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Robin Tanner (1904-1988)
"Christmas"
Signed, inscribed "final state" 1929, etching, 35.5cm by 28.5cm
"My etched world is also an ideal world - a world of pastoral beauty that could be ours if we did by desire it passionately enough…" Robin Tanner
Born in Bristol, the son of a carpenter. Later moving to Chippenham in North West Wiltshire, Robin Tanner attended the grammar school there and spent a year in the town as a student teacher. In 1922 he went up to London to study teaching at Goldsmiths' College and subsequently took up a teaching position in Greenwich. During this time Tanner returned to Goldsmiths' to attend evening courses in etching.
In 1926 a visit to a major retrospective of the work of Visionary and Neo-Romantic artist Samuel Palmer at the Victoria and Albert Museum proved a seminal moment in his life. Palmer's almost mystical vision of the English pastoral landscape - with his depictions of moonlit cornfields and the like - would serve to set the young artist on the path he would follow for the rest of his career. After completing his first etching in 1926 - A Tithe Barn - Tanner increasingly focused on art and he became part of the revival in English etching that was emerging at the time. In 1928 he returned to Wiltshire to etch full-time and produced some of his finest works, such as Martin's Hovel and Harvest Festival. However, the market for etchings crashed soon after this move, caused by the economic depression of 1929 and the growing dominance of photography as the preferred medium for illustrations in printed material.
Setting aside a career as an artist, Tanner returned to teaching having married his childhood sweetheart, Heather, and settled in Kington Langley near Chippenham. Tanner had a passion for teaching fine art, was a great exponent of arts, crafts, poetry and music in schools, and from 1935 to 1964 was an H. M. Inspector of Primary Schools - a role in which he excelled. However, throughout his career he continued to pursue other private artistic endeavours and publishing several books with his wife.
Following his retirement in 1964, Tanner once again dedicated himself to printmaking. His highly detailed etchings depicting pastoral scenes in North West Wiltshire are infused with an otherworldly atmosphere - at once timeless depictions of English rural life and idealised, often wistful scenes of a changing world.
Lots 1-13 formed part of the collection of the late James Fairbairn of York, a colleague and firm friend of Tanner's. James was a fellow H. M. Inspector of Schools and made many trips to visit the Tanners' home in Kington Langley and in 1978 organised a holiday for Robin, Heather, Dietrich Hanff (a Jewish refugee adopted by the couple) and himself to York, Northumbria and the Scottish Borders. The etchings came directly into Fairbairn's collection from Tanner by gift and purchase; whilst many items from the collection were dispersed by bequests in Fairbairn's will, the current vendor received the substantial residue. £800 - 1200
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Robin Tanner (1904-1988)
"Hedge Flowers"
Signed and dated 1936, etching, together with two further etchings by the same hand, "February" and "Flowers of May", 27cm by 19.5cm, 29cm by 18.5cm and 30.5cm by 21.5cm respectively (3) £500 - 800
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Robin Tanner (1904-1988)
"Wiltshire Roadmaker"
Signed, inscribed "touched proof" and dated 1970, etching, with a letter to the reverse from Robin Tanner to "Jim" James Fairbairn, together with another etching by the same hand "Wiltshire Woodman" 13.5cm by 15cm and 11cm by 15.5cm (2) £400 - 600
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Robin Tanner (1904-1988)
"Allington in Wiltshire"
Signed, inscribed "final state", and dated (19)70, etching, together with another by the same hand "Wiltshire Rickyard", 19.5cm by 24cm and 24.5cm by 25.5cm respectively (2) £400 - 600
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Robin Tanner (1904-1988)
"The Clapper Bridge"
Signed and dated 1973, etching, together with another unsigned etching by the same hand "Martins Hovell", 19cm by 26cm and 19cm by 24cm respectively (2) £200 - 300
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Robin Tanner (1904-1988)
"The Wicket Gate"
Signed and dated (19)78, etching, 19.5cm by 19cm £400 - 600
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Robin Tanner (1904-1988)
"The Gamekeeper's Cottage"
Signed, etching, 19cm by 24cm £400 - 600
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Robin Tanner (1904-1988)
"The Cheese Room"
Signed and dated (19)78, etching, 24cm by 30.5cm £250 - 400
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Robin Tanner (1904-1988)
"April"
Signed, etching, together with another by the same hand, "The Meadow Style", 22.5cm by 24.5cm and 22.5cm by 17cm respectively (2) £250 - 400
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Robin Tanner (1904-1988)
"September"
Signed, etching, 21.5cm by 29cm £300 - 500
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Robin Tanner (1904-1988)
"Harvest Festival"
Signed, etching, 37.5cm by 33.5cm £300 - 500
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Robin Tanner (1904-1988)
"Gray's Elegy"
Signed and dated 1980, etching together with two further etchings by the same hand "June" and "Still is the Land", 15.5cm by 15.5cm, 16.5cm by 19cm and 16cm by 22cm respectively (3) £400 - 600
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Garton and Company, "Robin Tanner The Etchings", London, 1988, together with Heather and Robin Tanner "Wiltshire Village", Robin Garton Ltd., 1978, Heather and Robin Tanner, "Woodland Plants", Robin Garton Ltd 1981 and a collection of further books, Robin Tanner's hand written notes for "The Etcher's Craft", Woolley Hall May, 1976, exhibition catalogues, letters, greetings cards and assorted etchings, including After Samuel Palmer (1805-1881) "The Early Ploughman" or "The Morning Spread upon the Mountains" (a collection) £200 - 300
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Claire Leighton (1898-1989)
"January Lambing"
Wood engraving, together with eleven further prints from "The Farmer's Year: A Calendar of English Husbandry", 23cm by 28.5cm (12) £250 - 400
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Norman Ackroyd CBE, RA (b.1938)
"Carp Lake"
Signed and dated 1988, inscribed and numbered 26/90, black and white etching, 47cm by 64cm £400 - 600
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Norman Ackroyd CBE, RA (b.1938)
"Widford under Wychwood"
Signed and dated (19)92, inscribed and numbered 1/275, etching, 25.5cm by 35cm £150 - 250
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Norman Ackroyd CBE, RA (b.1938)
"Nowt Bield"
Signed and dated (19)96, inscribed and numbered, 19cm by 23cm £150 - 250
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Norman Ackroyd CBE, RA (b.1938)
"Suffolk"
Signed and dated (20)00, inscribed and numbered 6/90, etching, 20cm by 17cm £80 - 120
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Jason Hicklin (b.1966)
"Bempton Cliffs, Yorkshire"
Signed, inscribed and dated (20)06, numbered 8/30, black and white etching, 37.5cm by 56cm
Provenance: Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk £150 - 200
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Jason Hicklin (b.1966)
"Tornigh"
Signed, inscribed and dated (20)08, numbered 2/30, black and white etching, dyptich, 25cm by 51cm
Provenance: Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk £120 - 180
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Jason Hicklin (b.1966)
"Gormire"
Signed, inscribed and dated (20)12, numbered 1/30, black and white etching, dyptich, 38.5cm by 112cm
Provenance: Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk £200 - 300
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Jason Hicklin (b.1966)
"Mere"
Signed, inscribed and dated (20)12, numbered 2/30, black and white etching dyptich, together with a further black and white etching dyptich "The Mere", by the same hand, 19.5cm by 126cm, 19cm by 129cm respectively (2)
Provenance: Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk £300 - 500
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Jason Hicklin (b.1966)
"Ellesmere"
Signed, inscribed and dated (20)12, numbered 2/30, etching dyptich, together with a further etching dyptich by the artist "Canal", 21.5cm by 126cm and 19cm by 126cm respectively (2)
Provenance: Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk £300 - 500
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Julian Trevelyan RA (1910-1988)
"The Mall"
Lithograph, together with two further lithographs by Robert Austin "Heralds" and Humphrey Spender, each produced for the Royal College of Art "Coronation Suite", 1953, 32cm by 44cm and 49cm by 44cm respectively (3) £200 - 300
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Kenneth Rowntree (1915-1997)
"Country Celebrations"
Signed, lithograph, produced for the Royal College of Art "Coronation Suite", 1953, 33cm by 44cm £200 - 300
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Ben Nicholson OM (1894-1982)
"Urbino III"
Etching, with the François Lafranca blindstamp, 37.5cm by 32cm £700 - 1000
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John Egerton Christmas Piper CH (1903-1992)
"Eastnor Castle"
Signed and numbered EC, aside from the edition of 75, screenprint, 50cm by 72cm £600 - 800
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John Copley (1875-1950)
"Carmencita" 1936
Signed, etching, 32cm by 24.5cm £50 - 100
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Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone, CBE, RA (1900-1979)
"Young Lovers"
Signed, inscribed and numbered 10/30, lithograph, 20cm by 24.5cm
Provenance: Abbot and Holder Ltd., London £300 - 500
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Stanley William Hayter CBE (1901-1988)
"Famille Japonaise"
Signed and dated (19)55, inscribed and numbered 53/100, engraving with soft ground etching, 38cm by 27cm £800 - 1200
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Henry Moore OM, CH, RBA, RBS (1898-1986)
"Eight Sculptural Ideas Girl Writing"
Signed and dated (19)73, numbered 54/65, lithograph, 42cm by 50.5cm
Provenance: St. James's Art Books, London £600 - 800
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Hubert Andrew Freeth RA (1912-1986)
"Betting Shop in Whitechapel"
Signed and inscribed, etching and aquatint, 32.5cm by 44cm £70 - 100
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After Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA, RA (1887-1976)
"Our Town"
Signed and numbered 250/850, a colour reproduction, 42.5cm by 61cm (unframed) £600 - 900
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After Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA, RA (1887-1976)
"Berwick upon Tweed"
Signed, with the blindstamp for the Fine Art Trade Guild, from an edition of 650, a colour reproduction, 56cm by 43.5cm £4500 - 5500
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After Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA, RA (1887-1976)
"Britain at Play"
Signed, with the blindstamp for the Fine Art Trade Guild, from an edition of 850, a colour reproduction, 47cm by 60cm £1500 - 2500
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After Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA, RA (1887-1976)
"The Pond"
Signed, with the blindstamp for the Fine Art Trade Guild, from an edition of 850, a colour reproduction, 46.5cm by 58cm £1500 - 2500
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After Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA, RA (1887-1976)
"Self Portrait"; "The Artist's Mother"; "The Artist's Father"
Each signed, a colour reproduction issued to commemorate the artist's 80th birthday, presented in the original portfolio case, 37cm by 27cm (3) (unframed) £400 - 600
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Tom McGuinness (1926-2006)
"Night Shift, (No.3)"
Signed and dated (19)81, inscribed and numbered 13/25, etching with aquatint, together with two further prints by the same hand, "Miners in the Returns" and "The Nature Trail, Murton", 9cm by 12cm, 12.5cm by 7.5cm and 43cm by 67cm respectively (3) £300 - 500
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Tom McGuinness (1926-2006)
"Meeting Station"
Signed and dated (19)96, inscribed and numbered 10/50, etching, together with two further etchings by the same hand, "Miners Going in Bye" and "Driller", 12cm by 15cm (3) £300 - 500
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Joan Miró (1893-1983) Spanish
"Miro Lithographe IV planche 5"
Signed and numbered XXXII/LXXX, lithograph, 1981, 41cm by 33.5cm
Provenance: Wetpaint Gallery, Cirencester £400 - 600
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Marc Chagall (1887-1985) Russian/French
"Vocation de Jeremie"
Initialled and numbered 78/100, etching with hand colouring, 35cm by 26cm
Provenance: Wiseman Originals, London £1000 - 1500
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Edward Piper (1938-1990)
"In the Conservatory 1990"
Signed, inscribed and numbered 113/175, lithograph, 51.5cm by 66cm £100 - 200
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Mary Fedden RA, RWA, OBE (1915-2012)
"The Matisse Jug"
Signed and numbered 412/550, lithograph, 44cm by 36.5cm £150 - 250
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Ivon Hitchings CBE (1893-1979)
"Still Life"
Signed, lithograph, 61cm by 46.5cm (unframed) £300 - 500
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Albert Irvin OBE, RA (1922-2015)
"Berthon"
Signed and dated (19)91, inscribed and numbered 125/125, screenprint, 50.5cm by 60.5cm £200 - 300
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Peter Doig (1959)
"Masqueraders"
Signed and numbered 97/250, giclee and silkscreen, 62cm by 50cm
Provenance: Victoria Miro Gallery, London
"Masqueraders" was devised as the front cover of the 2006 Glyndebourne catalogue. Sold together with a copy of the catalogue £400 - 600
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Sir Peter Blake CBE RDI RA (b.1932)
"Horse Guards Parade - Horses and Horsemen"
"Petticoat Lane - One Hundred Women"
"Regent Street - Dancing"
"Regent's Park - The Runaway Donkeys"
Each signed and numbered 63/100, silkscreen from "The London Suite" 2012, published by Paul Stolper 64cm by 63cm £1500 - 2500
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John Lennon MBE (1940-1980)
"A Day in the Life"
Signed by Yoko Ono and numbered 252/300, with blindstamp, lithograph, 70cm by 91cm £300 - 500
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David Hockney OM, CH, RA (b.1937)
The Phone Book - Bradford and District, December 1989
Signed, 30cm by 21cm £70 - 100
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Damien Hirst (b.1965)
"From the Cradle to the Grave-Selected Drawings"
Signed and numbered 66/1500, 2004, published by Other Criteria, hardback encased in the original slipcase, 29.5cm by 38.5cm £100 - 200
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