Price: 1550.000000 GBP Pavel Hlava’s studio vases are iconic in the lexicon of postwar Czech glass. Although the studio glass movement was gathering pace outside Czechoslovakia in the late 1960s and Hlava had had direct experience of this when he visited London’s Royal College of Art, it was never really taken up as an separate […]
Price: 380.000000 GBP The multi-talented and prolific designer Josef Hospodka began working at the Prachen glassworks, a branch of the Borské Sklo group, in 1969. The simple forms he designed for this range in the same year almost appear like mechanical components. They were embellished with a variety of randomly applied shapes, including spots impressed […]
Price: 175.000000 GBP Frantisek Vízner’s designs for the Skrdlovice glassworks are united by their monumental feel, a use of complex techniques, and an exploration of form, surface texture, light, and optical effects. This vase, which has no real precedent, was designed in 1971 and appears in the Skrdlovice pattern book as pattern no. 7117. It […]
Price: 420.000000 GBP Although made using historic techniques, this design from around 1968 reverses the traditional production process. Typically, a piece would be cased in another colour, and that outer casing would be cut through into the body with the design. Here, everything else but the pattern itself is cut. A large glass gob was […]
Price: 65.000000 GBP The profile faces of two people sitting close together (or is it different views of one person?) look out into the middle distance in the sketch to observe something. The close quarters nature of the composition and the curving element on the left that looks like a curtain are perhaps suggestive of […]
Price: 145.000000 GBP Arranged in simple black lines of varying width, this geometric composition is typical of Cahn’s avant-garde style and echoes Constructivist works. Published in 1966 by Editions Panderma, Carl Laszlo, in Basel, this examples is signed in pencil by her. Sold together with a French language illustrated exhibition catalogue titled ‘marcelle cahn: oeuvres […]
Price: 45.000000 GBP A dramatic and atmospheric watercolour of the ancient monument under an abstracted sky, with two people passing through it. Probably painted by Holden in the 1920s or 30s. Birmingham born artist Herbert Harold Holden (1885-1977) was Principal of the Leeds School of Art, and the Birmingham School of Art. He was also […]
Price: 150.000000 GBP Black Americana, Folk Art, and Ragtime & Blues Music Interest. The first of these two rare cards shows an African American man running down a suburban street clutching bird cages, one labelled as containing a mocking bird. He is hotly pursued by a policeman, who is shooting at him. Outside a shop […]
Price: 65.000000 GBP A curvaceous naked lady stands holding a pan from which she has flipped a crêpe, shown in mid air above it. The smoke from the cooking fire hides her genitalia, and a black cat sits beside her. Behind her, a plump, lecherous old man advances towards her holding his top hat and […]
Price: 35.000000 GBP This moody, well-executed early 19th century small drawing, titled below in ink, shows the tomb of Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore (1761-1809). Moore is best known for his defeat of Napoleon’s army at Corunna (A Coruña) during the Peninsular War, and his subsequent death shortly after the victory was clear, due to severe […]
Price: 65.000000 GBP ‘Musiciens Ambulants’ (travelling musicians) shows two sombre and soulful musicians, one on crutches, and their dog on a leash moving forward through an abstracted landscape. Behind them, a third musicians holds or plays a stringed instrument. This etching is signed ‘Coussens’ in pencil on the bottom left, and numbered in pencil 26 […]
Price: 250.000000 GBP During the 1960s, creativity at the Skrdlovice factory reached new heights. This was due to an expansion of the number of designers, major improvements in the quality of manufacture, the release of innovative ranges in a rot of colours, and a steady and strong distribution networkFrom 1962-67, Miloslava Svobodova (1936-2005) was one […]