Kenneth Armitage RA (1916 - 2002), Seated Group from Europäische Graphik I, 1960

Tate Britain holds an edition of this lithograph in their collection.
Lithograph in colours, on wove paper.
Signed, dated and numbered 60/300 in pencil by Kenneth Armitage.
Printed by Curwen Studio, with the Curwen Studio blindstamp, London, published by Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich.
Sheet 39 × 57cm (15 × 22 in)
Framed 51 × 69cm (20 × 27 in)
On the reverse is a typed gallery label from Gwen Hughes Fine Art and a handwritten stock label from Osborne Samuel Gallery.
Artwork comes framed, with anti-reflective, museum quality glass.
Condition: Some fading and light time-staining, with occasional pinpoint foxing, mainly towards the sheet edges. Minor creasing and lifting at the edges.
A pivotal example of Kenneth Armitage’s exploration into post-war representations of the human form, situating the picture within European artistic developments of the time, notably the stylistic qualities of Lynn Chadwick, Reg Butler and Bernard Meadows.

John Hoyland RA (1934 - 2011), Story from Nature, 1997

Screenprint on wove paper.
Signed, numbered 16/75 and dated 1997 in pencil by John Hoyland.
Sheet 53 × 43cm (21 × 17 in)
Framed 75 × 64cm (29 × 25 in)
Condition: In original condition under glass.
John Hoyland was widely considered as Britain’s answer to Abstract Expressionism, a theme which is encapsulated in this picture.

Tate Britain holds an edition of this lithograph in their collection.
Lithograph in colours, on wove paper.
Signed and numbered H.C. 5/10 (Hors de Commerce) in pencil by Robert Adams.
Image 58 × 46 cm (22 × 17 in)
Sheet 77 × 57cm (30 × 22 in)
Part of The Penwith Portfolio, 1973, published by Penwith Galleries Ltd, St Ives.
Condition: In very good overal condition. Slight crease running along the extreme left edge.
Described as the “overlooked genius of post-war sculpture”, Adams’ career was pivotal in shaping Britain’s artistic landscape in the mid-20th century.

Lithograph in colours on Van Gelder Zonen wove paper.
Signed, dated and numbered 23/50 in pencil by Kenneth Armitage.
Sheet 50 × 30cm (19 × 11 in)
Condition: Print in good condition. Printed area with good strong colour and impression. Sheet with one or two very soft handling creases to lower margin visible when moving under raking light. Sheet with toning verso.
Produced a year after Kenneth Armitage represented Britain at the 1952 Venice Biennale, an occasion that led art historian Herbert Read to coin the term ‘Geometry of Fear’ which would become a defining phrase associated with Britain’s leading artists of the era.