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Fruit & Lilac Jug

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A charming mid-century modernist still life that presents a carefully arranged tabletop composition featuring a stylised lilac jug, a bowl filled with green fruit, and a sliced fruit resting alongside, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1950.

Containing elements of abstraction, the artist reduces each object to simplified geometric forms, creating a harmonious balance between shape, colour, and space.

The painting is executed in a restrained modernist style, with flattened forms and an emphasis on pattern and structure over detail. The objects are outlined by soft, irregular white contours that lend the work a playful, almost collage-like quality. The arrangement is thoughtfully composed, with each element occupying a distinct visual rhythm across the elongated horizontal format.

The colour palette is fresh and understated, combining soft aqua blues, pale mint greens, dusty pinks, and muted lavender tones. These gentle hues are balanced against creamy off-white passages, creating an atmosphere of calm and light. The subtle contrasts between cool and warm colours add depth while maintaining the painting’s serene, airy character.

Brushwork is confident yet restrained, with visible, broad strokes applied in thin layers. The paint surface reveals the artist’s hand through softly textured applications and lightly brushed passages, allowing edges to remain slightly imperfect and organic.

This oil on canvas is presented in a complementary gilt frame that features a stepped profile. The panting is in excellent vintage condition. The frame has some minor scuffing.

Size: 30 x 51 cm (including frame)

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Garden Parasol

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A joyful mid-century expressive landscape that captures a garden setting bathed in warm summer sunshine, executed in oil onto canvas onto board and dated 1964.

A colourful outdoor table and chairs sit beneath a large parasol, surrounded by lush trees and flourishing greenery that fill the composition with life and movement. Rather than focusing on grand scenery, the artist celebrates an intimate outdoor retreat, evoking leisurely afternoons, conversation, and the simple pleasures of the season.

Executed in an expressive modernist style, the painting embraces bold simplification and energetic mark-making over fine detail. The composition is built from confident shapes and rhythmic forms, lending the scene a lively, almost spontaneous quality. The elevated viewpoint and cropped composition draw the viewer directly into the garden, creating a sense of immediacy and immersion.

The palette is vibrant and uplifting, dominated by a rich spectrum of emerald, lime, olive, and turquoise greens contrasted with sky blues and refreshing aqua tones. Warm accents of crimson and burgundy in the chairs and table introduce a striking focal point, while touches of soft cream, browns, and pale lavender balance the composition with subtle warmth. Together, the colours convey the brilliance of sunlight filtering through dense foliage.

The artist’s brushwork is loose, confident, and highly expressive. Broad, visible oil strokes sweep across the canvas, layering colour with remarkable energy and texture. Thick applications of paint define the foliage with gestural movement, while shorter, deliberate strokes describe the furniture and parasol with clarity. This tactile handling of paint allows light and colour to take precedence over precise realism, resulting in a work that feels fresh, spontaneous, and full of the optimism.

This oil on canvas is presented in a complementary wood frame with a warm gilt finish. There are some light surface marks to the top and bottom of the painting, consistent with age. The original frame also shows light age-related wear, including some surface marks particularly along the bottom edge of the linen inner slip.

Size: 55 x 67 cm (including frame)

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Gathered Apples

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A charming mid-century modernist abstract still life oil composition dated 1954, and painted by the established Swedish artist Ture Fabiansson (1910-1994), whose works have been exhibited in public collections including the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, The Museum of Art in Gothenburg, Jönköping Museum, Borås Art Museum, and many others.

The painting depicts an abundant arrangement of rounded fruits or apples scattered loosely across a warm earthen ground. Rather than presenting the objects in a conventional tabletop arrangement, the artist allows them to overlap and drift across the composition, creating a wonderfully rhythmic pattern of organic forms. Their simplified shapes give the work an almost abstract quality while retaining the warmth and familiarity of a traditional still life.

Painted in a distinctly mid-century modernist manner, the work favours simplification, shape and colour over precise naturalistic detail. The fruits are reduced to broad, softly defined forms, with their overlapping contours creating a playful sense of movement throughout the composition.

The palette is beautifully muted and harmonious, dominated by soft sage, olive and celadon greens alongside warm apricot, ochre and buttery yellow. These gentle tones are set against a dusty terracotta and rose-brown ground, lending the painting an earthy, autumnal warmth. Occasional touches of grey, cream and deeper moss green provide subtle contrast and definition.

The paint has been applied with loose brushwork, with visible strokes following the rounded contours of the fruit. Areas of colour are softly layered rather than heavily modelled, allowing the texture of the canvas to remain visible beneath the paint. Small flashes of lighter pigment along the edges act as highlights, while broader, slightly dry strokes give the surface a wonderfully tactile, time-worn character.

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

Size: 57 x 42 cm (including frame)

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Geometric Collage 16 Squares

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A very unique original artwork by contemporary British artist Dave Boyd, which has been constructed from discarded books (repurposed cloth covers, papers, cardboard, binding boards), and mounted on a wooden panel in a solid wood float frame.

At the centre rests a compact grid of sixteen coloured squares, arranged with quiet precision like a carefully balanced colour study. Deep crimson, burgundy, dusty rose, coral, warm brown, charcoal, soft ivory, and blush tones are thoughtfully interwoven, creating a rhythmic interplay of warm hues and subtle tonal contrasts. The symmetrical arrangement lends the work a sense of order, while the varied textures within each square preserve its handmade character.

The surrounding reclaimed materials lend the work remarkable depth and character, as it provides a tactile counterpoint to the crisp geometry of the coloured grids. The generous negative space lends the work a sense of calm, while the contrast between the orderly geometry and the organic imperfections of the reclaimed surface creates a quiet yet compelling tension.

Dave’s artistic practice focuses on the juxtaposition between the manmade and the natural and the human experience of geometric forms, surfaces and materials. Paintings and collages often embody a built or constructed aesthetic and are strongly influenced by architecture and the built environment, with the aim of suggesting visual encounters with structures and landscapes. Utilising and repurposing materials, with a focus on minimal composition, surface and colour, Dave’s work seek to utilise the subtle marks inherent in objects that have been used and handled over many years.

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Size: 32.5 x 28 cm (including frame)

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Geometric Collage 20 squares

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A very unique original artwork by contemporary British artist Dave Boyd, which has been constructed from discarded books (repurposed cloth covers, papers, cardboard, binding boards), and mounted on a wooden panel in a solid wood float frame.

Two horizontal bands of coloured squares sit quietly against the weathered surface, each resembling a carefully considered palette study. Shades of crimson, burgundy, blush, ivory, charcoal, and soft grey are arranged with measured precision, creating subtle variations between the upper and lower compositions while maintaining an understated sense of balance.

The reclaimed materials lend the work remarkable depth and character, as it provides a tactile counterpoint to the crisp geometry of the coloured grids. The dialogue between the structured arrangement of colour and the organic imperfections of the salvaged materials creates a quiet but compelling visual tension.

Dave’s artistic practice focuses on the juxtaposition between the manmade and the natural and the human experience of geometric forms, surfaces and materials. Paintings and collages often embody a built or constructed aesthetic and are strongly influenced by architecture and the built environment, with the aim of suggesting visual encounters with structures and landscapes. Utilising and repurposing materials, with a focus on minimal composition, surface and colour, Dave’s work seek to utilise the subtle marks inherent in objects that have been used and handled over many years.

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Size: 32.5 x 28 cm (including frame)

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Geometric Gathering

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A striking mid-century modernist semi-abstract figurative painting, executed in oil onto board and dated 1964.

The composition captures a dynamic and abstracted scene of three figures engaged in daily activities. It suggests a communal or domestic setting, possibly depicting women preparing food or engaged in household chores. The artist has used geometric forms and angular lines to construct the figures, giving them an expressive presence.

Rendered in a bold, textured technique, the painting showcases an earthy, muted palette dominated by yellows, deep blues, browns, and warm neutrals. The brushstrokes are heavily applied, creating a layered, almost sculptural surface that enhances the raw energy of the composition. The background features a loosely defined architectural or patterned element, adding depth while maintaining the abstract nature of the piece.

Strongly influenced by Cubist and modernist traditions, this work exemplifies the mid-century aesthetic with its fusion of abstraction and figurative storytelling, making it a compelling addition to any collection of modernist art.

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

Size: 43 x 72 cm (including frame)

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Golden Drift

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A serene and atmospheric abstract landscape that captures the quiet poetry of an open horizon rendered through expressive texture and colour, executed in oil onto board and dated 1994.

The composition is anchored by a band of deep browns, charcoals and soft whites that suggest distant landforms or shifting terrain, while the foreground dissolves into warm ochres, honeyed yellows and sandy neutrals. Above, a vast expanse of pale sky – softly blended in tones of white, cream and frosted blue evokes a sense of calm, openness, and gentle movement.

Executed in an abstract, modernist style, the painting relies on suggestion rather than literal detail. Broad, confident brushstrokes move horizontally across the canvas, creating a sense of depth and natural flow. Areas of impasto add tactile richness, with strokes layered and textured to mimic geological or weather-worn surfaces. The overall effect is both soothing and energetic, a landscape distilled to its essential mood and rhythm.

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

Size: 42 x 42 cm (including frame)

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Hanging Sloth

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A contemporary painting that presents a whimsical depiction of a sloth suspended upside down from a gently curving tree branch , painted in a naïve style in oil onto panel by British artist Matt Rix.

The composition is pared back, allowing the single figure to become both the focal point and the emotional anchor of the work. Sparse foliage punctuates the scene, floating around the sloth like pauses in thought, reinforcing a sense of stillness and calm.

The style is deliberately simplified, with a subtle nod to folk art and modern naïve painting. Flattened forms and soft contours give the subject an emblematic rather than literal presence, while the sloth’s rounded body and elongated limbs create a gentle rhythm across the board, anchored by the horizontal branch.

A restrained, soothing palette of warm brown and taupe contrasts with a muted blue-grey background, accented by soft green leaves. Smooth, matte brushstrokes and a lightly textured surface enhance the contemplative mood of the piece.

This oil on board is housed in a black painted wood frame . Both painting and frame are in excellent condition.

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: 44 x 54 cm (including frame)

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Hillside Pathway

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A joyful and pleasant mid-century landscape that captures the essence of a bright day, painted in oil onto canvas.

The composition centres on a winding path that gently curves upward between two softened, block-like structures – suggesting houses – positioned on either side. Lush, expressive greenery flanks the path, giving the scene a sense of movement and breezy energy.

Rendered in a modernist style, the painting favours simplified forms, bold shapes, and confident, gestural brushwork over fine detail. The palette is uplifting and crisp: vivid turquoise skies, velvety greens, sandy browns, and touches of warm terracotta on the rooftops.

Broad, sweeping strokes convey the foliage with speed and spontaneity, while the smooth, curved brushwork of the path introduces calmness and flow. The overall effect is fresh and optimistic, and captures the simple pleasure of a hillside walk.

This oil on canvas is housed in a beautiful champagne wood frame with an inner border. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 46 x 50 cm (including frame)

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Light Over the Valley

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A serene mid-century modern semi-abstract landscape that distils the countryside into a harmonious arrangement of colour, shape, and light, executed in oil onto board.

Rolling fields unfold across the foreground, leading the eye towards a tranquil body of water and a scattering of farm buildings nestled beneath distant blue-grey hills. A small stand of stylised trees anchors the composition, lending both rhythm and balance to the expansive scene.

Executed in a distinctly Scandinavian modernist manner, the painting favours simplification over detail, reducing the landscape to broad geometric forms and carefully calibrated planes of colour.

The palette is soft and restrained, dominated by creamy whites, muted sage greens, pale yellows, and layered blues that recede gently into the horizon. Subtle touches of lavender-grey and warm earth tones add depth and atmosphere, while the luminous sky bathes the entire scene in a delicate, diffused light.

Brushwork is controlled, with smooth, flattened areas of paint creating a velvety surface. Gentle layering and subtle tonal shifts provide depth without disrupting the composition’s calm simplicity.

This oil on board is presented in a complementary wood frame with a wide white-painted inner mount. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 48.5 x 56.5 cm (including frame)

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Mediterranean Escape

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A well executed mid century modernist landscape, painted in oil onto canvas.

This sun-drenched Mediterranean landscape is rendered in broad, expressive brushstrokes with a modern, impressionistic touch. It captures a seaside scene full of warmth, movement, and coastal charm.

The foreground is dominated by lush green foliage, painted with bold, confident strokes. The greens vary in hue, creating depth and rhythm.

A whitewashed building with an orange-tiled roof is partially obscured by greenery. This architectural touch gives the scene a sense of place, suggesting somewhere Southern Europe.

Behind the building, a sliver of deep blue sea stretches across the canvas, meeting the sky and separated by rocky coastal formations and windswept trees, their simplified, curved forms bending toward the sea.

The brushwork is loose, gestural, and painterly, favouring emotion and movement over precision. The artist uses a limited but harmonious palette of greens, creams, ochres, blues, and terracotta, invoking the feel of a hot, breezy afternoon.

This oil on canvas is set in an elegant linen and silver frame, lightly textured, which adds a touch of refinement while echoing the sun-bleached tones of the scene. The painting is excellent vintage condition, and the frame has some age marks to the linen border.

Size: 55.5 x 64 cm (including frame)

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Modernist Ballerinas

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An outstanding mid-century figurative composition, executed in oil onto canvas by the established Swedish artist Fabian Lundqvist (1913-1989), whose works have been represented in many public collections in Sweden.

The painting captures a scene of two ballerinas surrounded by an abstract background. On the ballerinas, rhe artist’s brushstrokes are gentle and soft, reflecting a careful attention to detail. Intentionally working with a limited colour palette, the artist has reduced the area around the ballerinas to angular planes in different gradients of brown.. Details such as the small but striking red lips of the figures, as well as the layout of flat shapes and planes are typical of Lundqvist’s style.

This oil on canvas is housed in a complementary silver frame with an inner linen-lined border. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and the frame has some scuffs as shown in the close ups

Size: 59.5 x 51 cm (including frame)

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Morning at the Window

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A expressive mid-century interior scene that captures a solitary figure standing beside an open window, absorbed in a moment of reflection, executed in oil onto board.

Beyond the window, the simple geometry of a neighbouring house roof cuts against a pale blue sky, while within the room a potted geranium and draped linens lend warmth and domestic intimacy. The composition balances interior and exterior worlds, creating a contemplative atmosphere that feels personal.

Executed in a distinctly modernist manner, the painting demonstrates the restrained sensibilities of mid-century art. Forms are simplified and gently abstracted, with the figure rendered through broad planes of colour rather than detailed modelling. The artist places emphasis on mood and structure, allowing light, shape, and spatial relationships to convey emotion.

The palette is soft and muted, comprising dusty greens, pale greys, warm creams, and chalky whites, punctuated by the rich terracotta reds of the flowers and the deep brown roofline outside. Subtle passages of pale blue sky bring freshness to the composition, while delicate pink undertones soften the interior light.

Brushwork is confident yet sensitive, with visible painterly strokes lending texture and movement across the surface. Layers of paint are applied loosely, creating an appealing interplay between solidity and atmosphere.

This oil on board is presented in an attractive gilt frame with a wide linen-covered mount and an inner white slip. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 55.5 x 47.5 cm (including frame)

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Old English Longhorn

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A small and engaging animal composition , painted in a naïve style in oil onto panel, by British artist Matt Rix.

The painting features a black and white longhorn cow standing on a softly rolling green hill against a light, muted sky. The cow is shown in side profile, with a calm expression and simple, expressive eyes. Its large curved horns give it a distinctive presence, emphasizing its strength and elegance.

This painting is a charming, rustic folk-art piece that celebrates rural life with a focus on simple forms and earthy colours. The calm presence of the cow, combined with the soft landscape, creates a warm, nostalgic feel, making it a beautiful and timeless representation of pastoral life.

This oil is painted onto panel which although unframed, is meant to be hung as is. The painting is in excellent vintage condition.

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: 30.5 x 30.5 cm (including frame)

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Old Town Passage

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An expressive mid-century street scene that capture an old European laneway, where tall weathered buildings rise on either side to create a narrow corridor of light and shadow, executed in oil onto board.

The composition naturally draws the eye towards a softly illuminated archway in the distance, where two silhouetted figures lend a sense of scale and quiet narrative. A third figure, distinguished by a vivid yellow garment, introduces a welcome focal point and a subtle moment of everyday life within the otherwise muted streetscape.

Executed in an expressive modernist style with strong impressionistic influences, the artist favours atmosphere over architectural precision. The buildings are simplified into broad geometric forms, while the converging lines of staircases, windows and facades create an engaging sense of depth and perspective.

The palette is beautifully restrained, composed of soft sage greens, muted blues, warm browns, stone greys and touches of dusty rose. These earthy hues are punctuated by crisp white window highlights and the striking accent of bright yellow, while the glowing light beneath the archway creates a compelling contrast against the cooler shadows of the surrounding buildings.

Confident, painterly brushstrokes animate every surface, with layers of broken colour and visible texture suggesting weathered stone, aged plaster and reflections across the cobbled street. Loose, energetic applications of paint give the work vitality without sacrificing structure, allowing the architectural forms to emerge organically from the interplay of colour and light.

This oil on board is presented in a beautiful distressed wood frame with a warm gilt inner slip. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 60 x 52 cm (including frame)

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Old Wall Patterns

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A lyrical landscape that captures the poetry of the countryside through colour, texture, and memory, painted in oil onto canvas.

A winding pale path or stone wall meanders through rolling fields, leading the eye gently into the distance. The landscape unfolds in layers of soft golds, muted greens, russet reds, and dusky mauves, creating a patchwork of fields and vegetation that feels both observed and imagined. A hillside rises across the middle ground, dotted with delicate tree forms rendered as decorative marks and textured clusters, giving the scene a tapestry-like quality.

The title suggests that the landscape is shaped by the enduring presence of old boundary walls—those subtle human interventions that become absorbed into the natural rhythms of the land over time. The pale, serpentine line crossing the composition acts as both a visual guide and a reminder of the history embedded in the terrain.

The artist’s handling of paint is expressive and atmospheric. Layers of translucent colour, scratching, and textured brushwork create a sense of depth and weathered age. Rather than describing every detail, she evokes the feeling of a landscape shaped by seasons, memory, and time.

This oil on canvas is framed in a custom made wide profile frame that suits it wonderfully. Both painting and frame are in excellent condition.

Size: 39 x 39 cm (including frame)

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Pitcher with Onions

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An energetic mid-century still life painting that depicts a bold arrangement of everyday objects rendered with expressive confidence, executed in oil onto board.

At the center stands a tall black pitcher with a sweeping handle, its form accentuated by patches of turquoise, white, and yellow that lend vibrancy and depth. In the foreground, two deep red onions and a bulb of garlic anchor the composition, their rounded shapes contrasting with the pitcher’s angular silhouette.

The artist has used a highly textured technique, layering thick strokes of oil paint that leave visible ridges across the surface. The palette is restrained yet powerful, dominated by black, grey, and white, with strategic bursts of colour to enliven the scene. The brushwork is vigorous and gestural, giving the objects a tactile, almost sculptural presence while retaining a sense of spontaneity and abstraction.

This oil on board is presented in a complementary silver painted wood frame with an inner linen border. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 64.5 x 50.5 cm (including frame)

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Presence in Blue

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A mid-century figurative interior that presents a poised, contemplative woman in blue, seated within a softly structured domestic space, executed in oil onto canvas.

The figure sits slightly angled yet grounded, her form simplified and solid, conveying both stillness and quiet introspection. To her side, a table holds a warm-toned ceramic vessel, anchoring the composition and balancing the human presence with an object of everyday life. The checkered floor beneath introduces a subtle rhythm, guiding the eye through the composition while reinforcing the interior setting.

The style is distinctly mid-century modern, leaning toward a restrained, semi-abstract figuration. The artist reduces the figure and surroundings into flattened planes and geometric blocks, prioritising mood and structure over detail.

The colour palette is beautifully muted yet expressive -cool, dusty blues dominate the figure’s dress, contrasted with terracottas, and soft yellows in the background and still life elements. These tonal contrasts create a quiet dialogue between warmth and coolness, light and shadow.

Brushstrokes are confident and painterly, applied in broad, visible sweeps that give the work texture and life. Edges are softened rather than sharply defined, allowing forms to blend subtly into one another. The handling of paint feels intuitive and unforced, with areas of thicker application adding depth, particularly in the darker passages and along the patterned floor.

This oil on canvas is present in a beautiful wood frame with warm, natural wood grain and an inner linen lining. Both the painting and the frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 75 x 55 cm (including frame)

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Quiet Fields

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A calm mid-century composition that presents a serene, pared-back landscape where open fields stretch toward a low horizon line punctuated by a small cluster of distant farm buildings, executed in oil onto board and dated 1959.

A solitary structure – possibly a barn or haystack – anchors the composition, subtly drawing the eye while preserving the painting’s overall sense of stillness and space. The foreground is rendered in darker, earthy tones, gradually giving way to lighter, muted fields that lead into an expansive, softly washed sky.

Stylistically, the work leans toward minimalism and tonal abstraction, characteristic of mid-century landscape painting. The artist has simplified forms and reduces detail, allowing atmosphere and composition to take precedence over realism. There is a quiet balance between geometry and softness – the fields are divided into gentle planes, yet edges remain blurred and understated.

The colour palette is restrained and harmonious, dominated by cool, pale blues in the sky and warm, sandy beiges and greys across the land. Subtle transitions between tones create depth without sharp contrast, evoking a calm, almost contemplative mood.

Brushstrokes are loose and have been applied with a light, confident touch. The paint is thinly layered in areas, allowing underlying tones to breathe through, while slightly thicker applications in the foreground add weight and texture. The overall handling feels intuitive and unforced, enhancing the painting’s quiet, meditative quality.

This oil on board is housed a beautiful wood frame with a layered profile and an inner white border. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and the frame has some minor marks.

Size: 61.5 x 71.5 cm (including frame)

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Quiet Mooring

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A calm mid-century coastal painting that captures a tranquil moment along the sunlit shores of Spain’s Costa Brava, executed in oil onto board and dated 1958.

At its centre rests a modest wooden boat, gently anchored in still, shallow waters, its form simplified yet full of quiet presence. The surrounding landscape is reduced to broad planes—suggesting sand, sea, and distant shoreline – imbuing the scene with a sense of calm, timeless pause.

Executed in a restrained modernist style, the composition leans into minimalism and balance. Perspective is subtly flattened, with forms outlined softly rather than defined through strict realism, allowing the viewer to focus on mood over detail. There is a quiet intimacy to the piece, as though capturing a fleeting, solitary moment by the coast.

The colour palette is warm and harmonious: muted tan, sandy beiges, and soft terracotta tones dominate the boat, while gentle and pale blues evoke the Mediterranean waters and sky. These tones are slightly desaturated, lending the work a sun-faded, nostalgic quality.

Brushstrokes are loose and expressive yet controlled, with visible texture adding depth without overwhelming the simplicity of the composition. The paint is applied in soft, layered passages, allowing subtle tonal variations to emerge and giving the surface a quietly tactile quality.

This oil on board is presented in a wood frame that is finished in a warm, muted gold tone with soft patina, it carries a slightly aged character that enhances the painting’s nostalgic feel. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 51.5 x 59.5 cm (including frame)

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Quiet Passage

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A beautifully atmospheric mid-century abstract landscape that captures the quiet rhythm of a valley through expressive colour and simplified form, executed in oil onto canvas.

Rolling hills frame an open plain, while hints of fields and pathways emerge from broad, gestural passages of paint. Rather than depicting a specific location, the artist evokes the sensation of moving through an expansive countryside, where changing light and shifting weather become the true subject.

Painted in a lyrical, semi-abstract modernist style, the composition balances recognisable landscape elements with confident abstraction. Forms dissolve into blocks and planes of colour, creating a harmonious interplay between structure and spontaneity. The expansive sky occupies much of the composition, lending the work a wonderful sense of openness and calm.

The palette is soft and understated, featuring airy blues, sage green, muted teal, dusty pink, warm browns, sandy beige and touches of terracotta, all enlivened with creamy white highlights.

Expressive brushwork is central to the painting’s appeal. Thick, painterly strokes are applied with confidence, with palette-knife-like marks adding texture throughout the surface. Sweeping gestures define the sky, while shorter, layered strokes build the landscape below, allowing colours to overlap and intermingle. The result is a work that feels both immediate and contemplative, celebrating the expressive qualities of paint as much as the landscape itself.

This oil on canvas is presented in a complementary gilt wood frame surrounded by a wide textured linen slip. Both the painting and frame are is in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 46.5 x 49.5 cm (including frame)

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Quiet Shoreline

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A tranquil and atmospheric mid-century landscape depicting a quiet waterside scene beneath a luminous, overcast sky, executed in oil onto board.

Dense trees anchor the composition on the left, their rich foliage contrasting beautifully with the expansive sweep of pale water and sky beyond. In the distance, a solitary sailboat glides across the calm surface, while a faint shoreline dissolves into the atmospheric haze, creating an impression of remarkable depth and serenity.

Executed in a loose, impressionistic style, the painting captures the essence of the landscape rather than its precise details. Broad, confident brushstrokes and softly blended passages allow forms to emerge naturally, lending the work a quiet spontaneity. The restrained composition embraces negative space, with the vast sky becoming as important as the land itself, reinforcing the painting’s contemplative mood.

The palette is beautifully understated, composed of muted greys, soft blue-greens, sage, olive, and deep forest tones, gently enlivened by touches of warm browns along the shoreline. The subtle tonal transitions between sky and water create an almost ethereal atmosphere, while the darker mass of trees provides a striking visual counterbalance.

Brushwork varies from expressive, layered strokes within the foliage to delicate, feathered applications across the water and sky. This contrast between richly textured foreground elements and the softly painted distance creates a convincing sense of perspective and invites the viewer into the peaceful stillness of the scene.

This oil on board is presented in a beautiful wood frame with a gently distressed cream finish, and complemented by gilt detailing around the inner and outer edges. The painting is in very good vintage condition, and there is some light craquelure visible on the inner top white section of the frame.

Size: 65.5 x 74 cm (including frame)

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Riverside Cottages

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A lively mid-century painting that captures a tranquil riverside scene, and executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1951.

The composition featuring cottages nestled among tall, leafy trees. A pathway curves along the water’s edge, leading the viewer’s eye toward the cluster of houses – one painted in a soft blue and others in bold reds. Their reflections shimmer on the rippling surface of the river, broken into painterly fragments of green, blue, and brown.

Executed in an expressive, modernist manner, the painting emphasises bold form and movement over fine detail. The composition conveys a sense of immediacy, as though painted en plein air, with a strong focus on colour harmonies and gestural energy.

The palette is vibrant yet balanced. The brushwork is broad, dynamic, and confident, laid down in thick, angular strokes that create rhythm and texture. Each mark remains visible, contributing to the painting’s sense of freshness and spontaneity. The layering of strokes adds both depth and vibrancy, animating the landscape with movement and life.

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

Size: 49 x 79 cm (including frame)

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Seated in Thought

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An expressive modernist style figurative oil painting that presents a contemplative and poised seated figure, rendered with bold, confident brushwork, and executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1978.

The subject, dressed in a muted green top, cropped blue trousers, and accented with a pale pink scarf, sits on a red-cushioned wooden chair. Their head is turned slightly to the side, the facial features left abstract, allowing posture and colour to convey mood.

The composition is set against a dynamic backdrop of vertical strokes in varying shades of blues and orange, creating a sense of depth and vibrancy. The artist has used thick, visible brushstrokes, lending the work a tactile quality and an impressionistic immediacy. The palette balances earthy neutrals with cooler blues and greens, punctuated by warmer reds and orange, creating both harmony and contrast.

This oil on canvas is housed in a complementary slim gilt frame. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and the frame has a small loss to its top right corner.

Size: 72 x 53 cm (including frame)

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Shoreline Colour

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A mid-century coastal landscape that captures a cluster of moored boats rendered through a beautifully abstracted, almost mosaic-like lens, executed in oil onto canvas.

The shoreline is broken into faceted blocks of colour, giving the scene a rhythmic, geometric energy. Tall, slender masts rise in delicate lines against a soft pastel sky, while the boats themselves are simplified into angular shapes that evoke both structure and movement.

The palette is fresh and inviting – greens, cool aquas, deep cobalt blues, warm yellows, and touches of plum and lavender. These colours overlap in gently textured layers, creating a harmonious interplay between land, sea, and shore.

Brushwork is subtle yet expressive, with short, blocky strokes and light scumbling that mimic the look of hand-pressed prints or coloured pastels. The surface feels lively and tactile, lending the coastal scene a sense of breezy spontaneity while remaining distinctly modernist in its composition and restraint.

A charming and quintessentially mid-century piece that celebrates coastal life through shape, rhythm, and colour.

This oil on canvas is presented in a complementary grey painted wood frame with an inner cream border. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 34 x 39 cm (including frame)

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Snowlight

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A large and gentle mid-century landscape that captures a serene winter hillside viewed through a stand of slender trees, executed in oil onto canvas.

Nestled among the muted mauves and soft earth tones are small snow-covered cottages, partially hidden within the landscape and lending the scene a quiet, almost contemplative atmosphere. The composition draws the eye inward through the vertical rhythm of the pale tree trunks, creating depth and stillness against the distant rolling hills.

Executed in a soft modernist style, the painting balances abstraction and representation with remarkable restraint. The palette is delicate and atmospheric, featuring powder blues, lavender greys, blush pinks, soft sage greens, and creamy whites that evoke the hush of winter light. Loose, painterly brushstrokes and gently layered colour fields give the work an airy, dreamlike quality, while the simplified forms and softened edges reflect the understated elegance often associated with mid-century Scandinavian landscape painting.

This large painting is presented in a complementary wood frame with a subtly rustic finish that enhances its calm and understated character. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 71.5 x 86.5 cm (including frame)

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Tabletop Forms

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A refined mid-century modernist still life composition depicting an arrangement of abstracted fruit forms on a tabletop and set against a softly illuminated background, executed in oil onto canvas.

The artist has reduced the objects into expressive, sculptural shapes, creating a composition that feels intimate in its restraint. Rendered in a subdued palette of charcoal, warm ivory, dusty blush, muted taupe, pale sage, and soft ochre, the painting possesses a calm and sophisticated atmosphere. The tonal balance between the dark draped surface and the airy background gives the work a striking sense of depth while maintaining its minimalist aesthetic.

The brushwork is confident and textural, with visible palette-knife application and thick impasto strokes adding movement and dimensionality across the surface. Sweeping directional marks and layered paint handling lend the composition an energetic yet balanced quality typical of mid-century abstraction.

This oil on canvas is presented in a complementary and elegant layered frame with linen border detailing. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and there some scuffs to the inner silver frame.

Size: 53.5 x 90.5 cm (including frame)

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The Guardian

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A mid century earthenware sculpture, with a personality that is both grounded and otherworldly.

The body is a rounded, drum-like form, elevated on four sturdy, column-like legs, giving it a sense of both stability and animation. The surface is coated in a rich turquoise-green glaze, decorated with bold, hand-painted oval motifs.

The glaze drips downward in thick, dark trails, creating a sense of movement, like something slowly transforming over time.

Rising from the body is a narrow neck and bulbous head, topped with a cluster of curling, tentacle-like forms. This crown-like structure gives the sculpture a slightly surreal, organic presence, and introduces a subtle sense of watchfulness or awareness.

The piece sits somewhere between artifact and fantasy, creating a tension between playfulness and mystery.

There are a few losses to the ‘tentacles’ on the head of this vintage sculpture, but it is otherwise in a good and stable condition.

Height: 25 cm
Width: 12 cm
Depth: 12 cm

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The Matador’s Pause

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An emotive mid-century oil painting that captures a fleeting moment within the drama of the bullring, by the established Swedish artist Ivar Morsing (1919-2009), whose works have been exhibited in public collections including the National Museum in Stockholm, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Kalmar Museum, and Jönköping Museum.

A matador stands poised before a powerful black bull, his red cape sweeping across the arena floor. Beyond the central encounter, spectators and figures dissolve into soft, indistinct forms, reinforcing the sense of movement, tension, and spectacle.

Executed in a painterly modernist style, the composition is pared back to its essential elements. Rather than focusing on precise detail, the artist conveys atmosphere and emotion through simplified forms, bold colour relationships, and confident gestural mark-making. The scene feels both immediate and timeless, balancing the intensity of the confrontation with an almost dreamlike sense of distance.

The palette is warm and sun-drenched, dominated by golden yellows, sandy ochres, muted taupes, and flashes of vivid crimson. The deep black of the bull provides a dramatic counterpoint to the brightness of the arena, while subtle touches of cream, peach, and grey soften the background and create depth.

Brushwork is loose and expressive throughout. Broad, visible strokes build the arena and sky, while quick, energetic applications of paint define the figures and movement of the cape. Areas of impasto add texture and vitality to the surface, allowing the painting’s physicality to contribute to its sense of drama and spontaneity.

This oil on board is presented in a complementary champagne toned wood frame with an inner linen lining. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

Size: 31 x 47 cm (including frame)

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The Quiet Whisper of Trees

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A delicate mid-century landscape that captures a pared-back scene defined by restraint and atmosphere, executed in oil onto canvas.

Two slender trees rise gently from an open, muted expanse, their forms softened and slightly blurred as though caught in a passing breeze or remembered at a distance. Behind them, a low, undulating horizon stretches quietly across the composition, anchoring the scene with a subtle sense of depth.

The artist has used a minimal, almost abstracted approach: foreground and background dissolve into one another through thin washes and softly layered tones. The palette is beautifully subdued, composed of warm taupes, soft greys, and pale stone hues, punctuated by a sweep of dark blue along the distant ridge. This restrained colour story enhances the painting’s calm, meditative quality.

Brushwork is loose and expressive, with feathery, gestural strokes defining the foliage and more fluid, diluted applications across the ground. The surface reveals moments of transparency where the canvas breathes through, adding to the sense of lightness and quiet openness.

This oil on canvas is present in a complementary gilt frame. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and the frame has some light scuffing.

Size: 45.5 x 45.5 cm (including frame)

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