The Fools of Summer

This on-line exhibition, exploring gardens, sunlight, leisure, and play – from seaside holidays and village fêtes to lyrical landscapes and sun-drenched still lifes –  takes its title from Cecil Collins’ lyrical 1954 composition: The Fools of Summer.

Works FEATURED in this Exhibition

SKU: 13096

(8.9cm x 7.6cm)

Eric Gill (1882 - 1940)

Original carved woodblock for “Birdhouse”, (Physick 933), 1937

£8,000.00

SKU: 13095

(6cm x 7cm)

Eric Gill (1882 - 1940)

Leda Waiting (Physick 616), 1929

£800.00

SKU: 13094

(11.5cm x 7.5cm)

Eric Gill (1882 - 1940)

Belle Sauvage IV (Physick 623), 1929

£800.00

SKU: 13093

(11.5cm x 7.5cm)

Eric Gill (1882 - 1940)

Belle Sauvage II: girl standing (Physick 606), wood-engraving, signed by the artist and numbered “USA 4/10”, 1929

£800.00

SKU: 13092

(11.5cm x 7.5cm)

Eric Gill (1882 - 1940)

The Bird in the Bush (Physick 505), 1928

£800.00

SKU: 13091

(26.8cm x 19.8cm)

Eric Gill (1882 - 1940)

Thomas Esmond Lowinsky (Physick 276), 1924

£600.00

SKU: 13090

(22.7cm x 17cm)

Eric Gill (1882 - 1940)

Xenia Noelle Lowinsky (Physick 278), 1924

£800.00

SKU: 13089

(17.5cm x 11cm)

Eric Gill (1882 - 1940)

Portrait of a lady [Moira, Mrs Gibbings] (Physick 296), Copper-engraving on laid paper, 1925

£800.00

SKU: 13088

(17.5cm x 12.5cm)

Eric Gill (1882 - 1940)

Portrait of Elizabeth Gill in profile (Physick 279)

£800.00

SKU: 11127

(15.5cm x 9.8cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Ellen and Her Children (BPL578), 1944

£395.00

SKU: 11397

(355cm x 505cm)

Kathleen Guthrie (1905 - 1981)

Psychedelic stripes, circa 1970

£895.00

SKU: 6601

(40.6cm x 33cm)

Stephen Bone (1904 - 1958)

Mary Adshead Sketching

£4,500.00

SKU: 13029

(53cm x 73cm)

Charles Sims (1873 - 1928)

The Muses

£9,500.00

Sold
SKU: 8108

(67cm x 100cm)

David Evans (1929 - 1988)

Poppy landscape
SKU: 12125

(36cm x 33cm)

Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)

Persicaria orientalis (also known as Kiss-Me-Over-The-Garden-Gate)

£1,475.00

SKU: 13010

(27cm x 37cm)

Ernest Albert Chadwick (1876–1955)

The garden of Laurence W. Hodson at Bradbourne Hall

£950.00

SKU: 2640

(19cm x 14cm)

Dorothy Mahoney [nee Bishop] (1902 - 1984)

Walled Garden Amongst Kentish Orchards, early 1950’s

£6,500.00

SKU: 13051

(38cm x 50cm)

Amy Finney (1912 - 1987)

Botanical Drift

£650.00

SKU: 12091

(30cm x 31.5cm)

Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)

Mahoney Flowers Study

£975.00

SKU: 12088

(27cm x 35cm)

Stephen Bone (1904 - 1958)

The Broad Walk, Regents Park

£2,450.00

SKU: 12086

(33cm x 41cm)

Stephen Bone (1904 - 1958)

Parliament Hill

£2,950.00

SKU: 9738

(31.7cm x 28cm)

Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)

Study of a sunflower head, mid 1930’s

£975.00

SKU: 1627

(31cm x 27cm)

Imre Goth (1893 - 1982)

Das Kasperle-Theatre 1930
SKU: 1502

(14.3cm x 24cm)

Percy Horton (1897 - 1970)

Study for Kensington Gardens, 1923

£2,500.00

SKU: 12101

(63cm x 78.5cm)

Gustave Louis Jaulmes (1873-1959)

Still life with sun hat and striped shawl, c1930

£4,950.00

SKU: 11892

(60.5cm x 100.5cm)

Willem Johan Barbieri (1948-2019)

‘If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden. If your thought is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.’

£2,500.00

SKU: 11901

(76cm x 102cm)

Willem Johan Barbieri (1948-2019)

Black Jack

£3,750.00

SKU: 4554

(28cm x 24.5cm)

Charles Cundall (1890 - 1971)

Industrial Panorama of Sheffield, c 1930

£1,950.00

SKU: 13086

(12cm x 10cm)

Eric Gill (1882 - 1940)

Woodcut – Illustration from Clothes, 1931

£900.00

SKU: 13024

(33cm x 27cm)

Amy Finney (1912 - 1987)

Flowers II

£600.00

SKU: 13023

(37cm x 30cm)

Amy Finney (1912 - 1987)

Flowers 1

£600.00

SKU: 13022

(17cm x 27cm)

Amy Finney (1912 - 1987)

Pigeon Script in Orange and Yellow, circa 1940’s

£550.00

SKU: 11974

(20cm x 28cm)

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Pruning in the Orchard

£1,275.00

SKU: 11100

(28cm x 38cm)

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Royal College of Art Sketch Club Annual Summer Camp, 1930

£1,900.00

SKU: 11896

(100cm x 100cm)

Willem Johan Barbieri (1948-2019)

Adam and Eve

£2,625.00

SKU: 13009

(27cm x 37cm)

Ernest Albert Chadwick (1876–1955)

The house and garden of Laurence W. Hodson at Bradbourne Hall

£1,250.00

SKU: 13087

(11.3cm x 7cm)

Eric Gill (1882 - 1940)

For Dignity & Adornment (Physick 483) – Copper Engraving

£600.00

SKU: 11928

(cm x cm)

Amy Finney (1912 - 1987)

Flowers 3

£1,000.00

SKU: 13084

(6.8cm x 7.4cm)

Eric Gill (1882 - 1940)

Boots, gloves, hats and jewellery – Woodcut illustration for Clothes, 1931

£1,100.00

SKU: 11869

(27cm x 34cm)

Stephen Bone (1904 - 1958)

Morcombe Bay?

£1,325.00

SKU: 11878

(25cm x 35.5cm)

Stephen Bone (1904 - 1958)

Boats Yarmouth Isle of Wight

£1,600.00

Sold
SKU: 11882

(27cm x 35cm)

Stephen Bone (1904 - 1958)

Blue Scene, possibly Isle of Arran, October 1928
Private
SKU: 12079

(23.2cm x 34.2cm)

Stephen Bone (1904 - 1958)

Evening Weymouth, 1946
SKU: 2162

(29cm x 39cm)

Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)

Still life with paint pot and flowers in a vase

£1,900.00

SKU: 11748

(54.5cm x 38cm)

Marion Adnams (1898 - 1995)

Corn Doll Cornucopia

£2,250.00

SKU: 11531

(20.5cm x 24.2cm)

Eric Ravilious (1903 - 1942)

Tirzah on a cockerel, 1931

£395.00

SKU: 11393

(285cm x 385cm)

Kathleen Guthrie (1905 - 1981)

In the Country, circa 1970

£700.00

SKU: 11379

(370cm x 483cm)

Kathleen Guthrie (1905 - 1981)

Family Outing, circa 1970

£995.00

Sold
SKU: 277

(25.5cm x 35cm)

Stephen Bone (1904 - 1958)

The Twelve Pins from Ballyconneely
SKU: 429

(27cm x 35cm)

Stephen Bone (1904 - 1958)

Mary Adshead on the Beach

£1,650.00

SKU: 124

(30cm x 35.5cm)

Stephen Bone (1904 - 1958)

Holy Trinity Church, Stratford upon Avon

£950.00

SKU: 11385

(385cm x 500cm)

Kathleen Guthrie (1905 - 1981)

In the Park, circa 1970

£790.00

SKU: 11147

(29.7cm x 21cm)

Tirzah Garwood-Ravilious (1908 - 1951)

The Dog Show, 1929

£2,450.00

SKU: 11404

(445cm x 345cm)

Kathleen Guthrie (1905 - 1981)

Cat and Flowers, late 1950’s

£3,850.00

SKU: 11222

(2.7cm x 2.7cm)

Douglas Percy Bliss (1900 - 1984)

‘Satires in Stones, The Sportsman’. Watercolour. 1923.
Sold
SKU: 11163

(12.7cm x 10cm)

Marion Wallace Dunlop (1864 - 1942)

A Nymph from Devils in Diverse Shapes, circa 1906
SKU: 10019

(53.5cm x 39cm)

Hubert Arthur Finney (1905 - 1991)

Room Overlooking the Sea, circa 1930

£2,850.00

SKU: 9112

(38.1cm x 55.9cm)

Karl Hagedorn (1889 - 1969)

New Zealand – from the series of Nations

£1,440.00

SKU: 9099

(38.7cm x 55.9cm)

Karl Hagedorn (1889 - 1969)

Australia I, late 1930’s

£1,600.00

SKU: 9044

(35cm x 52.1cm)

Karl Hagedorn (1889 - 1969)

Farm Scene

£3,500.00

SKU: 8893

(48.3cm x 37.5cm)

Barnett Freedman (1901 - 1958)

Streamers and Heads, Drawing for Festival Poster, 1951

£8,500.00

SKU: 8768

(21cm x 29.8cm)

Stanley Lewis (1905 - 2009)

Study for Hyde Park, circa 1930

£725.00

SKU: 8761

(21.6cm x 27cm)

Stanley Lewis (1905 - 2009)

Study of Hyde Park, circa 1931

£525.00

SKU: 8489

(88cm x 73cm)

Mary Adshead (1904 - 1995)

Still-life of Red Lily with Leopard Skin

£15,000.00

SKU: 7574

(43.8cm x 32.3cm)

Stanley Lewis (1905 - 2009)

Study for Hyde Park in Summer – the artist’s sister Margaret with a bicycle , 1931

£275.00

SKU: 7302

(31cm x 41cm)

Mary Adshead (1904 - 1995)

The Landlady’s Daughters, Llanbedre, near Harlech, c. 1941

£8,950.00

SKU: 7303

(5cm x 35cm)

Mary Adshead (1904 - 1995)

St Tropez, c. 1931

£2,500.00

SKU: 7058

(91.4cm x 59cm)

Stephen Bone (1904 - 1958)

Design for poster; Pictures of Spain and Scotland, 1920’s

£675.00

SKU: 4746

(54cm x 35.5cm)

Barbara Constance Freeman (1906 - 1999)

Study of a seated lady with pink hat, circa 1925

£450.00

SKU: 4408

(29cm x 42cm)

Stanley Lewis (1905 - 2009)

The Merry Go Round, Newport, circa 1925

£850.00

SKU: 4327

(20cm x 29cm)

Stanley Lewis (1905 - 2009)

Study for Hyde Park, Figures (2), 1931

£480.00

SKU: 3889

(25cm x 34.5cm)

Raymond Sheppard (1913 - 1958)

Chipperfield Common Herts, circa 1950

£1,050.00

SKU: 3738

(38.5cm x 31.5cm)

Alan Sorrell (1904 - 1974)

Study for a Book jacket design, c. 1920
SKU: 1753

(32cm x 46.5cm)

John Sergeant (1937 - 2010)

A Peacock and Peahen, mid 1980s

£1,800.00

SKU: 1726

(45cm x 30cm)

Geoffrey Hamilton Rhoades (1898 - 1980)

Bathers circa 1925

£990.00

SKU: 1001

(38cm x 25.5cm)

The Gentlewoman, (recto); Support Home Industries (verso), circa 1905
SKU: 11433

(483cm x 483cm)

John Hassall (1868 - 1948)

The original design for Tom Tom the Pipers Son (running with pig) circa, 1900 (Set of 4 available)

£2,100.00

SKU: 11391

(270cm x 340cm)

Kathleen Guthrie (1905 - 1981)

Girl on Sofa,circa 1970

£1,400.00

SKU: 13002

(27cm x 35cm)

Stephen Bone (1904 - 1958)

The Quay, St Tropez

£1,475.00

SKU: 11867

(27cm x 33cm)

Stephen Bone (1904 - 1958)

Welsh landscape

£1,550.00