SANCTUARY: Artist-Gardeners 1919-39

Many of the artists in this catalogue had a particularly strong attachment to gardens and gardening ñ taking their activities as plantsmen and plantswomen as seriously as they took their art. Charles Mahoney shared his unbridled enthusiasm for plants with Edward Bawden, Geoffrey Rhoades, John Nash and Evelyn Dunbar who swapped cuttings with each other by post. Evelyn Dunbar, along with Charles Mahoney and John Nash, produced
books on the subject. And most of Harry Bushís oeuvre evolved around painting and repainting his garden in the London suburbs of SW19.

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Works Featured in this catalogue

SKU: 2640

(19cm x 14cm)

Dorothy Mahoney [nee Bishop] (1902 - 1984)

Walled Garden Amongst Kentish Orchards, early 1950’s

£6,500.00

SKU: 9738

(31.7cm x 28cm)

Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)

Study of a sunflower head, mid 1930’s

£975.00

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SKU: 10475

(21.5cm x 18cm)

Edward Julius Detmold (1883 - 1957)

Kingfisher Upon a Branch with Wild Roses
SKU: 10450

(11cm x 8.6cm)

Eric Gill (1882 - 1940)

A unique set of Eric Gill’s Procreant Hymn, printed on chine appliqué  paper

£2,950.00

SKU: 10387

(44cm x 31.7cm)

Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)

Spring

£2,450.00

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SKU: 10294

(31.8cm x 51.6cm)

Hubert Arthur Finney (1905 - 1991)

Apples on a Branch
SKU: 10271

(39.2cm x 25.9cm)

Hubert Arthur Finney (1905 - 1991)

Tree in Garden

£100.00

SKU: 10233

(22.5cm x 23cm)

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

December for the Country Life 1938 Gardener’s Diary

£2,800.00

SKU: 10221

(32cm x 19.5cm)

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Design for unused title page of Gardener’s Choice, circa 1936

£3,500.00

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SKU: 10208

(15.5cm x 17.8cm)

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Study for vignette for Gardeners’ Choice (Routledge, London, 1937)
SKU: 10182

(20.3cm x 24.7cm)

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

The Egg Thieves

£750.00

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SKU: 10126

(12.8cm x 10.2cm)

Marion Wallace Dunlop (1864 - 1942)

A Nymph, circa 1906
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SKU: 10118

(12.8cm x 10.2cm)

Marion Wallace Dunlop (1864 - 1942)

Bacchus, (cream ground), circa 1906
SKU: 10000

(28cm x 39.2cm)

Hubert Arthur Finney (1905 - 1991)

Farm Equipment, Berkshire

£1,750.00

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SKU: 9916

(40.6cm x 30.5cm)

Stephen Bone (1904 - 1958)

Christmas Tree, circa 1938
SKU: 9911

(40.6cm x 33cm)

Stephen Bone (1904 - 1958)

Portrait of Mary Adshead, probably at work in the artist’s garden at Haverstock Hill, London

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SKU: 9902

(74cm x 59cm)

Charles H.H. Burleigh (1869 - 1956)

Still life in the Artist’s Studio , circa 1900

£9,000.00

SKU: 9852

(9.2cm x 30.5cm)

John Armstrong (1893 - 1973)

The Peculiar Park, Study for Royal Marsden Hospital in Sutton, Surrey, 1961

£2,400.00

Private
SKU: 9794

(40.5cm x 45.5cm)

Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)

Flower Studies with Tulipa eichleri and primulas
SKU: 9657

(15.5cm x 25.5cm)

Margaret Duncan (1906 - 1979)

Preparatory study for Reigate and its Environments, late 1930’s

£1,300.00

Reserved
SKU: 9594

(20cm x 51cm)

Gerald Leet (1913 - 1998)

Yellow and Pink Lilies on a window ledge overlooking the sea, mid 30’s
SKU: 9434

(15cm x 13.5cm)

Mary Adshead (1904 - 1995)

An Unpleasant Surprise

£995.00

Reserved
SKU: 9429

(15cm x 16cm)

Mary Adshead (1904 - 1995)

John’s House
SKU: 9425

(12cm x 18.5cm)

Mary Adshead (1904 - 1995)

Evening Primroses in a London Garden

£875.00

SKU: 9209

(39.4cm x 61cm)

Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)

Abstract floral forms, circa 1960

£385.00

SKU: 8979

(31.8cm x 38.7cm)

Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe R.A. (1901 - 1979)

The Shire Stallion, 1934

£395.00

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SKU: 8860

(71cm x 48.2cm)

David Evans (1929 - 1988)

Red Anemone
SKU: 8765

(22.9cm x 21.6cm)

Stanley Lewis (1905 - 2009)

The snow laden garden at Llwyn-On, Croesyceiliog, circa 1935

£800.00

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SKU: 8516

(22cm x 6.7cm)

Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)

The Parable of the Sower, circa 1942
SKU: 8489

(88cm x 73cm)

Mary Adshead (1904 - 1995)

Still-life of Red Lily with Leopard Skin

£15,000.00

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SKU: 8468

(20.3cm x 25.4cm)

Carolyn Sergeant (1937 - 2018)

Tulip Petals
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SKU: 8469

(19.1cm x 24.1cm)

Carolyn Sergeant (1937 - 2018)

A Christmas Pudding, 1991
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SKU: 8440

(39cm x 56cm)

Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)

The Kings Lesson by William Morris, 1919
SKU: 8348

(18.5cm x 17.8cm)

Mary Adshead (1904 - 1995)

Finnial decorations

£875.00

Private
SKU: 8140

(68cm x 103cm)

David Evans (1929 - 1988)

Landscape near Ipswich, 1982
SKU: 8111

(64cm x 106cm)

David Evans (1929 - 1988)

Six Studies

£3,000.00

Private
SKU: 7814

(39.3cm x 52.7cm)

Mahoney, Charles Dunbar, Evelyn & ()

Design for a Country Suburban Garden for Gardeners’ Choice, c.1937
SKU: 7632

(24cm x 24cm)

Douglas Percy Bliss (1900 - 1984)

Boy Scaring Crows, 1925

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SKU: 7415

(17.8cm x 9.5cm)

Ludovic-Rodolphe (RODO) Pissarro (1878 - 1952)

Back to the Land “Farming”
Private
SKU: 7291

(48.2cm x 33.6cm)

John Nash (1893 - 1977)

Study of Amaryllis ‘St Josephs Lily’ (Hippeastrum Johnsonii) in a flower pot
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SKU: 7292

(48.2cm x 33.6cm)

John Nash (1893 - 1977)

Study of Petunias
SKU: 7293

(48.2cm x 40.7cm)

John Nash (1893 - 1977)

Periwinkle flower study (Vinca species)

£2,800.00

SKU: 6903

(16.5cm x 10.5cm)

Joseph Southall (1861 - 1944)

Sable Fur, 26.III.1910

£1,200.00

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SKU: 6895

(25.4cm x 33cm)

Mahoney, Charles Dunbar, Evelyn & ()

Proposed design for a country or suburban garden for Gardeners Choice
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SKU: 6857

(10.2cm x 12.8cm)

Mahoney, Charles Dunbar, Evelyn & ()

Design for page 123, Gardeners Choice 1937
SKU: 6337

(60.8cm x 50.8cm)

Hubert Arthur Finney (1905 - 1991)

Tenerife Crate with Apples on a Wooden Chair, 1930s

£4,750.00

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SKU: 6010

(5.3cm x 10cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

When I Consider the Heavens, Psalms (BPL 644), 1952
SKU: 5990

(76.2cm x 50.8cm)

Lambert Guenther (b. 1883)

Get behind the girl he left behind him Join the land army. circa 1918

£1,800.00

SKU: 5522

(21cm x 15.3cm)

Frederick Austin (1902 - 1990)

Decorating the Font, 1946

£225.00

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SKU: 5511

(14.4cm x 9.4cm)

Frederick Austin (1902 - 1990)

Apple orchard with chopped wood and chickens, circa 1935
Private
SKU: 5073

(36cm x 46.3cm)

Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)

Ambleside, possibly the waterhead hotel, circa 1942
SKU: 4003

(32.5cm x 25cm)

Kenneth Rowntree (1915 - 1997)

Falling Rain with Raised Flag

£7,450.00

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SKU: 3977

(11.8cm x 9.8cm)

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)

Woman and Sickle, 1933
SKU: 3981

(17.8cm x 15.4cm)

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)

Sea Bouquet 1940

£980.00

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SKU: 3965

(14cm x 11.2cm)

Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)

Man with scythe, 1932/3
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SKU: 3688

(41cm x 18cm)

Alan Sorrell (1904 - 1974)

Cyprus Tree, study for The Appian Way, circa 1932
SKU: 3675

(33cm x 51cm)

Alan Sorrell (1904 - 1974)

Sketch for examination competition, People Seeking After Wisdom, March 1,1928

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SKU: 3656

(36.5cm x 23.3cm)

Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)

Roses

£680.00

SKU: 3406

(37cm x 31.5cm)

Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)

Studies for watering can, mid 1930’s

£2,500.00

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SKU: 1071

(23cm x 17cm)

William S Taylor (1920 - 2010)

The Sunne Rising
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SKU: 357

(0cm x cm)

Joseph Simpson (1879 - 1939)

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