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Art historian, dealer/art consultant 19thC and 20thC British and European art. Developing a knack for looking sideways.
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William Nicholson 'Poppies in Pewter.' Nicholson's still lifes are deft examples of the genre; in this painting he revels in the transitory play of light and the reflection of the poppies bulge out from the plate's convex surface.

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Michael Rothenstein RA 'A Dish of Fruit' w/colour in a polished chrome frame, dimensions 37cm x 46 cm, with frame 55cm x 64 cm £2200

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Peter Doig 'One Hundred Years Ago (Carrera).' The painting was inspired in part by an image on the inside gatefold of the record An Anthology by Duane Allman. The figure in the canoe was based on American bassist Berry Oakley, a founding member of the band.

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This pre-Reformation altar frontal is a rare survival of the type of devotional textiles that were once common in wealthy 16th-century English households. It shows Christ and his 12 Apostles standing under canopies against a velvet background scattered with gold fleur de lys.

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In the winter of 1930-31, while on a lecturing tour of the US, Clare Leighton visited a logging camp in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec owned by the Canadian International Paper Company to observe lumberjacks at work and rest. 'Limbing' is from her 'Lumber Camp Series.'

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'Cutting' Clare Leighton

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Dora Carrington,'The Giantess.' For all their ambitions, the male torchbearers of surrealism were not forward-looking when it came to women & equally promoting their art. Down Below, Carrington's narrative of mental breakdown, is easily as good as Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar

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Found this 19thC tile while walking near Long Melford. Medieval architecture appealed to the Victorians who longed for pre-industrial England. Dogs in the Middle Ages herded, hunted & protected. A 9thC prayer says: 'God preserve us from the Northmen & their terrible dogs.'

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This small bronze maquette by Henry Moore was the preparatory study for the Madonna & Child in Northampton. The sculpture developed from Moore’s wartime Shelter Drawings but also drew upon Renaissance depictions of the Holy Family.

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Mid 19th century French etching showing a 'convent dog' carrying a small child to sanctuary. Note the boy's costume and ball and chain on the child's arm perhaps denoting he's been rescued from a circus.

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