James Gleeson

Only the Psychic has Reality

1976

Charcoal and gouache on paper, titled ‘Phil Richards’ and dated ‘Friday Dec 8 72’ (lower left), 64cm x 48cm (72cm x 56cm framed).(Provenance: the Artist’s estate (stamped verso)). the picture is framed behind UV glass Stonehouse had an extraordinary life. As a young art student studying fashion illustration, he joined the Royal Artillery at the beginning of WWII but soon became a part of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). He was sent to France as a radio operator but three and a half months later was caught by the Gestapo, tortured, given a death sentence and then selected for slave labour. He spent the subsequent war years in three French prisons and five concentration and labour camps, including Dachau. He still managed to continue to draw in some of the camps. Following the war, Stonehouse went to the US and continued his career as a fashion artist painting for magazines like Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and Elizabeth Arden. He was also an accomplished portraitist. His work is celebrated in Brian Stonehouse...

Charcoal on paper, 56cm x 38cm, (79cm x 60cm framed). Provenance: The Artist’s sister. From the mid-1940s to the early 1950s Colquhoun was considered one of the leading artists of his generation. Along with that of Robert MacBryde, another artist and Colquhoun’s partner, his work was regularly shown at the Lefevre Gallery in London. This early work is likely to be a drawing from when Colquhoun was at the Glasgow School of Art in the 1930s. Known as the ‘Two Roberts’, Colquhoun and MacBryde met at the Glasgow School of Art in 1932 and lived together until Colquhoun’s death in 1962. The pair also exhibited in several group shows at the Lefevre Gallery, including one in February 1946, alongside Ben Nicholson, Graham Sutherland, Bacon and Freud. Works were bought by the Arts Council, the British Council, the Contemporary Art Society and the Imperial War Museum. Major art patrons added their work to their collections, including Sir Kenneth Clark...

Pencil on paper, signed (upper right), 76cm x 56cm (88cm x 68cm framed). A graduate of the Kiev Art Academy in 1957. Drawings of the nude, called academic studies...

Michael Leonard, (British b.1933), Chimera I, 1975, Graphite pencil on paper, initialled (lower left), signed and dated (lower right), 15cm x 14cm, (35cm x 32cm framed) Michael Leon...

Watercolour and pencil on paper, 76cm x 51cm, (87cm x 61cm framed). Born in London to his renowned artist mother Elisabeth Frink RA and a French architect father, Michel Jammet, Ja...

Watercolour, felt tip pen, and pencil on paper, titled (lower left), 48cm x 37cm, (70cm x 58cm framed). It is in its original frame, although the glass and mount have been replaced. Patrick Procktor was part of an influential group of British artists in the 1960s. His early paintings were dynamic, abstract depictions of the male nude, before he established himself as one of the leading watercolourists of his generation from the 1970s His work is held in many major public collections. This work is after the soviet painting...

Paper paint charcoal collage patterned paper Paper charcoal collage These collages were created first in the presence of a live model, working quickly, in charcoal and pastel, and ag...

FRAMED Vine Charcoal on Rag Paper. Simple clean lines of nudes compares to Picasso's line-drawings. Nudes in corsets and fetish wear in black and white with a splash of red. The texture of the rag paper picks up the softness of the vine charcoal. These come matted and framed. Showing all of the suite plus installation of works. About the Artist: Kathleen was born in NYC and grew up on Long Island, the first of five children. She was drawing before she could write; it just came naturally, and was the way she loved to spend her time. At 10 she could capture photorealism drawing horses, and later fashion sketches. Her art has always evolved around woman and investigating elements of feminine roles in our society. She now resides in San Diego. Her corsets and bobby pin...

"Girls" is a series of line-contour drawings by the artist Katie Chance as she studies sensuous female figures found in erotic imagery. Katie examines amateur pornographic photograph...

"Girls" is a series of line-contour drawings by the artist Katie Chance as she studies sensuous female figures found in erotic imagery. Katie examines amateur pornographic photograph...

"Girls" is a series of line-contour drawings by the artist Katie Chance as she studies sensuous female figures found in erotic imagery. Katie examines amateur pornographic photograph...

"Girls" is a series of line-contour drawings by the artist Katie Chance as she studies sensuous female figures found in erotic imagery. Katie examines amateur pornographic photograph...