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At the end of the 19th century, the artists’ colonies of rural France and the cafes and ateliers of Paris were full of British painters seeking a new means of expression to capture the modern world. They returned fully-conversant in the visual language and ideas of the French avant-garde: Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism & Symbolism.
Meanwhile, taste at home had remained rather conservative and Victorian. As a consequence, British art in the early century is subtle in its modernity, elegantly poised between the traditional and the new. Significantly, it is this very restraint – the paring down of colour and composition - that made the transition to abstraction in the 20s & 30s all the more uninhibited.
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William Nicholson (1872-1949)
Tulips & a Libation Cup 1911
oil on canvas
initialled & dated lower left
13 x 16 in/ 33 x 40 cm
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John Lavery (1856 -1941)
Portrait of Gaines Donoho 1883
oil on canvas
signed, dated & inscribed: To my friend Donoho, J Lavery Gres, July 1883
25 ½ x 18 in / 65 x 45.5 cm
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Sir Alfred Munnings (1848 - 1959)
The White Canoe circa 1921-1922
oil on canvas
signed
20 x 24 in/ 50.8 x 61 cm
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James Dickson Innes (1887-1914)
Bala Lake 1911
oil on canvas
signed & dated
19 ½ x 29 ¼ in/ 50 x 76 cm
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Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (1890-1978)
Orcella 1915
oil on panel
signed lower left
20 x 16 in / 51 x 40.5 cm
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William Orpen (1878-1931)
Midday on the Beach 1910
oil on canvas
35 x 46 in/ 89 x 116 cm
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Henry Lamb (1883 -1960)
Two Nudes 1911
oil & tempera on canvas
26 ½ x 21 in/ 67.2 x 53.5 cm
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Gwen John (1876-1939)
Seated Girl with Sewing 1920
oil on canvas
15 x 18 ¼ in/ 38 x 46.5 cm
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Stanley Spencer (1891-1959)
The Harbour, St Ives 1937
oil on canvas
28 x 37 in/ 71 x 94 cm
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Glyn Philpot (1884-1937)
Tropical Garden 1935
oil on canvas
signed with initials lower right
85 ½ x 72 in / 217 x 183 cm
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Maxwell Armfield (1882-1972)
The Actress, Sunday Wilshin 1930
tempera on panel
signed, dated & numbered ‘OP.93’ lower left
24 x 14 ½ in/ 61 x 37 cm
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Geoffrey Tibble (1909 - 1952)
Garage 1950
oil on canvas
signed lower right
30 x 40 in / 76 x 101.5 cm
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Mark Gertler (1891-1939)
Head of a Girl 1924
oil on board
signed, titled & inscribed verso
16 x 13 in/ 40.6 x 33 cm
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Haydn Reynolds Mackey (1881 – 1979)
The Jazz Drummer
oil on panel
signed lower right
36 x 28 in/ 91.5 x 7.2 cm
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Augustus John (1878-1961)
Portrait of Robin, the Artist's Son 1912
oil on panel
15 ½ x 12 ½ in / 39.4 x 31.7 cm
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Matthew Smith (1879 - 1959)
Quinces and Pomegranates 1952
oil on canvas
signed with initials
25 x 30 in/ 63.5 x 76 cm
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