Framed – Page 17 – The Discerning Palette

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Pair of Staffordshire Dogs (Red)

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A very charming pair of paintings depicting the iconic Staffordshire spaniel dogs, long celebrated in British folk art and ceramics, painted in a naïve style in oil onto panel by British artist Matt Rix.

The two dogs are painted in a deliberately naïve, decorative style that recalls the 19th-century porcelain mantelpiece figures they are inspired by.

Each dog sits upright against a muted pinkish-red background, with a simple brown ground anchoring them in place. Their white coats are adorned with large chestnut-brown patches—rendered in stylised, almost floral shapes—that add rhythm and balance to the composition. Both dogs wear gilt collars with chain details, a hallmark of traditional Staffordshire imagery. Their soulful yellow eyes, drooping ears, and small red mouths give them an expressive, slightly whimsical quality, striking a balance between charm and solemnity.

Presented as a pair, the paintings echo one another but are not identical—one dog faces left, the other right—making them natural companions, just as Staffordshire figurines were traditionally displayed in pairs.

The appeal lies in their folk-art simplicity and decorative strength: bold flat shapes, warm earthy tones, and a sense of nostalgia that makes them feel timeless yet playful. They would add both character and heritage charm to any wall, bridging the line between painting and folk tradition.

Each of these oils on board are housed in chestnut brown painted wood frames with subtle gilt detailing. Both paintings are in excellent condition. The frames have some very minor scuffs but this is in keeping with their vintage style.

British artist Matt Rix spent his childhood in South Africa and now lives with his family on a small holding in rural North Wales. His paintings are uncomplicated, modernist representations influenced by primitive and naïve folk art from times past. Many of the subjects Rix paints are inspired by the animals he sees from day to day. Rix uses recycled materials including discarded paints, boards, frames and backing paper. Much of his work is therefore produced using waste materials resulting in sustainable paintings that evoke a time-worn, nostalgic essence.

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Size: 47.5 x 37cm each (including frame)

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Quiet Repose

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A brilliantly executed and emotive mid-century modernist figurative composition that presents a reclining nude figure resting upon a rich dark-toned fabric, painted in oil onto board and dated 1954.

The composition embraces a raw, expressive approach, with the subject’s form rendered in muted tones of peach and sand, contrasting against the deep charcoal-grey and blue backdrop.

The brushstrokes are gestural yet controlled, with visible layering that gives the painting a raw, evocative quality. The background is treated with an abstract approach, allowing texture and movement to emerge through deliberate, almost impressionistic strokes. The subdued yet contrasting palette—featuring deep red and navy tones beneath the figure—creates a sense of depth and warmth.

This oil on board is housed in a complementary wood frame with an inner gilt window that pairs wonderfully with the painting. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 29 x 60.5 cm (including frame)

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Sea Flowers

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A playful and organic one-off original monoprint presented in a sapele frame, by British artist Olivia Bouzyk.

Unlike most printmaking, where artists create an edition of identical prints, a monoprint produces just one final piece. Olivia works on a plate — inking, painting, and layering textures — and then transfers the image onto paper. But because of the process, it can never be repeated in the same way again.

This artwork is created from two layers of ink on purple card. There is a slight texture to the dark blue, as some of the purple background can be seen underneath. The yellow flowers are slightly translucent but with thicker, textured ink. The flowers are made from a paper stencil which was of a drawing from the Essex coastline.

Each work holds the spontaneity of the moment it was made — the way the ink spread, the pressure of the press, the marks left behind. No two are ever alike. When you own one of Olivia’s prints, you’re holding the only version that exists.

Olivia works with contrasts in line, colour and form and a sense of harmony is achieved by balancing this series of juxtapositions.

This artwork, as with the others, has no intended direction, so it can be hung to suit the viewer’s space/inclinations. The fixtures on the back of all the prints are on each side so that they can be hung in any direction, and the signature also has no intended direction.

It is mounted and housed in a high quality sapele wood frame with anti reflective UV glass. Both frame and artwork are in excellent condition.

Size: 61.5 x 86 cm (including frame)

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Stairwell Passage

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An abstract mid-century painting that presents a loosely structured cityscape, likely depicting an alleyway or stairwell framed by urban architecture, executed in oil onto canvas.

The subject matter is suggested rather than precisely defined, with forms of stairs, walls, and a slender lamppost-like shape emerging through layered brushstrokes. The scene gives an impression of movement and transience, as if glimpsed quickly while passing through.

Executed in an abstract expressionist manner, the work balances between representation and abstraction. While there are hints of architectural elements, the focus is on atmosphere and painterly effect rather than literal detail. The composition is dynamic, with angled lines creating depth and perspective that draw the eye inward.

The brushwork is energetic and varied – broad, gestural sweeps contrast with more angular, deliberate marks to suggest structure. The layering of muted shades create texture and depth, with areas of raw canvas and loosely applied paint adding to the painting’s immediacy. The strokes appear spontaneous yet controlled, giving the composition a sense of rhythm and vitality.

This oil on canvas is housed in a complementary floater gilt frame. The painting is in very good vintage condition, and the frame has some paint marks at its left edge.

Size: 75 x 59.5 cm (including frame)

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Sunlit Room

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A mid-century modernist painting of an interior scene that captures the quiet intimacy of a domestic space rendered through a restrained yet expressive lens, painted in oil onto board and dated 1950.

The composition depicts a corner of a modest room: a simple wooden chair rests to the left, a sideboard with a neatly draped cloth anchors the centre, and an open doorway offers a glimpse into another space beyond, where muted vertical lines hint at hanging garments.

Executed in a loose, painterly style, the work favours suggestion over precision, with forms distilled into geometric blocks and softened edges. The palette blends warm orange and browns, cool greys, creamy whites, and muted greens, with accents of blue and lavender lending gentle vibrancy. Broad, confident brushstrokes layer opaque passages of paint, while areas of visible underpainting and texture evoke both the tactile quality of the interior and the hand of the artist.

The scene carries a sense of quiet stillness, yet the artist’s modernist sensibilities imbue it with a dynamic interplay between colour, shape, and light, making it as much a study in spatial harmony as a record of a lived-in space.

This oil on board is housed in a complementary gilt frame. The painting is in excellent vintage condition and the frame has minor marks.

Size: 40 x 48 cm (including frame)

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Sunlit Windowsill

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A charming still life that captures a serene arrangement of potted plants basking in the glow of daylight streaming through a tall-paned window, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1978.

The composition presents an interior moment – a collection of leafy greens in various ceramic and clay pots, their silhouettes softened and fractured by the interplay of light and shadow. The foliage, rendered in loose yet deliberate strokes, reaches upward in arcs, suggesting gentle movement and vitality.

The style blends modernist simplicity with a painterly impressionism, focusing on atmosphere rather than strict realism. The palette is dominated by cool blues and soft greens, balanced by muted orange, creams, and warm golden tones filtering through the window.

Brushwork is confident and expressive, with layered, semi-transparent applications of paint that create a sense of depth and shifting light. The textured surface and visible strokes lend the work an immediacy, as though the scene was painted in one sitting to capture a fleeting afternoon mood.

This oil on canvas is housed in a complementary slim wood frame. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 51.5 x 58 cm (including frame)

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Terracotta Coastline

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A captivating modernist abstract painting that evokes a coastal village set against a distant sea and seen from an elevated viewpoint, executed in oil onto board.

The composition is built on a series of bold, gestural blocks of colour – burnt orange, yellow verdant green – suggesting terracotta roofs, foliage, and sunlit structures nestled in the hillside.

The artist has used a distinctly expressive style, using thick, confident brushstrokes that emphasise texture and movement. The top half of the canvas opens into a serene, pale sky and a smooth, luminous band of blue sea, rendered in calm horizontal strokes that contrast with the dynamic geometry below.

Hints of architectural forms and natural growth are abstracted into vivid planes and swaths of colour, capturing the atmosphere, structure, and vibrancy of a Mediterranean coastal scene. With its interplay of abstraction and suggestion, this work invites the viewer to linger and imagine.

This oil on board is housed in a complementary gilt frame. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 52 x 61 cm (including frame)

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The Queue

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A whimsical and bustling mid-century painting depicting a scene with a winding line of people, each captured in distinctive attire and posture, painted in oil onto board.

Capturing a lively cross-section of society as they wait in a winding queue, the figures are depicted in a delightful variety of attire from formal suits and military uniforms to bright dresses and patterned coats, as they snake across the snowy ground in an elegant S-curve and their colourful garments enlivening the cool, pale backdrop.

Executed in a naïve, narrative style, the work offers a playful yet observant glimpse into human behaviour and community life. The artist’s use of short, textured brushstrokes imparts an engaging sense of movement, while small dabs of colour suggest faces, gestures, and clothing details with economical charm. The light, neutral background allows the vibrant reds, yellows, blues, and greens of the crowd to sing, creating a joyful rhythm across the surface.

A particularly striking feature of this work is the way the composition subtly and playfully extends beyond the picture plane – figures at the lower right spill over into the surrounding rustic wooden frame. This unusual style blurs the boundary between artwork and frame, drawing the viewer further into the scene and giving the impression that the lively procession continues beyond the canvas itself.

This oil on board is housed in a wide-profiled distressed wooden frame which complements the painting’s vintage charm. Both painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 34.5 x 29.5 cm (including frame)

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The Striped Cloth

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An vibrant mid-century interior still life painting, executed in oil onto canvas.

The composition presents a warmly lit domestic scene, featuring a hanging terracotta planter with cascading green foliage, a deep green bowl, and a striped textile draped casually across a tabletop. The backdrop is a moody, textured wash of blue, suggesting a window or a darkened interior wall, offering contrast to the brighter foreground.

Executed in a modernist style, the composition emphasises flat planes of colour and simplified forms. The palette is rich but controlled – yellow, navy blue, forest green, and earthy reds dominate the scene. The artist has used broad, confident brushstrokes and has left traces of underpainting and canvas texture visible, giving the work a spontaneous, tactile quality. The interplay between geometric shapes and organic curves imbues this still life with both structure and intimacy.

This oil on canvas is housed in a complementary gilt frame. The painting is in excellent vintage condition. The frame has very minor scuffs, but is in good condition overall.

Size: 49.5 x 38 cm (including frame)

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The White Vase

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A mid-century still life painting that presents a bold, modernist interpretation of a tabletop arrangement, executed in oil onto board and dated 1963 by the established Swedish artist Gunnar Hållander (1915-1980), whose artworks have represented in public collections including the National Museum and Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the Sundsvall Museum and the Institut Tessinin in Paris.

A tall, cylindrical white vase punctuates the centre of the composition, its simplified form rendered with thick impasto and heavy, deliberate brushstrokes. From the vase emerges a small bouquet of abstracted flowers in deep green, with accents of golden yellow and a striking touch of cobalt blue, all set against a muted grey-white background.

The composition is built around angular planes and geometric contrasts, with blocks of black, orange, and white forming the suggestion of a table surface, napkin, or cloth beneath the vase. The artist has stripped the subject down to its essential shapes, emphasising structure and rhythm rather than naturalistic detail.

The palette is restrained yet impactful, dominated by whites, greys, and blacks, punctuated by the warm mustard yellows and cool flashes of blue. The brushwork is textured and confident, with layered strokes that create depth and a tactile surface quality.

This oil on board is housed in a complementary sleek white frame with an inner silver border. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 59 x 50 cm (including frame)

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Coastal Road

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A large mid-century modernist landscape painting that captures a serene coastal scene where a quiet road runs parallel to a shoreline, executed in oil onto board.

The composition divides naturally into two sections: the vibrant blue of the sea on the left and the muted green of the grassy roadside on the right. In the foreground, a dry and sparse landscape is present, and a few scattered wooden planks rest on the ground. The distant horizon line reveals a subtle strip of land or an island against the vast expanse of sky.

The artist has used a distinctly modernist approach, characterised by loose, gestural brushstrokes that emphasise texture and spontaneity. The composition has a balanced yet asymmetrical feel. The painting’s rough and textured brushwork brings a sense of immediacy and movement, as if capturing a fleeting moment.

The palette is primarily composed of cool and earthy tones. The expressive brushstrokes wonderfully capture the windswept coastal atmosphere.

This large oil on board is housed in a very well-suited linen lined frame with an inner gilt and cream border. Both painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 47 x 70 cm (including frame)

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Coastal Tranquility

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This serene composition that captures the essence of a quiet coastal village, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1996.

This coastal landscape features a cluster of houses with red and yellow roofs situated near a tranquil body of water. The composition draws the viewer’s eye from the vibrant colours of the houses in the foreground to the muted tones of the water and rocky shoreline in the distance.

The painting is expressive – emphasising form and mood rather than fine detail. The thick, visible brushstrokes create texture and movement across the canvas, giving the piece a tactile, almost three-dimensional quality.

The colour palette is both vibrant and subdued, with warm yellows and reds in the houses contrasting against the cool blues and greys of the water and sky.

This oil on canvas is housed in a complementary gilt frame. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 46 x 63 cm (including frame)

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Figures in Passage

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An evocative and striking mid-century modernist figurative painting, executed in oil onto board by Swedish artist Eric Elfvén (1921–2008), whose works have been exhibited in public collections including the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Jönköping Museum, Borås Art Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

The composition presents four elongated, abstracted human figures, rendered with a bold economy of form. The figures stand in two pairs, separated by a vertical division, suggesting the architectural framing of a corridor, doorway, or transitional space. Faces are minimally defined, with the emphasis placed instead on geometric blocks of colour to articulate torsos, limbs, and garments.

The artist has used a restrained yet warm palette of browns, burnt sienna, cream, slate blue, teal, and deep black, offset by lighter grey and beige backgrounds. These tones are arranged in strong, vertical segments, lending a rhythmic, almost sculptural quality to the composition.

Broad, confident brushstrokes, laden with texture, create a tactile surface where each mark remains visible, emphasising the physical act of painting. The layering of paint and interplay between light and dark areas add depth and contrast, while the simplification of form gives the work a timeless, almost archetypal presence.

This oil on board is housed in a complementary gilt frame. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and the frame has scuffs present.

Size: 30 x 50.5 cm (including frame)

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From the Distance

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A tranquil and restful mid-century modernist landscape composition, executed in oil onto canvas.

This panoramic and scenic view of nature presents a landscape setting of a vast open field, with a farmhouse in the distance.

Painted in beautiful rich earthy colours, this well-balanced painting has an equal weight of sky and land, and is enriched with a calming aesthetic.

There is an expressiveness in the way in which the artist has painted this scene – with short and swift brushstrokes confidently executed across the canvas, leaving a smooth yet textured finish on the surface.

This oil on canvas is housed in very well-suited wood frame with an inner gilt as well as linen border. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 49 x 64 cm (including frame)

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Fruit & Earthenware

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A poised and balanced mid-century modernist still life composition, executed in oil onto board.

This composition features a rustic earthenware jug and a tall, narrow-necked bottle set against a stark surface of beige and muted blue. Clustered around the vessels are three pears and a golden onion, their organic forms softened with angular brushwork.

Deliberate black outlines and the creative use of negative space frame each object with bold confidence – adding definition to the respective forms.

The palette is subdued and earthy. The background is confidently blocked out in moody hues of browns and blues, evoking a quiet, introspective atmosphere. The brushstrokes are deliberate and lightly textural, with a visible painterly hand that flattens space while emphasising structure and form.

This oil on board is housed in a complementary wood frame. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 40.5 x 48.5 cm (including frame)

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Geraniums & Jugs

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A delicate and elegant mid-century interior still life composition, painted in oil onto board.

At the heart of the composition is a potted geranium, its blushing pink blossoms and lush green foliage rendered in thick, expressive strokes that suggest the fleeting warmth of sunlight filtering into the room.

The flower is flanked by two pitchers – one an earthy brown and the other a cool, light pale blue. The background is divided into blocks of pastel yellows, muted purples, and soft aquas, creating a subtly abstracted interior that emphasises tonal harmony and light.

Painted with loose yet deliberate brushwork, the surface reveals the artist’s hand in every sweep and dab, imbuing the scene with movement.

This oil on board is housed in a complementary white-painted distressed style wood frame. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and the frame has a small nick at its left corner but is in very good condition overall.

Size: 62 x 53 cm (including frame)

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Golden Horizon

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A serene yet energetic and beautifully textured mid-century abstract landscape composition, painted in oil onto canvas.

Although abstract in nature, the painting captures the essence of a landscape scene, focusing more on colour, texture, and emotion, than on precise representation.

The palette is dominated by rich yellows in the foreground, capturing the essence of sunlit plains or sand dunes. The middle and background areas feature shades of blue and teal, suggesting either the ocean or the edge of the sky meeting the horizon. Above, light blues and soft creams represent a broad, open sky, with fluffy, abstract clouds.

The texture is highly expressive, with bold, sweeping strokes that give a sense of movement and dynamism to the landscape. The thick impasto application of paint, enhances the tactile quality and adds character to the painting.

This oil on board is housed in a complementary slim gilt frame. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and the frame has some light scuffing but nothing that detracts.

Size: 53 x 73 cm (including frame)

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Hide and Seek

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A large and brilliantly executed figurative oil painting by Swedish painter Hans Osswald (1919-1983), whose works have been exhibited at the National Museum in Stockholm, Malmö Museum as well as The Brooklyn Museum.

The painting is in excellent vintage condition. The frame has some light scuffing and a loss to the lower left corner under the signature.

Size: 84 x 64 cm (including frame)

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Industrial Abstraction

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A brilliantly composed mid century abstract composition in oil, painted onto canvas and dated 1957.

This painting is an abstract composition with a cubist influence, constructed from overlapping geometric shapes in a horizontal layout.

The artist has used a palette of muted earth tones—including shades of blue, olive green, mustard yellow, grey, brown, and black—with occasional pops of more vibrant hues like cobalt blue and ochre.

The forms resemble architectural or industrial elements—possibly buildings, machinery, or a cityscape—but remain non-representational. Thick, impasto brushstrokes give the surface a textured, tactile quality. The shapes interlock and layer, creating depth and rhythm across the canvas. Angled lines and blocks suggest both movement and structure, while negative space in pale grey balances the denser elements.

The rigid composition and strong use of form create a sense of architectural solidity, while still maintaining an expressive feel through painterly texture. The balance of order and spontaneity suggests an interest in form, design, and underlying harmony.

The painting is housed in a frame with a linen lined border. There is a small area of paint loss as shown in close up but the paint layer is stable overall. The painting and frame in good condition overall.

Size: 35.5 x 70 cm (including frame)

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Lady in Profile

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A timeless and beautifully framed mid century modernist portrait composition, painted in oil onto canvas.

This very well executed painting is classical-style portrait of a woman shown in profile view, facing left. The subject has a composed expression, with carefully rendered facial features, especially her nose, lips, and eye. She wears a white headscarf with dabs of colour—blue, green, and red—adding liveliness to the otherwise muted colour palette.

The brushstrokes are expressive and textured, characteristic of an Impressionist or Post-Impressionist style, giving the portrait a spontaneous, almost sketch-like quality while still capturing the essence of the subject. The background is a subdued greenish-grey, which helps bring the figure into focus.

The painting is housed in a gilt frame with corner detailing and an inner green border which suits the painting perfectly. Both painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 51.5 x 42 cm (including frame)

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Quayside Conversation

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A charming and serene mid-century modernist harbour scene by a coastal town, executed in oil onto board and dated 1956.

A green-and-white boat is moored at the dock, its hull mirrored faintly in the still blue water. On the quay, simplified figures in deep navy and green tones gesture in conversation, adding life and scale to the softly geometric buildings behind them.

The composition favours broad planes of colour over detail, with architectural blocks rendered in blues, muted greens, and subdued browns. The artist has used confident, deliberate brushstrokes and a restrained palette to evoke a hazy coastal morning. There is a dreamlike quality in the diffused light and softened outlines.

This oil on board is housed in a very well suited cream frame. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and the frame has some paint loss.

Size: 54 x 65 cm (including frame)

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Rolling Green

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A striking and painterly mid-century modernist semi-abstract painting that captures the rhythmic undulation of a vast countryside landscape, executed in oil onto board.

Broad, gestural brushstrokes sculpt the rolling terrain into simplified, interlocking blocks of colour – browns, yellows, forest greens, deep olives, and inky blacks – evoking fields and hedgerows under a pale, overcast sky.

Executed with expressive textured brushwork, the surface reveals a confident physicality, with layered impasto lending dimensionality and dynamism to the composition. The abstraction flattens perspective, allowing the eye to move freely across the surface in a meditative scan of form and colour.

This oil on board is housed in a complementary wood frame which suits the painting very well. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and the frame has some scuffs present.

Size: 40 x 67.5 cm (including frame)

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Singing by the Fire

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A fun and joyful composition of an interior home setting, executed in oil onto board and dated 1982.

This charming narrative painting features an array of details for us to explore, from the patterns of the rugs and walls, to the curtains and objects on the walls and the tiled stove with a fire.

A family of adults and young children are sat by a table laid out with drinks. They appear to have a song book in their hand, as they listen and sing to the music played by the musician with the accordion at the right foreground of the painting.

The artist has used a Naïve style, infusing the painting with an aura of playful charm as well as rich colours. There is sincerity to its simplicity, making it an enjoyable piece to slowly take in and explore with its wonderful array of details and uplifting feel.

This oil on board is housed in a complementary wood frame with an inner gilt border. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and the frame has minor scuffs on its gilt border.

Size: 31 x 36 cm (including frame)

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Symphony of Trees

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A striking and brilliantly executed modernist style landscape composition that presents a stylised woodland scene reimagined through bold abstraction, painted in oil onto board and dated 1959.

Tall, vertical shapes suggest stands of trees rising in rhythmic formations, their trunks and canopies broken into geometric planes of green, and pale yellow. Rounded forms in burnt orange and deep red punctuate the foreground, evoking foliage or sculptural boulders, while angular planes of mauve, lilac, and blue sweep across the ground to create shifting patches of shadow and light. In the distance, softened silhouettes of hills and sky fade into pale blues and lavender tones, balancing the composition with calm horizontality.

Painted in a distinctly modernist manner, the artist has used flat, faceted brushstrokes and strong colour blocking to reduce the natural landscape into a dynamic interplay of shape, hue, and texture. The surface is rich with visible, deliberate brushwork, where each stroke contributes to the overall rhythm of the piece.

This is a quintessential example of mid-century landscape abstraction, where the familiar forms of nature are transformed into a harmonious geometric composition that feels both structured and lyrical.

This oil on board is housed in a complementary gilt frame. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 37 x 45 cm (including frame)

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Topography in Green

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A striking mid-century abstract composition painted in oil onto canvas, by Swedish painter Hans Osswald (1919-1983), whose works have been exhibited at the National Museum in Stockholm, Malmö Museum as well as The Brooklyn Museum.

This abstract composition evokes a coastal or industrial landscape through a series of bold geometric forms and a restrained, earthen palette. The composition is anchored by a solid horizontal band of deep olive and brown, suggesting a distant shoreline or structure, while above it, angular bursts of cobalt blue, lemon yellow, and white hint at rooftops or sails catching the light. The lower half is dominated by cool, muted greens and greys, with subtle layering and visible palette knife marks that add a tactile quality.

The painting features a mix of smooth and textured brushstrokes, with areas of impasto lending weight and structure. The deliberate abstraction flattens perspective, creating a sense of quiet tension between land, form, and space.

This oil on canvas is presented in a beautifully suited gilt frame with an inner linen border and gilt window. There is some craquelure present mainly on the top section of the painting, but the paint layer is stable overall and this does not detract from the overall composition. The frame is in very good vintage condition.

Size: 61 x 70 cm (including frame)

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Topography in Red

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A striking mid-century abstract composition painted in oil onto canvas, by Swedish painter Hans Osswald (1919-1983), whose works have been exhibited at the National Museum in Stockholm, Malmö Museum as well as The Brooklyn Museum.

In this composition, we can discern that the artist has abstracted a landscape into a dynamic interplay of geometry, texture, and tone. Horizontal planes in earthy reds, browns, and beige suggest a stylised terrain – possibly evoking farmland or desert formations – interrupted by sharp, angular forms that hint at distant structures or dwellings.

The composition is boldly architectural, grounded in the principles of mid-century modernist abstraction. The artist has applied oil paint in dense, tactile layers, with expressive impasto and areas of scraped-back texture. Pops of cobalt blue, yellow, and a crisp white triangle create points of visual tension and balance, lifting the palette from its otherwise grounded tonality.

A striking example of mid-century abstraction, the painting balances structure with expressive vitality, offering a modernist meditation on land, form, and space.

This oil on canvas is presented in a beautifully suited gilt frame with an inner linen border and gilt window. There is some craquelure present as shown in the close ups, but the paint layer is stable overall and this does not detract from the overall composition. The frame is in very good vintage condition.

Size: 61 x 70 cm (including frame)

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Twilight Over Bay

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An expressive mid-century modernist painting that captures a tranquil coastal landscape bathed in the cool hush of evening light, executed in oil onto board and dated 1958.

A rugged shoreline dominates the foreground, its cliffs rendered in deep charcoal, mauve, and sienna tones, leading the eye toward a serene inlet that reflects the muted sky above.

The brushwork is confident – swift, expressive strokes shape the rocky terrain, while smoother, more fluid strokes define the still water and clouded sky. The pale turquoise sea contrasts gently against the darker crags, suggesting the last light of day catching on the water’s surface.

The sky is softened by horizontal swathes of greys, pinks, and purples, evoking a moment just before dusk settles.

This oil on board is housed in a beautiful wood frame. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 44 x 52 cm (including frame)

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Winter Corner

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A charming and lively winter street scene composition animated by everyday life, painted in a Naïve, expressive style, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1975.

A lively cross-section of the town unfolds beneath a snowy sky, with bundled-up pedestrians and children, bustling traffic, and colourful facades of buildings. At the forefront, a group of figures walks across a snow-covered road, while a café scene to the left offers a warm interior contrast, its aqua-blue curtains framing diners mid-conversation.

Rendered in a naïve style, the work is rich in storytelling detail and communal warmth. The brushstrokes are expressive and confident, with thick applications of paint lending a textured, tactile quality to the icy streets and clothing folds. The palette is joyful and vivid – icy blues, moss greens, reds, and apricot tones come together to enliven the cold winter setting, while bold outlines and rhythmic patterns give the composition a whimsical structure.

This oil on canvas is housed in a complementary wood frame. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and the frame has very minor scuffs.

Size: 50 x 54.5 cm (including frame)

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A Close Bond

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A very large and brilliantly executed mid century modernist figurative composition in oil, painted onto canvas by Swedish painter Hans Osswald (1919-1983), whose works have been exhibited at the National Museum in Stockholm, Malmö Museum as well as The Brooklyn Museum.

The composition captures the tender and affections connection between two people. Seated closely side by side, the two abstracted figures are depicted in a bold, minimalist, and colourful style. The focus is on shape, colour, and form rather than intricate details.

The palette consists of soft pastels, including shades of creams and yellows, with vibrant accents of blue, green, and red dispersed across the canvas. Upon close inspection of the painting, one can notice how the artist has skilfully layered contrasting swathes of colours to reveal a light texture and interest to this heart-warming painting.

Overall, the artist’s use of abstracted, geometric shapes, fragmented lines, and bold brushstrokes creates a dynamic yet harmonious composition.

This oil on canvas is accentuated by a dark wood frame with an outer and inner gold border. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and the frame has some scuffing.

Size: 99 x 79 cm (including frame)

Free domestic (UK) shipping. As this artwork is very large, it is unlikely that we will be able to ship it internationally. If you are very interested and are located outside of the UK, please contact us and we will see what we can do.

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Black Boat

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An expressive mid-century modernist style coastal landscape painting, executed in oil onto board and dated 1957.

The composition presents a black boat resting on a sandy shore, its deep shadow cast onto the beach. The background features a textured seascape, with rolling waves in various shades of blue and green crashing against the shore, while a pale blue sky stretches across the horizon. The foreground includes tufts of dune grass rendered in soft greens.

The colour palette is dominated by deep blues, greens, and sandy earth tones, with the stark black of the boat providing a dramatic focal point.

The artist has used a bold and expressive style – confidently executing visible brushstrokes that add texture and dynamism, particularly in the depiction of the waves, which are layered with impasto strokes of white and dark blue to capture their motion and energy.

This oil on board is set in a complementary silver frame. There are some very minor surface marks to painting but these do not detract from its overall appearance. The frame has some scuffs and paint loss.

Size: 63 x 83cm (including frame)

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