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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) oil on canvas - figures country dancing, in painted frame, 51.5cm x 61.5cm
Note: Painted circa 1941 whilst in the Land Army
£60 - 100
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) oil on canvas - female nude seated on a stool, in painted frame, 75.5cm x 49.5cm
£80 - 120
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) oil on canvas - female nude seated on a red drape facing away, in painted frame, 75cm x 54.5cm
£80 - 120
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) oil on canvas - female nude life study, in painted frame, 91cm x 70cm
£200 - 300
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) oil on canvas - female nude seated on a coat looking away, framed, 76.5cm x 56.5cm
£60 - 100
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) oil on canvas - reclining female nude, framed, 49cm x 74.5cm
£150 - 200
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) four oils on canvas - female nudes, unframed, 61cm x 51cm, 76.5cm x 56.5cm, 91.5cm x 72cm and 61cm x 41cm
£100 - 150
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) oil on canvas - male nude life study, unframed, 76cm x 51.5cm
£60 - 100
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) pair of pencil sketches - female nudes, one signed, in glazed frames, together with two pencil portraits of a lady, one signed (4)
£60 - 100
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) oil on canvas - portrait of a lady in floral dress, Gerry Reid, signed and dated 1940, framed, 60cm x 49.5cm
£80 - 120
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) oil on canvas - portrait of a seated lady, signed and dated 1939, framed, 63cm x 51cm
£60 - 100
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) six oils on canvas - portrait of a female Jewish refugee, portriat of a lady after Tom Keating, three portraits of ladies and another of a gentleman
£100 - 150
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) oil on canvas - portrait of a Jewish refugee seated on a chair holding a violin, circa 1938, framed, 61.5cm x 51.5cm
£80 - 120
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) two oils on canvas - still life study of a classical bust and another of classical statues, both framed, 49cm x 74.5cm and 54.5 x 41.5cm
£100 - 150
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) four oils on canvas - still life studies of furniture and pottery, each framed
£80 - 120
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) pastel portrait - young girl, the artist's daughter Ann, signed, in glazed frame, 31.5cm x 25cm
£40 - 60
| The following pictures were painted between 1947-1957 whilst living in Watford | |
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) oil on canvas - War and Peace, framed, 51cm x 61cm
Note: The geometric shapes represent the choice between the desolation of nuclear war and a World at peace
£60 - 100
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) oil on canvas - The Empty Tomb, signed and dated 1953, framed, 61cm x 51cm
£100 - 150
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) oil on board - The Hydrogen Bomb, signed and dated 1955, framed, 55.5cm x 50.5cm
Note: The effects of a hydrogen bomb are represented by the ever widening circles of destruction from the blast, heat and radiation emanating from a target, the terrified eyes of the people affected and the deformed children born afterwards
£100 - 150
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) oil on canvas - The Creation, signed and dated 1956, framed, 51cm x 41cm
£60 - 100
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) oil on canvas - sterile and fertile women, signed, framed, 50cm x 40cm
£60 - 100
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) two oils on canvas - Heaven and Hell and The Light of the World, 69cm x 51cm and 51cm x 69cm
£60 - 100
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) black and white linocut - Heaven and Hell, in glazed frame, 23cm x 18cm
£30 - 50
| The following pictures were executed when Phoebe and her husband moved to Cardiff in 1957 | |
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) poster paint and collage on anaglyptic paper - The Resurrection, in painted frame, 109cm x 140cm
£100 - 150
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) poster paint and collage on anaglyptic paper - The Crucifixion, in painted frame, 109.5cm x 140cm
Note: The Crucifixion set in modern times in a landscape ruined by war
£100 - 150
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) poster paint on anaglyptic paper - The Crucified by the Bomb, signed with initials, in painted frame, 121cm x 90cm
£100 - 150
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) oil on board - Easter Day, in painted frame, 92.5cm x 122cm
£100 - 150
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) pastel portrait - Broadmoor Inmate, another Holloway Inmate and a third, Rita, a patient in Whitchurch Hospital (3)
£60 - 100
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) watercolour on anaglyptic paper - Slopping Out in Holloway, in glazed frame, 49cm x 67cm
Note: painted from memory after serving two months in Holloway and four months at Hill Hall open prison, for civil disobedience
£100 - 150
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) poster paint on anaglyptic paper - Capital Punishment signed and dated 1961, in glazed frame, 46.5cm x 37cm
Note: As Phoebe entered the gates of Holloway Prison she was shown where Ruth Ellis was buried, the last woman to suffer capital punishment. Prison Officers called inmates by their numbers and Phoebe's is shown in this painting
£100 - 150
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) oil on board - Good Friday, signed in glazed painted frame, 54cm x 76cm
£60 - 100
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) oil on board - Creation, in painted frame, 123.5cm x 61.5cm
£80 - 120
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) pastel on plastic panel - Let My People Go, 1958 in glazed frame, 92cm x 61cm
Note: Drawn when Phoebe was compaigning for a boycott of the 1958 Commonwealth Games in Cardiff because the South African team chosen was based on apartheid
£80 - 120
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) black and white pencil - By the Waters of Babylon, in glazed frame, 56.5cm x 26.5cm
Note: Expressing the rejection felt by women called to be priests in the Church
£30 - 50
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) collection of five religious studies - Mary Magdalene, Holy Communion, God Made Male and Female to be of One Flesh, They came to a City and The Madonna, each framed (5)
£60 - 100
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) collection of five religious studies - They Crucified Him, Head of Christ, The Holy Spirit, By the Waters of Babylon and Garden of Gethsemane, each framed and glazed (5)
£60 - 100
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) poster paint study - A Mothers Love, in glazed painted frame, 73.5cm x 53cm
Note: A mother protecting her children in a war-torn world
£50 - 70
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) collection of thirteen assorted works - The World is Frightening, In the Valley of the Shadow of Death, What Future do we have? The Arms Race and others
£150 - 200
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) oil on board - Hodges Row, Bute Town, signed and dated 1958, in painted frame, 52cm x 74.5cm
£60 - 100
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) pastel and ink - The Church Congregation, circa 1966, in glazed frame, 67.5cm x 54cm
Note: A depiction of the church as a declining community
£50 - 80
| The following pictures were painted between 1968-1978 whilst Phoebe and her husband were living in Manchester | |
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978), pastel - What Does the Future Hold? in glazed frame, 51cm x 64cm
Note: A family looking to the future
£60 - 100
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) pastel - Rochdale Canal, circa 1968, in glazed frame, 58.5cm x 44cm
Note: Mother with her drowned child, why again? A child had died every year for forty years in the derelict, rubbish filled canal that ran through Miles Platting, Manchester, Phoebe and Alfred's Parish - they successfully campaigned for it to be filled in. Also sold with a mixed media panel relating to the canal drownings (2)
£60 - 100
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) oil pastel - The Divided Church, in glazed frame, 63.5cm x 54.5cm
Note: The Church of England is denying women who have a calling to be priests and was already divided
£60 - 100
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) oil pastel - Life After Death, in glazed frame, 65cm x 52.5cm
Note: Drawn by Phoebe when she knew she was dying of cancer
£50 - 80
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) pastel study - New Life, in glazed frame, 67cm x 45.5cm together with another untitled study, 57.5cm x 45cm (2)
£50 - 80
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) pastel study - a pregnant woman, in glazed frame, 64cm x 48.5cm together with another ink and oil pastel study - girl peering into a neighbourhood, in glazed frame, 22cm x 20cm (2)
£50 - 80
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) oil pastel - The Walls of Jericho, in glazed frame, 51cm x 63.5cm
Note: Down with the Church's Victorian attitudes (to war and women)
£30 - 50
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) pastel - Open the Door for Christ's sake, in glazed gilt frame, 29.5cm x 22cm
Note: Women are accepted by the Church of England as mothers but denied their calling to be priests
£30 - 50
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Phoebe Peto Willetts (1917-1978) ink study - Pillars of the Church, in glazed frame, 22cm x 35cm.
Note: The Church of England as an institution is a museum
£30 - 50
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