgotten generation of Jewish German artists, much of his early work has been lost, although the Berardo Collection in Portugal has a large selection of Kahn’s post-war work. He was especially productive in the 1950’s when he exhibited regularly in London and abroad, and this is very representative of his work of that period.
Patrick Sarfati, (French b.1958), In Memory of James Dean, 1982, Silver print, 30cm x 20cm (50cm x 40cm in mount), unframed, £500.
Patrick Sarfati, (French b.1958), In Memory of James Dean, 1982: Born in 1958, Sarfati started taking photographs in his early twenties and soon became the go-to photographer in 1980’s Paris, working with Keith Haring, Grace Jones and Jean-Paul Gaultier amongst others. During that time, he also regularly modelled for fellow artists Pierre et Gilles. An homage to the 1950’s and Jean Genet, this picture of a young and sultry sailor takes its title from the model’s tattoo and is reminiscent of Fassbinder’s film Querelle de Brest with Brad Davies in the title role which was released that year.
Rustam Khamdamov, (Usbekistan b.1944), Seated Male Figure, 1994, Pencil on paper, signed and dated ‘94’ (lower left), 31cm x 22cm (50cm x 40cm in mount), unframed., £500
Rustam Khamdamov, (Uzbekistan b.1944), Seated Male Figure, 1994: Born in 1944, Khamdamov is an acclaimed Russian artist as well as an award-winning film maker who has been called a legend in his home country for being the first living artist to have his work added to the Hermitage’s Gallery of Modern Art collection. This beautiful drawing is part of a series of seated and standing male figures which all have a strong art-deco feel about them while also being reminiscent of Andy Warhol’s homo-erotic works from the 1950’s. There is something both very timeless and modern about them, sexy without being overtly erotic.
Please contact Henry by phone or email, should you have any queries about any of the works in the collection. High resolutions images of all the works can be provided upon request.