Wednesday, 14 December, 2005
Oil Paintings, Watercolours, Prints, Books (Antiquarian, Modern, Illustrated & A Collection of Gilbert and Sullivan), Photographs, Ephemera and Maps
Sale Results
Sale Information
- Time:
- 11 am
- Viewing:
- Saturday 10 December, 9am - 1pm
Monday 12 December, 9.30am - 7pm (note evening view)
Tuesday 13 December, 9.30am - 5pm
And morning of sale - Number of lots:
- 672
- Catalogue Sections:
- Works From The Buchanan Studio (1 - 70)
Works From The Studio Of Josef Herman (75 - 99)
Prints (100 - 183)
Maps (185 - 198)
Miniatures (200 - 202)
Watercolours (205 - 329)
Frames (335 - 335)
Oil Paintings (336 - 428)
Artist's Wooden Lay Figure (430 - 430)
Colin Prestige Collection of Gilbert & Sullivan Books (450 - 507)
Books: Antiquarian and Bindings (510 - 553)
Books: Modern 1st Editions and Poetry (555 - 588)
Books: General Literature (590 - 623)
Books: Foreign Literature (625 - 632)
Books: Art Reference Including Islamic Art (635 - 663)
Books: Illustrated and Childrens (665 - 682)
Books: Photographs, Albums, Ephemera, Maps and Folios (685 - 716) - Sale Enquiries:
- Image requests: images@mallams.co.uk
- Sale Notes:
- To include:
On the instructions of Oriel College, Oxford - the Colin Prestige Gilbert and Sullivan collection.
WORKS FROM THE BUCHANAN STUDIO
Lots 1 to 70 are the second part of a collection of works by The Buchanan Studio of Artists - Alexander Strahan Buchanan (19/20th Century), Alexander Norman Buchanan (1910-2004), Lilian Buchanan (1914-2004), Constance Buchanan (nee Parish) (1908-2001).
A COLLECTION OF WORKS FROM THE STUDIO OF JOSEF HERMAN
Lots 75 to 98 are from the estate of a private collector, now deceased.
Josef Herman was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1911, the son of a Jewish cobbler. Our collector, a Czechoslovakian Pole came from Krakow.
Having escaped from the Nazis to Britain in 1940 our collector fought with the RAF. Based in Cambridge he attended the Polish club in London and it was here that he met Herman. Their friendship flourished and they were very much kindred refugees. In the mid 1940's Herman settled for the next decade in the Welsh mining village of Ystradgynlais and began his series of sombre-hued paintings and ink drawings of miners and their environment, land workers and peasants. It was here that our collector went to visit his friend Herman at his studio, acquiring the bulk of this collection between 1945-1955.
While family tradition has it that all the works are by Herman himself there is also the possibility that some may be by the Welsh artist Will Roberts, for example, a pupil of Herman at this time or indeed by other pupils and acquaintances. Thus they are all catalogued as being from the studio of Herman and sold as such. - Saleroom:
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Mallams
Bocardo House
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Oxford
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