It’s that time of the year again for our summer party. Henry’s house will be open across the weekend of the 22 & 23 June; the Summer Party will be on Sunday 23 June, with an Open House the day before on 22 June. We hope you'll be able to make the Party. If you would like to come please RSVP below.
If you are unable to attend the Summer Party, and would like to come to the Open House on 22 June please book online below.
below is a small selection of works that will be available to view during the weekend. There will, of course, be much more to see!
John R. Grabach, (American 1886-1981), Figure Study, charcoal on paper, signed (centre), 75cm x 56cm, (90cm x 70cm framed), £4,750
An American painter who gained prominence in the art world of the 1920s and 1930s. He was known for his gritty, social realist works depicting urban working-class scenes of New York and New Jersey. He is also well-known for these wonderfully expressive charcoal drawings of studies of male figures. He was elected as an Academician of the National Academy of Design in 1968. In 1980, he was awarded a one-man show at the Smithsonian Museum of Art in Washington.
Marcel Delmotte, (Belgian 1901-1984), Man Seeks his Collective Unity, 1983, oil on board, signed and dated (lower left), 70cm x 90cm, (71cm x 91cm framed), £4,000
A realist painter at first, Delmotte was influenced by Expressionism of the beginning of the 20th century, before turning to a symbolic style and developing his great compositions with mysterious landscapes and futuristic architectures.
Basil Blackshaw, HRHA RUA, (Irish 1932-2016), Resting Figure, ink and wash, 16.5cm x 29cm, (34cm x 46cm framed), £3,000
Basil Blackshaw was the foremost Northern Irish painter of his generation. He studied at the Belfast College of Art and he is best known for his post expressionist landscape paintings, portraits, equine and animal paintings. The Arts Council of Northern Ireland organised a retrospective of his work in 1995 and the Ulster Museum held a major exhibition of his work in 2002. The F.E. McWilliam Gallery and Studio and the Royal Hibernian Academy held exhibitions to mark the artist’s 80th birthday. His work is in many public collections in Ireland, as well as the government art collection.
Raymond Voinquel, (French 1912-1994), Male Nude, c.1960s, silver print, studio (impressed) stamp (lower left), 23cm x 30cm, (40cm x 0cm in mount), unframed, £950
For over 40 years, Voinquel collaborated with the greatest directors in and out of France, including Marcel l’Herbier, Jean Cocteau, Abel Gance, Max Ophüls, Jean Renoir, Marcel Carné, Sacha Guitry and Jean-Pierre Melville. In addition to his work as a stills photographer for 160 films, Voinquel also worked with Studio Harcourt as a portrait photographer of the stars. He is also known for his homoerotic photography.
David Hockney, (British b.1937), In an Old Book (Illustrations for Fourteen Poems from C.P. Cavafy), 1966, etching, Set B, ‘295/500’ 35cm x 23cm (plate size), 47cm x 33cm (sheet size), (51cm x 36.5cm framed), £2,500
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).