Nine new works on paper added to the online gallery

A selection of works by Garry Shead, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, and more.

I am continuing to add interesting new works to the website, it’s time to have another look.

Visit the gallery to see them in the flesh, we are open by appointment.

Best regards,

Peter

Garry Shead, The Joker - framed

Garry Shead

Artist: Garry Shead (b.1942)
Title: ‘The Joker,’ 1984
Medium: Aquatint 2/50
Size: 24.5x30cm, framed

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Gillian Ayres

Artist: Gillian Ayres (British 1930-2018)
Title: ‘Lorenzo the Magnificent and Niccolo the Gear,’ 1967
Medium: S/Print 63/75
Sze: 68x49cm, Unframed

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Lorenzo the Magnificent and Niccolo the Gear

Pablo Picasso

Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish 1881-1973)
Title: B0169 Sculpteur et son Modèle avec un Buste sur une Colonne, 1933
(‘Sculptor and His Model with a Bust on a Column’, 1933)
From the Suite Vollard (S.V. 60)
Publisher: Vollard, Paris, 1939
Printer: Lacourière, Paris, 1939
(Bloch 169; Baer e322.B.c)
Edition: Edition of 50
Medium: Etching on Montval laid paper with Montgolfier watermark Annotated “169, 19648, 320 on verso upper left, in pencil.
Size: Plate 19.4 x 26.7cm (7 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches) – Sheet 33 x 44.5cm (19 3/4 x 15 1/4 inches)
Provenance: John Szoke Editions, NYC, USA

Framed as shown

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Samuel (Sam) Harrison

Artist: Samuel (Sam) Harrison (New Zealand b.1985)
Title: ‘Gretchen,’ 2013
Medium: Woodcut on Fabriano 3 of 7
Size: 73.5x66cm (image) 100x70cm (sheet), Framed

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Garry Shead

Artist: Garry Shead (b.1942)
Title: A set of 4 works:
– 1. ‘Artist and Muse (Venus);’
– 2. ‘Artist and Muse (Olympia);’
– 3. ‘Artist and Muse (Susanna);’
– 4. ‘Reluctant Muse.’
Medium: Coloured Etching (4) 28/60, 2nd State
Size: 29×24.5cm each (plate), Unframed
Publisher: Published by Falls Gallery Editions, NSW. Blindstamp in lower margin of each sheet

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Pablo Picasso, 'Avant la Pique (Before the Pike/Lance),' 1959 on wall with armchair

Pablo Picasso

Artist: Pablo Picasso, (Spanish 1881-1973)
Title: ‘Avant la Pique (Before the Pike/Lance),’ 1959
Stamped verso ‘Imprimerie Arnéra Archives/Non-Signé.’
Pencil inscription verso: FM11833
Published by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Printed by Imprimerie Arnéra
Ref: Bloch 941; Baer 1224
Linocut in colours, on Arches paper (un-numbered proof aside an edition of 50)
Size: 54 x 67 cm (image) 61.9 x 74.9 cm (sheet)

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Joan Miro

Artist: Joan Miro (Spanish 1893-1983)
Title: Figure with Red Sun, from ‘XXe Siecle No. 4,’ 1938
Medium: Colour Linocut
Size: 30.6×23.4cm (image) 31.5×24.5cm
Condition: Fine strong impression
Description: Printed in blue on brick-red wove paper signed in the image, the full sheet c.31.4 x 24.cm. as published by XXe Siecle Paris in 1959, the second edition Ref; Benhoura 397.

There was no pencil signed edition.

This important print is virtually the only linocut in Miro’s oeuvre.
Many of the first issues of 1938 were destroyed in the war.Ref; Dupin 40.
Framed as shown.

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Unknown

Artist: Unknown – Signed
Title: Figures Amongst Classical Ruins
Medium: Sepia on paper
Size: 22x28cm

Framed as shown

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Jean Cocteau

Artist: Jean Cocteau (French 1889-1963)
Title: Character with Fish Eyes, 1958
Medium: Ink & Coloured Pencil on Tracing Paper on Card
Size: 30.5 x 21 cm, Framed as shown, frame size, 40.7 x 51.3 cm

Authentication certificate from Annie Guedras, dated 22d April 2011, noting that the drawing is an (unselected) illustration for the poem ‘Gondole des morts – Plage du Lido à Venise / Gondola of the Dead – Beach of the Lido in Venice.’

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